We're a community of founders and operators working together to help early-stage founders break into the US.
Xavier Shay
Xavier runs Up in Melbourne, after 6yrs leading engineering teams at Square in San Francisco. He's active in the open source community, and in teaching and speaking about management and engineering leadership.
engineering • mgmt
William On
Will is the co-founder of Shippit, APAC's largest shipping and fulfillment platform. They've raised over $100m and have over 200 staff in Australia with offices in South East Asia.
founder
Vuki Vujasinovic
Vuki is founder of Sling & Stone, starting the agency in a Sydney sharehouse, growing it to become an award-winning PR agency with presence in the US and Australia.
founder • PR
Ursula Ayrout
Ursula is founder of Measure Co, working with fast-growth startups and established brands to supercharge their marketing efforts. Prior, worked at Salesforce, Pantheon and HP in a range of marketing-focused roles.
marketing • B2B
Simon Turner
Simon is CEO and cofounder at Myagi, helping transition the retail workforce from Order Takers to Experience Makers. An Australian founder with experience in the Bay Area and Denver, he's keen to help with all aspects of navigating the US market.
founder • operations
Robbie Allan
Robbie is founder of something new, after leading product teams at Intercom in San Francisco. He's an experienced SaaS product leader, formerly at Zynga, SurveyMonkey, McKinsey.
product • growth • saas
Rachel Overell
Rachel is Senior Director of HR at Adobe. Previously led HR at Tubemogul, helping it scale from 200-1000 people, through IPO and its eventual acquisition by Adobe for +$500M.
talent • culture
Nick Muldoon
Nick is co-CEO at Easy Agile. Previously, he was product and engineering coach at Twitter, and PM at Atlassian. He created the San Francisco Agile Marketing and Siligong Valley communities.
product • growth
Ned Dwyer
Ned is CEO and cofounder of Great Question, helping product and design teams get closer to their customers through user research. He's a serial founder with three exits, most notably Elto to GoDaddy.
founder • product • YC
Nathan Merzvinksi
Nathan is Chief of Staff at Skedulo, an enterprise SaaS platform for deskless workers. Prior, he was CEO and co-founder of Everproof, a digital identity start-up that was acquired by GO1 in 2019.
founder • ops • fundraising
Mike Overell
Mike leads revenue growth at ClassDojo, an edtech company present in +95% of US primary schools. Prior, led product ops at Lyft. He’s lived in the Bay Area since 2013, when he relocated as cofounder/CEO of RecruitLoop.
founder • product • marketplaces
Megan Granat
Megan is Senior Director of HR at Credit Karma, after stints at Instacart and Practice Fusion, focused on people ops, talent development, and culture.
talent • culture
Maya Hope
Maya leads products at Square. Previously, she was VP Products and Data at eSpark Learning. As a former data scientist, she loves helping founders think through experiments to find product-market fit.
product • data
Matt Cameron
Matt is CEO and founder of SaaSy Sales Leadership, Silicon Valley's SaaS go to market leadership development community. Previously led enterprise sales at Salesforce ANZ; corporate sales at Yammer; and 2x VP Sales at Series A-B startups.
founder • sales • GTM
Mark Tanner
Mark is cofounder and COO at Qwilr, a SeriesB-funded startup with presence in Australia and the US. Previously, worked with Google in Sydney and New York.
founder • B2B • saas
Lorna Diwa
Lorna is founder of diwa.studio, dedicated to growing consumer brands. Previously built and sold Cheerily, a direct-to-consumer brand for new mothers; after stints at Google and Salesforce.
founder • marketing • D2C
Kate Mason
Kate founded Hedgehog + Fox to help companies and leaders communicate compelling strategic narratives. Previously, led comms at Medium and Khan Academy, after stints at Youtube and Google in both Sydney and San Francisco.
comms • storytelling
Kate Dinon
Kate is MD at Character + Distinction, a PR and communications firm focused on high-growth tech companies, with clients including CultureAmp, Deliveroo and MYOB.
comms • storytelling
Jon Williams
Jon is cofounder of Pyn, an employee communication startup backed by Accel and other top investors. Prior to that he was cofounder of CultureAmp, and led their market entry and growth in the US. He lived in San Francisco for 5 years before returning to Sydney in 2019.
founder • fundraising • B2B
Jodie Fox
Jodie cofounded Shoes of Prey, which over 10 years raised USD27M and delivered shoes to +100 countries each month. She heartbreakingly closed the business in 2018, and shared the lessons in her book “Reboot: Probably more than you ever wanted to know about starting a global business."
founder • fundraising • ecommerce
Jason Smale
Jason is SVP Engineering at Zendesk, where he has spent +8 years in a range of leadership roles and locations. A former founder, passionate about building teams and products that push the boundaries to create sustainable & engaging experiences.
founder • engineering • product
Hugh Norton-Smith
Hugh is cofounder at Intersection Growth Partners, an SF-based executive search and investment firm focussed on high-growth fintech. Previously, he founded an HR Tech company and led BD and strategy at SpaceKnow.
founder • talent • leadership
Guy Pearson
Guy is a serial founder and angel investor, currently leading Practice Ignition which has raised over $25M and scaled from Australia to multiple markets globally. He's keen to help more Aussies and Kiwis take on the world.
founder • B2B • saas
Dugal Bain-Kim
Dugal is co-founder of Lifeforce, a personalized health optimization company transforming midlife into peak life. Prior to starting Lifeforce, Dugal was VP of Operational Excellence at Included Health, the second largest telehealth company in the U.S.
founder
Andy Crebar
Andy left Australia in 2015 to join the tech scene in San Francisco. He co-founded, built and sold a B2B SaaS company from 2017 - 2021 and is now building the future of real estate investing at HoneyBricks.
founder • fundraising
Alice Williams
Alice is the founder of Ovira, a recently-launched women's health brand that’s tackling period pain as its first problem. Based out of Australia, Ovira now has tens of thousands of customers around the world, including the US.
founder · growth · health-tech