CHEQUE CHECK

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  • CHEQUE CHECK 01 - Rohan Workman, Tall Order Ventures

    Welcome to Cheque Check - a weekly conversation with the investors backing tech founders across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. I'm Gaz Williams, founder of GROUP GROUP and curator of SEEDS, where the cheque check podcast is published. Cheque Check is focused on Tech investment, care of some Solid investment theses, which we unpack with sharp and concise convos.

    For episode one, I'm joined by Rohan Workman, co-founder and GP of Tall Order - the firm you knew as Skalata until a few weeks ago.

    We get into why they rebranded, why they paused new investments for most of the year to rebuild the firm around AI, and what turns their heads for Fund III.
    And if there's a Claude-made pitch deck sitting in your drafts - worth having a listen.

    Talking topics

    • Why Skalata became Tall Order - shedding the old accelerator tag, the mid-year management buyout, and a habit of reinvention

    • The name - part process of elimination, part a message to founders who are drawn to hard things

    • Building in the AI era - costs are down, competition is up, perseverance hasn't changed

    • What Rohan looks for first - domain expertise, with Paperly and Restoke as examples

    • Pitch decks in the age of AI slop - the 30-second screen, and why founders should write their own

    • The new thesis and Fund III - capital-lean, market-ready, AI in both the product and the ops, targeting $50M

    • Rebuilding Tall Order from the inside - pausing initial investments, building agents for sourcing and screening, surviving the productivity dip

    • Getting on the radar - build the relationship before you raise, and think twice before letting AI write your emails

      • References

      • Tall Order - https://tallorder.vc/

      • The rebrand announcement, "A Tall Order" - https://tallorder.vc/writing/a-tall-order

      • Pitch Tall Order - https://tallorder.vc/pitch

      • Paperly - https://tallorder.vc/portfolio/paperly

      • Restoke - https://tallorder.vc/portfolio/restoke

      • The Truffle Hunters - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11394318/

        • 31 min

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      Welcome to Cheque Check - a weekly podcast with investors backing technology founders across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore. Short, sharp conversations on investment theses, market trends and…