Sarah Nolet is one of Australia’s leading agriculture technology (agtech) experts. She’s the founder and CEO of AgThentic, an agtech strategy and advisory firm, and the co-founder of Tenacious Ventures, Australia’s first dedicated agrifood tech VC firm. Sarah also hosts the podcast “Agtech – So What” which tells the story…
Continue ReadingStephen Thompson is a founding partner and managing director of Brandon Capital Partners, the largest life science healthcare fund in Australasia. Brandon Capital raised their first fund in 2007 with the mission of commercializing Australian medical research. Australia is home to loads of world-class medical research but didn’t have the…
Continue ReadingWelcome to the OTPBD News Special, our fortnightly podcast analysing the news that matters for Australian and Kiwi startups. Meet the panel… Founder: Billy Tucker, OneFlare Investor: Melissa Widner, NAB Ventures Ecosystem Leader: Gavin Appel, Ignition Lane Topics we discuss: In this episode our panel covers both ANZ happenings and…
Continue ReadingWe’re joined this week by Vuki Vujasinovic, Founder & CEO of global PR and communications agency Sling & Stone. The agency has quite the rockstar client roster; some current clients in the US, AU and NZ include Twitter, Uber, Xero, Hubspot, CultureAmp, Slack, Stripe, CSIRO, Domain…the list goes on. The…
Continue ReadingHello and welcome to the 8th edition of the OTPBD News Special, our fortnightly podcast analysing the news that matters to Australian and Kiwi startups. Meet this week’s panel: VC: Alan Jones, M8 Ventures Founder: Kath Hamilton, Loop+ Ecosystem: Annie Parker, Microsoft Topics we discuss: This week we cover the…
Continue ReadingWelcome to the 7th edition of the OTPBD News Special! It’s our fortnightly podcast analysing news that matters for Australian and Kiwi startups. Meet this week’s panel: VC: Sarah Nolet, Tenacious Ventures & AgThentic Founder: Adam Theobald, Ordermentum Ecosystem: Paul Smith, AFR Topics we discuss: We cover funding news, the…
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