Speaker Profile

Katie Heathcote
Katie Heathcote
Associate Director Export Technology, Investment NSW
Investment NSW
Katie Heathcote

Katie’s role at Investment NSW sees her meet hustle with NSW tech companies that are at the right stage to scale globally. Investment NSW provides advice and mentoring to companies into which markets they should select to scale into, with one of Katie’s role responsibilities to ramp up exports for NSW.

Investment NSW also has a department specialising in export assistance grants, an MVP team that focuses on the local ecosystem and helps companies get to the point of scaling and a tech precincts team that offers rental and subsidies among so much more.

Keynote

[Day 2] Thur 1 Dec 2022 -

10:45

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11:00

Investment NSW providing support to NSW founders looking to scale – discussing the tech services team and how we provide free, confidential support to tech founders from NSW. Also we are running a number of free Going global programs to the US and UK over the next year covering SAAS and Fintech/Cyber.

  • Common misconceptions about scaling globally:
  • Global environment – driving forces like Inflation impacting funding, Crypto Winter, Venture Debt rather than equity, and fintech layoffs. We work with founders that have global aspirations from day one and this current economic cycle is seeing a number of challenges with scaling and raising funding.
  • Product Market Fit - often founders find success in their home market automatically defaults to success overseas, but this is not the case.  Also is it the right time to scale? Servicing clients abroad also means taking on technical debt
  • Market commitment – flying in and out doesn’t equate to winning over customers and investors
  • Partnering is not always the answer to enter into a market.

Keynote

Associate Director Export Technology, Investment NSW

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