Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur, startup founder, or seasoned business person with a passion for launching your own company, knowing where to start your entrepreneurial journey can be difficult. For LGBTQI+ entrepreneurs, in particular, there can also be additional identity-related barriers to overcome.

With this in mind, we’ve brought together LGBTQI+ entrepreneurs to share their own startup experiences of building and scaling startups.

This panel will cover idea generation to business model validation, growth hacks, tech tips, securing investment, exits, and more.

While this event is designed to enable and empower those within LGBTQI+ space to launch their own business through increased visibility and storytelling, this event is open to everyone - allies, business builders, investors, and more from the broader community. All are welcome.

Panelists

Mel Fyfe, co-founder and CEO of BlakThumb
James Alexander, co-founder of INCUBATE and Galileo
Tanya Matthewson, entrepreneur and Partner Development Specialist at AWS
Nicole Kersh, entrepreneur and founder of 4Cabling

Through the event, we will be taking questions from the audience to ensure maximum engagement.

The event will conclude with an opportunity to join a breakout room (optional) and network with our panelists and other attendees.

Agenda

Welcome
Panel
Q&A
Breakout rooms (optional)
End

Partners & sponsors

This event is part of “Future Business Leaders for Equality” a partnership between Pride@USYD and Pride@AGSM. Supported by our hosting partner Antler, EY which runs the She Starts Out program, and INCUBATE.

Together we are all working toward building a stronger, more diverse Australian startup ecosystem.