Co Ventures: Empowering pre-seed founders to create billion-dollar companies

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Maxine Minter is the founder of Co Ventures (www.coventures.vc), the first venture fund by a solo female investor in Australia and Australia’s first specialist pre-seed fund. Maxine is also the CEO of Co Lab (www.the-colab.co), the community of executive coaches who coach CEOs and executive teams of the fastest-growing companies in the world such as Notion, Linktree, Segment, Plaid, and many more. Already have questions for Maxine? Pop them into Slide for our Q&A session: https://app.sli.do/event/uVBv24ZYqNF2ddSYZbc9uR

This is a hybrid event. Join the event virtually at https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-sydney-presents-co-ventures-empowering-pre-seed-founders-to-create-billion-dollar-companies/
or in person at

Hall Chadwick - 2 Park Street Sydney, 2000

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Agenda

6:00 PM: Networking and Food

7:00 PM: Fireside Chat

7:45 PM: Audience Q&A

8:15 PM: Networking

9:00 PM: That's a wrap

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Speaker

Maxine Minter - Co Ventures (Founder)

Maxine is the founder of Co Ventures (www.coventures.vc), the first venture fund by a solo female investor in Australia and Australia’s first specialist pre-seed fund. Maxine is also the CEO of Co Lab (www.the-colab.co), the community of executive coaches who coach the CEOs and executive teams of the fastest growth companies in the world. Co Lab coaches have worked with the CEOs and executives…

Moderator

David Kenney - Start Growth (Founder)

Over the past 21 years, I have been privileged to counsel and guide entrepreneurs who have achieved amazing results. Acting on hundreds of capital raises, business sales and IPOs, I've made some life long friends. Working side by side with many world class entrepreneurs has helped refine my craft.

Hosts

Kim McIntosh - Telstra Purple

Brendan Yell - Blah Ventures (Founder)

Brendan is an experienced technology entrepreneur and mentor. Founder of ShopFree.com back in 1999 and RecipeLover in 2004, he has spent a career in technology startups.
He is also an ambassador and pitch coach for Rise (Hong Kong) and Web Summit (Lisbon), Co-Director of Startup Grind in Sydney and is the Entrepreneur in Residence for the Qa…

William Wang - Growth Labz (Founder)

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CMS is one of the largest law firms in the world. 1,100 partners. 4,800 lawyers. 41 countries. 72 offices. CMS works for Fortune 500 enterprises, FT European 500 enterprises, and DAX 30 organizations. With an equal drive, it helps clients to transform their start-ups into game-changers through their international start-up program equIP.

Presenting

Hall Chadwick (http://www.hallchadwick.com.au/)
Over the years, Hall Chadwick has partnered with hundreds of start-ups. Our client list reads like to who’s who of Start Ups, because we don’t just talk about it, we have considerable expertise from start-up through to acting on dozens of successful exits. We have assisted start-ups set up the right company structure, manage their tax obligations, follow government regulations, resolve employees compensation issues, strategize domestic and overseas expansion, seek funding via private equity or IPO, and also handle the bookkeeping function all at Start up friendly pries...

It has been a rewarding experience overseeing the rapid growth of successful Australian start-ups punching above their weight as well as a learning curve guiding start-ups that has yet to meet expectations.

We understand the technical and financial challenges start-ups face, To assist cash-strapped technology start-ups, we have partnered with a leading small business accounting software company, using cloud technology to provide affordable tax and accounting solutions that we believe, will suit a significant number of technology start-up organisations.

David Kenney Partner - M&A, Tax and Innovation at Hall Chadwick, provides considerable time to groups like Startmate, Muru –D and Incubate where he serves as a Mentor, investor and regularly speaks at numerous Start up events.

Partners

Growth Labz (https://growthlabz.com/)
Get the strategies, systems, tools, and growth hacks the fastest growing B2B businesses in the world are using to get more leads, land more deals, and grow their profits.

Start Growth
Startup to $100M

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