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👋 Happy New Year World. 🌏 < 1 month in and we've just closed our second investment of 2025. 🔥 2024 was a truly remarkable year for us at Side Stage Ventures. It was our first full year as a Fund. We closed Fund I, made 9 new investments, had 1 follow-on round and our first acquisition. We expanded the team (welcome Elli!), hosted 7 founder dinners and 10 community events including hosting Jack Zhang (CEO of Airwallex), Farnaz Azmoodeh (CTO of Linktree) and an epic Creative House Party at SXSW Sydney (alongside our crew Linktree, Leonardo.Ai, UNIFIED Music Group). I've got a wildly good feeling about 2025. Don't believe what you read in the papers. Australian tech has never been in such a good place. The community is growing, the quality of entrepreneurs is just getting better and better and our breakout companies are going from strength to strength. And yet, it still feels like day one. We're just getting started. 🚀
Very exciting. I’ve been impressed by the great feedback shared by founders on SSV. Especially as some did not receive funding but still walked away with useful feedback they valued 🚀
Amazing Ben Grabiner . I love your positivity and am keen to chat about my start up Tap the Gap - aiming to help close the $103 trillion wealth gap for women.
Love your optimism about Australian tech—it’s inspiring to see the ecosystem thriving and growing stronger. What’s the biggest shift you’ve noticed in the quality or approach of founders over the past year?
LFG! ❤️
Hey Ben, trust you are well indeed 😎 the first acquisition is always a highlight, proof in the pudding 😉 best wishes
Huge year ahead I’m sure 🚀
On 🔥
Let’s go my friend 👏
Huge achievements for 2024 Ben, really impressive
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1moOnly getting started. Love our Side Stage Ventures homies, water bottles and all 💜 🖤