Supporting Startups to Grow
Fishburners is here to support you on your entrepreneurial journey. We are a not for profit dedicated to your enterprise. Our goal is to make the hardest thing you have done easier by providing the best resources, education, mentoring and community of like minded people to connect with and learn from so that your idea can come to life and flourish. Our inclusive package includes:
- Curated support from our team for early stage and teams of up to 20
- Programmed initiatives for collaboration and networking via roundtables and think tanks
- Weekly Learning and development events
- Pro-bono advisory sessions – legal and accounting
- Mentoring to guide and enhance success
- Getting pitch ready
- Educational Programs
Inspiring Entrepreneurialism and Life Learning
Fishburners is committed to inspiring entrepreneurialism and equipping our startups, and aspiring entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with the know how skills and capabilities for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
We are committed to providing life long learning, building awareness of new technologies and ways of doing business as well as introducing you to diverse perspectives so that you can flourish.
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Connecting Corporates with the Startup Ecosystem
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Fishburners provide corporates with the opportunity to connect with the startup market under a range of partnership opportunities under our Experts in Residence Program
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Opportunities to create innovation capital for your organisation includes providing your key talent with access to a dynamic, creative and entrepreneurial environment in a real life tech based ecosystem via colocation opportunities
Our Story
The Fishburners story began in 2011, when Pete Davison and Mike Casey hatched a crazy idea. Mike was the cool young founder of successful Australian startup, GradConnection. He wanted to work alongside other ambitious movers-and-shakers as his team brought their big vision for GradConnection to life.
Pete was a former VC, and an early investor in Paypal – a wandering capitalist seadog looking to be a part of something bigger than himself once more.
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Our Community
Fishburners is driven by our startups founders and community. In the beginning, our members would run the space and since then our members needs are always put first.
We support the ‘get shit done’ attitude of our members and the collective power of people to instigate change.
Our focus is on building and strengthening our community and we challenge the status quo in an effort to innovate and empower our growing tech startups.
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Our Impact
Fishburners supports the largest community of startups in Australia that are critical to creating the jobs of the future and bringing to market innovative products and services needed to fuel a robust and healthy economy.
Since 2011 resident startups have created more than 3,200 jobs, generated $200m of revenue and raised $79.3m of investment.
Today:
● 350+ startups
● 800+ jobs
● $35m+ in revenue
● $15m in investment raised
● 500 hosted events
● 10,000 guests
Fishburners Theory of Change
Nicole O’Brien
CEO
Henry Weaver
Head of Community
Aayush Patel
Finance Manager
Rhea Mozo
Business Systems Manager
Catherine Kitney
Community Product Manager
Jane Oja
Sydney Events Manager
Adriana Warrak
Sydney Office Coordinator
Georgia Marshall
Sydney Community Manager
Tegan Harlow
Sydney Accounts Coordinator
Manisha Chinthamuneedi
Events & Office Coordinator
Jack Ferguson
City Manager Brisbane
Jackie Moses
Brisbane Community & Events Coordinator
Dr Katherine Woodthorpe
Board Chair
Bilyana Smith
Board Member
Sally-Ann Williams
Board Member
Dany Milham
Board Member
Andrew Thornton
Board Member
Annie Slattery
Board Member
Rod Bishop
Board Member
Proudly Supported by our Partners
