Boson Collider

Bring your deep tech ventures global.

A 12-week VC-led pre-accelerator forming the next generation of Australian and APAC deep tech founders working at the frontier of AI, robotics, and automation.

Apply NowInfo session, 27 Aug
Program12 weeks
ModelVC-led, non-dilutive
SectorsHealthcare · Advanced Manufacturing · Clean Tech
Due to limited space — apply early
Early: 10 Sep 2026 · Final: 22 Sep 2026
Cohort 1Oct 2026 – Jan 2027, Melbourne

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Why Boson Collider

Australia builds world-class deep tech research. Very little of it becomes a company.

The gap is not the science. It is not knowing who buys it, what they will pay, or how an investor prices the risk you are carrying. That is what the twelve weeks are for.

What you get

Three things, each with a track record.

01

Industry access that ends in revenue

We introduce you to industry leaders already looking to buy, invest or build in Australia, and we stay in the room until something is signed. Two rounds of one-on-ones, in Week 6 and Week 11.

  • Interview prep and practice before you meet them
  • Named contacts in procurement, engineering and regulatory
  • Cohort 1 partners: names pending approval

What this looked like

US$1M

We introduced a portfolio company to a Chinese listed materials manufacturer. It became a US$1M customer contract, not a memorandum of understanding.

02

An engineer in your R&D loop

Most programs automate your admin. We aim at the research cycle itself: instrumentation, simulation, data pipelines, experiment design. One engineer from a technical partner works with the cohort every week from Week 4.

  • Free consultation and demo access from our technical partners
  • Boson's AI scoping template, applied to your own workflow
  • Partners: Adis QN and Hua Shu — name-drop pending

What this looks like

A scoped build, in one session

You bring the part of your pipeline that eats the most time. You leave with it specced, costed and ready to hand to an engineer.

03

A working route into Asia

Moving Australian technology into Asian markets is what Boson does. For most deep tech, that is where the first paying customer and the manufacturing capacity sit, so it belongs in the plan from Week 1.

  • Asia go-to-market, led by the Boson team in Week 8
  • Landing zones: visiting Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks, China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park, NSW-GBA Innovation Channel
  • Cross-border IP, structuring and hiring

After the program

Asian Landing Pad

Graduates can take a partially funded place on the landing pad: a soft-landing base to run the first pilots and partner meetings on the ground.

Inside the 12 weeks

From scientific thesis to investable company.

The program runs in three connected phases. Every session is hands-on, every output is something a founder can take to a customer, an investor, or a board the following week.

Weeks 1–4Phase one

Foundations

Sharpen the thesis. Pressure-test the technical risk, define the wedge, and translate research vocabulary into the language a venture investor and a first customer both understand.

  • Founder identity and team formation
  • Defensible deep tech wedge
  • Market mapping and customer hypotheses
  • Modern AI stack literacy for deep tech founders
Weeks 5–8Phase two

Customer & capital

Run real discovery cycles with named buyers and named investors. Build the financial model, the technical roadmap, and the regulatory plan side by side, not in sequence.

  • Corporate Collider Sessions with industry partners
  • Pricing, unit economics and capital strategy
  • Regulatory, clinical and IP planning by sector
  • APAC go-to-market strategy
Weeks 9–12Phase three

Launch

Turn the work into momentum. Founders close design partners, sharpen the raise narrative, and present to a private investor room at Collider Demo Day.

  • Design-partner agreements and LOIs
  • Investor narrative and data room
  • Collider Demo Day with Boson Ventures and partner funds
  • Post-program founder community
Sector tracks

Built for the sectors where AI rewires real industries.

Cohort 1 invites founders building at the intersection of advanced intelligence and three high-leverage sectors. Each track has its own clinics, mentors, and customer access.

Track 01

Healthcare & life sciences

Diagnostics, drug discovery, surgical robotics, clinical AI, and intelligent therapeutics — with structured navigation of clinical evidence, reimbursement, and regulatory paths.

  • Clinical AI
  • Diagnostics
  • Surgical robotics
  • Drug discovery
Track 02

Advanced manufacturing

Industrial automation, factory perception, materials, and intelligent production systems — paired with operators from Australian and APAC manufacturing.

  • Industrial robotics
  • Computer vision
  • Materials
  • Process AI
Track 03

Clean tech & energy

Grid intelligence, energy storage, climate modelling, and the electrification of heavy industry — with clear paths into utility, infrastructure and government channels.

  • Grid AI
  • Storage
  • Climate
  • Electrification
What makes us different

You learn the two frameworks we use to diligence a company.

Value Driver Tree

The decomposition our investment team runs in due diligence: what has to be true for this venture to return, broken down until each branch is a testable assumption. You build yours in Week 1, use it to surface technical risk in Week 2, then map that risk to the kind of investor who can help retire it in Week 9.

Value Chain Analysis

Where you sit in a global chain, who captures margin around you, and which of them is a partner, a customer, a user or a competitor. It tells you who to interview, what your market is actually worth, and which industry counterparts are worth your time in the Collider Sessions.

An intentionally broader pipeline

Deep tech moves faster when the founder pool isn't narrow.

Boson Collider is built so the founders who get in actually reflect where the next decade of Australian and APAC deep tech talent will come from — women in STEM, first-generation founders from migrant communities, First Nations entrepreneurs, and researchers building outside the major capital-city innovation hubs.

Blind first-round review

Initial applications are screened without names, institutions, or demographics so the strength of the thesis is what carries through.

Targeted outreach

Active partnership with women-in-STEM networks, multicultural chambers, Indigenous business networks and regional innovation hubs.

Designed for access

Hybrid attendance, recorded sessions, travel support for regional founders, and a mentor pool that reflects the founders we want to attract.

Info session, Thursday 27 August

Melbourne Connect. Meet the investment team and ask what the site hasn't answered.

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Cohort 1 · Melbourne · Oct 2026 – Jan 2027

Building intelligent deep tech in APAC? Apply to the program.

Boson Collider is opening applications for its inaugural cohort. If you're a scientific or technical founder building at the frontier of AI, robotics, or automation, we want to hear from you.

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