Lynda Coker, Author at Startup Daily

Lynda Coker

Lynda has been a corporate finance advisor to both financial institutions and private equity for around 20 years.
She is a Non-Executive Director and angel investor for Scale Investors; a NED of The Studio Ltd; a media and creative tech incubator in the Sydney Startup Hub, and an advisor to SeedSpace VC and Ocean Impact Organisation.
Lynda predominantly works with FinTech companies and is currently at Volt Bank.
She has degrees in IT and Business and studied Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Here are the key lessons from the Sydney Startup Hub to ensure the new Tech Central project succeeds

Lynda Coker - September 22, 2021 6 MIN READ

I’ve been a mentor, advisor, investor and Board member to many individual startup residents and an incubator within the Sydney Startup Hub (SSH), so I guess you can say I’ve seen the birth and life-to-date of the SSH from within. The premise of establishing the SSH was sound. What a great idea to create a… Read more »

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Lynda Coker

Here are the key lessons from the Sydney Startup Hub to ensure the new Tech Central project succeeds

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