Partner · Founder, M8 Ventures
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Educator | Atto | SmartCompany |
| interim-CEO (former) | Fishburners | SmartCompany |
| Partner · Founder | M8 Ventures | Startup Daily (Wed 9 Apr 2025), Startup Daily (Sat 20 Jul 2024), Startup Daily (Tue 4 Jun 2024), Startup Daily (Tue 19 Mar 2024), Startup Daily (Mon 23 May 2022), SmartCompany (Wed 9 Sep 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 28 May 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 21 Apr 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 14 Apr 2020), Startup Daily (Wed 6 Nov 2019), SmartCompany (Thu 21 Feb 2019) |
| Entrepreneur in Residence | muru-D | Startup Daily |
| Mentor | Remarkable | Startup Daily |
Stories naming Alan Jones. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Woolworths, via its Healthylife arm, led telehealth firm Hola Health's $6m Series A at a $70m valuation, with M8 Ventures and FundWA backing; the Perth company raised $4.5m a year earlier.
SeenCulture, a workplace platform, has secured $1 million in a pre-seed round from Alice Anderson Fund, M8 Ventures, InterValley Ventures and Torus, having earlier joined Techstars' first Sydney cohort with Cut Through Angels backing.
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Psylo, a Sydney maker of psychedelic therapies, has landed a US$8 million seed round led by Tenmile while moving to the US; earlier raises in 2022 and 2021 are recalled.
Hola Health, a Perth-based on-demand telehealth and pharmacy delivery provider, has banked $4.5 million at pre-Series A with M8 Ventures heading the round, FundWA and angels also in; Emily Rich joins the board.
Startup hub Fishburners has appointed Martin Karafilis as chief executive after an interim period, with plans to support regional founders and expand beyond Sydney.
Weekly tech wrap: cloud-market trends, Tiger Global's cheques into Stake, Shippit and Carma, new VC funds, several acquisitions, grocery delivery startups Send and Quicko collapsing, and Elaine Stead joining M8 Ventures.
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Remarkable's accelerator unveils seven startups in its 2021 cohort serving people with disability, including Tunisia's Cure Bionics, with Demo Day set for July and last year's intake averaging investment per startup.
Daily roundup: Canberra pulls ads from Facebook amid the news block, Facebook faces inflated-metric allegations, the ASX All Tech index turns one, Butn raises pre-IPO funding, and VBreathe banks a fresh round.
Kate Kendall's women-only pre-accelerator Atto received a 125,000-dollar LaunchVic grant and is preparing a second cohort, with mentors from Startmate, M8 Ventures and Pick & Shovel supporting the program.
Analysis arguing that despite eye-catching raise headlines during COVID-19, deal counts fell sharply in early 2020, with experts citing portfolio protection, pipeline deals rushing to close, and media amplification.
Alan Jones explains that M8 Ventures is pausing its first fund raise and putting the partnership into sleep mode during pandemic uncertainty, citing weak traction with wealthy backers outside tech circles.
Telstra-backed accelerator muru-D names ten startups for its sixth Sydney intake, each receiving seed funding, while Clean Travel and Okra Solar join Booking.com's sustainable tourism accelerator running in Amsterdam.
A guide to twelve funding routes for Australian startups, covering venture capital, angels, debt, accelerators, grants, corporate venture, crowdfunding, ICOs and loans, with many past raises cited as examples.
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