Podcasts about reinventure

Get to know Liya Dashkina, an insightful and passionate member of Australia's budding web3 ecosystem. An experienced financial professional, Liya heads up investor relations and investment operations for Reinventure. She also contributes to web3 in various other capacities, such as serving as the Australian DeFi Association's NSW Chapter Lead.Topics discussed in this interview include:– Liya's work and how her varying roles intersect.– The Australian DeFi Association, which meets every last Wednesday of the month at Stone & Chalk in Sydney.– Women in web3, female-led NFT projects, and the current landscape through Liya's experiences.– Liya's recent writing for AllBright, BFF and interview with Carly Reilly (Overpriced JPEGs).– The state of the crypto market, industry and regulation.

In this episode #105 w Simon Cant, learn about:Sunrise in Sydney when it didn't have the big city nature it does todayInfluences of Mum (sociology lecturer) and dad (Qantas pilot)Personal tension between academic and creative side growing upThe family connection to Law, romanticised it and realised it wasn't for him after working in it for a few yearsPainful learning after his time at social ventures including family challengesStarted Reinventure when he was 45, big lesson that life can take many paths Becoming spiritual and finding peace, know thy selfHow did the Coinbase (one of the most prominent crypto companies) investment happen? Being first Australian investors in ImmutableIt's now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!***Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or TwitterContact us via our website or email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests or share feedback, we love hearing how to improve! Thank you for rating / reviewing this podcast on iTunes and Spotify, it helps others find us and convince guests to come on the show! 

In episode 126 of Fintech Chatter Dexter is joined by Liam Millward, CEO and Co-Founder of Instant.About Liam MillwardAt the time of recording, Liam was only 18 years old, the youngest ever guest on Fintech Chatter.Dexter chats to Liam about his experiences as a Fintech founder still in his teens and the challenges he has faced in building a Fintech with no experience or network.It's a fascinating chat with a truly talented person whose maturity and focus impressed the Fintech Chatter crew greatlyAbout InstantInstant's mission is to build the future of a frictionless economy, transforming billions of complex checkouts, into 1-tap shopping experiences globally.They create a world where the experience of checkout is effortless, anywhere and everywhere across the internet.Instant has raised over $2.2m in venture capital, as one of Australia's biggest pre-seed funding rounds known to date, led by Blackbird, alongside TEN13, Reinventure, Larry Diamond and more.How you can support Fintech Chatter.Follow on your podcast player and leave a five-star reviewApple: Scroll to the bottom of the page (iphone or ipad only), hit 5 stars and write a review - https://apple.co/3D7NsPtSpotify:  in the app click 5 stars - https://spoti.fi/3IzSViQSubscribe and like on Youtube - https://bit.ly/3tBlRmEThanks for your support.About Tier One PeopleFounded by Dexter Cousins in 2016, Tier One People is on a mission to help Australia become the world leader in Fintech innovation.Connect on Linkedin - https://bit.ly/3DsCJBpIf you are building a world-class Fintech venture and need help in hiring tier-one people contact us

Lisa Fedorenko is passionate about helping create a fairer world through increased diversity and sustainability. After completing a triple major in Advanced mathematics, computer science and econometrics in her combined Commerce/Science degree, she began her career in equity research sales at Credit Suisse before moving into a range of finance roles spanning value investing (at Montgomery Investment Management), venture capital (at Reinventure), and venture debt (at Marshall Investment Management). Lisa is now the investment manager at Alberts, a unique family business with over 130 years of history and a commitment culturally rich, inclusive, healthy and sustainable world. Lisa is fluent in English, Russian and French and as a raging extrovert never stops being inspired by the entrepreneurs she works with. Companies mentioned Uluu Baymatob Like Family Books: Quiet by Susan Cain Principles by Ray Dalio – it's particularly interesting for company culture Atomic Habits by James Clear – one of the best life-hack books 21 lessons for the 21st century by Yugal Noah Harari – very thought provoking Anyone looking to get into VC should read: The Hard thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz The Lean Startup by Eric Ries What You Do is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christenson

