FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER, 77 Partners

Brent Watts

Roles

Role	Organisation	Sources
FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER	77 Partners	Startup Daily (Tue 23 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (Fri 8 Oct 2021), SmartCompany, 77 Partners team page

Coverage

Stories naming Brent Watts. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

Seed $2.5m

49ers NFL legend Joe Montana backs $2.5 million seed round by industrial tech startup GreaseBoss

GreaseBoss, a Queensland lubrication-monitoring startup, raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Pipeline Capital with NFL great Joe Montana among investors, after completing Y Combinator; earlier backing came via The Melt and 77 Partners.

Startup Daily Fri 8 Oct 2021 GreaseBoss 77 Partners Glencore Melt Ventures YC Cathexis Pipeline Capital Joe Montana Michael Dempsey Brent Watts Steve Barnett Trent Bagnall

Grant $100k

Queensland startup lands a spot in the Silicon Valley Y Combinator, with IoT tech solving a $21 billion problem

Queensland industrial IoT startup GreaseBoss joined Y Combinator's accelerator remotely after winning a $100,000 state government grant, having earlier raised pre-seed backing, and plans a seed round.

SmartCompany Mon 1 Mar 2021 GreaseBoss 77 Partners Airbnb DoorDash Dropbox Glencore Stripe Twitch YC Advance Queensland Brent Watts Steve Barnett

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