Community: Stone & Chalk

STARTUP + SCALE UP HUB…

Stone & Chalk stands as Australia’s largest dedicated fintech company, focusing on fostering high-growth startups and driving innovation within the financial services industry. Beyond their core business strategy, Stone & Chalk has established a range of in-house innovation programs aimed at supporting and nurturing startups.

These programs encompass various initiatives, including investor programs, pitch training, and mentorship courses. By offering these resources, Stone & Chalk aims to empower startups with the necessary skills and knowledge to navigate the competitive fintech landscape and secure sustainable growth.

Since its inception in 2015, Stone & Chalk has expanded its presence from Sydney to Melbourne and Adelaide, establishing a reputable community in each city. With state-of-the-art collaborative workspaces, the company provides a conducive environment for emerging founders and their teams to cultivate forward-thinking concepts that have the potential to revolutionise the technology sector.

One of the key strengths of Stone & Chalk lies in its ability to facilitate mutual client success through collaborative residency packages. These packages are designed to enable startups to scale up quickly and ensure long-term scalability. By offering reliable streams of customers, access to capital, and industry expertise, Stone & Chalk’s unique networking opportunities provide startups with a distinct advantage for achieving sustainable success in the fintech ecosystem.

Founded in the dynamic field of Fintech, Stone & Chalk is at the forefront of shaping the future of emerging tech sectors. With a strong focus on driving commercial success, Stone & Chalk leverages its extensive impact network to catalyse growth and innovation.

One of the standout features of Stone & Chalk is its expertise in providing first-class event spaces. These spaces serve as vibrant hubs for industry events, conferences, and networking opportunities, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, and industry professionals. By hosting such events, Stone & Chalk creates an environment conducive to collaboration, knowledge sharing, and business development.

In addition to event spaces, Stone & Chalk offers a wealth of resources to support its members. These resources encompass a wide range of services, including access to industry experts, mentors, and advisors who provide valuable guidance and support. The aim is to equip entrepreneurs with the tools and knowledge they need to navigate challenges, seize opportunities, and achieve sustainable growth.

Client support is a core focus at Stone & Chalk. The dedicated team at Stone & Chalk is committed to providing exceptional client service, ensuring that members receive the assistance and guidance necessary to thrive in their respective industries. The support extends beyond basic operational needs to strategic advice, market insights, and access to a vast network of potential partners and customers.

Recognising the importance of continuous learning and skill development, Stone & Chalk offers in-house training programs. These programs are designed to enhance the capabilities of entrepreneurs and their teams, equipping them with the necessary skills to succeed in a rapidly evolving business landscape. By investing in the professional growth of its members, Stone & Chalk fosters a culture of lifelong learning and improvement.

The Stone & Chalk community itself is a key factor in driving success. The contemporary and collaborative environment brings together like-minded individuals and businesses, facilitating valuable connections and synergies. By fostering support and collaboration among its members, Stone & Chalk creates an ecosystem that stimulates innovation, growth, and long-term success.

Overall, Stone & Chalk stands as a leading force in the emerging tech sector, providing a range of resources, support, and a vibrant community to drive commercial success. Through its commitment to excellence, Stone & Chalk is actively shaping the future of technology and entrepreneurship.

Founder

Under the leadership of Alex Scandurra, CEO at Stone & Chalk has benefited from his extensive entrepreneurial experience and business acumen. Alex holds an MBA from the prestigious London Business School, which has provided him with a solid foundation in strategic management and leadership.

Prior to his role at Stone & Chalk, Alex was involved with several fintech companies, where he gained firsthand knowledge of the challenges and opportunities in the industry. This hands-on experience has equipped him with valuable insights into the evolving landscape of technology and finance, positioning him well to lead Stone & Chalk in the dynamic fintech sector.

In addition to his work in the private sector, Alex also holds directorial roles with non-profit organisations. This demonstrates his commitment to social impact and community engagement. By leveraging his experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors, Alex brings a holistic approach to leading Stone & Chalk, ensuring a balance between commercial success and positive societal outcomes.

Startups & entrepreneurial thinking is the strategy of the future. – Alex Scandurra, CEO Stone & Chalk

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Startups

Stone & Chalk is a collaborative working environment that is dedicated to catalysing commercial success for startups in emerging tech sectors. With a strong focus on providing valuable resources and support, Stone & Chalk offers unique opportunities for startups to connect with scalable customers and worldwide partners, including corporates, governments, academia, and investor networks.

As an Impact Network, Stone & Chalk is committed to supporting startups and scaleups through structured programs and access to critical elements for success. This includes facilitating connections to customers, capital, talent, expertise, community, and valuable insights. By offering a comprehensive ecosystem of support, Stone & Chalk aims to empower startups to thrive and scale their businesses.