Kara Frederick believes that chance favours the prepared mind. From her life trajectory, it is also clear that fortune favours those that are prepared to take chances. Kara is the Founder and Managing Partner of Tiger Financial Group, the investment firm dedicated to empowering Australian growth companies into global markets. After growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, attending Princeton and then spending 15 years as an investor and adviser for financial services technology in New York and San Francisco she found the love of her life, moved to Sydney, and became as she calls it an accidental Australian. Kara has thrived in her adopted home, with her firm Tiger instrumental in the $1.2 billion USD deal to list Tritium on the NASDAQ, and advising HR tech leader Culture Amp on the capital raise which propelled them to unicorn status, amongst numerous others notable deals. Kara is committed to the future of education and diversity in tech, volunteering her time as a director of SBE Australia, Princeton University's Alumni Schools Committee, and as an active mentor in the tech ecosystem. Kara's well publicised departure from Westpac's corporate venture arm Reinventure and subsequent litigation, highlights her commitment to standing up for what she believes in and using her actions, as much as her words, to be a role model for others to be brave. Companies Tritium Cover Genius Indebted Podcasts Invest like the Best Bloomberg CNBC Mentors and Heroes Robyn Denholm – Board Chair, Tesla Didier Elzinga CEO of Culture Amp Daniel Petre Cofounder and Partner Emeritus of Airtree VC Rob Koczkar Managing Director, Adamantem Capital

Dexter Cousins is joined by Phil Thomson, Co-CEO of Auror for episode 85 of Fintech Chatter.Auror was founded in 2013 after realising that $100B+ was lost every year by retailers but there was no effective technology being used to report, solve, or prevent crime.Through their data-driven crime management platform, Auror is helping to tackle crime by providing visibility over criminal activity. The platform enables retailers and police to harness the power of data to prevent crime and protect customers and employees.Backed by Reinventure and now supporting Australia and New Zealand's biggest retailers, the business is expanding to North America and Europe.Phil talks about what it means to be a force for good in Fintech and why New Zealand is producing some world-class Fintech's. Phil candidly shares some of the leadership challenges he has faced as a first-time founder.This is a fantastic chat, we hope you enjoy it. If you do, please leave us a review and subscribe using your favourite player so you don't miss our fantastic guests.To find out more about Auror https://www.auror.co/Launch, Scale, Innovate Leaders in Fintech Executive Search and RecruitmentDo you like the show? Please leave us a review

Damir Cuca is the founder and CEO of Basiq, an API platform providing the building blocks of financial services. Damir is a member of Australia's Consumer Data Right Open Banking advisory committee and actively champions the importance of fintechs in an innovative and inclusive Open Banking ecosystem.Basiq is the one of the leading API platforms for businesses to build innovative financial solutions. Basiq's developer-friendly platform provides secure access to customer financial data and the ability to uncover valuable insights. Backed by AP Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Reinventure, NAB Ventures and Plaid, over 200 fintechs and banks rely on the Basiq platform to deliver solutions across lending, payments, wealth, and digital banking.Welcome Damir, thanks for being our guest on The FinTech Report PodcastIn this episode we discuss:Damir's background, and what led him to founding BasiqWhat does Basiq do? Who are Basiq's customers?The evolution of data – from data aggregation to Open BankingWhat is Open Banking? How does it work? What is the future for Open Banking? From open APIs for Info & big data, to paymentsWhat is Basiq business model? Fees, charges for providing accessViews on the Australian fintech ecosystem

