Lauren Capelin

I am a community strategist and disruptive innovation specialist with sector expertise in web3, fintech, the sharing economy, startups and early-stage investing - topics I speak, write and provide commentary on regularly. Before joining the team at AWS Startups as Ecosystem Support Manager, I was Principal at Startmate, Australia and New Zealand’s best startup accelerator, where I oversaw Founder Scouting, Investments and Media. Prior to this role, I was Partner of Platform at Reinventure Fund, an Australian venture capital firm focused on investing in disruptive financial services startups, where I launched and grew their portfolio platform services, and contributed to the formation of the national fintech ecosystem. I worked closely with the founding contributors of Fintech Australia, where I later served on the board. Throughout this time I also actively worked to spotlight issues of gender representation across the fintech, venture capital and startup ecosystem generally, launching and collaborating on a number of initiatives to address these issues through this time, and continuing today. In 2010, I worked with author and thought-leader Rachel Botsman on the launch of her first book, What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Co-founding Collaborative Lab, we worked alongside leading thinkers, entrepreneurs and community champions to play an instrumental role in growing collaborative consumption into a global economy and movement between 2010-2015.

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