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| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| David Booth | Early Operations Hire (former) | Blackbird Ventures |
| Graham Jenkin | Chief Operating Officer (former) | SmartCompany |
| Naval Ravikant | Founder | Startup Daily (Tue 28 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 7 Mar 2022) |
Stories naming AngelList. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Auckland venture firm NZVC plans a second fund backing 50-60 Australia-NZ founders and has already invested in an Australian robotics startup and two New Zealand companies.
Forbes Australia profiles billionaire Ed Craven's funding of MainCode, a Melbourne venture where chief executive Dave Lemphers leads a team building Australia's own large language model on home soil.
Blackbird has hired On Deck co-founder David Booth for its New Zealand investing team in an EIR role; the post recounts his career and On Deck's roughly $100 million raise.
Ignition Lane's weekly roundup: Zip's deal for Sezzle, Zeller's unicorn raise, several Australian funding rounds, Startmate backing Provvy, a space manufacturing grant, NZVC's first close, and tech's response to Russia.
Crypto exchange CoinList, founded by Brisbane-born Graham Jenkin, raised US$100 million in Series A funding led by Agman and Accomplice, reaching a US$1.5 billion valuation, after a Dorsey-led US$10 million round in 2019.
An opinion column arguing entrepreneurs do their best work in downturns, retelling WhatsApp's founding after the GFC, its early backing and sale to Facebook, and predicting a wave of purpose-driven startups from COVID-19.
Sydney online design startup Canva, founded by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams, has secured a $3 million seed round from Australian and US backers after the founders met investors at a Hawaiian kitesurfing camp.
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