Michelle Perugini

Michelle Perugini is an Advisory Committee Member at Daitum. Michelle was previously a Member Research and Development Incentives Committee (RDIC) of Innovation and Science Australia at Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from October 2019 to August 2021. Prior to that, they were a Mentor for FasterCapital from January 2018 to January 2019.

FasterCapital's mission is to find, fund and develop a sustainable tech startup ecosystem in which tech startups can develop their ideas, refine their products and scale their ideas to the next level. They go to extreme lengths to help find the next generation of ground-breaking, disruptive and high-impact start-ups and then we build their capabilities.

Faster Capital provides startups with technical expertise and technical development on equity basis. The incubator is also ready to invest in the startup from early stage (seed funding) on co-funding basis by matching whatever a co-investor is ready with equivalent amount from our side. In addition, they will help startup candidates with all the key resources, connect them with seasoned mentors and consultants, provide business connections and strive our best to help them make substantial improvements in their entrepreneurial journey, so that startups can build great businesses, products and services.

Michelle Perugini has a PhD in Medicine from the University of Adelaide and a Bachelor of Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Honours) from the University of South Australia.