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36 Real-life Investor StoriesDan Phillips has spent most of his career building up Macquarie Capital’s Venture Capital Group. Somewhat of a well-kept secret in the Australian startup ecosystem, in the past 25 years, the Venture Capital Group has done 36 deals and deployed almost $600 million dollars of capital into some fantastic companies. The group has 11 companies currently in the portfolio.
In this pod interview, Ian and Dan discuss:
- The implications of COVID for Australian startups
- Some success stories from the past 25 years
- How their hands-on investing model works
- The sectors and geographies the group focuses on
- The strategies that lead to a 90%+ success rate with investments