• Our unique programs offer all companies - early-stage scaleups to ASX listed - access to global expertise and support.

Scale Up USA: Programs Available

  • The USA is the #1 market for foreign businesses to expand. With nearly 10 years of supporting businesses to successfully enter the USA, FD Global Connections is your expert partner to facilitate your successful market entry.
  1. Should you expand internationally?: Our FD GLOBAL SCALABILITY AUDITTM is our proprietary tool to assess an organisation’s capability to expand internationally. Developed over 8 years, this comprehensive audit gives you full visibility across your business and identifies tangible steps for improvement.
  2. Managing Global Risk: FD GLOBAL GOVERNANCE FOR GROWTHTM works with companies to establish the processes to support strong governance. Understanding and implementing the right structures including Advisory Committees and Governance Boards, is a vital step to ensure that global expansion objectives are achieved
  3. Discover the USA: FD GLOBAL USA MARKET DISCOVERY is our dedicated, independent market research to learn and apply insights for your business as you consider expanding into the USA. With a strong focus on clients – who they are, their buying behaviours, competitor positioning, and distribution strategies – his is your market entry strategy – your “go-to-market” strategy.
  4.  Fast Track Global Sales: FD GLOBAL GROWTH RUNWAY is our powerful sales activator, where clients receive concierge service to directly connect with in-market Sales Representatives – Inside Sales, Interim Sales, Distribution, Partners, or Full-time sales. Our global partners are industry leaders and super connectors – and a powerful resource to fast-track your business growth. Tap into FD Global’s high valued and experienced network to generate that all-important revenue. Register below to receive the criteria to apply.
  5. Expert Independent Advice: FD GLOBAL POWER PLAY is for business leaders seeking an independent mentor and advisor who is an expert on the USA market. PowerPlay is a 3-month engagement, fully custom-designed for the savvy business leader. Engage our internationally renowned mentor for independent, confidential and trusted advice.
  6. SheScalesGlobal™ Networking Group: SheScalesGlobal™ is a powerful networking group for all businesswomen who are scaling internationally. This informal, intimate networking group meets to discuss the challenges businesswomen are having as they globalise their business. We hold monthly virtual events with guest speakers from across the globe who support female business owners to achieve their global ambitions.
  7. Redefining Acceleration: New York City Immersion Program has been available since 2017 for companies requiring introductions to Investors and Potential Clients. Register to be the first to receive news when applications open.
Programs

Support Services

  • GLOBAL SCALABILITY AUDIT

  • USA MARKET ENTRY STRATEGIES

  • GLOBAL SALES REPRESENTATION

  • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE INTRODUCTIONS

  • NETWORKING EVENTS

  • NYC ACCELERATOR ("IMMERSION PROGRAM")

USA SCALEUP SERVICES

  • Global Scalability Audit

    FD Global Scalability Audit

    FD GLOBAL's Global Scalability Audit is our proprietary tool to assess an organisation’s capability to expand internationally.

    Program Details Apply Now

  • FD Global USA Market Discovery

    USA Market Entry Discovery

    Preparing to expand into a global market can be exciting, but significant time, effort, and cost will be wasted unless you prepare sufficiently. Undertaking market research to understand the US market is priority for all businesses. FD Global Client Discovery will help you identify your future clients.

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  • FD Global Growth Runway

    Available

    Secure your USA clients with FD Global Growth Runway. Our Global Business Partners in USA, S.E. Asia or UK/EMEA are available to support your market entry, and act as your in-market representative. We are opening our "little black book" to super-connected and experienced Sales Professionals to fast track your market entry. This service is for Tech, SaaS B2B, Health/MedTech, Food, Beverage and Hospitality businesses scaling globally.

    Program Details Apply Now

  • FD Global PowerPlay Program

    Available

    Are you an Australian business scalingUP into the USA Market? Too busy "in' your business to focus "on" your business? Require independent, expert advice on taking your business global? Invest in yourself to get your business on a growth trajectory globally.

