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.
Boson Collider closes the gap between the lab and the cap table. Over 12 weeks, scientific founders learn how venture capital actually evaluates intelligent deep tech — from technical risk to commercial wedge — and leave the program with the language, the network, and the early validation to raise capital and ship product.
Run by Boson Ventures alongside operators and investors active across AI, robotics, and automation, the program is fully non-dilutive. Founders engage with Boson on standard investment terms only if they choose to.
Direct engagement with the engineering, regulatory and procurement leaders who decide whether a deep tech product is bought. Founders leave with named champions — not warm intros.
A working command of the modern intelligence stack — not as a buzzword, but as a layer that compresses time-to-product across every deep tech category.
A go-to-market plan that takes the region seriously from day one. Singapore, Japan, Korea and Greater China are not later-stage afterthoughts — they're often the fastest route to a paying customer.
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.
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.
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.
Turn the work into momentum. Founders close design partners, sharpen the raise narrative, and present to a private investor room at Collider Demo Day.
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.
Diagnostics, drug discovery, surgical robotics, clinical AI, and intelligent therapeutics — with structured navigation of clinical evidence, reimbursement, and regulatory paths.
Industrial automation, factory perception, materials, and intelligent production systems — paired with operators from Australian and APAC manufacturing.
Grid intelligence, energy storage, climate modelling, and the electrification of heavy industry — with clear paths into utility, infrastructure and government channels.
Most pre-accelerators are managed by program staff. Boson Collider is built and run by the same investment team that backs APAC deep tech companies through Boson Ventures — the people writing first cheques, sitting on boards, and helping founders get to Series A.
Founders see the program from the inside: how a real fund triages, how a real partner thinks about defensibility, and how a founder team is evaluated before, during, and after the program.
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.
Initial applications are screened without names, institutions, or demographics so the strength of the thesis is what carries through.
Active partnership with women-in-STEM networks, multicultural chambers, Indigenous business networks and regional innovation hubs.
Hybrid attendance, recorded sessions, travel support for regional founders, and a mentor pool that reflects the founders we want to attract.
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.