Raising money is notoriously difficult, especially for early-stage founders. Historically, the investment industry runs off a network of “warm intros” where a trusted connection introduces a founder to their friends who are angel investors or VCs. But what if you don’t have that network? …

Transparency, Insight & Outcomes — Open Office Hours, which took place last week, brought together Australia’s most active technology investors with a diverse array of startups in a collective effort to close the funding gap for early-stage, and in particular, under-represented founders. To say the response from the Australian startup community has exceeded our expectations…

The ability to spot a tech unicorn from its early stage pitch deck is almost as hard as finding a real unicorn in the wild. At the early stages these businesses are yet to develop, their market may not yet be clear, even their business model may not yet have…