    Program Details Apply Now
  • How New York supports women entrepreneurs

    SheScalesGlobal™ Networking Group

    Available

    This unique networking group is to support All Female business owners to scaleUP globally. Sometimes controversial. Always informative. Lots of energy. Laughter guaranteed.

    Program Details Apply Now

  • Governance for Global Expansion

    Project Based

    With the business world being more complex than ever, entities will likely encounter multifaceted challenges when they embark on global expansion, requiring them to adhere to entirely new rules and regulations. That’s why businesses need to plan well and establish a governance framework to facilitate their adjustment to new and changing business conditions. FD Global Connections Governance for Global Expansion Program is available to entrepreneurs and organisations seeking to develop a unique program for their members.

    Program Details Apply Now

NEW YORK CITY IMMERSION PROGRAM

  • New York City Immersion Program – September 2023

    September 2023

    Launched in 2017, our New York City Immersion Program was the first accelerator to support companies to scale from Australia into New York City. Designed for B2B companies expanding in the US, companies from Australia and the UK have joined the program. Apply to unlock the NYC "Hybrid" Immersion Program which we have redesigned to reflect the current globalisation challenges.

    Program Details Register Interest

  • Fintech’s November 2019

    Program Finished

    FD Global Connections, in partnership with Discover Global Network, delivered our first New York City Immersion Program combining Australia and the UK scaleups.   The following sums-up the feedback from all entrepreneurs who participated: "The Ultimate Growth-Hack".

    Program Details

  • Scaling Up Female Founders: NYC – April 2018

    Program Finished

    Hear from our Female Founders and what they achieved during the Program by clicking the Program Details below.

    Program Details

  • Scaling Up: FinTech, InsurTech, RegTech 2018

    Program Finished

    Several Entrepreneurs who joined this program were invited to be guests on New York City's most popular podcast, "A Better Mousetrap" with Marcos Dinnerstein. Listen to the podcast by clicking the Program Details below.

    Program Details

  • Scaling Up: FinTech 2017

    Program Finished

    The first TransPacific program connecting Australian scaleups to New York's business community. The NYC Immersion Program redefines "acceleration" by unleashing and connecting Australian companies into the "hard to crack" USA market, with New York as their market entry point. Watch the video to see what the five fintech's learnt about scaling into the USA by clicking the Program Details below.

    Program Details

"The program is uniquely designed to unleash the potential of scaleUP's. It redefines "acceleration" by connecting companies with decision makers for meaningful business outcomes to drive growth."

Trena Blair, CEO, FD Global Connections

“I didn’t think it would be this amazing. I have already recommended the program to another startup back in Melbourne.”

Chris Dahl, Pin Payments, NYC Immersion Program 2017

"We had exposure to and the opportunity to meet with inspiring professionals that would otherwise have been impossible to access."

Lorraine Cherry-Nguyen, Minnow Designs

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      Privacy Policy

      Introduction
      At FD Global Connections Pty Ltd we are committed to protecting personal data and to fair and transparent processing. Please read our privacy statement: it will help you to understand how we collect and use personal data from our clients, suppliers, sub-contractors or others during the course of our business. We will only use personal data for the purposes described in this privacy statement or as stated at the point of collection. We regularly review this privacy statement and may make changes at any time without giving notice.

      Who We Are
      FD Global Connections Pty Ltd is an Australian registered company (Australian Business Number: 61 111 381 929). Our registered office is FD Global Connections Pty Ltd 275 Ryedale Street, Ryedale, New South Wales 2122.

      This privacy statement only applies to FD Global Connections Pty Ltd. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any other organisation our website may link to.

