About
Kim Ly Nguyen
Founder and Director
Kim is a lawyer-turned-social entrepreneur with a deep commitment to fostering innovation, social impact and cross-border collaboration. From delivering capacity-building and startup accelerator programs, running workshops to support social enterprises and purpose-driven professionals, mentoring diverse founders in entrepreneurship, Kim is always at the forefront of pioneering initiatives.
As the founder of Venture Links, Kim is passionate about empowering startups to ideate, validate, and scale their ventures, providing tailored mentorship and brokering connections between startups to Australia’s innovation ecosystem including with corporates, universities, local councils and investors.
Having supported in building up several communities across startups, social impact and migrant entrepreneurship, she is skilled at catalysing unique partnerships for organisational gain and societal impact.
Being an innovative idealist, Kim is always buzzing with ideas and exploring innovative ways to collaborate for change. She seeks to eliminate the barriers faced by diverse changemakers when engaging in startups, innovation and leadership, whilst continuing to give back to the community - locally and globally.
Other ventures I’ve started…
Social Enterprise - People of Purpose
People of Purpose* started out as a social enterprise community, co-founded by three friends - Kim, Sarah and Lily who wanted to connect with other likeminded individuals interested in social impact, business and leadership.
In 2019, People of Purpose* launched our short documentary "The Generation of Change" and held our first screening and panel discussion at Loop Project Space.
Since then, we've held four events including: Open Mic Night, Connect Four, Solutions for a Greener World, Virtual Campfire, bringing together over 100 people in total.
In 2020, People of Purpose* ran “Leading with Purpose”- a social impact leadership development program that supported 20 young professionals to build their capacity to be purpose-driven leaders and develop a skill-set to pursue careers in social impact.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, People of Purpose* organised a virtual festival “Kairos” on Zoom. We brought together a diverse mix of innovators, creatives, performers, leaders, entrepreneurs to lead workshops, lightning talks and perform virtually to celebrate the resilience of humanity, despite the challenges faced in the pandemic.
