Subiaco launches the Atomic Sky led Subiaco CONNECT
The City of Subiaco is calling on emerging businesses to apply for its innovation accelerator program, ‘Subiaco CONNECT’
Launched earlier this week at the new Vibe Hotel in Subiaco, the ‘Subiaco CONNECT’ program is a collaboration between the City of Subiaco and Atomic Sky, and is partly funded by the Australian government’s Entrepreneur’s program, and are on the hunt for participants to join our new innovation acceleration program starting in the New Year.
The project was launched by Subiaco’s Mayor Penny Taylor at an innovation breakfast this week where inspirational entrepreneurs shared their journey via a panel and audience engagement fire-side chat with Olivia Humphry the Founder of Kanopy, Natalee Bowen the Founder of Indah Design, Natasha Ayers the CoFounder & Managing Director of AgriStart, Tom Young the CoFounder of uDrew and Peter Rossdeutscher the StartUp WA Advisory Board Chair.
“I would love to see the City become a hub for innovators as we continue to build on the startup movement that’s present in Subiaco.”
City of Subiaco Mayor Penny Taylor
SUBIACO CONNECT PROGRAM
Applications open – 24 Nov 2020
Applications Close – 15 Jan 2021
First Workshop – 1 Feb 2021
Showcase & Pitch Night – 17 Aug 2021
Applicants are now invited from interested startups and innovative businesses. READ MORE & APPLY NOW
Olivia Humphrey shared her inspiring story of her from her front lounge, to Subiaco, to San Fransisco and back again as part of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Breakfast at the Vibe Hotel Subiaco Perth through the City of Subiaco partnership with Atomic Sky.
Olivia is a Leading Global Entrepreneur in Film and Technology and Founder of “KANOPY,” one of the world's largest independent film streaming platforms.
Kanopy is headquartered in San Francisco under new ownership after Ms Humphrey sold the business to a US private equity firm in 2018 in a deal rumoured to be worth about $100 million.
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For the full article Read The West Australian News article by Kate Purnell: 24 Nov 2020
Kanopy founder Olivia Humphrey. Credit: Stewart Allen/The West Australian
Startup adviser and founder Peter Rossdeutscher said it should be a priority to get more venture capital into the State to help bridge the investment gap and there needs to be a combined industry effort to make WA startups more accessible to bigger funds, and suggested improved storytelling would help reach that goal.
AgriStart founder Natasha Ayres said, for regional startups in particular the fear of failure deterred many people from pursuing great ideas. “It’s a different culture here to the US and we need to change the mindset of WA investors,” she said.
“Often I hear people say ‘Perth is so hard’ but I feel the opposite,” Kanopy founder Olivia Humphrey said. She said the US significantly lacked a collaborative nature, and as a result many of the company’s strongest ideas came from round-table discussions in Australia
Tom Young, chief executive of prop-tech startup uDrew, said the State lacked business and industry collaboration. “We need more diverse business support. There are great programs, we need more of them,” Mr Young said.