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Spark Festival in Sydney's South West

Join us for an in-depth discussion around funding innovation, at Spark Sydney South West. With a packed program filled with inspiration, knowledge sharing, and a deep dive into venture funding pathways, this event will help you discover funding pathways, meet like minds and connect with people who will help you to grow your business idea or startup. Presented in collaboration with UNSW Founders, Catalysr and Spark Festival.

You’ll love this if you:

Are an early-stage founder or team in the Sydney South West community
Are looking for ways to supercharge your startup idea with funding, grants and other support
Would benefit from new connections to local entrepreneurs, resources, mentors, and investment pathways
Are curious about innovation and entrepreneurship and don’t know if it’s right for you
Want to support startups, innovators and change makers in the local area

Our special guest presenters:

Anne-Marie Elias

Anne-Marie is passionate about change, a devotee of disruption, and human centred innovation and want the world to be a better place. She is Co-Founder at PrimeLife Partners, building a longevity economy ecosystem in Australia to transform the way we age, live, care and retire. She has a wealth of experience in startups, government, non-profit, startup mentoring and advisory, venture capital and is a Non Executive Board Member of Spark Festival. With way too many experiences to list, Anne-Marie will inspire you to make change, and see things differently

Andrew Corbett-Jones

Andrew is an experienced entrepreneur with a long history of working with a broad range of start-ups, helping them to develop successful capital raising and go-to-market strategies, coaching founders, and challenging traditional thinking. He has a strong focus on international trade and investment, and in connecting start-up ecosystems across the world, especially the UK, Australia and New Zealand, with experience working alongside government to deliver programmes aimed at entrepreneurs, start-ups and scale-ups.

Sabrina Zeng

Sabrina has a diverse background in economic research, banking, and innovation. After five years in corporate banking, she moved to the Nordic region, where she served as Chief Product Officer for a social impact startup, and then as a GTM specialist, helping early-stage companies develop and execute their market strategies. Returning to Australia, Sabrina took on the role of Head of Ecosystem at Fishburners. She is now the Corporate Development Manager at Aura Ventures and also a part-time Lecturer at UNSW Business School.

Moderators: Harry Godber and David LT - Spark Festival Co-CEO's

About Spark: proudly supported by Investment NSW

Spark Festival has a mandate to coordinate and promote startup-focused events that spark engagement into and across the startup ecosystem.

Spark Festival 2023 has been made possible by support from Investment NSW, Herbert Smith Freehills, ACS Labs and Harbour City Labs, the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Stone & Chalk and the Pledge 1%, and continues its mission to drive engagement into and across the NSW startup ecosystem.

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About UNSW Founders:

UNSW Founders is Australia’s leading university-based entrepreneurial program. It’s dedicated to supporting anyone who is looking to solve a program gain the skills and support to scale their solution for a better world.
With a proven track record of success UNSW Founders provide free coaching and invests via the nationally running 10x accelerator programs. Find out more at - UNSW Founders

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