My guest for Ep190 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Taryn Pieterse. Taryn is a Partner of Rampersand VC, a dedicated seed fund that has invested over $100M across its funds, counting companies such as Sendle, Skedulo and Expert360 as part of its portfolio. Prior to joining Rampersand, Taryn worked in Investment Banking at Goldman […]

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My guest for Ep189 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, was Jalal Shaik. Jalal is the Founder & CEO of Gameface.AI, a company that uses AI and machine learning to provide accurate and relevant performance insight for sports. In 2022, Gameface was acquired for $33M by now publicly listed company, Slinger Sports after having only raised […]

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My guest for Ep188 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Jessy Wu. Jessy is a partner of AfterWork Ventures, a $20M pre-seed and seed stage Venture Capital Fund. She has a background in English literature and linguistics and has used her power of storytelling to build a powerful brand not just for herself but also […]

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My guest for Ep187 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was George Peppou. George is the Founder & CEO of Vow, a company on a mission to create a new category of food that is good for you, your health and the planet. Unlike all the other players in this space, Vow isn’t looking to reproduce […]

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My guest for Ep186 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Rohen Sood. Rohen is a General Partner at the Reinventure Group, a Venture Capital fund with a dedicated focus on Fintech companies. Reinventure raised $150M across 3 funds, with the bank, Westpac, being an anchor LP in the fund to invest into emerging global fintech […]

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My guest for Ep185 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Maxine Minter. Maxine is the Founder & General Partner of CoVentures a $5M pre-seed fund. Alongside her role at Co Ventures, she is also the Founder of Co Lab, a platform that matches Founders & CEOs with executive coaches. In this interview we covered a […]

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My guest for Episode 184 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Adrian Osman. Adrian is the Co-founder & COO of Me&U formerly known as Mr. Yum. He started his career as the Founder of pitchblak, an agency that helped hundreds of Australian entrepreneurs to validate and test their startup ideas. From that agency, the idea […]

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My guest for Ep183 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the Founder of EVP, Howard Leibman. Howard is the Founder and General Partner of EVP, a VC fund focused on investing in B2B software companies in Australia and New Zealand. In 2023, they raised $100M for Fund 4, taking its total funds under management to […]

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My guest for Ep182 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Rolf Weber, the CEO of Marley Spoon Australia. Rolf joined Marley Spoon as their Australian CEO in March 2015 Prior to this he co-founded, BrandsExclusive in 2009, before they were eventually fully acquired in 2014. He then went on to launch and invest in a […]

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My guest for Ep181 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was James Tynan, Partner at Square Peg Capital. Square Peg Capital is one of Australia’s largest venture capital funds. In 2022, Square Peg closed a $860M fund, taking its total funds under management to $2.4B across all of its funds. Prior to this, he founded Tiny […]

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