Announcing Atto Accelerator Demo Day 2021
Founded in 2019, Atto is a new school for female tech entrepreneurship. Our flagship offering is a 12-week remote pre-accelerator program that has been backed by LaunchVic in Australia and AWS in New Zealand.
We help female founders launch tech companies in an independent, scalable, and sustainable manner. Our goal is to become the number one educational provider for the world’s most promising female founders.
Please join us for our upcoming startup showcase to wrap-up 2021 (what a year) and support the teams!
Event details:
Location: Online via Zoom Webinar
Date: Wednesday 24th November
Time: 11 am - 2 pm AEDT, with a special talk by ModiBodi’s founder Kristy Chong
Format: 23 companies (full list here)
About our female founder feature
Kristy Chong, CEO & Founder of ModiBodi
Kristy Chong is the CEO and creator of Modibodi®. She’s a mum on a mission, a fast-tech entrepreneur and a social advocate for women’s health issues and rights.
After the birth of her second child, Kristy’s experience with “unmentionable” bladder leaks made her determined to start her own brand. One that would change our mindsets – and the planet! – by changing underwear for the better.
This ambition saw her design, develop and scientifically prove her patented Modifier Technology™ leak-proof undies and transform this into the Modibodi® collection: a reusable, sustainable range of tops, singlets, period and sweat-proof undies as well as swimwear, created to liberate us all from endless amounts of landfill.
About Atto Demo Day Judges
We're excited to be joined by four active investors, who understand the full spectrum of startups, as our judges:
Aprill Allen, General Partner, Tractor Ventures
Aprill Allen is a general partner at Tractor Ventures: a revenue-based investment alternative—and managing director of boutique consultancy, Knowledge Bird. Aprill specialises in helping founders and enterprises deliver customer support and success at scale.
Rachael Neumann, Founding Partner, Flying Fox Ventures
Previously founder of Working Theory Angels, Rachael Neumann moved into a full-time investment role after gaining her operating chops as Managing Director of Eventbrite in ANZ and helping to scale the company across the globe. She has worked with thousands of early-stage startups as Head of Startups for Amazon Web Services ANZ, a Partner at Startmate, and in her two Federal Government appointments distributing funding for the Accelerating Commercialisation & Boosting Female Founders Initiative programs. She has been sharing her passion for early-stage investing through her lead Instructor role in The Wade Institute's VC Catalyst program.
Emily Rich, Director of Microsoft for Startups, APAC & Partner, M8 Venture
Emily co-founded Jemsoft, a machine learning and computer vision company. Jemsoft was acquired in 2017 by a publicly listed IoT company, from there Emily took her passion for startups and pursued investment opportunities with a focus on early-stage tech. Emily went on to co-found M8 Ventures, a venture capital fund, in 2017 whose concentration is working alongside founders to build out sustained growth strategies. In her current role as Director of Microsoft for Startups, APAC, Emily is driving startups to grow and scale with a specific founder-first focus.
