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Presenter: Anne-Marie Birkill
Organisation: OneVentures

Anne-Marie Birkill is a Partner in OneVentures, the manager for two venture capital funds and a number of associated co-investment funds with $170M funds under management. OneVentures backs innovative companies with global relevance in healthcare, education, mobile, cloud computing and new media. Anne-Marie is a Director for portfolio companies Paloma Mobile, , Charm Health and Find-Me.

Anne-Marie has forged a career in the field of technology commercialisation. She has worked with hundreds of early-stage technology companies as senior executive, advisor and business coach. Her previous roles have included CEO of i.lab Incubator, various senior management appointments at UniQuest and Director of ASX listed energy storage company RedFlow Limited.

An active member of the innovation community, she is an Industry Fellow with The UQ Business School, a Director for AVCAL and Creative Enterprise Australia and a member of the Investment Committee for the Queensland Government’s Advance Queensland Business Development Fund. She has won a number of awards acknowledging her contribution including the 2014 WiT Life Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award and was named as one of YWCAs 125 Leading Women in 2013.

TOPIC

Many great ideas, inventions and innovations struggle to get off the lab bench or out of the back yard shed through lack of capital.

There are many sources of funding available, but competition is fierce and often it isn’t the best idea that gets funded – it is the one backed by someone who really knows how to prepare for, approach and engage with investors.

In this Innovate Queensland GRID webinar, Anne-Marie will suggest  10 practical tips to secure funding – from how to work out which investors to approach, to how to conduct yourself when you get to the point of negotiating a term sheet.