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One of the most inspiring pitches delivered at this year's Tech23 startup event in Sydney on 29 October was from Marita Cheng, the dynamic and inspiring founder of 2Mar Robotics, which designs and manufactures a voice and iPhone-controlled robot arm for people with spinal cord injuries, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cerebral palsy and Parkinson's.

This 2012 Young Australian of the Year has made amazing progress on delivering her vision for a simple, cheap and effective prosthetic limb in the short time since establishing her venture in April 2013 and for the progress she's made we awarded her our Best Growth Hacking and Bootstrapping Prize to the value of $4,888.

We're excited to return for our second year as a prize sponsor of Tech23, arguably Australia's biggest tech startup event in terms of rewards on offer to the startups pitching and exhibiting.

Our "Best Growth-Hacking and Bootstrapping" prize package goes to the startup we judge has done the best job of using minimal cash, resources and time to prove their lean canvas hypotheses and find a product/customer fit that will get them to early revenue.

We'd like to thank the teams at Bugherd and General Standards who've kindly donated their services to make our total prize package even better for the winning startup team.

The package includes:

$3,000 in tailored workshops at The New Agency;

12 month premium plan from Bugherd ($1,188);

$500 credit with General Standards on legal and accounting services; and

$200 credit for co-working at NewportNet.