Startup Grind Melbourne Hosts Adrian Stone (AngelCube) - SOLD OUT

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Adrian Stone, AngelCube

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After a successful career at IBM, Adrian became a serial entrepreneur who had multiple exits across the USA, Australia and NZ. Adrian is co-founder and lead investor at AngelCube, Melbourne’s first venture accelerator, which provides seed investment and mentoring for technology start-ups and recently won StartupSmart magazine’s “Best Start-up Investor” award.

Adrian is also founding chairman of Investors' Organisation, whose mission is to grow the pool of investors willing to support Australia’s next generation of entrepreneurs, through collaboration and idea exchange.

Adrian has invested in more than 40 Australian and US startups.

Agenda

6:00 Networking and Food
7:00 Fireside Chat
8:00 Networking

Hosted By Chris Joannou, Melbourne Chapter Director

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Chris is a Digital Artist, Entrepreneur, and Startup Pusher. CEO and Founder of Startup Melbourne (http://www.startupmelbourne.com/), Perceptar (http://www.perceptar.com/) (live mobile to mobile video application) and the General Manager - Startup Grind Australia / New Zealand (http://www.startupgrind.com.au).

Outside of Tech he runs The Private Label Lab (http://www.privatelabellab.com.au) an innovative private label food and beverage business that primarily imports for the Retail and Foodservice markets within the Asia-Pacific.

Email: Chris@startupgrind.com | Twitter: @StartupGrindAus (http://twitter.com/StartupGrindAus)

Global Partners

Google is committed to empowering entrepreneurs around the world through programs, partnerships, and our products.

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Local Partners

99Designs - Design Marketplace // Proudly Supports Startup Grind Melbourne!

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ASX is excited to be partnering with Startup Grind. Startups are essential to the future economic growth and prosperity of the nation, so it is important that ASX, as Australia’s primary capital market, plays its part in supporting the ecosystem. The ASX market gives companies exposure to a broad investor base in Australia and across the world; over 2,100 listed companies access retail and institutional investors to help them achieve their growth ambitions. We look forward to sharing in your growth stories and hope that you follow in the footsteps of many other great companies by listing and raising capital on ASX. Find out more at www.asx.com.au/listings

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Deloitte Private works with private companies, individuals and families, to provide word-class accounting, taxation and advisory services.

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Hunting With Pixel is a social video agency based in Sydney and Melbourne. Our Big Plan is to make video social: more engaging, useful, and shareable. Great results happen when you combine content strategy with engaging videos; connecting your audience to the people and ideas behind your brand. We support Startup Grind because we love people with Big Plans, and we want to help them spread their ideas.

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NAB is recognised as a specialist in eCommerce and startup businesses having a range of products and Transaction banking expertise tailored towards facilitating business growth. We allow Australian business to transact all over the world in over 100 currencies directly and through our pre-existing global integrations and partners

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Queens Collective is a community for creators. If you're a startup, a small business, or just someone trying to do their own thing, we want you!

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The ​Home of Melbourne Startups, Startup Resources, Online Business Ideas, and both local Australian and International Entrepreneurship.

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Beautiful Accounting Software

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Zendesk // The ultimate customer service software proudly supports Startup Grind Melbourne.

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Canary helps entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. We take your idea and transform it into a mockup or prototype quickly. Instead of building an expensive app, launch your MVP and start getting real user feedback today.

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Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 150 cities and 65 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Our monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a strong support network, form meaningful connections and gain inspiration for the startup journey ahead. For more information visit StartupGrind.com (http://startupgrind.com) or follow us on twitter @StartupGrind (http://twitter.com/StartupGrind).