Startup accelerator BlueChilli opens new larger Melbourne office
Announcement posted by Swell 17 Jul 2015
Melbourne 17 July 2015 - Fast-growing Australian tech startup accelerator BlueChilli will open a larger Melbourne office for its expanding business in the top floor of the landmark heritage building 520 Bourke Street Melbourne from 1 August. The iconic building features a one-of-a-kind open skylight ceiling and creative spaces including team offices, meeting rooms and 45 open-plan co-working desks available on both short-term and longer-term basis.
“We’re excited that our initial foothold in Melbourne is growing fast,” says BlueChilli founder and CEO Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin. “A partnership with Melbourne’s premier co-working provider Teamsquare allows us to offer more space in this iconic building for our growing tech startup community in Melbourne”.
“This is really reflective of the changing way businesses purchase real estate and services”, says Teamsquare co-founder Katherine Shimmins, “the traditional ‘lease’ doesn’t work anymore, and businesses need to be able to scale up and down quickly, and access services in modular, flexible way”.
The new premises feature a one-of-a-kind open skylight ceiling that brings abundant natural light into the space and makes the most of the city skyline views. In addition to BlueChilli’s growing community of early-stage tech startups, other occupants will include providers of tech recruitment, public relations, social media and digital design — all services useful when you’re a new tech startup. Newly-installed high-speed fibre connections ensure great internet connectivity.
A regular program of startup-focused community events will be hosted from the new space, and you can already find a handy calendar of Melbourne startup events hosted by BlueChilli startup CalendarTree at https://www.calendartree.com/_IM6X/melbourne-startup-events
About BlueChilli
BlueChilli works with non-technical entrepreneurs, investors and corporate customers to build, grow and invest in great new tech startup ventures. The company is well on its way to “smashing" its ambitious goal of creating 100 awesome startups by 2016. Headquartered in Sydney with portfolio startups in most Australian capitals, the US and Canada, BlueChilli will open new startup incubator premises in Asia and the US in 2015. BlueChilli invests technology IP, expert advice and early-stage funding in the startups it creates via a rigorous accelerator program curriculum, a dedicated product development team and the AUD10M BlueChilli Venture Fund, one of only 10 funds to gain ESVCLP status in Australia since 2007.
About Teamsquare
Teamsquare is Melbourne’s fastest growing co-working space, servicing casual members through to enterprise level businesses. From hosting the best in tech and innovation, to providing enterprise grade services in a flexible, scaleable way, they cement Melbourne’s place in a distributed global economy. Teamsquare have been providing co-working space in Melbourne since 2013, first at their founding office, 51 Queen St, and now at the landmark Goldsborough Mort Building on Bourke St.