Many in the Australian startup ecosystem have spent years lobbying the Australian Government to work with industry to improve access to the venture asset class. A vibrant angel ecosystem gives startups and founders the opportunity to bring innovation to market. Improving access also improves diversity of investors, resulting in more women founders receiving early stage funding. This would be a disappointing move in the opposite direction. Yes retail investors need protections and we need regulation to stop predatory behaviour in the cap raising market, but a blanket increase to the income/asset rule will have a significant, negative impact on early stage venture in Australia. @techcouncil_aus would love to understand your views on this article
One more time for the government: having a lot of money does not make you sophisticated (usually the opposite in my experiences!).
Do what you do for any other educational pursuit, and come up with a test!
This is anti-startup, anti-innovation and anti-common sense.
There should be an exam to determine sophisticated investor status.
Arbitrarily increasing the threshold by $2M jams a stick in Australia’s nascent startup flywheel and doesn’t protect retail investors from scams.
@_mazzwu@Cron@Cron happening for me too until recently resolved for desktop app. BUT - there continues to be a bug in the menu bar (notifying me of events 1 hour early).
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Joined @Chris_Titley's Podcast to share my excitement about #fintech:
💸 The financialisation of everything is accelerating
🇦🇺 Our fintech ecosystem is (still) flourishing
🌊 @TidalVC are investing behind B2B fintech infrastructure
🎧 Podcast: https://t.co/W01YPAggCn
@TidalVC we are gearing up to deploy our third Seed fund. Come to us for an operator-led VC that really understands product-led growth. We lead Seed rounds. https://t.co/nbHK4sjQ0Y
👋 Great to be part of #TheGiantWarmIntro again this year @TidalVC.
An awesome opportunity for founders to sound out some of ANZ's most active investors.
1 week left to apply at https://t.co/03JiFHT47p!
@wendo shares why we invested in https://t.co/RRGkXCzRMi 🚘 a turnkey solution for #carsubscription management and billing 🌊 Read the investment notes 👉 #seedstage#venturecapital https://t.co/i6DDIdPg1Z
ICYMI - @TidalVC is raising our 3rd Seed Fund. If you're obsessed with building amazing tech products, we'd love to hear from you.
https://t.co/AxnRF2r38m
🌊We've launched our largest Tidal Seed Fund to date. Our Seed Fund III will support #productled founders of #earlystage companies #build game-changing products to solve #globalchallenges 💙 https://t.co/6m2TihRch6
Sneak preview into the @TidalVC framework for early company building that I'll be talking about @Fishburners this week:
🚀 Growth
💰 Economics
🥊 Defensibility
🦸♀️ Capability