Dexter Cousins is joined by Danny Gilligan CEO of Data Republic and Partner at ReInventure Group. It's been a long time coming but we are delighted to bring to our listeners the insights of a true visionary in Danny.As both a serial entrepreneur and experienced venture capitalist, Danny Gilligan is at the forefront of driving disruptive innovation in Data and Fintech. We talk about Data Republic and their revolutionary 'data sandbox'. Working with some of the world's largest B2C brands including Singapore Airlines, ANZ and Westpac, Data Republic is helping companies encumbered by legacy technology innovate at warp speed.Through Reinventure Group, co-founded with Simon Cant in 2013, Danny is pioneering a new model of corporate venture capital. We discuss the diversity and vision of Reinventure’s Fund across verticals such as data, payments, artificial intelligence, real estate, crime prevention and human resources.Danny is also a founding director of Stone & Chalk, and founding director of peak industry body FinTech Australia.So tune in and enjoy!To discover data sharing 2.0 go to https://www.datarepublic.com/Thanks To Our Partners FinTech Australia We share a mission to build a strong Fintech community, foster connections and support innovation.Launch, Scale, Innovate Leaders in Fintech Executive Search and RecruitmentGM - Platforms & Lending Syd, $300k package - details, info@tieronepeople.com

Dexter Cousins chats to Lauren Capelin, Principal at Startmate about the rapidly evolving Fintech scene and discovering the next generation of startups.Startmate brings together exceptional founders, operators and investors through their accelerator programs. Over the past decade they have invested in 130+ startups, with a collective portfolio value of $1 billion. Lauren has played a significant part in Australia's Fintech community. Joining ReInventure (Westpac's CVC) in early 2015 as Head of Community, Lauren has nurtured some of Australia's most successful FinTech startups.As a Board Director with FinTech Australia, Lauren has supported the organisation through the tough times and leaves her role with the organisation in great shape.Lauren talks about her new role with Startmate where through their Fellowship Program, they are supporting over 100 females to become startup founders. We chat about the strength of Australia's Fintech startup community, the next generation of founders and the Startmate programme.Apply for the latest in take at Startmate (Applications close 24/11/20)For more information on Startmate https://www.startmate.com.au/programTo join the Fellowship Programme https://www.startmate.com.au/thefellowshipThanks To Our Partners FinTech Australia We share a mission to build a strong Fintech community, foster connections and support innovation.Launch, Scale, Innovate Leaders in Fintech Executive Search and RecruitmentGet the latest Fintech Chatter Sign up to my newsletter for the latest in what's happening in Fintech

In this episode, Hall welcomes Edward Dugger III, Founding Partner and President of Reinventure Capital. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, Reinventure Capital is a high-impact, high-return venture practice proven to deliver nonconcessionary financial returns along with intentional, measurable, and meaningful racial/social justice impact. Reinventure Capital consists of a diverse team who invests in U.S.-based companies led and controlled by BIPOC — Black, Indigenous, and other people of color - founders, and/or womxn founders of all identities, companies that are at breakeven or so commercializing solutions to real problems, in fragmented industries, at the forefront of one or more shifts, and poised to grow profitably. Edward was an early pioneer in impact investing, but also had careers as a real estate developer, business strategy consultant, and interim CFO. He has over 30 years of deep business development and venture capital experience, and a track record of notable achievements. At age 27 he became CEO of one of the larger venture capital firms in the nation, backed and mentored by such board directors as the CEO of Morgan Stanley and the Chairman of the Executive Committee of JP Morgan. As one of the earliest impact VC funds, they invested in growth industries to consciously expand business opportunities for entrepreneurs of color achieving an IRR of 32% during its last decade. Edward also helped launch some of the most successful African American controlled companies, both private and public, and assisted them in attracting over $2 billion in conventional capital, while achieving 30% diversity among managers and employees and generating over 7,000 family-supporting jobs. Although his investment practice was national, he leveraged his successes as a VC to build bridges among disparate local business communities as an early advocate for, and practitioner of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, I co-convened with the Bank several business leadership forums advocating more inclusive business practices. Expanding the effort after harvesting the venture funds, I partnered with the CEO of State Street Corporation to form The Business Collaborative (TBC), a unique business community initiative that dramatically increased the B2B sales volume among major corporations and businesses of color in Massachusetts. Most recently he has responded to our nation's current challenges, stemming from persistent social and economic inequities, by forming Reinventure Capital. Once again he is targeting the vast, untapped reservoir of innovative, entrepreneurial talent, comprised of those of color and women consistently overlooked by the mainstream investment community. In so doing, he is pursuing a contrarian investment playbook as before, ensuring an impact-rich return on capital AND inclusion. Edward is a graduate of Harvard College and Princeton University (MPA-UP, School of Public and International Affairs). Edward explains the role of social impact in Reinventure Capital’s investment thesis and shares with Hall his reasons for investing in diverse teams.  You can visit Reinventure Capital at , via their LinkedIn page at , and via their Twitter page at .     Edward can be contacted via LinkedIn at , and via email at . 

