Women Tech Founders Pitch Event - Men welcome!

From New York City to Sydney! We are super excited to announce our next Women Tech Founders Pitch Event in Sydney – October 18, 2016.

This is no ordinary pitch session....Come watch 3 fabulous Women Tech Founders pitch their businesses to a superior panel of seasoned entrepreneurs, VC's, and angels - seeking advice, guidance or funding to help elevate their business to the next level. Men are welcome!

Serving green juice, wine, hors d'oeuvres, and maybe some beer…

“I was really impressed with the quality of the ELEVACAO Sydney launch & pitch event. Great format and excellent pitches. It’s inspiring to see these Aussie women taking on the world!”

• David Oakley | MD, ANZ @ ServiceNow

EVENING FORMAT

6:00pm: Doors open

(When you arrive to 155 Clarence St and nobody is dowanstairs to let you in, please call 0468 954 064)

6:30pm: Event kick-off, pitches, panel Q&A

8:00pm: Networking

8:30pm: Close & After Party

FOUNDERS

Millie Zinner & Alice Pritchard Davies | Cofounders @ Motherhood

Motherhood is a mobile app that connects parents with other mums and babysitters in their 'hood for local, trustworthy, flexible childcare. http://www.motherhoodapp.com/

Dr Katja Beitat | CEO & Founder @ Healthcare Innovate

Clinivid is a secure video messaging platform allowing doctors and other health care professionals to share relevant patient information instantly, using video, images and text. http://www.healthcareinnovate.com.au/

Dr Silvia Pfeiffer | CEO & Cofounder @ Coviu

Coviu integrates video consultations for doctors seamlessly into your existing workflow, making online service delivery a reality. https://coviu.com/

PANELISTS

Rebekah Campbell | Co-Founder and Executive Director @ Hey You App

Rebekah Campbell is a serial entrepreneur who has played a lead role in the disruption of two industries. Rebekah took her passion for music industry from NZ to Australia and founded Scorpio Music in 2002 - now one of Australia's largest and most successful management companies for musicians. She then founded Posse in 2010 as a startup allowing bands a platform to reward dedicated fans. It was later sold to Future Music. Posse relaunched in 2012 as a retail-focused app. It initially raised $2.7 million in funding from investors. In 2014, Rebekah led a merger of Posse, Beat the Q and E-Coffee Card to form a single application for mobile shopping, 'Hey You', Australia’s largest mobile ordering and payments platform for cafes, closed a $5M investment round led by Westpac.

Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin | Investor, Advisor & Founder @ BlueChilli

EY Entrepreneur of the Year Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin left a 10 year career as a weapons engineer in the Navy to pursue his passion in working with start-ups. He is the founder and CEO of Venture Technology firm BlueChilli that builds, grows and invests in tech startups, with an audacious goal of building a billion dollar portfolio by 2020. Under Sebastian's leadership, BlueChilli was named BRW’s 3rd most innovative company of 2012 and 7th fastest growing tech company in Asia Pacific by Deloitte. Sebastian is also a founding ambassador of the Awesome Foundation, advisor at Club Kidpreneur and represents the Australian tech startup industry at State and Federal government levels.

Jemma Enright | Founder and CEO @ Next Milestone

Jemma Enright is an experienced entrepreneur and intrapreneur, working for companies such as SBS and NineMSM. Jemma took the leap from corporate life to entrepreneur world in 2012 to start MoneyBrilliant, a personal finance platform supporting the financial wellbeing of Australians. As Cofounder and CEO of MoneyBrilliant, Jemma built the business from idea stage to exit, selling to AMP in 2016. As Entrepreneur in Residence for a significant Suncorp project, Jemma coached the Suncorp team in a human entered design process. Today, as Founder of Next Milestone, Jemma helps entrepreneurs realise their goals.

Simon Anquetil | Executive Chairman @ Tech Pilot Fund

Simon is a driven entrepreneur and a passionate technologist, having founded several successful businesses and worked as a Senior Consultant and Advisor to the top end of town. As Founder & Executive Chairman of Tech Pilot Fund a hybrid advisory firm, incubator, accelerator and early-stage investor - Simon as led 3 successful graduates with a combined turnover of over $150M per annum. Having completed a thesis on the subject of female entrepreneurship as part of a Master’s degree, has led Simon to understand that women play a vital role in the innovation and success of any business, and that current female representation in this space is seriously lacking, resulting in Australia lagging behind its potential.

Katryna Dow | CEO & Founder @ Meeco

Katryna is the founder of Meeco, an award winning personal data platform. She is an advocate for digital rights and speaks globally on privacy, data protection and Me2B business models. Katryna initially self-funded Meeco, before raising seed capital of $3.2m in January 2014, enabling Meeco to launch it's first public platform in July 2014. Katryna currently splits her time between Europe and Australia where Meeco has offices and development teams. Prior to Meeco Katryna founded & operated a strategy consulting practice. As a consultant, Katryna has extensive global experience in strategy to execution roles in start-ups to major corporate change and implementation and projects. Katryna has held leadership positions and delivered projects in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, United States and India. Her industry sector experience includes information technology, financial services, health services and human resources

Some testimonials from our entrepreneurs, sponsors and supporters from our last Pitch Event.

"It was terrific to see three passionate entrepreneurs pitching their ideas at the ELEVACAO event - demonstrating the talent and potential of Australian women in entrepreneurship. We need deliberate action to lift the number of female founders building tech startups in Australia. Congratulations to ELEVACAO for providing the platform for these women to pitch their startups and engage with potential supporters."

• Nicola Hazell | Head of Diversity & Impact Programs @ BlueChilli

“Marisa and her team guided me through a 2-month process that empowered and enabled me with the confidence and skills to pitch to a well seasoned panel of judges and live audience.

As a result I have received numerous offers for further support, guidance and potential funding. ELEVACAO truly understood what it meant to be a female entrepreneur, believed that I had the power to succeed, and delivered on every promise to propel me and my start-up into the next phase of business growth.”

• Sera Awad | Founder @ Photell

“Marisa is an inspiring woman who truly elevates those around her. I recently pitched through ELEVACAO at their Sydney launch event, and it was extremely encouraging to hear that everyone was very impressed with the quality of the pitches.

A large part of the credit goes to ELEVACAO for enabling our valuable pitch practice sessions. I made a number of valuable connections to potential investors and advisors through the event, and feel extremely grateful for all the help I've received from ELEVACAO.”

• Chloe Blattmann | Cofounder @ Ragtagd

"ELEVACAO Sydney launch was a resounding success, and has certainly raised the bar for pitch events in Sydney. As the event sponsor, I was greatly impressed with the supportive atmosphere at the event and the quality of both the panel and the entrepreneurs.

The pitch training given to the entrepreneurs in advance of the night was clearly very effective, as each of them pitched like seasoned presenters; clearly and with confidence. It was a wonderful feeling to see how much support and connections the entrepreneurs gained out of the event, and I am extremely proud to continue supporting ELEVACAO as a sponsor."

• Rob Morris | MD @ Prismatik