Draper University

Focused on global business development and partnerships for leading Silicon Valley Venture Network, Founder Residency and Accelerator.

Led major deals to accelerate global entrepreneurship and ecosystem growth for partners ranging from governments to leading blockchains including Jetro Japan, Cyberport Hong Kong, Stellar Development Foundation, and the Cardano Foundation.

VP - Ecosystem Growth

DraperU is a leading pre-accelerator located in Silicon Valley founded by Venture Capitalist Tim Draper. Their entrepreneurship programs have gathered 2100 entrepreneurs from 101 different countries with  US$900m raised in venture capital.

Led major crypto program deals: Algorand, VeChain, NEO, CEEK, etc

Head of Business Development and Partnerships - APAC

Bevy

Helping brands build, grow, and scale their communities. Clients include Slack, Twitch, Atlassian, Asana, Webflow, etc

Investor

LawAdvisor Ventures

Helping leading Legal-tech platform LawAdvisor connect to Startups.
Raised US$5M Million Seed from backers, including Google Maps founder Lars Rasmussen, ex-Barclays Ventures CEO Ben Davey, former Orrick chairman and CEO Ralph Baxter, Microsoft general manager and associate general counsel Jason Barnwell, etc

Investor & Startup Ambassador

SOSV MOX (Mobile Only Accelerator)

Mentor

Startup Grind

Global startup community: 4 million startups in 600 cities and 125 countries worldwide.

Proudly interviewing and sharing the stories of global game changers, from Unicorn founders to Nobel Prize Winners.

Global Podcast Host

Connecting the World's Best Startups with Silicon Valley, Our Global Network, and Partners.

Startup Grind (powered by Google for Entrepreneurs) inspires, educates, and connects 3,500,000+ entrepreneurs, in 600 cities in 125 countries around the world. Local partners include: ASX, Deloitte Private, Salesforce, IBM, MYOB, Zendesk, Airwallex and NAB.

APAC Director

The aim of Startup Grind Australia is to both showcase the best of local startups and help support the progression of online business, in addition to amplifying our voice within the international community.

Startup Grind is an event series and media company designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs.

Established local and national partnerships with the ASX, NAB, Deloitte, MYOB, Zendesk, 99designs, Holding Redlich, inVision, Xero, Salesforce, and Vinomofo.

General Manager - Australia/New Zealand

DreamPushers

On a mission to build the #1 Crypto Creator Community and Lifestyle Brand™

Founder

Startupbootcamp

Corporate Innovation, Growth Hacking and Program Management for global leading industry-focused
accelerator.
Lead venture builder for the 雀巢 Nestle Accelerator (Beijing, China) - Commercialising
patented technology in personalized nutrition. Venture building and growth hacking for Mars and Asahi.

Managed and trained 5 cohorts of growth hackers redesigning curriculum with the latest in
digital marketing and ethical growth hacking.

Program Director / Venture Builder

Draper Startup House

The Hotels for Entrepreneurs. On a mission is to enable ONE MILLION entrepreneurs by 2030. 
Part of the Global Draper Venture Network and Ecosystem.

Head Of Marketing (International)

Collective Campus

Connecting Melbourne's leading startups with local and global resources. Collective Campus is Melbourne's Leading Enterprise Innovation Hub. It is focused on running corporate accelerator programs for Mills Oakley (LawTech), Village Roadshow (VR/ AR), and Charter Hall (Proptech) and Lemonade Stand - A fun business & entrepreneurship program for kids (Australia & Singapore)

Entrepreneur In Residence

Forbes

Covering startups and entrepreneurship in Australia and New Zealand for Forbes.

Contributing Writer

VP - Ecosystem Growth @ Draper University

With over 11 years of experience in the startup and venture capital space, I am a passionate and proactive leader who helps brands build, grow, and scale their communities, products, and impact. As the VP of Ecosystem Growth at Draper University, I focus on global business development and partnerships for the leading Silicon Valley Venture Network and Pre-Accelerator, connecting entrepreneurs, investors, corporates, and governments across the world.

I am also an active investor and mentor, supporting startups in various domains and stages, such as Bevy, LawAdvisor, SOSV MOX, and Startup Grind. I have a strong track record of building partnerships, launching programs, and growing ecosystems. I leverage my expertise in marketing, innovation, and blockchain to empower and inspire the next generation of changemakers and disruptors. My mission is to push the boundaries of what is possible and create value for society.

