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To some six months can seem like an eternity, but the latest H2 Ventures Accelerator has flown by! We can’t believe that it’s been six…

At H2 Ventures, we often talk about how startups have a big advantage compared to large established corporates, that is that on ‘day one’ a…

Mentors may sound daunting for students, but having go-to people to provide guidance is invaluable and the impact is long-term.

When I saw the Facebook notice from Inside Sherpa that H2 Ventures was hiring 2 interns, I wasn’t sure if I would be the right fit. I…

It’s no secret that cultural and gender bias are still very much prevalent in startup scenes across the world. While I can’t say that I…

When he was running Y Combinator, Paul Graham used to joke that his job was to tell founders things they would ignore. My role at H2…

Arguably the most overused word in the English language today, “Innovation” is a buzzword if ever there was one, thrown around by…

“So, what do you do for work?”

P2P lending and Healthcare payments. They sound like two very different businesses but they both solve a very similar problem. At their…

Ask any kind of athlete, from Soccer players to Tennis stars, and they will tell you the same thing; “if you look good you feel good and…

Raise your hand if your first action upon waking up each morning is to reach for your phone.

When I first started investing in startups I thought that competition was the most important factor for success. At pitch events, I was the…

Hello, I’m Lily. I’m the co-founder for Austern International and I recently joined the team at H2 Ventures, an early stage VC firm…

Just over a year ago my colleague Toby Heap, Founding Partner of H2 Ventures, wrote this piece on the kinds of technologies we love to…

I work with entrepreneurs every day and they are truly extraordinary people. Their ability to identify opportunities, innovate, overcome…

Predict the causal future, not the present¹ — Vincent Vanhoucke, Google Brain

Listed Australian companies have paid out $72 billion in dividends since the start of 2017, and that is a disaster for the country. This…

Seeing as it is Harmony Day here in Australia, I thought I’d follow up on my post from last week about the importance of encouraging more…

Last weekend we ran our second H2 Ventures Startup Weekend. It was a fantastic weekend where 80 startup enthusiasts came together at the…

We spend a lot of time thinking about the future of financial services and related industries and we see huge potential for technology to…

I feel so privileged to be able to work every day with founders like Alistair Bentley, who quit his job as a naval engineer working on…

Investing in Australia has been relatively straightforward for the past thirty years — buy domestic banks and property — however, this…

A hand-drawn schematic of wool shears, by David Unaipon

Silicon Valley is the birthplace of much of the technology you can’t live without: think Apple, Facebook, eBay, Google and many more…