The mission of Stone & Chalk is to contribute to the creation of Australia’s industries of the future. They are dedicated to making a meaningful impact by fostering innovation and driving the success of startups, one startup, one scaleup, and one innovation partner at a time. Through their collaborative approach and robust support system, they aim to increase the success rate of startups and commercialise their innovative ideas.

What sets Stone & Chalk apart is their impressive track record of success. While approximately 90% of startups fail within the first five years, Stone & Chalk has achieved an 80% success rate in commercialising the ventures of their residents. This track record demonstrates the effectiveness of their support programs and the value they bring to startups in the emerging tech sectors.

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Programs

Beyond their contemporary corporate strategy, the fintech masterminds offer additional development services. The Bootcamp like learning is packaged into an accelerated program to get your company ‘future-ready’. The academy program is delivered in a highly professional face-to-face manner with a diverse range of core topics, often supplemented with industry experts.

The Stone & Chalk Academy offers innovation education to upskill internal, executives and boards highlighting the following topics.

• Innovation & Startups in: Artificial Intelligence
• Careers & Experienced Professionals
• Innovation & Startups in: Data Economy

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Partners

As Australia’s most successful innovation platform, Stone & Chalk bring the best innovators and corporate innovation partners together to successfully scale ideas while raising the bar on corporate innovation success.

Bridging the gap between industry leaders and the latest startups is an integral objective within Stone & Chalk’s unique business model.  The cultivation of employees into dynamic teams is facilitated by industry-leading talent from their key partners including NAB, ANZ, Eftpos, NSW Government and many more.

Stone & Chalk are one of our most important partners. – Digital Banking ANZ

Stone & Chalk partner with corporates, governments, academia, investors networks, community associations, foundations and causes worldwide. Offering five transformative matchmaking pillars for success.

• Innovation Leadership
• Start-Up Pipeline
• Learning & Development
• Business Transformation
• Innovation Programs

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Events

Stone & Chalk offer a variety of spaces ranging from studios and boardrooms to professional event areas. With three incredible innovation hubs across Australia – Stone & Chalk is a premier venue for leading events across in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide.

Located in the heart of the city yet connected to nature – their spaces balance industrial qualities with the contemporary, provide an inviting contrast between work and play and are architecturally-designed to promote connection and collaboration between teams, clients, and customers.

On average Stone & Chalk host 350 events for 200 different organisations every year. They also offer rentable working spaces in strategically designed rooms to promote collaboration amongst teams.

Whether you need a meeting room for two or mojitos for 250 – they make it happen.

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Facilities

Stone & Chalk provides a full-service model of innovation services to early-stage technology companies, corporates, and government. Stone & Chalk provide rental opportunities, shared spaces, dedicated desks, and private offices and include the following amenities:

• 24/7 access
• Daily cleaning
• Business printing
• Community events
• Super-fast internet
• Private phone booths
• Mail & packaging handling
• Changing rooms & showers
• Professional meeting rooms
• Delicious coffee & beer on tap!

Shaping the future of emerging tech sectors by catalysing commercial success across our impact network.

You need the right people in the right places. Stone & Chalk have both. Their highly experienced management team has the expertise that innovators and innovation partners need to succeed.

Journeys

Following, are some Stone & Chalk partner highlights and success stories.

David Eccles, Director – Australia / New Zealand at Enterprise Ireland

We’ve seen first-hand how Stone & Chalk champions and accelerates the growth of each and every business through the experience of our own clients.

Alexander Peh, Vice President of innovation at Royal Bank of Canada

Stone & Chalk has a successful track record of attracting top technology startups and we are excited to play our part in supporting Australia’s fintech ecosystem.

Sunny Sirabas, General Manager of Innovation at Chartered Accounts ANZ

Partnering with Stone & Chalk allowed Chartered Accountants to be at the forefront of innovation and have an advantageous perspective on Fintech.

Bruce Wren & Caroline Trotman, CEO, Co-Founder & COO at 1WordFlow

Being associated with Stone & Chalk has helped 1WordFlow’s reputation immensely, especially when recruiting. We’ve been able to bring and retain good people.

Barbara Sharp, CEO & Co-Founder at Pax Republic

We moved to Stone & Chalk to be with a mixture of high growth tech-based startups in an ecosystem of growth & opportunity. It’s a fabulous space with a strong feeling of community.

Dr. Catriona Wallace, Founder & CEO at FlamingoAI

As one of the founding residents to join, we cannot recommend Stone & Chalk highly enough. Our staff enjoy being part of the vibrant Stone & Chalk community.

LOCATIONS

Please check out our website for further details about our facilities, services and upcoming events.

Stone & Chalk: Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide CBD NSW 2000 WWW. STONEANDCHALK.COM.AU

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