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‘Elastic spaces’ and meat retailers: 2026 EY Entrepreneur Of The 12 months shines mild on rising leaders

By Editorial Board Published September 1, 2025 7 Min Read
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‘Elastic spaces’ and meat retailers: 2026 EY Entrepreneur Of The 12 months shines mild on rising leaders

From reinventing the workspace to bringing sports activities star energy to incapacity assist, these 4 entrepreneurs have received reward for a way they’re tackling the issues of at this time with a pointy eye on the long run.

Because the EY Entrepreneur Of The 12 months™ program marks its twenty fifth 12 months of supporting Australian entrepreneurship, Startup Each day is profiling the distinctive entrepreneurs named as nationwide finalists throughout 5 classes within the prestigious awards, to be held on October 15.

Thus far, we’ve met the finalists for Social Impression. At present, we meet the cohort chosen for the Rising class.

Their ardour, drive and innovation is paving the best way for a greater world – however don’t take our phrase for it, hear from the finalists themselves:

Tyson Gundersen, Bureau

Ever heard of ‘elastic spaces’? Adelaide-based Bureau is making “spaces elastic to shape spaces around people, rather than shape people around space”, says cofounder Tyson Gundersen.

“I’d spent 12 years working 80 to 100 hours per week in consulting and sometimes discovered them missing in non-public, quiet areas for deep work.”

Enter Bureau’s soundproof workplace cubicles fabricated from recyclable supplies. Seeing the waste of single-use building, Tyson and his co-founders got here up their Bureau modular workplace pods – a quicker, cheaper and extra eco-friendly resolution for places of work. They’re now seen throughout the worldwide places of work of manufacturers like Amazon, Deloitte, Google, LEGO and NASA.

The subsequent evolution, at the moment in beta testing, permits prospects to add a PDF flooring plan and have AI generate 1000s of potential choices.

“In five years’ time, Bureau will be the default choice for any fast-growing, innovative business for the backbone of their office,” Gundersen says.

Steve Dresler, What Potential

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At simply 20, Steve Dresler was on his means up within the Parramatta Eels when a sudden harm ended his NRL goals for good.

“My world sort of shut down,” Dresler says.

He discovered objective working in incapacity assist.

In 2019, Dresler launched an Instagram account to showcase nice experiences for folks residing with disabilities. This morphed into What Potential, an NDIS-registered incapacity assist service with skilled athletes offering mentoring, camps, outside actions and extra.

At present, What Potential helps greater than 1000 households, with 70 workers working throughout Australia. Its not-for-profit arm, the What Potential Basis, goals to unlock a million experiences by 2030 for folks with disabilities and their households.

“One of my big goals personally is to take it global,” Dresler says.

“What we do now with the NRL and AFL and all the sporting teams here in Australia is really cool, but imagine one day we’re doing it with the NFL over in America, or the EPL in the UK?”

David McGiveron and Bianca Tarrant, Our Cow

David McGiveron and Bianca Tarrant

Our Cow is a grass-fed meat subscription firm with a objective. Began in 2019 by David McGiveron and Bianca Tarrant after their farm was ravaged by extreme bushfires and drought, Our Cow seeks to enhance the lives of farmers and meet client demand for higher high quality, ethically sourced produce.

“As a farmer, you never really know what price you’re going to be paid for your livestock, so we wanted to guarantee a price for the livestock that we were producing, and also offer that same stability to other farmers,” Tarrant says.

At present, Our Cow delivers grass-fed, free-range and natural produce direct to shoppers throughout Australia, supporting 100s of farmers and their communities.

“We met with a farmer who was potentially going to sell their farm,” Tarrant remembers.

“That they had three younger daughters. After six months of supplying Our Cow, he mentioned to me, ‘I’ve by no means been in a greater place and I can see a future for my daughters on the farm’.”

Sam Gordon, Australian Property Scout (APS)

Sam Gordon

Gold Coast purchaser’s agent Sam Gordon first turned a property investor at 19. All through his 20s, Gordon amassed 20+ properties and realised he might assist others do the identical.

“At 26, I got burnt by another buyer’s agent in the industry,” Gordon remembers.

“I lost $10,000. It was a really pivotal moment in my life… I realised that I couldn’t really trust anyone in the space if I couldn’t trust this guy. It made me double down on my portfolio.”

Two years later, in 2019, Gordon began his funding patrons’ company Australian Property Scout to assist others keep away from comparable pitfalls and construct their property portfolios ethically.

Now, with a group of greater than 60 on workers, APS is on monitor to hits its purpose of retiring 500 traders by 2030.

“We’re empowering so many people to able to live the lives that they want to live – really helping people get on the ladder with their first deal and then showing how to turn one property into three investment properties,” Gordon says.

“There’s something about that that just gives me so much drive and purpose.”

Extra about EY Entrepreneur Of The 12 months

The EY Entrepreneur Of The 12 months Program recognises Australian entrepreneurs who’re disrupting conventional methods of doing issues and constructing a greater working world.

Run by international skilled providers organisation EY, the EOY program spans 60 nations and jurisdictions and supplies unique networking and studying alternatives to individuals. EY Australia will host a gala occasion in October the place winners throughout 5 classes can be awarded (Rising, Trade, Providers, Social Impression and Know-how).

One winner can be chosen to signify Australia on the EY World Entrepreneur Of The 12 months international competitors in 2026.

For more information, go to the EY Entrepreneur Of The 12 months web site.

Startup Each day is a media accomplice for the EY Entrepreneur Of The 12 months program.

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