Tag: venture capital

Israeli VC looks to partner with Aussie corporate investors

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Ahead of the Australia-Israel Innovation Summit, MarineTech venture capital fund theDOCK’s co-founder Hannan Carmeli shared his thoughts on automation opportunities in the maritime sector and his aim to build...

Powering industry development with venture capital

Posted on   |  by David McKeague
The venture funding of emerging industry clusters are currently disconnected from Australian industry development policy. To fully fund a specialist emerging industry, one needs a highly liquid deep tech...

Forrest’s Tattarang launches $250m HealthTech VC firm

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia has a brand new HealthTech and BioTech venture capital outfit called Tenmile and backed with $250 million in capital from Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s investment group Tattarang. Based...

New government to mull venture capital concessions report

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The new Labor government will mull reforms to Australia’s venture capital tax concessions based on a report the Coalition sat on for six months before the election. Treasury and...

NSW sets aside $10m for women-led VCs

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Women-led startups will get access to a $10 million venture capital fund as part of the New South Wales government’s 2022-23 budget, to be released later this month. Named...

Investment Council chief Yasser El-Ansary steps down

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The influential chief executive of the Australian Investment Council, Yasser El-Ansary, has stood down after nearly a decade in the role. The Council, which represents the Australian venture capital...

Andrea Gardiner on Australia’s startup funding gap

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Jelix Ventures founder and chief executive Andrea Gardiner says the biggest challenge for pre-revenue and early-revenue startups in Australia remains the difficulty in securing funding, despite the huge volumes...