Black lives have always mattered and Ed Dugger III has been investing in black founders with great success and returns since the 1980s. Now he has created a new fund with Julianne Zimmerman, called Reinventure Capital - to build on this impact and fund even more Black and diverse founders. In this episode, you'll learn about the 3rd Reconstruction building economic opportunity and equity for all, and how Reinventure capital are re-structuring venture capital to make this happen. Don't miss this ground-breaking episode and get all incredible resources mentioned in our Show Notes here:

Julianne Zimmerman is Managing Director at Reinventure Capital, a firm focused on minority founders.

It was an absolute pleasure speaking with Nell Hardie, head of talent at Australian corporate VC Reinventure.We talk about venture capital and startup-related talent issues, including:Why VCs should have a talent functionCommon hiring mistakes made by startupsWhat can be done about skill shortages in areas that are vital to early stage companiesNell is a pioneer of the VC people space in Australia and is Reinventure’s first Head of Talent. She has a passion for working with the brightest entrepreneurs, early stage technology companies and helping them scale from a talent perspective. Nell has an Executive Search background in technology, she works as a strategic partner to appoint c-suite and high impact technology leadership into our high growth ventures. Nell also acts in an advisory capacity assisting them with ‘all things talent’, from organisation design, to recruitment best practices, interview process, employer branding, candidate experience, compensation and culture/values to help them in a highly competitive market for talent.She is hugely passionate about talent, technology, innovation and elevating the profile of Australia’s startup ecosystem. She also runs global talent initiatives to attract skilled expats and Australian’s returning home.Nell holds a Bachelor degree in Applied Sports Science from the University of Edinburgh. When not obsessing over people, culture and human led growth, she spends her time on the water, sailing.

Morgans adviser Chris Titley chatted to Josh Foreman, Founder and CEO of Indebted. Indebted is an Australian fintech that uses technology to enable collections for overdue bad and doubtful debts. The company has recently raised over $14m to expand and grow and is backed by Westpac’s venture capital arm – Reinventure as well as Carthona Capital. The company, which has over 60 employees, uses their own technology to connect with customers to ensure they can repay their debts on a personal level and stay on top of their overall financial wellness. The pair discuss, COVID-19, and the trends Josh Foreman is seeing, as well some business advice for other aspiring entrepreneurs.

Nell Hardie is Head of Talent for Reinventure Group, the Westpac backed VC fund for Fintech. Nell is ideally placed to give a finger on the pulse of the current hiring market across Fintech.In the show Nell shares where she is seeing job opportunities across the portfolio. which jobs are most at risk and how founders can retain their teams through covid-19, ready for the recovery as we move out of lockdown.Check out ReInventure Groups current vacancies https://jobs.reinventure.com.au/To apply for the Fintech Talent Market - https://tieronepeople.com/fintech-talent-market/

Sean O'Meara's first company, Impos, was acquired by Jonas Software twenty minutes before we started recording - but his attention remained resolute.  In true tech founder form, Sean started his entrepreneurial journey in a garage but his recent company, Doshii, as been backed by Reinventure (an arm of Westpac) and Coca-Cola Amatil and aims to change the way Point of Sale (POS) systems connect physical venues to the apps around them. Sean is a big believer in conceptual design, testing and failing to learn as quickly as possible to solve problems.

