This week, we ‘Open The Pod Bay Doors’ with Craig Blair, cofounder and managing partner of AirTree Ventures – a startup venture fund on a mission to invest in ambitious founders who are looking to transform industry’s with software. AirTree like to be on the journey with founder from the…
Continue ReadingThis week on Open The Pod Bay Doors we chat to Sam Wong, Partner at Blackbird Ventures, an Australian venture fund who back exceptional founders with big ambitions to build global businesses. They provide equity capital for Seed, Series A and later stage – no cheque is too early. With…
Continue ReadingEpisode 41 of the pod we’re happy to be joined by Dean Dorrell, Principal at boutique venture fund, Carthona Capital. Carthona is an Australian venture fund focused on early stage investments (pre-Seed, Seed, Series A), with a mandate to invest globally. Established in 2013, when the founding team who were…
Continue ReadingAmanda Price is the head of KPMG’s High Growth Ventures team. Their aim is to help founders build successful startups by helping them with access to capital, customers and international connections. She returned from almost 10 years in Los Angeles in various startup roles and has been a pillar of…
Continue ReadingFlavia is my favourite rocket scientist. Passionate, driven, intelligent and with unbelievable amounts of tenacity, it seems there is nothing that Flavia can’t do if she puts her mind (and talents) to it. Fleet is a space business providing free global satellite connectivity for the internet of things. Over the…
Continue ReadingNiki Scevak is the founder of Australian accelerator program Startmate as well as a founding partner at VC Blackbird. He’s been passionately involved in the Australian startup sector since 2008 when he returned home from the USA. Niki has done about as much as anyone I know to support and…
Continue ReadingGen is a remarkable young woman. Smart, driven, humble. She has demonstrated a remarkable ability in her short career so far to (ahem) “get shit done”. She cut her teeth in understanding double sided-markets with recruitment marketplace OneShift. This was sold earlier this year to Programmed. Gen and her co-founder/CTO Jess…
Continue ReadingRob is the CEO and founder of podcasting platform Whooshkaa. An accountant by background, Rob was formerly the CEO at Macquarie Radio Network before he left and threw himself into the startup world with Whooshkaa a couple of years ago. Whooshkaa as well as being the publishing platform for Open the…
Continue ReadingJennifer Tejada is the CEO of Pagerduty, a company that provides (I’m quoting from their web site) – “full-stack visibility and actionable insights for better software and better customer experiences. ” It might sound niche, but this is a huge and growing area, especially with the way software is currently…
Continue ReadingTerry Gold is the Managing Directors of Techstars in Adelaide. I don’t think he would mind being described as a “veteran” of this industry, having founded, run, sold, mentored many many companies over his “several” years in the sector. Terry was an awesome interview subject. Smart, caring, passionate. We discussed…
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