One10 Founder selected as CSIRO Innovation Mentor
One10 Founder, Geoff Gourley has recently been selected as Innovation Mentor to the CSIRO Lean LaunchPad Accelerator.
What does being part of the CSIRO ON Mentor Network mean?
Geoff is a key player in a program that is designed to achieve maximum impact from CSIRO developed technology.
As a CSIRO mentor, he will be among the publicly promoted faces of Australian innovation, and enjoy exclusive access to a series of CSIRO program events.
CSIRO will draw upon individuals within the CSIRO Mentor Network to engage with teams participating in two programs:Lean Launchpad and ON Accelerator.
Bootcamp
The selection process for ON Accelerator will see up to 25 shortlisted teams working on their business idea for 30-intensive hours before presenting their learning and traction to a panel of world class judges.
This isn’t a typical startup accelerator. This is an accelerator created to achieve maximum impact for Australian science and technology.
As an ON mentor he will have the potential to support researchers working hard to address fundamental global challenges. Each team will be joining with a big challenge to discover ways their research can solve real needs and prove how their product ideas could be adopted.
They’ll need his commercial insights and challenge so they can do their best.
Find out more here.
#News Great to see One10 Groups valued client ANC Delivers proud to announce a significant new funding agreement with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to accelerate the electrification of their delivery fleet.
Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants help social enterprises, including trading Indigenous owned or controlled organisations with a defined social benefit, grow their business, scale their impact and further their missions of creating positive social change.
Communities of Practice (CoP) are groups of peers who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly (Goodhue & Seriamlu, 2021). Research suggests that learning is the main reason CoPs are established. Social learning and thinking together are key concepts in it. The collaborative learning process of ‘thinking together’ is one of the most meaningful elements of a CoP and what makes it work.
With over 20,000 social enterprises in Australia alone, there is immense potential for driving positive change through sustainable business models. However, many impact-focused ventures face obstacles in areas like measuring impact, raising capital, scaling operations, and securing revenue opportunities.
Many business owners, boards, and stakeholders may not realise they are already operating as a social enterprise. Social enterprises aim to have a positive community impact, not just maximise profits. According to CSI Australia, a social enterprise has an underlying mission of creating social or environmental change. This differs from a traditional business focusing solely on making money.
Eight Gippsland and Latrobe Valley purpose-driven organisations have been selected to undertake a twelve-week accelerator program being delivered in partnership between Federation University Morwell Innovation Centre and Social Innovator One10 Group.
The program seeks to build the capability and capacity of the social enterprise sector and support the participating organisations to scale their ventures and impact in the region.
The emerging Social Enterprise sector in the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland region is set to get a major boost from a new social enterprise accelerator program being delivered at the $17 million dollar Federation University Morwell Innovation Centre.
The 12-week program called ‘Acceleration for Social Enterprise’ will be delivered by leading Social Innovation organisation One10 Group in partnership with Federation University Morwell Innovation Centre and support the further development of the social enterprise sector and enterprises across the region.
One10 Group is pleased to announce our educational workshops for September, our 3-part Startup Essentials, is created by One10 and facilitated by Social Entrepreneur and Impact Investor, Geoff Gourley.
By signing up, you will take a huge step forward in progressing your knowledge of the startup essentials. Geoff will be supporting you through a journey toward becoming better founders and enable you to understand the essentials and be better placed to start and scale your venture.
These workshops cover a range of topics over an hour and a half period from 4:00pm-5:30pm each week.
Not a day goes by where you don’t read about company X or founder Y raising millions in equity investment for their startup venture or scale stage business.
Every week more ‘Funds’ are announced to support “women, indigenous, early stage, scale stage, sector specific, and there is currently 4,000 grants worth $50B listed on the GrantGuru website.
It can be competitive, confusing and really difficult to navigate and prepare yourself and your venture to attract funding, and we all know how important having sufficient cash is to support growth and scale.
Here at One10 we speak with founders and startups every day about investment, funding, pitching and grants, which is why we have created this specific Masterclass called “Funding Your Venture”.
This is such an important week in the calendar #NAIDOCWeek is an opportunity to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The 2021 theme, 'Heal Country', calls for stronger measures to recognise, protect and maintain all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage.
At One10 Group we join that call for action, and encourage others to do the same.