A hacker house · New York City
STATESIDE
Australia builds great founders. We help them build globally. 🇦🇺
Stateside is a hacker house in New York City for ambitious Australian founders building venture-scale companies.
Because talent was never Australia's problem. Infrastructure is.
ApplyAmbition needs an ecosystem capable of matching it. 🦘
Australia produces some of the world's best founders, engineers, operators and researchers.
We have world-class universities. Exceptional technical talent. Resourcefulness born from building far away from the world's largest markets.
Yet the environment around founders is becoming harder, not easier.
- — Accelerators are shutting down.
- — Startup programs are disappearing.
- — Funding remains concentrated.
- — The distance to customers, capital and talent networks has never changed.
While the rest of the world races forward, many founders are finding themselves asking the same question:
"Am I building in the right place?"
Not because Australia lacks talent. Because ambition needs an ecosystem capable of matching it.
The world's largest companies aren't built in isolation.
They're built around customers, talent, capital and momentum. New York offers all four.
- — The investors are here.
- — The operators are here.
- — The customers are here.
- — The founders are here.
Every day there are hundreds of opportunities for conversations, partnerships, introductions and chance encounters that can fundamentally change the trajectory of a company.
The difference isn't that American founders are more ambitious. The difference is that they are surrounded by an ecosystem designed to support ambition at scale.
A soft landing for founders with global ambitions.
Moving to the United States is exciting. It's also overwhelming.
You arrive knowing almost nobody. Every coffee, introduction, investor meeting and customer conversation has to be built from scratch.
Stateside exists to shorten that journey.
We've built a community of Australian founders who have already made the leap, and a network of investors, operators, engineers, recruiters, customers and advisors ready to help the next generation do the same.
A place to live. A place to work. A place to find your people.
A launchpad into the US.
Founder community
Live alongside ambitious Australian founders building AI, software, fintech, health, climate and consumer companies from New York.
Capital access
Warm introductions to venture capital firms, angel investors, operators and ecosystem partners across New York and the broader US market.
Talent network
Meet engineers, designers, operators and early employees already embedded in the startup ecosystem.
Workshops & founder sessions
Learn directly from founders who have raised capital, scaled teams, landed enterprise customers and navigated the challenges of building in the United States.
Customer & partnership opportunities
Access a growing network of operators, buyers and founders who can help accelerate early traction.
A place to establish yourself
Not just a place to stay. A place to establish yourself in the world's most competitive startup ecosystem.
Founders willing to bet on themselves.
Australian founders building companies with global ambitions.
You're likely pre-seed, seed or Series A. You may already be in New York. You may be considering the move.
Either way, you've realised that building a generational company requires putting yourself where opportunities compound faster.
Stateside isn't for everyone. It's for founders willing to bet on themselves.
The next generation of iconic Australian companies will think globally from day one.
The next Canva. The next Atlassian. The next SafetyCulture.
Our job is simple: help ambitious Australian founders access the people, capital and opportunities they need to make that happen.
Welcome to Stateside.
Join the waitlist.
Tell us a little about you and what you're building. We read every application and reach out as the next intake takes shape.
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