About CDH

Driving digital innovation through collaboration

 

Cremorne Digital Hub is here to supercharge Victoria's digital ecosystem by fostering collaboration between industry, venture capital, education, government and our most talented entrepreneurs. We're about collaboration and community, and we do this by;

  • Bringing together key stakeholders to solve industry problems,
  • Prioritising solutions with strong market potential led by commercially savvy founders,
  • Addressing global challenges and supporting international expansion, and;
  • Developing and attracting Victoria's best and brightest tech minds.

Located at 80 Balmain Street in the heart of Cremorne, our Hub HQ is the ideal place for us to bring our community stakeholders together. Here we can co-create and develop scalable solutions to the biggest industry problems. 

 

We're thinking big

Cremorne Digital Hub facilitates the journey of innovators and problem solvers, enabling technologists to excel, offering investors access to high-growth ventures, and creating clear career commercialisation pathways to turn great ideas into high-growth businesses.

We're committed to ambitious objectives, aiming not only to address the challenges faced by Australians but also to tackle global issues, the big stuff that matters most. This requires bold action, tapping into our partner resources and preparing our tech enterprises for 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.

Who we're for

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.

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. 

 

 

 

SCALE UP

Talent 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 are one of those exceptional people pushing the boundaries of innovation, and you have a clear vision of how to create commercial success, we want to hear from you.


EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES

International 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. 

Our Team of Thinkers

 

Of course, 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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HANNAH SWEETMAN

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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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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MATT CLUNIES-ROSS

Board Member 


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

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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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SCOTT VEENKER

Board Member 


Chief Executive Officer at Melbourne Chamber of Commerce.

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What we do for you...

We are industry led. We start with the industry problems, then we go and source solutions to fit through our connected digital ecosystem. 

Our  workspace is meticulously designed to foster strong connections and collaboration opportunities. Inclusive events, targeted support programs, and co-development innovation activities. These initiatives are strongly aligned with joint industry and government priorities and married with partner capabilities, focusing on:

  • Developing commercially savvy tech talent.
  • Driving real world applications and adoption of ethical AI.
  • Navigating cyber risk aligned with emerging technology.
  • Unlocking the power of emerging technology to drive sustainability.

If you're a business leader, innovator, tech startup, investor or in our incredible Cremorne community - you've come to the right place.

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