When the international hacker community Angelhack decided to launch in Australia, they also decided to ramp up the expectations by partnering with the team from the CityConnect accelerator. Griffith graduate, founder and startup mentor, Ayla Soutar rose to the challenge.
Collaborating with local startup accelerator, BlueChilli, the 2017 Brisbane hackathon demanded contestants start from scratch and produce a working prototype of their idea in a only 24 hours. The pitch to a panel of judges was done without slides in only 2 minutes
CityConnect is the latest BlueChilli Accelerator that specializes in solutions for urbanisation – the problems of the city and its people.
Ms Soutar a GU Digital Arts and Business graduate and her business partner took the contest’s top two prizes for pitching a “fractional” property ownership platform that uses blockchain technology to increase the frequency of trading shares and reduce barriers of entry to the property market.
“It’s basically a legitimate
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