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Navigating the Market Inflection Point: Exclusive Investor & Founder Meetups Across Australia
The market is at a genuine inflection point in mid-2025, with conflicting signals from AI breakthroughs and geopolitical shifts. This blog announces exclusive, intimate investor and founder meetups across Australia, designed to cut through the noise, reveal unfiltered truths about the H2 2025 outlook, and map the “smart money migration” to position participants for strategic advantage.
Capital Insights
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Bridging the Gap: Why Australian Capital is Crucial for India’s Trillion-Dollar Growth Story
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Beyond the Hype: Strategic Digital Asset Investing for a New Financial Era
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Cryptos New Frontier: Institutionalisation, Real-World Assets, and the End of Wild West Investing
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Trillion-Dollar Investment Convergence: Life Sciences, AI & Energy
Executive Interviews
Bridging the Gap: Why Australian Capital is Crucial for India’s Trillion-Dollar Growth Story
Australia’s substantial savings pool is meeting India’s explosive growth. Learn how Creek Partners is building the crucial bridge for investors seeking to tap into India’s projected $7 trillion economy and its vibrant venture capital ecosystem.
Cryptos New Frontier: Institutionalisation, Real-World Assets, and the End of Wild West Investing
The cryptocurrency landscape, once characterised by rapid cycles and speculative frenzy, is undergoing a profound transformation. As global institutions and high-net-worth individuals increasingly look to allocate capital to digital assets, the focus is shifting towards maturity, regulatory clarity, and the integration of blockchain technology with traditional finance. A recent at the Emergence Singapore 2025 panel […]
Cosmo Innovations Founder Eyes Global Rollout of SkinGate, IPO by 2027
Dr. Mathew Jafarzadeh, founder of Cosmo Innovations, is set to revolutionize the $65 billion home beauty tech market with SkinGate, a patented skincare infusion device. Following his presentation at Emergence 2025, he revealed plans for a global rollout, aiming for a 2027 IPO on NASDAQ or the Hong Kong Exchange. Discover how SkinGate, backed by 110+ patents, seeks to attract “smart capital” and redefine skincare delivery.
Capital Insights
Navigating the Market Inflection Point: Exclusive Investor & Founder Meetups Across Australia
The market is at a genuine inflection point in mid-2025, with conflicting signals from AI breakthroughs and geopolitical shifts. This blog announces exclusive, intimate investor and founder meetups across Australia, designed to cut through the noise, reveal unfiltered truths about the H2 2025 outlook, and map the “smart money migration” to position participants for strategic advantage.
Beyond the Hype: Strategic Digital Asset Investing for a New Financial Era
The financial world is undergoing a profound transformation driven by Digital Assets. Learn why hundreds of billions are pouring into new digital infrastructure, with stablecoins now outperforming Mastercard/Visa in transaction volume. This article guides investors beyond the hype to strategic digital asset investing, exploring yield, DePIN, DeFi, and AI+Blockchain for the new financial era. Discover more at Venture & Capital SYDNEY 2025.
Trillion-Dollar Investment Convergence: Life Sciences, AI & Energy
Discover trillion-dollar investment opportunities at the intersection of Life Sciences, AI, and Energy Transition. This article explores why sophisticated investors are flocking to these sectors, driven by massive markets, government backing, and technological maturity. Learn what to expect at Venture & Capital Sydney 2025, where innovation meets strategic capital for the next decade of wealth creation.
Company Updates
Steve Torso on Why Brevity Wins in Capital Raising
In the relentless pursuit of investment, founders often believe more information equates to more persuasion. However, according to Steve Torso, Co-founder and Managing Director at CapitalHQ and Wholesale Investor, the science of successful capital raising dictates a counter-intuitive approach: less is more, especially in the initial stages. “When you’re actually communicating your business, you’ve got […]
Wholesale Investor and CapitalHQ Sign Exclusive Master Licence with inQ Innovation Global to Provide Access to India’s High-Growth Startup Market
Wholesale Investor and inQ Innovation have forged a strategic partnership, granting global investors direct access to India’s rapidly expanding innovation ecosystem. This exclusive three-year agreement leverages CapitalHQ’s technology to streamline fundraising for Indian startups and expand deal flow for WI’s 45,000-strong investor network, aligning with India’s 2030 Vision for economic growth and innovation.