Lauren Capelin, Head of Venture Community at Reinventure and board member of fintech Australia.In this episode of Success Stories, Catherine Robson chats with Lauren during Melbourne's intersekt Festival. Their discussion touches upon Lauren's passions: specialist corporate social innovation and fostering entrepreneurial capacity, particularly in women. Lauren shares her thoughts on how businesses can foster community and why it's important to think of community as more than just active on social media.

This week on the pod we're turning our focus to the importance of founder health and wellbeing.We invited Aaron Birkby, CEO Startup Catalyst and Co-founder of Peak Persona, and welcomed back Amanda Price Head of High Growth Ventures to the pod discuss this topic.KPMG Australia’s High Growth Ventures just released the findings from their Startup Founder Survey, supported by Blackbird Ventures, AirTree Ventures, Square Peg Capital, Reinventure and Right Click Capital, which polled founders of 70 Australian venture-backed startups.The report validates a lot of assumptions about startup founders; they work longer hours than average workers, two-third are very or extremely stressed, and 57 percent said that their stress has a large impact on the ability of their startup to succeed. Amanda explains they commissioned the research to shine a spotlight on some of the “unspoken challenges” founders face and highlight the link between founder wellbeing and business performance.Read the full report: //home.kpmg.com/au/en/home/insights/2018/08/startup-founder-research-2018.htmlOur main guest this week isAaron Birkby. His CV and list of accomplishments is extensive; founder entrepreneur, management consultant, television presenter, spy, restaurateur, mentor, advisor, board member, as well as being a leading voice on founder performance.As CEO of Startup Catalyst, Aaron leads missions to Silicon Valley, Europe, Israel and Asia for youths, founders, investors and innovation leaders. To date they’ve completed 14 missions, with over 200 alumni, and each mission is tailored for participates to meet tech giants, high-growth startups, local investors, corporate innovators, accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces.Last year Aaron launched Peak Persona which delivers programs and content to assist founders to optimise their lives for peak personal performance. The program introduces participants to routines and tools to achieve peak mental performance, manage stress and emotions, find work/life balance, and generally perform at your best in all aspects of your life.This episode explores the importance of founder health, why we should all be talking about it, along with advice on how founders can maintain high performance and avoid burnout. Enjoy and let’s keep the conversation going.

My guest for Episode 83 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Lauren Capelin, the Head of Venture Community at Reinventure Group. Reinventure is Westpac Bank's $50M venture fund for Australian entrepreneurs and disruptive technology in the Fintech space. To date, Reinventure has 20 companies in its portfolio including Hyper Anna, Brickx and Assembly Payments. We have spoken about the importance of community on a number of previous episodes and Reinventure has led the way in both developing the Fintech community in Australia as well as building it's deal flow pipeline and stakeholder management through effective community building and management. In this episode, Lauren and I deep dive into some the specifics of community where we cover topics such as. The importance of knowing who you are selling to How to build a successful community around your goals The 5 buckets of communities How to measure the health and success of communities WATCH ON YOUTUBE PLAYBOOK MEDIA – Growth through Data-Driven Storytelling THE E-COMMERCE PLAYBOOK ACCELEPRISE AUSTRALIA STARTUP PLAYBOOK HUSTLE APPLICATION    Show notes: Rachel Botsmon Book - what's mine is yours (Rachel Botsman) Brian Chesky John Zimmer  Reinventure Westpac Simon Cant Danny Gilligan CMX Hub Salesforce Blackbird Startmate Stone&Chalk Fintech Australia Swarm conference FeverBee Holly Liu (podcast) Lauren Capelin (Twitter) Lauren Capelin (LinkedIn) Feedback/ connect/ say hello:  Rohit@startupplaybook.co @playbookstartup (Twitter) @rohitbhargava7 (Twitter – Rohit) Rohit Bhargava (LinkedIn) Credits: Intro music credit to Bensound   Other channels: Watch the video on Youtube here. Don't have iTunes? The podcast is also available on Stitcher & Soundcloud The post Ep083 – Lauren Capelin (Head of Venture Community – Reinventure) on using community for growth appeared first on Startup Playbook.

