Pitching in the shoes of the investor
By Andrew Chen, Venture Partner One of the biggest challenges for founders is the pitch – going to investors and asking for money. A lot of pitching resources tell you…
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3 July 2023
Don’t judge a cap table by the Companies Office
By Andrew Chen, Venture Partner As an investor in the science and deep tech space, I hear a lot of hand-wringing on cap(italisation) tables. The official record of who owns…
26 June 2023
Avoiding Negotiation Mistakes
Laura Faulconer from WNT Ventures has written a great blog post detailing some key lessons around negotiating terms for seed-stage deals. It's natural for founders to be wary of investors…
3 August 2020
The Art of the Board
Mike Volpi writes on TechCrunch about the value of having a Board of Directors in an early-stage start-up, and what sort of relationship the Board should have with Management. A…
16 March 2020
Highlighting Trends in Healthcare
Jackie from AirTree has written some insightful analysis around some of the key trends that are appearing in Healthcare, and how start-ups in Australia (and hopefully New Zealand!) are well…
16 January 2020
The Emergence of Revenue-based Venture Capital
An interesting article on Entrepreneur magazine about the rise of revenue-based VCs, who are making a larger number of smaller bets based on the current revenue of the companies. They're…
10 October 2019
Why Raising Capital is Challenging
Over at the Sydney Morning Herald, Richard Dale and Adrian Bunter have written an op-ed about why companies find it difficult to secure angel investment. In short, founders are unprepared…
30 August 2019