Scale Up Program

Scaleup leaders
Mentors and investors
SMEs

Whether you are a scaleup looking to grow, later stage startup looking to move quickly, an ambitious SME or a research spin-out, Canberra Innovation Network’s scaleup program is tailored to help you.

Key Program Benefits

Expert Guidance

Access an experienced team providing targeted support as you navigate your scaling up company challenges.

Scale-Up Insights

Gain practical tools and insights informed by deep hands-on venture experience.

High-Value Connections

Connect efficiently to other business leaders, mentors, experts, investors and advisors matched to your needs.

Extended Pathways

Leverage a coordinated pathway to in-house and external programs across local, national and global opportunities.

Peer-to-peer learning and growth

Scaleup Leaders Group

Sophisticated content and small-group conversations with your peers and targeted guests that empower you to deal with the many challenges of growing an impactful innovation company. The scaleup leaders group meets monthly for small group conversations between leaders of companies that have raised significant capital or rapidly growing team or revenue. We introduce guest speakers for intimate and open deep dives on relevant topics. We facilitate discussions on topics that scaleup founders need to engage with.

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Confidential Mentoring

Founder Conversations

Leading an innovative project is hard – Founder Conversations enable you to talk through challenges and explore solutions. From engaging with hundreds of companies our team are experienced in helping founders to think about a wide variety of challenges. We don’t offer solutions but instead bring an outside perspective, empathise with you as a leader and help you to look for solutions. Book a session with us to find how we can help. The sessions are confidential.

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Accessing Different Perspectives

Mentor Network

We connect a wide range of mentors with relevant experience to entrepreneurs with the goal of empowering those entrepreneurs to have more impact. As companies grow, targeted new mentor and expert connections can help founders build their extended team. When working with mentors, founders achieve the strongest outcomes by understanding their challenges and objectives, preparing questions, following through on agreed actions, and treating the relationship as a focused, time-respectful partnership.

Mentor & Investor Network

SME & ScaleUp Hub

Incubation Space

Join a thriving community of ambitious innovation companies located in our coworking and office spaces. You’ll be able to have richer interactions with other innovation leaders and our team as you build your business. We believe in the power of connecting in the workplace.

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Investor Connections

We connect entrepreneurs to relevant investors through investor showcase events, the griffin accelerator program and other activities. Our team can talk to you about the capital raising process and has a wide understanding of the investor landscape. If you’re interested in investing or seeking investment, book a meeting.

Program & Expert Connections

We believe founders can benefit from diverse support. We understand the landscape of local, national and international programs and can help you understand the options. You can talk to us about how to find the right experts, advisors and other people as you grow.

Targeted workshops

Growth Labs

When a founder conversation is not enough, our skilled team can lead an intense session facilitating your team to freshly engage with a key challenge. After we identify a clear challenge, we bring in an external expert and facilitate a process to create new thinking and deal with the elephant in the room.

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