In this episode we speak to Simon Cant, founder of $100m venture capital fund, Reinventure, Tim Fung, CEO of Airtasker and Rob Koczkar of Social Ventures Australia to pick apart how our Businesses of Tomorrow can scale to the next level. Our founders, Will Davies, Hana Krawchuk, Christian Damstra and Jordan O’Reilly, respond to their concerns and reflect on how they, and their businesses, have changed since they went on the program.Music Credits:Where It Goes, JahzzarFake It, Mr Frisbys Beat PocketIkigai, The Kyoto ConnectionDeep Dive, Rafael ArchangelWhat True Self Feels, Chris ZabriskieBe Careful I've Stood On It Too, Bitbasic Bumbler, Andy G CohenHappiness, Scott Buckley See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Philip Gaskin, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Oliver Libby, Hatzimemos Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures Julianne Zimmerman, Reinventure Capital Event: Social Enterprise Conference at the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Links: http://socialenterpriseconference.org/ Sponsors: www.rebelmethod.com/listen Host: Sergio Marrero https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiomarrero/ Music credit: Starlight by NUBY https://soundcloud.com/nubymusik/starlight Keywords: impact innovation startups startup podcast socialenterprise harvard hbs hks ecosystem venture capital vc investing philanthropy

Dan Cohen is an Australian serial entrepreneur. He successfully built and sold his first business Park Assist after a 10 year journey. In 2015 he co-founded Flare, a business redefining the employer-employee relationship. Has raised almost $10m locally, mostly from local VC Reinventure. I've known Dan for years now and he is one of my favourite entrepreneurs. He seems to combine the essential entrepreneurial traits of tenacity, ambition and arrogance but with healthy dollops of humility. There are some extremely valuable insights in this interview.

In the premiere episode of Glass Ceiling Gina sits down with venture capitalist Kara Frederick, a Silicon Valley native who has spent her career at the intersection of innovation and technology. Among others, she has worked at goldman sachs and with Growthpoint Technology Partners, and joined investment firm Reinventure Group as its first General Partner back in March.     See /listener for privacy information.

In the premiere episode of Glass Ceiling Gina sits down with venture capitalist Kara Frederick, a Silicon Valley native who has spent her career at the intersection of innovation and technology. Among others, she has worked at goldman sachs and with Growthpoint Technology Partners, and joined investment firm Reinventure Group as its first General Partner back in March.    

We held an Innovation Bay event in Melbourne recently where we hosted Partners from three of the country's best VCs (Airtree, Reinventure and Squarepeg). Between them they represent almost $750m of Venture Capital and have made around 60 investments between them. Fascinating discussion covering the background of Australia's VC sector, where it has got to now, some of the upcoming trends and what the future holds. 

Over the course of Paul's career he has built and sold four previous companies and has then become an active consultant and non-executive director of some major companies like Trade Me and iiNet. In 2014, Paul McCarney and Danny Gilligan (one of the founders of VC Reinventure) founded Data Republic with a mission to change the way organisations exchange data - to make it safer, more secure and more scalable.This is a complicated area, which we cover in some detail.

Danny Gilligan is back for round 2 with Rebank, this time to discuss the future of data.   Danny is the co-founder of Data Republic, a company building the rails to support the emerging data industry. Danny is also co-founder and managing partner of Reinventure, an Australia-based, fintech venture capital fund.    Danny joined us in Episode 28 in late February with his Reinventure partner Simon Cant to talk fintech investing, and we promised we'd follow it up with an episode on data at some point.    As always, connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or on our website at bankingthefuture.com.   If you like today's show, please subscribe on iTunes, or your podcast platform of choice, and leave us a review.   Thank you very much for joining us today. Please welcome, Danny Gilligan.

