Bilo Labs joins the 2026 Melbourne Migrapreneurs Program
Bilo Labs has been accepted into the City of Melbourne's 2026 Migrapreneurs Program, delivered by Catalysr and Arctic 90. The pitch was Stelemark-shaped; the venture has since broadened to the verified-human thesis. See the post for context.
By Matthew Bilo
Update, May 2026. Bilo Labs has since shifted from the modern-slavery DD wedge described in this post to a broader thesis: building software for the rising premium on verified human in an AI-saturated world. Modern-slavery DD is now one of six candidate expressions of that thesis, not the committed product. The program acceptance described below was made on the basis of the original Stelemark pitch and remains in good standing. See the homepage for the current direction.
Bilo Labs has been accepted into the 2026 Melbourne Migrapreneurs Program on the basis of Stelemark, our modern slavery due-diligence software for the Australian mid-market. The program is delivered by the City of Melbourne in partnership with Catalysr and Arctic 90. We are in the Ideation stream, which runs 12 May to 30 June 2026 at Stone & Chalk Melbourne.
The relevant point for buyers under the Modern Slavery Act is not the cohort itself. It is the external read on the problem we are solving. The selection criteria for the program are commercial viability of the venture and founder fit. Stelemark cleared both on the strength of a single thesis: mid-market reporting entities under the AU MSA have to file a statement every year, the alternatives are a Big-4 advisory bundle or a survey platform, and neither produces the artefact regulators are starting to read for civil-penalty purposes.
Stelemark is still in development. The productised audit, rewrite, and 12-month due-diligence plan we deliver today as a fixed-scope engagement is the wedge into the platform. Customers of that engagement will see no change in delivery during the program. What the program funds is the build side: validation of the platform, the customer-discovery rigor we apply to a sector that has been under-served by software, and the mentor network around Melbourne's innovation ecosystem.
If you have an MSA reporting obligation and want to talk to us about your current statement, get in touch.
About the program
The Melbourne Migrapreneurs Program is a startup education and support program for founders with a migration background. It is delivered by the City of Melbourne in partnership with Catalysr (Ideation stream) and Arctic 90 (Traction stream). More on the program: melbourne.vic.gov.au/melbourne-migrapreneurs-program.