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🚀 Save the Date: Runway 2024 is on November 22 🗓️ Runway is back in 2024 for its fifth year! 🎉 Join TEN13 on November 22, 2024 for a day packed with inspiration from the best founders, thinkers, and investors in the Australian tech ecosystem 🧠💡 and the unofficial best end-of-year party for Queensland's startup community! 🎊🍾   Stay tuned for more details and ticket information! 🎟️ 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gqvcupub #Runway2024 #TEN13 #AustralianStartups #QueenslandStartups #StartupCommunity #Entrepreneurs #Innovation  

🗣 "I always feel more comfortable backing someone that has that follow-through and that drive and that feeling that nothing that gets in their way is going to stop them". 🍸 Carl Hartmann is a serial founder, starting logistics software startup Temando in 2008 and taking it to exit in 2015. More recently, he co-founded Compono and Lyre's Spirit Co. 🏄♂️ Carl is now increasingly investing in early-stage startups, allocating anywhere from synthetic biology to jet boards, with a particular focus on health/wellness and AI. 📺 Sophie Robertson joins Carl to cover his approach to angel investing, having spent so long as a founder. Full interview, summary and transcript in the comments ⤵ 👼 Want to become an investor like Carl and receive angel investment opportunities straight to your inbox? Join TEN13: https://lnkd.in/gEMRJfqk (wholesale investors only)

🌇 An absolute blast to host 'Sunset Drinks' once more with our friends at OIF Ventures and Archangel Ventures! 🧠 A great chance to connect with some of the best minds and contributors to Australian innovation. 🌟 Thank you to all who came. We hope you met someone new, connected with an old friend, and got something out of the night. #startups #angelinvesting #venturecapital

🔥 Loved the energy at our recent Brisbane Mixer 🔥 Brissie's tech community assembled for a night of networking on the river. Founders rubbed shoulders with investors, new connections ignited, and many old bonds recharged. #brisbanestartups #ten13

🗣 "If you've got a strategy where you can consistently put in money between now and the next decade it's going to be pretty hard to be too heavily invested in any one area if you maintain your discipline". 💱 Don Nguyen is an algorithmic trader, turned lawyer, turned founder, now building out a portfolio of angel investments. 📺 TEN13 Partner An Vo sat down with Don in a discussion that covers everything from 'efficient market theory' (and why it's wrong) to becoming a lawyer to represent his family in a legal dispute. Full interview, summary and transcript in the comments ⤵ 👼 Want to become an investor like Don and receive angel investment opportunities straight to your inbox? Join TEN13: https://lnkd.in/gEMRJfqk (wholesale investors only)

🗣 "It's certainly an exciting time for the Aussie startup space particularly as you get the AfterPay exits and...the Atlassian success etcetera." ⬆️ You probably know Dominic Pym for founding Up, Australia's fastest-growing digital bank. With 2 other exits and a portfolio of 100+ startup investments to date, his list of accomplishments runs far longer. 🚗  Now investing through his Family Office, Euphemia, Dom is focused on underrepresented founders doing social good. 📺 Sophie Robertson chatted about early-stage investing with Dom, from the perspective of a multiple-time founder. With early positions in AfterPay, Twitter and Tesla, Dom has an eye for early innovation. Full transcript, video, and summary in the comments ⤵ 👼 Want to become an investor like Dom and receive angel investment opportunities straight to your inbox? Join TEN13: https://lnkd.in/gEMRJfqk (wholesale investors only)

☀ We're opening up a few spots to the Brisbane startup community for TEN13's Investor x Founder Mixer next week! If you're keen to join the TEN13 Team, our founders, and closest investors for a for a fun catch-up ahead of the ANZAC public holiday, click the link in the comments and we'll see what we can do! 🙌   Date: Wednesday 24 April, Brisbane CBD Time: 5-8pm

🗣 "My advice to anyone as an angel investor would be to find your superpower...that's how I'm helping founders these days". 📈 Having set up Coca-Cola's corporate venture arm, Natalie Collins has turned to angel investing with a thesis built around finding founders who are carrying out their life's work. 📺 Sophie Robertson caught up with Natalie to learn more about her approach to investing, now with 25 startups in her portfolio. Full interview, summary and transcript in the comments ⤵

🗣 "So I think the thing that will make or break a strategy is whether the winner is going to get to kind of a 100x mark or more”. 💱 Don Nguyen is an algorithmic trader, turned lawyer, turned founder, now building out a portfolio of angel investments. 📈 Don focuses on founders with a track record of execution over founders with impressive education of work history credentials. 📺 TEN13 Partner An Vo sat down with Don to cover his career and approach to investing, in a discussion that covers everything from 'efficient market theory' (and why it's wrong), to the mathematics of follow on investing, to becoming a lawyer to represent his family in a legal dispute. Full interview, summary and transcript in the comments ⤵

🗣 "Angel investing was a chance for me to follow something that I'd become really passionate about. I just love the positivity and the forward-looking nature of startups." 💱  Living at the intersection of enterprise and innovation, Natalie Collins has led a successful career at Coca-Cola Amatil and now Woolworths Group while building an angel portfolio with 25 startups. 📈 Having set up Coca-Cola's corporate venture arm, Natalie has commenced her own journey into angel investing with a thesis built around finding founders who are carrying out their life's work. 📺 Sophie Robertson caught with Natalie to learn more about her lessons from decades in corporate innovation, FMCG/CPG and now venture investing. Full interview, summary and transcript in the comments ⤵