Simon Cant’s path to becoming a VC has been a windy road. Building on a career that includes stints as a lawyer, founder, consultant, director of a non-profit and advisor, he is now an LP in Reinventure, an Australian fintech fund. Alongside his meandering career path, Simon has battled to slow the swing between a strong desire to exert control and an acute awareness of his own need to surrender. In this conversation Jerry leads Simon to remember that there is no such thing as a perfect surrender. Instead, surrender is a lifelong practice. Links Grace, VC and Surrender - https://hackernoon.com/grace-vc-and-surrender-4475a6c1e325#.hqn5apr6h Simon Cant on Twitter - https://twitter.com/simoncant

Simon Cant and Danny Gilligan, founding partners of Reinventure, an Australia-based, fintech venture capital fund, join us today for a discussion on fintech investing.    Simon and Danny are entrepreneurs, and they bring that experience and mindset to venture investing.    We cover a number of interesting topics today, including how Reinventure thinks about fintech investing, how best to engage and support startups, where fintech is going in the next decade, the untapped opportunity in data and more.   If you like today's show, reach out. Tweet at us @rebankpodcast or at me, your host, @will_beeson. You can subscribe to Rebank on iTunes or your podcast platform of choice.   Thanks so much for joining us today. Please welcome Simon Cant and Danny Gilligan.

Deals SoFi is reportedly close to completing a $500m funding round backed by existing investor SoftBank. Speaking of SoftBank, editor-in-chief James Mawson has taken a deep look at its $3.3bn acquisition of Fortress Investment Group a week ago. Internet group Baidu has invested $300m in iQiyi, an online video streaming platform in which it is majority shareholder, as part … Continue reading "27 February 2017 – Westpac Supplies A$100m to Reinventure for Disruptive FinTech and Much More"

In episode 29 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, we sat down with Simon Cant, the Co-founder and Managing Director of Reinventure Group, Westpac Bank's VC fund which has $100M under management (2nd fund of $50M). Along with his role at Reinventure, Simon is also the President of Fintech Australia, Australia's national Fintech industry association. Prior to these roles, Simon was an innovation specialist where he advised clients such as NAB, Tennis Australia, Suncorp and Fairfax. In the episode Simon shares his thoughts on the relationship between startups and corporates,  sustaining vs disruptive innovation and why investors value referrals. Show notes: Reinventure The Innovators Dilemma - Clayton Christensen Stone & Chalk Fintech Australia Simon Cant (Twitter) Discovery Driven Growth - Rita McGrath Credits: Intro music credit to Bensound Click here to listen on iTunes Click here to listen on Stitcher   The post Ep029 – Simon Cant (Co-founder & MD – Reinventure Group) on the relationship between startups and corporates appeared first on Startup Playbook.

David Ryan is a Philadelphia-based father of two who blogs about his experiences and renewed lease on life after a divorce that he "did not see coming".  From the deep despair that followed the sudden change, he used exercise and routine as his path to recovery and a return to a purpose driven life. Rediscovering along the way parts of himself that had been dormant for many years.  He now wants to serve others by sharing his insights, creativity and compassion with those who are looking for guidance and connection after their own life-altering experience. In this episode we talk about the plans Dave has with his growing blog and community at Reinventure.org and share some valuable insights as the conversation unfolds. We also talk about the role that an attitude of gratitude plays in staying positive everyday.   More details about this episode and resources mentioned within can be found at the Out Of The Blue website, www.outoftheblue.media/08     Orginal theme music: The Buckminster Project

There's a career and different future you'd like to have, but your present demands keep you from getting there. Maybe it's time to build a bridge to your future.

There's a career and different future you'd like to have, but your present demands keep you from getting there. Maybe it's time to build a bridge to your future.

You want to start, but can't seem to? Maybe you need a better motivation. This Reinventure Me Clinic episode features a conversation with Joseph Riccomoni.

You want to start, but can't seem to? Maybe you need a better motivation. This Reinventure Me Clinic episode features a conversation with Joseph Riccomoni.

Who wouldn't like the perfect mentor to help in a transition? The problem is, they don't exist. This special Reinventure Me Clinic episode features a conversation with Dan Wobschall.

Who wouldn't like the perfect mentor to help in a transition? The problem is, they don't exist. This special Reinventure Me Clinic episode features a conversation with Dan Wobschall.