      Our Lawful Basis for Processing
      We rely on several lawful basis of processing when we collect and use personal data to operate our business and provide products and services to our clients. These include:

      • Public interests – where the processing of data is necessary for providing certain services to clients for certain requirements we are subject to.
      • Legal obligations – in order to comply with the legal and regulatory obligations
      • Contract – in order to perform contractual obligations
      • Consent – where an individual has freely given consent at the time their personal data was provided to us.
      • Legitimate interests – the legitimate interests can be ours, our clients or other third parties (eg to provide our services, to develop or protect our business, or to keep people informed about relevant products and services) and we always balance the rights of individuals with ours’ and others’ legitimate interests.

      Our Clients
      We only ask our business clients to share personal data with us where it is necessary in order to provide our services or other agreed purposes. We rely on our clients providing any necessary information to the individuals whose data is shared with us regarding its use.

      In providing a range of services to our clients, we may need to process the following categories of personal data including name, contact details, job title and employment related information (company name, position, responsibilities).

      For our services we do not expect our  business clients to share special categories of personal data (defined as race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, genetic data, biometric data, sex life or sexual orientation) and criminal records. Where this is the case we rely on our clients having gained the explicit consent of individuals, it being a legal obligation or other lawful basis.

      Typically, we will collect personal data directly from our clients or from third parties acting on their instructions (eg their suppliers).

      We use such personal data collected for the following purposes:

      –     Providing professional services: we offer many different services to our clients and many of these services require us to process personal data in order to give advice and deliver reports to our business clients.

      –     Managing our business: in order to run our business effectively we may need to process personal data for multiple reasons, including managing our client relationships, developing our business and services, hosting events, and to manage and administer our website, IT systems and applications.

      –     Quality, risk and security management systems: to protect our information and our clients’ information (including personal data), we use security measures that involve detecting, investigating and resolving security threats. As a part of the security monitoring we do personal data may be processed (eg automated scanning of emails to identify threats). We monitor the services we provide to our clients for quality purposes this may involve processing personal data held on the relevant client file.

      –     Providing information about our services: we may use business contact details to provide information about us, our services and activities, including events that may be of interest.

      –     Complying with local legal, regulatory or professional obligations.

      Suppliers/Contractors
      We only process personal data about our suppliers (this includes subcontractors and any individuals associated with them) where it is necessary for us to receive services, contract, manage our relationship and help provide services to our clients (where relevant).

      We use personal data in these circumstances for the following purposes:

      –     Providing professional services: where a supplier/contractor helps us to deliver services to our clients, we process the personal data of its people involved to help manage our relationship and to deliver those services to our clients.

      –     Managing our business: in order to run our business effectively we may need to process personal data for multiple reasons, including managing our client relationships, developing our business and services, hosting events, and to manage and administer our website, IT systems and applications.

      –     Quality, risk and security management systems: to protect our information and our clients’ information (including personal data), we use security measures that involve detecting, investigating and resolving security threats. As a part of the security monitoring we do personal data may be processed (eg automated scanning of emails to identify threats). We monitor the services we provide to our clients for quality purposes this may involve processing personal data held on the relevant client file.

      –     Providing information about our services: we may use business contact details to provide information about us, our services and activities, including events that may be of interest.

      –     Complying with legal, regulatory or professional obligations.

      Clients or Prospective Client Contacts
      Using a customer relationship data management system, we process personal data about contacts, these are existing clients, prospective clients and individuals connected with them. This personal data will usually include name, employer identity, job title and business contact details.

      Typically, we will collect the personal data directly from the individuals themselves or from public sources such as public registers, social media and professional networking sites, news articles and internet searches.

      Such personal data will be accessible and used for the following purposes:

      • Developing, managing and administering our business
      • Providing information about us and the services we provide
      • Identifying the business needs of our clients or prospective clients
      • Performing analytics, including producing metrics for our leadership, such as on trends, relationship maps, sales intelligence and progress against account business goals
      • Analysing interactions between our people and our contacts to provide information to our management on relationships and trends, including the use of an automated analytical tool to evaluate the frequency and timing of interactions with contacts.

      Unless we have the consent of the individual we do not sell or otherwise release any personal data collected for purposes above.

