Spotlight #10 - Startups & Operators

Batko OS - increase your surface areas for luck to strike.

Michael Batko

Nov 29, 2020

It’s a slightly shorter version this fortnight.

If you know anyone looking for a job in a startup or a founder who is raising. Do them a favour and send them the below links 👇

😇 Angel Spotlight

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💸 Startup Spotlight

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🛠 Operator Spotlight

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What’s in this Edition?

Get Investment - Angels keen to connect
Invest - Startups keen to connect
Hire - Operators ready for a startup job
Apply - Latest startup jobs
Join - Startups that just raised

1) Get Investment - Angel Spotlight

Kylie Frazer - Eleanor Ventures

Industry: All of them. Diversification is key to our investment thesis. Personally, I'm a big believer in the Australian agtech opportunity.
Stage: Ideally a product in market and some early signs of traction.
Check Size: We've worked hard to get more certainty on this - syndicates are unpredictable beasts. Now, our minimum is $150K and our average is $400K.
Investments to date: We made some great investments in 2020 including Goterra, Eugene Labs, Xailient, Chatterize, Catalyst Technologies, Agscent, Amaka, Multitudes, Tiliter, Fresh Equities and Heaps Normal. We have at least 2 more deals to announce before the end of the year. And we have invested in 5 funds as well (three for Startmate, Tenacious Ventures and Tractor Ventures). It's been a big year! We are happy to lead or follow.

We always welcome new investors to come along and join us. Choose which deals you like and how much you want to put in (checks from $5K). Sophisticated investors only, sorry.

I frequently get asked if we only back women founders, which is not the case. We just happen to have an all-woman investment team (which frankly, shouldn't be such a novelty). My hope is that more women funders will translate to more women founders.

>> Get an intro here.

2) Invest - Startups Keen to Connect

No new ones this fortnight.

3) Hire - Operators ready for a startup job

No new ones this fortnight.

4) Apply - Latest startup jobs

These are new roles which were posted in the last two weeks.

Startmate Alumni

Data Analyst @ Amber (MEL)
Sales Operations Analyst @ Edrolo (MEL)

Startups

Inhouse Legal @ CarNextDoor (remote)
Head of Product @ Brighte (SYD)
Financial Analyst @ Lighter Capital (remote)
Head of People & Culture @ Linktree (MEL)

VCs

Operations Manager @ EVP (Sydney)

5) Join - Startups that just raised

Pro tip: Companies often time their fundraising PR when they are ready to hire.

Marketplacer - $20m - online marketplace
GO1 - $7m led by AirTree - online training
JESI - $4.5m led by Future Now Capital Management - remote employee tracking
Aider - $4m - AI-enabled mobile, digital assistant for smarter business
Vitruvian - $3.4m - custom resistance training
Remotely - $2.5m led by IceHouse - remote meeting games
HungryHungry - $2m led by angels - online ordering
FriendFoods - $670k led by crowd equity - vegan cheese
Hoops - led by Investible - CRM for the decorated products

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