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Site-ready menstrual and hygiene kits for remote worksites, plus an independent standard helping employers manage hygiene access, workplace dignity and psychosocial risk.
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Start strong in energy and resources. CORE Start helps you validate, sharpen and de-risk your idea, before you scale.
CORE Start is designed for founders working through validation, customer discovery and the early shape of a business serving the energy and resources sector.
Fully funded, with no cost to participants. You get structured workshops with expert facilitators, one-on-one mentoring from experienced founders and industry specialists, a peer cohort, and three months of post-program support through the CORE network.
Customer validation, commercialisation, sales, pricing, IP, capital readiness, leadership and pitching, delivered in person in Perth and online, with every session recorded.
A group of founders working through the same stage. Best support network you’ll get this year.
One-on-one support from experienced founders, operators and industry specialists, matched to your stage, your industry and your goals.
Sessions and support from industry partners WRAYS and Radium Capital, and program sponsor Perth Angels.
If you’re anywhere from idea stage to early traction and you’ve identified a real problem in energy and resources, this is the stage CORE Start was built for. You don’t need a registered company. You need a genuine idea and the drive to develop it.
Sixteen ventures from across Australia tackling the real problems of the energy and resources sector, from workforce wellbeing and site safety to decision intelligence and the move beyond diesel.
Site-ready menstrual and hygiene kits for remote worksites, plus an independent standard helping employers manage hygiene access, workplace dignity and psychosocial risk.
Visit website ↗A recruitment marketplace for energy and mining: post a role for free, set your own fee, and only pay when vetted recruiters deliver a hire.
Visit website ↗A First Nations-founded platform helping FIFO and shift workers stay connected to the people who matter most.
Visit website ↗Bushfire simulation and continuous monitoring for industrial sites, showing what a fire would really do and which mitigations are worth funding.
Visit website ↗A computer vision platform that runs on the cameras, sensors, vehicles and drones sites already have, flagging hazards in real time, even offline.
Visit website ↗A platform bringing critical control verification, psychosocial risk management and rigorous investigation to more organisations at scale.
Visit website ↗IDEAI™ models asset deterioration from existing inspection and maintenance data to produce a defensible, risk-based capital plan in minutes.
Visit website ↗Specialised real-world training data that teaches robots to handle the unpredictable edge cases stopping them from scaling.
Visit website ↗A decision-support layer connecting the full mine-to-product value chain, so teams can compare scenarios before acting.
Visit website ↗Reliability intelligence that brings fragmented asset data together to cut unnecessary maintenance, free up dead stock and reduce downtime.
Visit website ↗ConveyorWatch gives operators live access to conveyor condition and inspection history, already running with 100+ users at a Pilbara port.
An early-stage robotics concept to automate moving tools and materials around busy construction and mine sites.
Turning Pongamia oil into both Sustainable Aviation Fuel and biodegradable PHA bioplastics.
Visit website ↗Bio-energy micro-utilities that turn on-site organic waste into reliable energy for remote camps and regional communities.
A co-operative green heavy vehicle fleet and shared financing model to move regional WA freight off diesel.
Battery hardware with cell-level monitoring, active balancing and fire suppression, plus remote telemetry for fleet-wide visibility.
CORE has backed more than 80 early-stage founders, and those companies have gone on to raise more than $60 million in private investment.
CORE Start is fully supported for participants through funding from the WA Department of Energy and Economic Diversification via the Innovation Pathways Program from the New Industries and Innovation Fund, and industry partners Radium Capital and WRAYS.
Register your interest for 2027 and we’ll let you know when applications open.