Venture Capital by Design - How to Raise Venture Capital & Angel Funding (SYDNEY SEMINAR)
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT+1000)
Sydney, New South Wales
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Following our sell-out Melbourne event,
we're bringing this hot topic to Sydney.
Raising capital is hard enough. You can’t afford to do it badly.You won’t get a second chance!
During this two hour seminar, attendees will learn from five of Australia’s leading experts on venture capital and business development - real investors, currently seeking investment opportunities, and successful entrepreneurs, who have ‘been there’ and secured private funding for their growing companies.
Michael Zimmerman, CEO, BuildingIQ
VC and adviser turned entrepreneur.Michael has spent the last 20 years working with high growth companies and the last 12 years as an executive, board member or investor in technology start ups.
Prior to BuildingIQ, Michael was a General Partner at Technology Venture Partners, a leading Australian venture capital firm focused on cross-border opportunities, where he invested and worked with internet, software and mobile companies including ThreatMETRIX, Engana (sold to Finisar), MIG33, Viator, and Eurekster.
Previous to TVP, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Altos Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and a senior executive at iOwn Holdings, one of the leading internet mortgage and real estate companies (sold to Citigroup in 2001).
Michael has worked with Bain & Company, Goldman Sachs and The Mentoring Partnership. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford Business School.
Chris Hitchen, Managing Director, Getprice Pty Ltd
Serial entrepreneur with his own investment consortium.Chris is the Managing Director of Getprice Pty Ltd, Australia’s leading independent shopping comparison site with an audience of around three million unique Australian Shoppers per month.
Before his role in the creation and rapid rise of Getprice, he provided consulting services to European clients on corporate development and strategy, including the London-based mobile commerce specialist Reporo; Europe’s largest search engine marketing agency, The Interactive Marketing Works; and Summit Media, a European full-service digital agency. This followed his role as Head of Pangora UK, a business owned by European Internet Portal, Lycos Europe.
Chris is a regular speaker at international events (e.g. Search Engine Strategies London) and is regularly engaged by Venture Capitalists and Business Owners for his opinions on strategy, market trends and business opportunities.
Chris is also involved with a private consortium of Australian-based investors who invest in a variety of high growth businesses within the digital space.
Serial business builder with European experience.
Ilkka Tales is currently the Chairman of MoGeneration, a leading developer of
iPhone and Android applications, Director of Hostech Ltd, an Australian
listed entity consolidating in the telecommunications sector and is on
the advisory board for MyriadGroup AG, Europe's largest mobile software
company, and on the advisory board of Voiamo PLC which is a UK based
startup attempting to revolutionise international telecommunications
and a Director of Traffic Intelligence Pty Ltd which produces real time
vehicle traffic congestion data nationally.
Ilkka has deep domain experience in the IT and
telecommunications sector in global, regional and local roles. He has built significant paying customer bases through direct marketing
having managed Consumer Services Globally for Philips Consumer
Communications, as CEO of Mobile Innovations Ltd and as founder and CEO
of Engin Ltd, Australia's VoIP pioneer.
Rob Fitzpatrick, Director of Commercialisation, NICTA
Commercialisation leader and influencer.NICTA’s Director of Commercialisation, Rob Fitzpatrick has an extensive background in business and technology in the ICT sector globally, including management, consulting, start-ups and business development for large corporates.
He is well regarded within industry, specifically for his roles as part of the team that set up and ran online grocer ShopFast and as a consultant for over seven years with worldwide management consultancy McKinsey & Company consulting to clients in Australia, Europe, the US and Asia.
Since 2003, he has maintained an active portfolio of information and communications technology businesses. With HeardIT his team developed transformational change in the radio advertising sector. Other technology start-ups he has been involved with include a sports social networking entity with operations in three continents and an integrated technology application which makes print media interactive and measurable via mobile internet access.
Fitzpatrick has an MBA (double major in finance and marketing) from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney.
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When: Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Time: 6pm (start)
Cost: $60 inc. GST ($45 per person for group bookings)
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