With a youthful population, expanding economy, low production costs, government support, and enthusiastic funders, Vietnam is the perfect ecosystem for enterprise creation; which is why in 2019, RMIT will officially launch Activator in its Ho Chi Minh City…
RMIT has a long history of supporting enterprise and has sought to address the challenge of access to pre-seed funding through the establishment of the Activator Capital Fund. The Capital Fund (previously known as NEIF) provides critical funding…
Seven RMIT Activator teams pitched their incredible ventures to an eager audience at Pitch@Palace Melbourne last week. In the presence of His Royal Highness, The Duke of York, and The Honourable Linda Dessau AC, Governor of Victoria, nervous…
Meet Edwin, Co-Founder of GLASS HOUSE Design & Technology, one of the newest additions to our LaunchHUB Accelerator Program. We recently sat down with Edwin to find out more about his business and his entrepreneurial journey so far. What…
The year is almost over and that means it’s time to celebrate, and we’re doing just that, having just inducted a new cohort of extraordinary startup teams in Activator’s accelerator program LaunchHUB! The program kicked off last week…
If you missed seeing Dylan around the Activator city campus office last week, that’s because he was busy presenting Activator IGNITE to some eager students in Singapore. IGNITE is a two-day introduction into entrepreneurship, what it means to…
The start of November officially kicked off RMIT’s Venture Mentoring Service (VMS) pilot program: a sister program to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) VMS. RMIT VMS is a collaboration between RMIT Activator and the RMIT Research…
Enterprise skills are widely considered to be vital for the jobs of the future. However, we don’t yet know how these skills are best learned and what role universities have to play, which is why we conducted the…
If you weren’t at Activator HQ last Thursday night, boy, did you miss out! Our event space reached its capacity for the Activator Startup Showcase, where ten out of the twelve talented LaunchHUB teams shared the story of…
Now that the craziness is over, let’s reflect on the incredible week that was RMIT Entrepreneurship Week 2018! If you noticed a buzz in the building last week, you weren’t alone. Activator was fortunate enough to collaborate with…