We recognised the opportunity from the moment the deal was presented. “Deals like Arkose don’t come along every day. That exit gave him the chance to reinvest in new startups Moore for 14 investments over the year, predominantly in Brisbane and Sydney-based startups, but he was also an early investor in Arkose Labs and a lead for Brisbane Angels investment. Richard Moore was named Most Active Angel Investor. So perhaps it’s no surprise that the three other awards also went to Sunshine State Queensland is on a roll at the moment too, with the edtech Go1 becoming a unicorn following a massive $273 million series D led by SoftBank, Brisbane workforce productivity startup Skedulo raising $100 million from SoftBank, and Clipchamp exiting with a sale to Microsoft. The group made a series of investments in the company (previously known as SwipeAds), from 2014, and exited only part of its investment over two separate rounds in FY21, continuing to hold a substantial stake in the venture. I am also proud to have enabled and supported Scale Investors to bring specific funding and support to women led start-ups – at the time we at Scale pioneered a gender lens be brought to angel funding in 2013 only about 2% of early stage funding flowed to women – and to bring women investors into an ecosystem where they also are still dramatically under- represented.”Īmong the other award winners, Brisbane Angels received Best Angel Exit of the Year, with a 23x return on its investment in fraud prevention platform Arkose Labs. “Often angels are also mentors, facilitators of introductions and advisors. “There is much scope for the creators and technologists and they need the support of funders and mentors and none are more important than the first risk takers – the angels,” she said. ”īut Oliver said there was still much that needed to be rethought and reinvented. It requires patience but the additional bonus is a good return on investments. “As an angel it is a great place to learn what innovation is, where technology is heading and play a role in building Australia’s innovation ecosystem. It is exciting, it is great to see the flow of creative solutions to important problems, it is no longer only the domain of universities and research groups – it can be your neighbour or your student,” she said. “In the past 10 years it has built exponentially. Oliver co-founded her female-focused VC fund in 2013 and said the startup ecosystem was on a roll. But in a further acknowledgement of the increasingly key role played by females in the community, half the nominations received for this year’s Angel of the Year award were for female investors.” “We often lament the discouragingly low rates of female involvement in venture capital and Angel investment. “Susan Oliver is a pillar of the Victorian and indeed Australian Angel community, and has been instrumental in facilitating Angel investment and education, as well as much needed support for women entrepreneurs,” Kimberley-Bowen said. She’s the first female winner of the category in the four years the awards have been held. She was recognised for her contribution to Angel investment and overall positive impact on the Angel community. Oliver, who early this year stepped away the governance side of Scale to chair the Alice Anderson Fund, the Victorian government’s sidecar fund, was a worthy recipient accord to Angel Awards founder and Techboard co-founder Rafael Kimberley-Bowen. Scale Investors co-founder Susan Oliver has been named the Angel of the Year in Techboard’s annual Australian Angel Awards.
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