EBR Systems: Aussie Medtech Ready to Disrupt $3.6B Heart Failure Market with Leadless Pacemaker
Andrew Shute, Senior Vice President of Business Development at EBR Systems, is confident that his Australian medical device company is poised to make a significant impact on the global cardiac rhythm management market. The focus? A novel leadless pacemaker designed to revolutionise treatment for heart failure patients. After years of development and rigorous clinical trials, […]
Why Digital Assets Like Bitcoin Are Demanding Portfolio Attention
Edward Carroll, Edward Carroll, Head of Global Markets & Corporate Finance at MHC Digital Group, delivered a compelling message at the Emergence event: the era of dismissing digital assets as a mere speculative fad is definitively over. What was once a fringe movement, encompassing cryptocurrencies and broader blockchain-based technologies, has matured into an “unstoppable force” […]
Are Aussie Female Founders Being Left Behind?
Key Takeaways: Despite a vibrant early-stage ecosystem, Australian startups with female founders are encountering significant headwinds when it comes to securing larger, later-stage funding rounds, according to the latest “Cut Through Quarterly Q1 2025 Australian Startup Funding” report. The data reveals a concerning dip in the overall proportion of capital directed towards ventures with female […]
Tony Seba’s “Stellar Abundance” – A Roadmap for Strategic Investment in the Next Exponential Growth Era
In a recent conversation with Herbert Ong on the “Brighter with Herbert” YouTube channel, visionary author and co-founder of RethinkX and Stellar, Tony Seba, outlines a profoundly ambitious and positive outlook on the future, making recent market analyses of substantial changes seem comparatively minor. While the focus often remains on the growing opportunities within specific […]
Venture Investor Interviews
Moving to Venture Investing 3.0
The next ten years are going to be the most disruptive – and potentially the most profitable – in the history of venture capital. Learn what technologies and techniques you need to adopt in order to become a successful, next-generation private market investor from this keynote presentation by Hatcher+ Managing Partner John Sharp. Looking for […]
Investing in DeepTech for the Non-Technical Investors
When investing in DeepTech, understanding how to analyse the financials of a business can only take you so far. It is the investors who are able to conduct technological analysis that perform best. This is sometimes out of reach for investors with a non-technical background. If you’re a non-technical investor, watch this panel session as […]
What You Need to Know about ESG Investing
ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. It makes up for factors that form part of any new or existing venture analysis. Investors are increasingly considering these factors as part of their analysis, especially on the institutional/VC side. Because of this, it is important to have a grasp on what exactly ESG entails, and how […]
Venture Investing in a Recession
Public markets are correcting, VC money is drying up and investors are as prudent as ever. Surrounded by these signs of a depressed market, investors in the process of deploying capital may need to change their methods of analysis and deal structure in order to ensure proper entry prices. Watch this panel session as seasoned […]
This Mobile Health Education App Aims to Address Nurses Shortage, Skills Gap in Africa
By 2030, there is a projected shortfall of 1.4 million nurses in Africa. Yangama Jokwiro, Director & Senior Lecturer at VAKA Health Foundation & La Trobe University, has developed a mobile health education app to help close this skill gap so nurses in under-resourced contacts can provide the best care possible. At present, almost 30,000 […]
Capitalizing on Megatrends in Public Markets
Often, public markets host technology-based companies that are riding the waves of megatrends and therefore deliver remarkable returns. However, identifying these trends, then assessing the businesses within them, is a task that takes some sophistication and experience. Watch this panel as we explore the ins and outs of capitalising on these megatrends in public markets […]
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