The CRIISP Podcast

Steve Torso speaks with Garry Visontay, Partner at Right Click Capital, about the Venture Capital landscape in Australia and with both participating as judges for the CEBIT PitchFest, discuss what makes a captivating pitch to investors. 

About CEBIT

CEBIT Australia showcases the dynamic merger of business with technology, where it’s going and how it can help you in your daily job.

The themes that will shape CEBIT this year:

As a member of our network, you automatically qualify for 20% off tickets using this code: INV20 - simply head on over to this link here, and get your ticket today - they are running out fast.

From the 29th October until the 31st October, we'll be taking part in CEBIT, with our Managing Director and Founder, Steve Torso joining the PitchFest as a judge. Take a full look at the CEBIT agenda here.

About Right Click Capital

We’re passionate founders and investors who back ambitious technology businesses in Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia.

We support founders who are building remarkable businesses and work with them to make their vision a reality. The Right Click Capital team has over seven decades of combined experience in starting, scaling and selling businesses. We’ve experienced each step of the journey, and know what it takes to build a great business. We are the Australian member of the Draper Venture Network.

https://www.rightclickcapital.com/

Recorded on our launch at WeWork Pyrmont in August, Steve Torso provided founders with unique insights on the capital raising process and best practice when working with investors.

We've created additional resources on our website that breaks down capital raising into four topics:

https://www.start.wholesaleinvestor.com.au/resources

Dimitri Galanis unapologetically drops truth behind why founders need to be strategic in their marketing. We discuss the roadmap from launching their business to seeking capital in an upcoming raise and what startups and scaleups need to do to be successful in this ever-changing landscape that is marketing.

Who is Point Dot Media?

Dimitri founded Point Dot Media in 2016 whilst working for Australias largest media publishing company. Dimitri’s vision is to align small to medium-sized brands in Australia with skilful and passionate media talent as a team to deliver timely, reliable and quality work.

Socials:

https://www.facebook.com/pointdotmedia/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/pointdotmedia/

In today’s podcast we discuss the exciting startup Active8me, digital health and wellness, the investment landscape in Asia, and what drives Olympian and ex VC Jeremy Rolleston. 

Not only is Jeremy Rolleston a two-time Olympian, and ex VC, he is also the founder of Active8me - an exciting startup tackling chronic disease and wellness with a digital SaaS health & wellness platform. (Check out this video here => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zde4HjzApc0).

And it is clear there is a need as the epidemic of preventable chronic disease increases rapidly. Did you know that by 2020 75% of deaths are estimated to be caused by chronic disease? Yes 3 out of 4! 

The Active8me platform provides a range of targeted programs with customised plans incorporating exercise + nutrition + mindset + tracking + DNA + coaching and more. It offers a scalable, cost effective way of addressing costly chronic conditions. Plus an all-in-one convenient mobile solution for aspirational consumers who increasingly care about their fitness, health and wellness. Significantly, as a SaaS offering, the entire platform can be white-labelled to provide branded solutions for insurers, health companies, HMOs and other partners. Active8me’s focus is primarily in Asia where the opportunity is huge and at early stages, and where there is very little like it in SE Asia. However it can be scaled elsewhere. 

Active8me has just opened up the last remaining part of its seed capital raise to CRIISP.

So we took the opportunity to speak to Jeremy about a range of interesting topics related to his startup, his background, Asia, digital health and more.

Steve Torso speaks with Amanda Cunanan from Aequo Partners to get her perspectives on deal-making as an advisor.

Amanda joined Aequo Partners in January 2018 and has over 12 years’ experience in mid-market M&A, corporate finance and business strategy

Amanda has an extensive background in FMCG having spent five years in M&A and strategy roles at one of Australasia's largest food and beverage companies, Lion Co. Prior to Lion Co, she worked at Miles Advisory Partners and commenced her career at Deloitte Corporate Finance

About Aequo Partners

Corporate finance advisory boutique specialising in mid-market M&A, providing corporate finance and strategic advice across all aspects of transaction-based projects.  

Services include: 

- Divestments

http://www.aequopartners.com.au

We speak with Chris Rolls, Managing Director of PieLAB, on what every founder needs to know.

During the past 20 years, Chris Rolls has built from scratch four different businesses across four different industries, making him one of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs. Three of these businesses – Rental Express, SCODY Performance Wear and First Class Accounts – have become among the largest of their kind in Australia.

Through Rental Express, (a technology enabled property management business) Chris built the largest privately owned residential property management business in Queensland with more than $2 billion of residential investment property under management across 300 suburbs. Chris sold Rental Express in 2015 in what has been widely regarded as the largest sale of a privately owned rent-roll in Australia.

Chris is considered one of the most influential people in the Australian Real Estate Industry and has presented keynote presentations at every major real estate conference in Australia and New Zealand, on the subjects of property management, real estate business growth and entrepreneurship.

Chris is regularly requested to offer media comment on entrepreneurship and property-related issues. He’s appeared in “Your Investment Property” and Australian Property Investor” magazines, “The Courier Mail” and “The Australian” newspapers, and is the resident property management expert for Brisbane’s 4BC radio show “Real Estate Talk”.

Chris has Bachelor in Sports Science and an MBA from Melbourne Business School and has studied private equity and venture capital investment at Harvard Business School. He also previously worked as the Operations Director at ASX-listed investment group Arowana International.

What is PieLAB?

PieLAB Venture Partners is a venture capital business established in 2016 to invest in late-stage startups. We invest our capital, experience and unrivalled network in the Australian Real Estate Industry to help dedicated founders to reach their full potential. We take a hands-on, direct approach as we become an extension of your company. We help businesses to make real world impact with our team of experienced founders and entrepreneurs by your side.

https://www.pielab.com.au/

Jenny Morel, Founder and Managing Director of Morgo, walks through her twenty years of Venture Capital with Steve Torso. Jenny discusses what she has seen throughout the landscape and the founders and companies through various stages of raising capital.

What Is Morgo?

Today’s Australia and New Zealand are a vibrant mixture of self-assured, flexible, resilient people, great cafés and restaurants, film and fashion industries that are world-class, and a rapidly increasing number of exciting high growth companies building global businesses.

Morgo is where the people building these high growth companies from New Zealand or Australia get together.

Morgo provides an annual re-charge, an opportunity to re-connect with the other people building high growth companies and to get re-excited about being in business.

A mix of international and local speakers stimulate the discussions: successful entrepreneurs to learn from, offshore entrepreneurs to challenge us, and science speakers to expand our thinking with workshops to encourage sharing experiences and to learn from the maestros present.

See more at: https://www.morgo.co

Sam Riley, Co-Founder and CEO of Ansarada speaks with Steve Torso on the nuances of the capital raising process. 

Alicia Lykos from Red Wolf Group breaks down why founders should strive for high-performing teams, what it means and why it builds strong teamwork.

Interested in learning more about Red Wolf Group? Reach out to [email protected]

What will you learn?

What impact will you see?

Learning more about setting up CRIISP with Steve Torso