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      What is a cookie?
      A cookie is a small piece of data or message that is sent from an organisation’s web server to your web browser and is then stored on your hard drive. Cookies can’t read data off your hard drive or cookie files created by other sites, and do not damage your system.

      However, you can reset your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. Web browsers allow you to control cookies stored on your hard drive through the web browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

      At FD Global Connections Pty Ltd we only use cookies to monitor the performance of our website and to improve user experience.

      If you choose not to accept our cookies, some of the features of our site may not work as well as we intend.

      How We Keep Data Secure
      Security is of the upmost importance to us. Whilst no data transmission over the internet or any other network can be guaranteed as 100% secure, we take all reasonable steps to safeguard the personal data we hold and we have in place appropriate technical and organisational measures.

      Who We Share Data With
      We only share personal data with others when absolutely necessary for the purposes for which we hold it and where appropriate contractual arrangements and security mechanisms are in place. We may pass your personal data to:
      – suppliers that support us and help provide services to our clients, such 3rd party contractors, providers of cloud-based software, IT systems, security, archiving storage, recruitment, marketing and payment services
      – law enforcement or other government and regulatory agencies or to other third parties, where we are required by law, the courts or any legal or regulatory authority we are subject to. We will only provide personal data in this circumstance where permitted or there is a legal requirement.

      How long do we keep personal data?
      We keep personal data only for as long as necessary and this will reflect the requirements of:

      • the activity or service for which it is being processed
      • any legal, regulatory or contractual requirements
      • the time in which any litigation or investigations might arise from providing a service.

      Individuals’ rights
      Individuals have certain rights over their personal data that we process as data controllers.

      If we process your personal data and you exercise any of your rights we will aim to respond promptly and within any required time limit. However, please note that the length of time it will take us to respond will be dependent on the nature and extent of your request. You have a right to:

      • access – you can ask us for a copy of the personal data that we hold on you
      • rectification – if you become aware of any errors or inaccuracies concerning your personal data, please let us know by contacting us
      • withdraw consent – where we process personal data based on consent, you have a right to withdraw consent at any time. To stop receiving direct marketing emails from please click on the “unsubscribe” link on such emails. For any other withdrawals of consent please contact us
      • erasure/deletion- you can ask us to erase or delete your personal data when we no longer need it for the purposes it was obtained
      • unsubscribe – you can ask to restrict or object to our processing of your personal data (eg removal from a marketing subscription list).

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      Termination/Access Restriction
      FD Global Connections reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the FD Global Connections Web Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice.

      To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of New South Wales without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and FD Global Connections agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the city of Sydney, New South Wales.

      Statute of Limitations – You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the TOU must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

      Trademarks
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      FD Global Connections makes no representations or warranties with respect to the ownership of, or copyright in, content on this website uploaded, linked or otherwise disseminated by users of our service and in no way represent others who claim to be authors, creators or owners of copyright or other rights thereto. You shall obtain all permission(s) when required and are solely responsible for determining the existence of such rights, satisfying any copyright or other use restrictions, intangible rights, or related interests for obtaining any and all permissions and releases, for guarding against the infringement of those rights that may be held elsewhere, and for paying any associated fees necessary for the reproduction or use of the materials and for rights to any proprietary material depicted, and you expressly assume all responsibility for observing applicable laws of copyright, literary right, trespass, conversion, property right, privacy, publicity and defamation.

      Special Admonitions for International Use
      Recognising the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content.

      Who to contact
      If you have any questions about this privacy statement, wish to complain about our use of personal data or exercise one of your rights, please send your correspondence to our Data Protection Officer:

      Data Protection Officer
      FD Global Connections Pty Ltd
      275 Ryedale Street,
      Eastwood
      New South Wales
      Australia 2122

      Email: enquiry@fdglobal.com.au with subject “Urgent: Data Privacy”. Note: This emailed is monitored Monday – Friday: 9am – 5pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time).