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Startup Funding Secrets

Sydney Seed Fund

Startup Funding Secrets

8:00am, Tue 14 June, 2016
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Join Benjamin Chong from Right Click Capital, Zoe Pointon from Open Agent, David Vitek from hipages, and Sarah Beckwith from Doctus, as they share their journey about how they successfully raised their first and subsequent rounds of financing. Learn how to build a meaningful and enduring business that excites angel investors and venture capitalists.

 

Startup Funding Secrets is your inside scoop on how four very successful entrepreneurs raised their first and subsequent rounds of funding. If you are interested in the startup scene,  Startup Funding Secrets is guaranteed to give you great tips on how and where to get funding. Startup Funding Secrets will also be a great place to network as you will meet other entrepreneurs and potential investors.

 

Speakers

 

Benjamin Chong is a partner at Right Click Capital, a team of passionate founders and investors who identify, invest in, and support technology businesses in Australia, NewZealand and South East Asia. He has a track record of investing in and building successful Internet-related businesses over the last twenty years and also serves as the co-director of the Founder Institute in Sydney.

 

Zoe Pointon is co-CEO of Open Agent, Australia's real estate disruptors. 2015 was an amazing year for Open Agent as they secured $6 million in funding. Open Agent helps home sellers find the best agent by using data from more than 2 million property sales by location. In just two years, they helped more than 10,000 people through the selling process, representing $5 billion in transaction values.

 

David Vitek is a passionate, driven entrepreneur and CEO and co-founder of hipages Group. He has overseen the growth of the business into Australia's largest on-demand home service marketplace with over 83,000 registered service providers. hipages has raised over $50 million in funding to date and under David's leadership the business has been recognised with a number of different awards.

 

Sarah Beckwith is the co-founder and CEO at Doctus, a tele-health platform, providing Australians with access to medical and online prescription services 24/7. Prior to launching Doctus, Sarah worked in digital advertising and communications, holding account executive positions with Ogilvy & Mather and The Zoo Republic. During this time, she worked on high profile consumer accounts including Kimberly Clark and the Dulux Group.

 

 

 

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