Bondi Shark Tank

Join us for a unique opportunity to be in the room with some of Waverley’s most innovative and forward thinking Startup Founders.

If you are looking to be inspired, motivated and to be around other people with a growth mindset, this is the event for you.

Why you should join us? 

• Come and hear the most innovative pioneering founders with innovative solutions.
• Learning from the investors and industry experts on our judging panel.
• Enjoy a welcome drink and some nibbles on us!
• Network with the leaders to the Australian entrepreneurship community.

The judges will be:

• Mitchell Bissinger- Investor at Folklore : 
  Mitchell Bissinger, investor at Folklore Ventures, has over 10 years experience advising, founding and working in startups and scale-ups. He joined Folklore from VC-backed scale-up Eucalyptus, where he managed capital allocation within the company’s operations function.
  
  
• Cathleen Santoso - Head of Growth at Athletic Ventures:

Cathleen is the Head of Growth and Ops at Athletic Ventures - a syndicate of current and former elite athletes investing in champion founders. Previously, she worked within the ad agency landscape and consulting at KPMG, before she joined the startup world at BML Online, Hyper and co-founded Rare Yoga studio in Bondi Beach.

• Sam Cust - Director at Hyper: 
• Sam has been involved in the Tech industry for over 10 years ago. He has been involved in building Start Ups from the ground up, including several successful capital raises in-turn achieving high growth. He sit across multiple Start Up boards and has a deep passion for supporting the Australian Start Up Ecosystem.                                                                             
• Mayor of Waverley - Paula Masselos:
• Paula is the Managing Director of Embrace Society which is a communications agency specialising in hard to reach audiences and in values based behaviour change, community engagement, advertising and communications, and creative strategy and development.Paula is a highly experienced and award winning strategist and communicator with a career spanning almost 35 years. She has held a number of senior positions including Director SBS Radio. Prior to joining the WPP Group (Y&R) as the Director of Mosaica and of Sudler & Hennessey Multicultural, she was the Director of Education in the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission