David Bell
CEO, Co-founder – Remedy Robotics
You bring the idea
We get the founding
About Foundry
Our Thesis
The next generation of consequential companies will be founded by scientists. We exist to back them from day zero.
<25%
ANZ's research-to-venture conversion rate per publication, benchmarked against US/Canada.
~65%
Founder + ESOP equity from day one, rewarding the people doing the work.
2 cohorts
The Foundry has been running for years, it's already past proof-of-concept.
You're inside the lab.
PhD candidate, postdoc, principal investigator, research engineer. You've spent years getting close to something that doesn't exist yet.
You're at TRL 4 or earlier.
The work is real, but pre-product. Pre-revenue. Often pre-incorporation. We invest at the threshold, not after the inflection.
You suspect there's a company in your work.
Maybe a paper. Maybe an unfinished demo. Maybe just an unreasonable hunch. You don't have a deck. We don't need one.
You're based in Australia or New Zealand.
Or you intend to build here. We are unapologetically backing the southern hemisphere's deep-tech generation.
You're allergic to the obvious path.
You've already noticed that the standard route — TTO, license, advisory board — is not how the companies you admire actually got built.
Who It's For
If three or more of these describe you, we want to hear from you.
What Fellows Get
Capital, conviction, and a company-shaped runway.
- 01
Foundational capital
A no-strings cheque to fund the first months of work — so you can leave the lab without leaving the science.
- 02
A founder-first cap table
We'll work with your institution, your supervisor, your TTO, so the company starts shaped right — not dragged into shape later.
- 03
The Blackbird network
Direct access to the partners and the founders behind PsiQuantum, Vow, SunDrive, Cortical Labs, Baraja, and a hundred others.
- 04
A founder education, in motion
A six-week intensive (in-person + remote) covering company formation, hiring, fundraising, GTM — taught by the founders who've done it.
- 05
Translational support
IP strategy, regulatory navigation, recruiting your first commercial co-founder, and a path out of your institution — handled.
- 06
A cohort that gets it.
The other fellows. Probably the most useful thing on this list. People who understand the loneliness of standing at the edge of a problem.
Mentors
Operators, founders, and scientists who've built the kind of company you're trying to build. On call from day one.
Hemant Chaurasia
CTPO – Fleet Space
Jekaterina Viktorova
CEO, Co-founder – Syenta
John Carroll & Eamonn Colley
Co-founders – Vexev
David Bell
CEO, Co-founder – Remedy Robotics
Hemant Chaurasia
CTPO – Fleet Space
Jekaterina Viktorova
CEO, Co-founder – Syenta
John Carroll & Eamonn Colley
Co-founders – Vexev
David Bell
CEO, Co-founder – Remedy Robotics
Hemant Chaurasia
CTPO – Fleet Space
Jekaterina Viktorova
CEO, Co-founder – Syenta
John Carroll & Eamonn Colley
Co-founders – Vexev
Companies
Operators, founders, and scientists who've built the kind of company you're trying to build. On call from day one.
Apply