Kim Heras

Kim founded his first funded startup in 2002 and has gone on to work in, on and with many startups ever since. Most notably he successfully built and exited 2 tech businesses before moving on to become founder and MD of one of Australia’s first, and most successful, startup accelerators, PushStart. After PushStart he co-founded Australia’s leading Startup Studio, 25Fifteen, where he continues to work on the art and craft of building and growing tech businesses. On the community side he was an early director at renowned co-working and digital community  Fishburners, founded the Sydney Tech and Sydney FinTech Startups, both of which grew to thousands of members and were pivotal in the formation of their respective communities and was a founding member of ASICs Digital Finance Advisory Panel which was created to advise ASIC on fintech and regtech-related matters.