Arena Mars

Australia hits global benchmarks for Research, Patents, & Universities, and has a thriving Startup community. But in the hard metrics—economic complexity, technology exports, and sovereign industrial capability—we are quickly slipping behind our OECD peers. Too few Australian startups reach scale, and too many relocate overseas. An important reason for this is the absence of a national scale-up ecosystem. We’re building the kind of system that comparable countries—Canada, UK, France, Germany and the Nordics have benefited from for two decades. We’re working with Australia's Federal and State Governments, Universities, VCs and Founders, providing the means for startups to scale across our National Missions: Housing, Energy, Defence, Healthcare, Agriculture, Resources, Robotics and AI. Our success metrics are job creation, export revenues, foreign direct investment, industrial diversification and tax revenues - all of which means that scale-ups successes contribute ever-more to the wider community. Visit our website for more.