I actually started this article a few months back, but put it on hold as I’ve had the fortune of getting to see alt startup capital distribution in practice by joining the Tractor Ventures team, which is scaling up rapidly. The hypergrowth rocketship model of the venture capital world isn’t…

We at Nutromics just finished raising an oversubscribed $5.7m round. We learnt so much and said many times during our journey that we would share all the lessons we learnt along that way with other founders. Headline Raise Stats Total Time Taken to Raise: 11 months Raise planning: 3 months (data room prep, modelling…

Welcome to the third early-stage startup funding report for Australian founders. This report is designed to deliver some clarity to time poor founders raising Seed stage equity capital in Australia. Whilst this report is reasonably comprehensive, it is only a summary of publicly sourced data from Crunchbase and therefore has…

This is an analysis of Australia’s Seed stage investment activity over the past 5 years, it is the next instalment of my last piece called Australian Early-Stage Startup Ecosystem Funding Analysis. It is intended to empower founders when making decisions related to capital raising. …

As I sit here writing the next Aussie funding report for founders, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on my journey thus far. …

This is an analysis of startup funding activity in Australia from FY15 to FY20. This series was created for Australian startup founders who are thinking of or are currently raising capital. I recently started a new role at a visionary and impactful MedTech startup called Nutromics whilst also undertaking a…

This analysis is aimed at giving Australian startup founders the information they need to strategically assess investor's suitability for their business when raising capital. This analysis complements Startup-Funding.com.au, …

EVP is an experienced mid-sized Aussie fund that is largely focused on B2B software businesses — A reader provided some great advice on the direction of these articles… to initially focus these reports on the small to mid-sized funds that Australian founders should know but don’t. So that is who I’ll be analysing for the foreseeable future. Previous Analysis Here: Our Innovation Fund Folklore Ventures (Tempus…

In the early days of COVID-19 in Australia, I asked a question to the Startup Grind Melbourne Facebook group, “As a founder, what do you need most right now?”… Surprise surprise the most common answer was “funding” and I think the answer is always funding. The startup world is addicted…