As part of our initiative to support entrepreneurs, startups and business owners – we actively put on and seek out the best local events for entrepreneurs.

“You don’t know what you don’t know until you know it”

Events serve to educate and support entrepreneurs through their startup Journey.  Any experienced entrepreneur knows that it can often be a long and lonely road to success, this coupled with the need to perform roles outside of your area of expertise can lead to an overall daunting and difficult experience.

Coming along to events ensures that you are up to date with current trends across various industries, meeting people in similar circumstances and also taking advantage of opportunities that can go a long way to helping your business.

Join us at our next event and find out what it is all about.  Very rarely is it a waste of time, so if you haven’t already RSVP to the next one!

Hope to see you there!

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Venue

KPMG
Level 26, Tower Three, 200 Barangaroo
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

Many Aussie founders have flocked to Silicon Valley in the hopes of accelerating their startups growth and become the next global entrepreneur. But fewer Australians have landed in the Valley as a VC, investing in huge global businesses.

We’re thrilled to host one of our most successful guests to date, Ash Fontana, an Aussie-born serial entrepreneur and General Partner at US VC firm, Zetta Venture Partners. Best known as an investor raising $100M for Zetta Venture Partners and trailblazing the startup investing platform, AngelList, Ash first started out as a founder, dating back to 2004.

His first startup, Formal Guide, was a profitable directory and event planning platform which helped him fund 5 years at college. In 2011, Ash founded Topguest in San Francisco, a loyalty program for frequent travellers which was acquired for an 8 figure transaction 18 months later.

Ash turned to investing in 2012, driving the crowdfunding and business side of AngelList – an online platform deemed ‘the most successful startup investing platform in the world’, where Ash managed $130M and juggled as many as 250 funds at a time. There, he launched online investing, created the first startup ‘index fund’ and curated investment opportunities across 500,000 companies. He also ran AngelList’s international expansion and led angel investments in Canva, Mixmax and others.

Ash is now Managing Director and General Partner at Zetta Venture Partners, focused on backing intelligent software startups. In 2016, he raised $100M for Zetta VP and to date, they have had four exits, one of which Ash sat on the board on (Kaggle), which was acquired in 2017 by Google.

We’re excited for Ash’s return to Sydney to talk to us over breakfast about his extensive experience as a successful founder turned investor, as well as achieving success in Silicon Valley. Don’t miss out on hearing from a fantastic guest and meeting other great people in the ecosystem.

 

More about the Ash Fontana

Ash’s first venture into startups dates back to 2004, where he founded the profitable event planning web platform, Formal Guide. Three years later, he started his professional career at Macquarie Capital where he was a top-ranked analyst in private equity, investment banking and equity research. In 2011, Ash dived back into startups and co-founded Topguest in San Francisco which was acquired for an 8 figure transaction 18 months later.

He started his professional career at Macquarie Capital, where he was a top-ranked analyst in private equity, investment banking and equity research. Academically, he graduated with First Class honors in law and finance on five scholarships from the University of Sydney.

Venue

KPMG
Level 26, Tower Three, 200 Barangaroo
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

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