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Founders Journey
with Alex Ghiculescu

Alex Ghiculescu is coming to River City Labs to share his journey as a Co-Founder of Tanda.co/Workforce.com, alumni of River City Labs and a success story with the windy road expected for an emerging tech company from QLD.
This will be followed by Networking Drinks at Hey Chica!
About the Speaker
Alex is the co-founder of Tanda.co/Workforce.com and runs a fund for B2B SaaS companies built on Rails. He lives in the Colorado mountains with his family.
He writes about what he's learned over 10 years building software on Substack. You can also find him on LinkedIn and Github .
About Tanda
Tanda is an Australian software company that builds best in market workforce management and wage compliance software.
More than 10,000 businesses across Australia use Tanda’s software to pay staff correctly for the time they work.
Their clients include Domino’s, SBS, Bunnings Warehouse, Deloitte, Victoria State Government & Starbucks Australia.
THURSDAY 4TH MAY
3:00PM - 4:00PM
IN PERSON | RIVER CITY LABS
Founders Fusion and
Open House

River City Labs will be opening our doors for the Brisbane Startup Ecosystem to work from the Labs for the day!
If you are a future Founder or want to check out RCL, come down to our Founders Open House and immerse yourself in the community.
Join us for coffee at 9:30AM and meet the RCL Community of Startup and Scaleup Founders and Mentors.
Proudly Sponsored by our Friends and Partners at Beaten Zone Venture Partners.
Skalata helps startups navigate the seed stage and come out the other side – stronger, more capable and ready to scale.
THURSDAY 1ST JUNE
FROM 9:30AM
IN PERSON | RIVER CITY LABS
Founders Journey
with Steve Baxter

Steve will be sharing his journey from growing up in Cloncurry to becoming Co-founder and Executive Chairman of TEN13, Australia’s leading tech startup investment platform, and Founder and Lead Investor with Beaten Zone Venture Partners which is dedicated to early stage investments in Australian sovereign legal defence technology. In this session Steve will discuss navigating the vast landscape of tech startups and investing and all the highs and lows that follow through this journey.
This is in conjunction with River City Labs networking event Founder's Coffee & Open Housefrom 9:30am-10:30am. This is a great opportunity to network with a free barista-made coffee in hand, soak in some invaluable advice from the experts and work from River City Labs free for a day. Proudly sponsored by Beaten Zone Venture Partners
To register for the Founder’s Coffee & Open House CLICK HERE
About the Speaker:
Steve Baxter, Founder and Lead Investor of Beaten Zone Venture Partners
Tech startup investor Steve Baxter is a proud Queenslander, born in the remote town of Cloncurry and raised in Emerald in the State’s central highlands. In 1994, at the age of 23, Steve put his life savings of $11,000 on the line to launch his first start-up, the pioneering internet service provider SE Net, from the spare room of his Adelaide home. Servicing more than 35,000 customers, SE Net was eventually acquired by Ozemail/UUNet under the stewardship of its founding Director and Former Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
In 2001, Steve teamed with a schoolmate to launch his second start-up, PIPE Networks, a provider of wholesale telecoms infrastructure that was listed on the ASX in 2005. Eight years later they sold it to the TPG Group for $373 million. Steve spent a year working with Google in California in 2008, leading a project to deliver high-speed telecommunications systems across North America. Steve is now the Co-founder and Executive Chairman of TEN13, Australia’s leading tech startup investment platform, and Founder and Lead Investor with Beaten Zone Venture Partners which is dedicated to early stage investments in Australian sovereign legal defence technology.
THURSDAY 1ST JUNE
10:45AM - 11:45AM
IN PERSON | RIVER CITY LABS
+ MORE TBA!
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- Additional costs may be incurred if excessive cleaning is required post event;
- A cancellation fee of $150 applies for cancelling within 7 days of your event;
- Weekend events require additional cleaning. A cost of $200+GST will be charged for your event if it falls on a weekend.
- All external events must conclude at a suitable time that ensures adequate time for clean up to with events closing at 7.30pm and exit by 8pm
- Should someone with a confirmed case of COVID-19 attend your event, you are required to pay for the COVID-19 deep clean estimated at $942+GST.
- Events must be strictly related to Startups, Technology and Innovation, unless part of an existing program or partnership of RCL.
- RCL does not have the appropriate license to enable catering and beverages to be BYO. Therefore, you are not allowed to bring your own food or drink for your event. If you would like your event to be catered, this can and must be organized through RCL.
- Events must finish at or prior to 7:30pm due to our resource capacity to staff and support your event. For events outside the hours 9:00am-5:00pm, this will incur additional chargers as we are required to staff onsite outside of our staffed ours.
Event Enquiry Top Criteria:
River City Labs is now limiting external events due to a high volume of events for our programs. Therefore, we have narrowed our scope of events to:
- Events must be strictly related to Startups, Technology and Innovation, unless part of an existing program or partnership of RCL.
- RCL does not have the appropriate license to enable catering and beverages to be BYO. Therefore, you are not allowed to bring your own food or drink for your event. If you would like your event to be catered, this can and must be organized through RCL.
- Events must finish at or prior to 7:30pm due to our resource capacity to staff and support your event. For events outside the hours 9:00am-5:00pm, this will incur additional chargers as we are required to staff onsite outside of our staffed ours.
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