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Pinnacle distribution director in new role

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023
... distribution has departed to join a venture capital firm. Chris Brookman has been appointed head of distribution at Tidal Ventures (Tidal), a seed-focused venture capital firm. Brookman joins from Pinnacle Investment Management, where he spent one year ...

Canadian VC fund invests in Aussie fintech

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023
TELUS Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Canada's most active corporate venture capital fund Telus Corporation, has made an undisclosed capital injection into Australian agri-fintech company Digital Agriculture Services (DAS). The investment ...

LIC hunts for investment manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2023
... other industries, and is seeking interest from fund managers until 30 June 2023. HGV's current fund manager Parallax Ventures, a Canadian firm appointed in 2019, will see its contract end in June and has the option to participate in the tender process. ...

Perpetual welcomes Pendal board members

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2022
... Australia and head of infrastructure for UBS Global Asset Management in New York. Heap is also a founding partner of H2 Ventures, a privately held venture capital investment firm and is the independent chair of CBA New Digital Businesses Pty Limited ...

Super funds supercharge semiconductor business

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2022
... with us on the journey to revolutionise our digital future." NGS Super's interest in the company is managed by Blackbird Ventures, with operating partner Robyn Denholm saying: "We continue to be impressed by the team at Morse Micro." "From the very beginning ...

Super funds, sovereign investors back $1bn VC fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2022
Blackbird Ventures has raised the nation's largest venture capital fund, receiving over $1 billion in committed capital from some of Australia and New Zealand's largest institutions. The fund consists of a $284 million core fund, $668 million follow-on ...

CEFC, Grok Ventures back solar tech firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has joined Mike Cannon-Brookes' Grok Ventures in backing an Australian company commercialising technology that could drastically cut costs and increase efficiency of solar panels. The CEFC and Main Sequence ...

Cultiv8, Fidante launch agriculture, food tech fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
... over the past four years, has supported 36 start-up companies. Successful SparkLabs Cultiv8 investments have included ventures that explore the use of seaweed to significantly reduce livestock methane emissions, the replacement of anti-biotics in livestock ...

AXA IM Alts bolsters natural capital platform

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... years of experience investing in climate solutions, with previous roles including founder and director of NatureBased Ventures and investment director and chief technical officer at Mirova. Cavallo also spent time at NatureBased ventures as its director ...

VC sector risks running cold

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2022
... professional Australian cricketer, now tech entrepreneur Matt Berriman has been involved in several high growth digital ventures since leaving the sport in 2006. Most recently, he launched RealVC, a seed and early-stage venture technology fund aiming ...