Startup Grind hosts Accelo CEO, Geoff McQueen

Jun 5, 2019, 7:00 – 10:00 AM

Geoff McQueen, co-founder of Accelo, and Executive Director of the Aussie Founder Network based in Silicon Valley. Geoff is one of those founder’s that truly knows how to grow a business. Geoff will give us some fantastic insights into capital raising in the US, and what it takes to make it in Silicon Valley.

In-person event

About this event

Geoff McQueen, co-founder of Accelo, and Executive Director of the Aussie Founder Network based in Silicon Valley. Geoff is one of those founder’s that truly knows how to grow a business. Geoff will give us some fantastic insights into capital raising in the US, and what it takes to make it in Silicon Valley.

Born and raised in Wollongong, Geoff dropped out of the University of Wollongong to focus on running his first business in 2000, a full spectrum digital agency called Internetrix. Within in this field, Geoff saw a problem around SMEs and their internal business management, and after performing lots of customer development around an idea, Accelo was born in 2009. In May 2011, Geoff was invited to exhibit at Google IO – Google’s annual developers conference, and in July that same year, decided to take the plunge to move and launch Accelo in the US without any capital, and running on a little bit of revenue.

From here, Geoff talked to us about how he managed to raise capital from investors in Silicon Valley and New York, built offices in SF and Denver, and grew their base team in Wollongong, plus manage the team of over 100 globally, with his three other co-founders.

Geoff is also one of the founding members of the Aussie Founder Network, a community of Australian founders, investors and industry advisors, based out of Silicon Valley. Their mission is to support, build and elevate the role and impact of the Aussie tech community, globally.

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Geoff McQueen

    Accelo

    CEO

When

When

Wednesday, June 5, 2019
7:00 AM – 10:00 AM UTC

Agenda

7:00 AMNetworking, food & drinks
8:30 AMFireside chat with Geoff
9:15 AMMore networking
10:00 AMEvent concludes

Host

  • Brendan Yell

    Blah Ventures

    Founder

Organizers

  • David Kenney

    Startup Grind Sydney

    Chapter Director

  • Brendan Yell

    Twilio

    Chapter Director

  • Kim McIntosh

    buddee fitness

    Co-Director

  • William Wang

    Co-Director

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Vanta

Partners

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Slingshot

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TechSydney

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