KILN INCUBATOR

KILN is a Canberra based business incubator assisting early stage startups, investors and small businesses in the scaling-up stage.

Pre-incubation Programs

Setting your company for growth is not easy. You will need to build a minimum viable product, validate how it fits the market, learn how to sell to early customers, find a scalable business model and pitch the opportunity to investors in a way that makes you stand out.
Learn, practice and set your company for growth in our pre-incubation programs. We also offer these as a "Market Ready" package.

Workshops

Learn-by-doing how lean startups validate, model, build and sell innovative ideas to customers in our highly interactive series of workshops.

Coaching

Work with experienced business advisers in one-on-one coaching sessions to help you find/shape the growth opportunity in our launchpad coaching program.

Foundations

Lighthouse Business Innovation Centre’s 12 week Business Foundations program will help you set the foundations to get incubation ready.

Incubation Programs

Whether you run a start-up or established company, our growth programs provide you with a team of mentors, experts and advisers to work with you as you build a scalable, high-growth business.

KILN Deep Tech

Long-term business support to bring deep technology innovations to the world.
Get structured, needs-based multi-expert assistance on your journey. Access all relevant KILN advisory resources you need to grow your business.

KILN Scale-Up

Designed for high growth startups and ambitious SMEs to provide advice, resources and operational support from mentors and expert advisors. This program will help you build a scalable, high-growth business!

KILN Space

KILN FIRE program companies will have access to office space in the Incubator cell of CBRIN and the startup community. This includes membership in Entry29 and access to all co-working facilities, services and events.

What our fantastic clients say?

We have been fortunate enough to work in KILN with some phenomenal entrepreneurs.

Matt Bullock
CEO and founder of CENTIFY, Work Gamification Startup

“Even though people will say that I have been there and I have done that (or maybe because of that), I understand how important it is for founders to bounce off ideas with smart people experienced in the startup game and listen to their sometimes different points of view. And that is what I value most on the KILN Scale Up Program experience. If you are serious about building a rapid growth business I can highly recommend the team at KILN to help you get there fast.”

“The KILN experience has been transformative.
Before KILN, we really did not know how to grow our business. Now we do. And it has been fun. KILN have helped us transition from high growth potential to high growth reality. They have worked closely with our team to help us properly develop and understand our metrics. This has assisted us to create a growth story and a realistic roadmap. They have provided frank and honest advice while respecting the integrity of the business and shareholders. The experience has transformed the thinking of our whole team. As a result we are much more confident and focused on achieving our vision.”

Harold Dimpel
CEO and founder of mHITs, a FinTech Startup

Who is involved?

Foundation Partners

KILN incubator is an initiative of CBR Innovation Network in collaboration with Griffin Accelerator and ATP Innovations supported by ACT Government as part of the Confident & Business Ready - Business Development Strategy 2015.

Academic / Research Partners

CBR Innovation Network's Foundation Members provide KILN incubator clients with unprecedented access to
Australia's most renowned academic and research capacity.