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ABOUT CREMORNE DIGITAL HUB

EMPOWERING INNOVATION AND GROWTH FOR A BETTER FUTURE

Cremorne Digital Hub is Victoria’s centre for innovation and growth, connecting scale-up founders, enterprises, and global partners with essential opportunities. We unite industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors in a collaborative space where creative ideas flourish and drive commercial success.

Join our network to access capital, capability-building programs, and cutting-edge digital ecosystems. At Cremorne Digital Hub, we create a community where your ideas thrive, enabling meaningful impact and growth.

We bring together key stakeholders to solve industry problems


We prioritise solutions with strong market potential led by commercially savvy founders

We address global challenges and supporting international expansion

We develop and attract Victoria's best and brightest tech minds


We're thinking big

Cremorne Digital Hub drives the success of innovators and problem solvers by offering technologists the tools to excel, investors access to high-growth ventures, and pathways to turn ideas into thriving businesses. Located at the heart of Victoria's vibrant digital ecosystem, we are committed to addressing both local and global challenges through bold action and strategic partnerships. With a collaborative network, top-tier talent, and world-class university partners, we aim to elevate Cremorne as Australia’s centre of digital innovation and showcase our collective potential on the global stage.

Cremorne is set in the epicentre of Victoria's digital ecosystem situated on the edge of Melbourne - a city celebrated for fostering world-class innovators, entrepreneurs, and tech talent. Our vision is to further elevate Cremorne, transforming it into the heartbeat of digital innovation in Australia and show the world what we're capable of.  We have all the ingredients needed to make this happen; incredible talent, a huge and collaborative ecosystem, world-class university partners and an insatiable appetite for success.

OUR COMMUNITY

For great ideas to thrive in an expanding digital economy it's incredibly important for our talent to have the best possible opportunities to excel and create new digital businesses, while tackling some of industry’s and society’s biggest technical challenges. These include sustainability, cyber security and risk, AI and emerging technologies with their wide-ranging applications, and of course the support of our future and current technology leaders.

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Scale-up Founders

There are others who help early stage Founders. Cremorne Digital Hub focus our collaborative ecosystem resources on helping ventures that already have some traction and revenue to really hit their strides. We unlock our extensive partner resources to make that happen for the Founders we believe in and the business they're behind. 

Capability building

Talented people deserve support. Technological revolution requires an exceptional innovators mindset to take root and grow. Commercial acumen, coupled with drive and vision. That's what we look for.

If you're driving innovation with a vision for commercial success, we want to hear from you.

Global Partnerships

We believe in the power of partnerships, teamwork, and diverse perspectives to drive impactful innovation. We work both here and abroad to foster cross collaboration with international innovators, to attract scaling ventures setting up shop in Cremorne and across Victoria, and to help our own scaling ventures to grow into international markets.

 

CORPORATE VENTURERS

Every company has an innovation agenda, but getting value from internal venturing is full of difficulties. It's expensive, slow and has a high failure rate.

Cremorne Digital Hub can help make that easier. Think of us like 'venture capital as a service'. With our partner Artesian, Australia's most active Venture Capital firm, we can take a huge part of that burden on for you, at a much lower cost to doing it yourself.

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OUR TEAM

We can’t achieve any of this without the right people in the driver's seat. And we’re lucky enough to have a brilliant team driving us.

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PETER OSBORNE

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Igniting the fuel of exceptional talent tackling our biggest opportunities.

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JULIE STEVENS

PARTNER ENGAGEMENT & ACTIVATION LEAD

Driving impactful digital innovation through partnerships.

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ROCHELLE KERR

EVENTS LEAD

Expert in stakeholder engagement & project management.

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TRISTAN DWYER

OPERATIONS LEAD

Focused on operations and projects that bring scale to tech solutions.

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ALAN TSEN

STRATEGIC GROWTH LEAD

To foster and grow our impact across the startup ecosystem in Victoria.

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MARGARET LEDWITH

INNOVATION & VENTURING LEAD

Unlocking opportunities for growth through collaborative innovation and venturing.

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OUR BOARD

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ADRIAN PEARCE

BOARD CHAIR

Professor AI & Deputy Head of School of Computing and Information Systems (Engagement) at University of Melbourne.

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KATH BLACKHAM

BOARD MEMBER

Founder and CEO of VERSA Connects and VERSA Agency. AI entrepreneur.

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VAL BROWN

BOARD MEMBER

ASX Executive, Board Member and Advisor spanning some of Australia's biggest tech companies.

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MATT CLUNIES-ROSS

BOARD MEMBER

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Artesian Capital Management and Artesian Venture Partners.

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SCOTT VEENKER

BOARD MEMBER

Chief Executive Officer at Melbourne Chamber of Commerce.

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HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR SUCCESS

At Cremorne Digital Hub, we are driven by industry needs, sourcing solutions through our interconnected digital ecosystem. Our workspace is designed to enhance collaboration and connections, featuring inclusive events, targeted support programs, and co-development activities. We align our initiatives with industry and government priorities, focusing on developing commercially savvy tech talent, advancing ethical AI applications, managing cyber risks with emerging technologies, and harnessing new tech to drive sustainability.

We develop commercially savvy tech talents

 

We drive real world applications and adoption of ethical AI

 

We navigate cyber risk aligned with emerging technology

 

We unlock the power of emerging tech to drive sustainability

 
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OUR STRATEGIC PARTNERS

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