Atto Community Update: Jun 2022 Q2
Atto HQ 🏡
Atto has reached a major milestone - we’ve supported 100+ female founders to build scalable, sustainable and independent startups.
At the end of June, we hosted our Quarterly Startup Showcase were we heard from some of our alum female founders. They shared their stories about the progress they’ve made since completing our programs - as well as the realities of running startup and the pivots they’ve had to make since.
A big thanks to the founders who presented:
Carly Michael, Photogenie (Atto 2021)
Leah Kearns, Enlightenly (Atto Aspire 2022)
Aditi Basu & Krittika Singh, KUL (Atto Aspire 2022)
Kate Dillion, She Lion (Atto 2021)
Our next Startup Showcase will will be on Wednesday September 28th.
Get in touch with us if you’d like to attend and celebrate the success of our community.
Atto Accelerator 2022 - Applications Open 🚀
Do you know a female founder with a MVP live or product that needs support to scale?
We’ve just opened applications for the Atto Accelerator 2022 program. This 12-week online program is focused on growing your product in preparation for funding or building good old-fashioned revenue from customers.
Public events 📅
We’ve got a range of upcoming events for the female founder startup community.
General Assembly & Atto $5000 Startup Event with Bubble Tea Club & Cool Points Club. Join us to learn how you can launch a startup for under $5000. And once launched, what’s the best way to fund your startup. Thursday 14 July @ 12pm AEST. RSVP
Atto Masterclass on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) with Kevin Lu from AirTree. Wondering what DAOs are and how they can impact your startup? This is a new model which challenges the traditional model of corporations. Wednesday 3 Aug @ 1pm AEST. RSVP
Atto Academy 🎓
We’ve welcomed many new startups into the Atto Academy in this quarter. Check out all our startups here.
During Q2, we hosted multiple Office Hours with startup experts.
In June, we hosted Lisa Kate Miller join us - an ex-Canva employee turned VC where she shared her story of working with scaling startups. Lisa spoke about how she built her business Puppy Tales and the process of the acquisition of that business. Lisa later joined Canva as a content marketer and developed the product growth team at the time when the company grew from 100 people to 1,000. Lisa spoke more about vital skills for founders and having boundaries when working with your partner.
In July, we hosted Heidi Holmes co-founder of Mentorloop and founder of acquired startup Adage. Heidi shared insights around bootstrapping and building MVPs, benefits of co-founder relationships, and raising capital, without a lead investor. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified of our next events.
All Academy founders get access to recordings from previous programs and events. If you’re interested in joining the Atto Academy, submit an EOI here.
Alumni News 📰
Purposeful founder Elizabeth Knight (Atto 2020) was named as a the finalist for the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards WA. View on LinkedIn.
Overtly founder Sair Buckle (Atto Academy) is hosting another webinar in July on: Understanding Neurodivergence in the Workplace. Register here.
Lingogo co-founders Lizzie & Shelly Dunn (Atto 2020) have relaunched as Indie - sharing indigenous stories from around the world. View their new website here.
Coffee Roulette founder Hillary McCullagh (Atto 2019) organisations are now using the platform for internal mentoring, intern, graduate and women’s leadership programs. View on Twitter here.
Zove Beauty founder Adeline Yeak (Atto 2019) launched their new Glow Slow Overnight Mask. Made 100% in Australia, parabens and fragrance free. View the new product here.
Bubble Tea Club co-founders Jenny Le & Pamela Yip (Atto 2020) released new products: ice moulds, retractable straws and milk frothers. See their new products here.
Cool Points Club co-founders Leanne Bats & Jussara Bierman (Atto 2021) have partnered with Metis to build the world’s first NFTs Digital Carbon Sponges built on $METIS. Read more about the partnership here. Cool Points Club first Island of Cool has sold out 100 carbon-neutral NFTs. Learn more here.
Cool Points Club co-founder Leanne Bats (Atto 2021) pitched at InvestHer 2022 from Invest New Zealand. View on Twitter here.
Finnappster founder Leeanna Kohn-Hardy (Atto 2020) spoke at the event: Climate-Related Disclosures of the finance Amendment Bill with Minister Shaw in NZ. Watch the session here.
Food Remedy Co founder Shura Ford (Atto 2021) pitched at the Startup Vic x Ripple Surf Coast VIC Sustainable Pitch Party. View on Instagram.
View all Atto alumni startups here.
Founder Love 🗣
“It's so interesting hearing what other female founders are working on in their business. It's great to get insights into how other female founders are approaching their problems, share feedback, and come up with new ideas.”
- Ayla Toyokawa, Wedsites (Meet the Founder)
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