Serial entrepreneur, investor and LaunchVic chair Leigh Jasper is among the many founders who’ll share their insights on what it takes to construct a billion-dollar startup at Unicorn Day in Melbourne on Thursday, October 24.
Jasper cofounded Aconex, the world’s most generally used cloud collaboration platform for managing development initiatives, and as CEO, led the corporate from founding, by means of a number of raises, to an Preliminary Public Providing after which its sale to Oracle for $1.6 billion in 2018.
Below his management, Aconex grew to greater than $200 million in income with 850 employees throughout operations in 50 cities globally.
Since then he’s gone on to cofound SecondQuarter Ventures, chair the Victorian authorities’s startup company LaunchVic and extra just lately, gone again into founder mode to launch Firmable, Australia’s definitive B2B database, 12 months in the past.
As a pioneer of constructing Australian tech startups, Jasper is uniquely positioned to unpack and clarify what must be accomplished to succeed amid the excessive stress stakes of making a worldwide enterprise. He’ll share them in a 45-minute hearth chat to kick off Unicorn Day on October 24.
What’s Unicorn Day?
Unicorn Day is a brand-new occasion for startup builders of all sizes to faucet the minds who’ve constructed a few of our largest native and worldwide successes, providing a collection of conversations, panels, recommendation and networking.
Created by Startup Every day and AWS Startups, with presenting companion Plerion and the help of Vanta, Unicorn Day contains a who’s who of expertise who will share the secrets and techniques of constructing billion-dollar companies, from the likes of Airwallex, Canva, Prezzee and Zeller.
Kicking off at 10am at The Timber Yard in Port Melbourne and ending with networking drinks amid a room filled with traders from Cheryl Mack’s 361 Angel Membership, the schedule is full of founders, execs, traders and consultants who’ll share recommendation and insights on going large and going world.
Deputy CFO Emma Seymour.
The dialogue panels embody:
- Startup workforce of the longer term;
- Overcoming challenges of world growth for startups;
- Adapting to evolving buyer expectations and easy methods to appeal to prospects, small and large;
- Impression startups which are altering the world;
- Startup scaling secrets and techniques, together with product-led development;
- The reality about enterprise: what founders must know;
- and Making a tradition of experimentation.
Audio system embody Canva’s head of design, Andrew Inexperienced; Zeller CEO Ben Pfisterer; Airwallex world head of product, Shannon Scott; Deputy CFO Emma Seymour; and AWS head of startups John Kearney.
Canva’s head of design Andrew Inexperienced.
From the funding facet, VCs Big Leap, Sq. Peg and Archangel Ventures, in addition to enterprise debt funder Tractor Ventures, will share their recommendation on preparing for funding.
Extra Unicorn Day highlights
Unicorn Day will even characteristic Startup Alley with demos from tech firms of all sizes and styles; an Open Mic pitch stage; a Startup Trivia session; and meals and drinks all through the day.
AWS’ John Kearney stated the occasion is all about giving founders a serving to hand and the inspiration to take their concepts to the following degree.
“Constructing and scaling startups is tough, nothing comes straightforward and generally it doesn’t work out,” he stated.
“Unicorn Day is about bringing collectively the broader ecosystem, together with present founders, future founders, lovers, traders and companions to study from one another, share tales and have some enjoyable.
“AWS is enthusiastic about startups and care deeply about serving to each startup in Australia to have an equal alternatives to develop right into a unicorn.”
Spots are restricted, so make certain to register without cost for Unicorn Day on October 24 right here.
Unicorn Day is delivered to you by Startup Every day and AWS Startups, with presenting companion Plerion and the help of Vanta.