Luke Anwar - CEO of Safety Culture celebrates his  investors - who have hit a home run as they have just completed a funding round led by Airtree of $165m at a $2.5b valuation. “It’s nice to have early investors who backed us when we were getting started who are continuing to invest in our future. Thank you Morpheous, we are 1% of the way there.” Application of Capital Raised  industry-leading innovation for larger enterprise customers,  accelerate AI adoption and  reward long-term employees The Safetyculture Growth Path  SafetyCulture has doubled in size i ..read more

Venture Capital gave  rise to China’s tech industry, backing Alibaba, Baidu (internet search), Xiaomi (smartphones) and Didi (ride hailing). When these companies did public stock offerings, the venture capital investors reaped bountiful returns. However  The heightened tensions between China and the United States , and China’s leader, Xi Jinping aiming for national self-reliance - is making it tough for Chinese   VCs,  who have spent two decades cultivating start-ups and shaping tech development having nowhere ..read more

BSI Learning facilitating Transnational education between India and Australia  Australian Private equity firm LeapFrog Investments has led a  A$35m funding round in Mumbai-based Auxilo Finserve that gives education loans to students aspiring to study in India and abroad. Leapfrog invested  $30 million with the balance  coming in from Auxilo's existing investors Trifecta Leaders Fund-I and Xponentia Opportunities Fund-II.  Stewart Langdon, partner at LeapFrog Investments said that "This is our first investment in education. It's a business that bl ..read more

Preeti Mohan - Niceto Kylie Frazer - Flying Fox   Jonathan Chow - Carthona Capital Mike Abbott - Antler Raaj Rayat - Airtree  Mitchell Bissinger - Folklore  Kylie:- Likes Quality thinking - founder should set the agenda Mitch :- a standout was when I was asked why founder  should accept his money!  Founder sharing their failures, learnings and pivots  Mike- Antler :- we use our ecosystem of venture partners  who have  the experience  in the relevant field  We often rely on founders deep knowledge and we do the  business support&n ..read more

Back on 2018 - Ari Klinger and Garry Visontay  backed Kami for $1.5m  BV Partners just invested valuing the business at $175m  ? boom ?  Big news today at Kami! Congratulations on the strategic investment from BV Partners valuing Kami at over $175m USD.  Well done Hengjie Wang Alliv Samson Jordan Thoms Bob Drummond and team. For more about the deal  click here  Send your vCard and refer your network with www.referron.com ..read more

Great day out at the start of NSW Spark Festival hosting 70 events over 5 days .  Murray Hurps sharing the importance of connecting universities, research , government and commerce - and Anoulack Chanthivong - Minister of Innovation - supporting Spark Festival  Great to catch up with The Hon. Jacqui Munro MLC ,  Anne-Marie Elias , Elizabeth Henderson Sara Khafaga  Anneliese Appleton Sean Marshall Eraga Magotti Laura Earl Thomas Hilburn Dr. Sangeeta Aditya ???????? Renald Gallis Ann-Mary Rajanayagam  Thanks to Harry Godber and David Lt (Lillo-Trynes) and supporters ..read more

Am excited to be going on the VC journey with referron - am starting to look for a factory to make more customers happy !!  (Shameless plug- download the app on Google Play or Appp store  - create a business card - connect by sending your vCard and making a referral and warm introduction - and track your activity - (would love your feedback:)   (Go to  www.referron.com.au to download and have a play - it’s free  )    Michael Ho focuses on 3 main milestones when describing the Capital Raising process for Venture Capital 1️⃣ Find something that ..read more

As an entrepreneur playing with a few tech ideas over the years (such as www.referron.com ) (a shameless plug:)) (Download and have a play - it’s free)   , and a strong believer in technology - I am in awe of what Tim Draper has done !  Below is an extract of some of his ideas as he talks about  - his investment philosophy - what and who he invests in  - a war story or 2 - the future being a Decentralised World being  driven by Blockchain AI and Genomics  - Bitcoin, Crypto, Blockchain and Decentralisation  - AI and Genomics  Tim Draper a ..read more

Helping you create your Generational Legacy by Connecting Entrepreneurs and Organisations to People and Money  21 Years in the making!!  ..read more

Michael Ho - who focusses on preparing seed stage founders for series A - has an amazing insight!!! ❌raising money isn’t about revenue ❌ In fact it was 3+ years before Figma had any of the common traction metrics (users, revenue, growth) Sandvine, the first startup Michael worked for raised a $19.5M seed round pre-traction / pre-product right after the dot-com crash… And Kinde raised $11.5m a few years back on a piece of paper !!! So clearly it’s not always about traction either Okay then… So what is it about? ? Raising money is about investors believing in your (future) ability to h ..read more