Karen Scott Davie
One of Australia’s leading women in IT, Karen Scott Davie is a massive supporter of startups and technology at a mentor and government level. Scott Davie drove the Digital Sydney pilot a content and mentoring program that helped hundred’s of startups refine their direction during it’s tenure.
Scott Davie like most of the mentors in this article is extremely well connected in the space and sits on a number of boards across a range of industries. She is an expert in the field of helping high growth startups identify their target markets, having assisted such companies as Vimily (now verbate) pivot into a model that saw them gain instant traction and revenue by simply identifying their perfect target market.
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Andrew Rogers is the cofounder of both Anchor Systems and BuiltWith. Rogers is also a Startmate mentor and huge supporter of the startup scene, with his company supporting and sponsoring events across the Sydney ecosystem.
In addition to his support and mentoring via his Anchor Systems vehicle, Rogers is also part of the UNSW alumni and takes time out to mentor young up and coming entrepreneurs currently at university, as well as entrepreneurs within the internal UNSW coworking space.
Alan Jones
Alan Jones is cofounder of The New Agency which was acquired by Bluechilli earlier this year. Jones is now the Chief Growth Hacker at the organisation mentoring tech startups on lean startup principles, product development, investor pitching and various other critical skills.
Jones is also a very prominent investor across the Sydney space as well as plays advisory roles in various Sydney born startups over the last few years. Jones also has a lot of corporate experience (Yahoo!, Microsoft) behind him that he brings to the table when helping to develop founders into CEO’s of future large companies.
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper has a sweet spot for startups in the financial technology space. He is the founder of SydStart, the cities largest startup conference which has been running successfully for the last 3 years.
An active investor and advisor, Cooper is also the Director, Innovation and Growth at UTS: University of Technology. In this role which he began this year he is helping mentor and nurture the next generation of startups. His vision is to position UTS as a core leader and enabling component of a industry ecosystem with 5,000 or more tech and tech enabled startup businesses over the next 5-10 years.
Being one of Australia’s strongest startup ecosystems, it was hard to narrow a list like this to just ten people or duo’s. There are many more mentors of note in Sydney – some names that come to mind worthy of a mention are: Mike Casey (GradConnection) Matt Barrie (Freelancer.com) Dean McEvoy (IconPark) Kim Heras (25fifteen and Pushstart) and Tim Fung (Tank Stream Labs).
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