Chris Joannou 💎

Metalab Technologies

Building  Mobile Games in blockchain and Helping brands enter the metaverse. 
Launching undisclosed product soon

Chief Executive Officer

Prakria Marketing Services Pvt. Ltd.

Future technologies for Forward looking Brands

Head of Immersive Technologies

Immersive Tech Training

Immersive tech training is a bespoke , industry specific accelerated training for the companies foraying into the future technologies like virtual reality , augmented reality , mixed reality , web augmented reality , e-commerce augmented reality , mobile based augmented reality . The training includes induction of the top management into immersive technologies by understanding the company expectations , business models - proposition , process definition , market strategy,  recruitment , training , production pipeline , software training,  defining KPI's and delivery .

Director

www.v20cricket.com

A virtual experience of the most loved sport. Virtual reality cricket with Oculus Rift . V20 is a virtual gaming company making virtual reality games to be installed in malls , public spaces. They also work on virtual reality simulations in automobile , retail, fashion , advertisement industries. V20 cricket was launched by DJ BRAVO at Express Avenue Mall @Chennai. It went on to become the most liked virtual reality game in FUNCITY that very same year. I was fortunate to contribute to this project from the induction to the launch. S

Creative Technologist I Virtual reality I Creative Director I Augmented Reality

HoloPundits

I work as a Creative director in the development of Virtual reality projects, augmented reality , mixed reality and Hololens  projects for education and training. Holopundits delivers augmented reality and virtual reality experiences in STEM subjects compatible in IOS, Android Mobile, i-Pad, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest HMD's.
Total AR - Is a augmented reality mobile application for organizations to publish their content in Augmented reality . Delivering engaging experiences using  360 degree content.

Consultant Creative Director

Hubino

Hubino is a company working on future technologies ranging from Visual AI, Robotics, Facial recognition algorithms, 3d hyper real human avatars for artificial intelligence projects using NLP NLU , Emotive reactions. My job was to deep research in human emotions and implement the same using 3d avatars.
- Automated expressions based on Human reactions
- 3d Hyper real avatar using Blender , Unity Pipeline .
- Using voice recognition algorithms to identify the behavior and make the avatar react to offer human experience.

 Creative Technologist I Augmented Reality I Virtual Reality 

Madhattersstudios

Games for mobile , Augmented reality, Virtual reality , Digital branding solutions.

 Creative Producer / Technologist I Virtual Reality I Augmented Reality 

Fat Balloon Animations

We Specialize in 3D Animation content, Commercials , outsource projects. A  team of highly talented artists delivering quality work matching international standards.

Co-Founder I Animation Director 

ccx studios

Worked on developing  3D animation content for TV broadcast .

lead animator

Ittina Animation Studios

animator

For almost close to a decade , i have been developing products for the metaverse. The recent developments in the virtual world, facebook led push just made my life easy to explain my friends and family what i do for a living. 

They have seen me wearing virtual reality  headsets for hours, making weird gestures testing augmented reality applications , talking to 3d AI chatbots . Now they have a clue. 

I have led multiple teams and successfully developed  dozens of  oculus - virtual reality , augmented reality applications for service sectors, ideated and executed web augmented reality campaigns and prototypes for international brands. 

As a product owner i have spearheaded,

- VR Arcade games and successfully installed it in multiple malls in Asia partnering with Funcity    (expanding more) 
- 300 + minutes of Interactive content for virtual reality and augmented reality.
- Prototypes and products for enterprise using mixed reality.

Skilled in 
- Research and planning
- Competitive analysis and Unique proposition
- 360 Product vision and strategy
- Product and Creative Tech Strategy 
- Pipeline setup and management
- Digital Marketing and Goto market strategy

 
A while before that,
-  I worked as a creative director and animation director for International TV shows and movies. 
- I co founded  a 3D animation studio with 5 people and scaled it to 60 before the tsunami. 
- I graduated with masters in software engineering.

Im trained in screenplay writing and have worked in a couple of regional movies in production. 

Now into web 3.0 developing blockchain- NFT - generative art, Mobile games and more exciting projects which i cant reveal at this point. 

but soon…..




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