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About Lucinda Hartley

Lucinda Hartley is co-founder and chief growth officer of Zeroo Home Loans, the trading name of Mondus Capital, which offers 0% deposit home loans. She oversees product, strategic partnerships and growth.

An urban designer by background, she previously co-founded Neighbourlytics, a social analytics platform for neighbourhoods that grew out of her idea of using social media and digital data to create better cities, and was its chief growth officer. Before that she founded CoDesign Studio, a placemaking consultancy, after working in Southeast Asia and with UN-Habitat.

She discussed the barriers she overcame when starting out on The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem interview series in 2022, and appears in Part 4 of the documentary, talking about the SheStarts accelerator.

In conversation.

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Start hereLucinda Hartley discusses the barriers she overcame when starting outHer own interview on starting out as a founder with Neighbourlytics and CoDesign Studio.

Go straight to the good bits.

Key moments from Lucinda Hartley discusses the barriers she overcame when starting out.

  1. 0:29Meet Lucinda Hartley
  2. 0:59Lucinda's Background and Neighbourlytics
  3. 2:19The Data Gap in Urban Design
  4. 3:04Designing Cities for Humans
  5. 3:39Involvement in the Startup Ecosystem
  6. 4:59Understanding the Startup Ecosystem
  7. 6:21Awareness of Unicorns and the Community
  8. 7:16Stereotypes in the Startup Culture
  9. 8:41Value of the She Starts Program
  10. 9:47Observations on Diversity in Startups

The path so far.

  1. Now

    Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer · Zeroo Home Loans

  2. Earlier · Startup

    Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer · Neighbourlytics

  3. From 2010 · Startup

    Co-founder & CEO · CoDesign Studio

Sources: balancethegrind.co, australiandesignreview.com

Zeroo Home Loans on Day One

Zeroo Home Loans is a Sydney company offering home loans without a deposit. It lends the full purchase price, and the buyer pays a settlement fee that covers costs such…

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