Gavin Appel & Rebecca Eastwood

Gavin and Bex make it their business to know everything going on in technology, startups and venture capital.

Gavin is the Founder and CEO of Ignition Lane. He has 25 years of experience in the technology industry across startups, corporates and venture capital. Gavin was a founding Partner at venture capital firm Square Peg, an SVP of Product and Technology at Experian, and was one of the first employees and CTO at Hitwise - a venture-backed startup that was acquired for US$240m in 2007.

Bex is a founding Partner at Ignition Lane. Driven by curiosity, her career is the epitome of unconventional - spanning technology commercialisation and operations, corporate law, IT delivery and more. Applying this unique mix of skills and experience, she now works with CEOs and their teams to solve problems, drive growth and move beyond the status quo.

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Doom dressed as Zoom, black(out) Thursday for AWS, Stripe’s valuation and the Eureka Awards winners

- November 29, 2020 8 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday at… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: From tech to table, the Paypal mafia, and Who Gives a Crap for millionaires

- November 23, 2020 8 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday at… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Frenzied clicks, Hipages lists, Apple’s M1 chip and Seek turns 23

- November 16, 2020 8 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday at… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Cicada Innovations at 20, Ant float on hold, Nestle buys Freshly, Booktopia’s IPO

- November 9, 2020 8 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday at… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: A new type of unicorn, the rise of tech titans, the Southpark team seeks justice

- November 1, 2020 6 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday at… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: MyDeal and Adore hit the ASX, the Future Fund takes a hit on Quibi

- October 25, 2020 4 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Twilio’s tear on Segment acquisition, JigSpace hits the big Apple, Canva adds 10m users

- October 18, 2020 7 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday at… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: The ‘Gram turns 10, Facebook bans QAnon, Nura gets into gaming

- October 12, 2020 8 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday at… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Stripe’s pipe, billion dollar shoes and marketplace listings

- October 4, 2020 8 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday at… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Gerry goes online, Airbnb turns 13, Tesla powers up

- September 27, 2020 7 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday at… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Cards on the millennial table, famous investment memos, Vend turns 10

- September 13, 2020 9 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every Monday at… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Zoom boom, Redbubble hits unicorn, Rocket Lab takes off

- September 6, 2020 7 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.  This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday morning. Don’t forget that every… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Salesforce blazes, everyone lists, CEOs quit

- August 30, 2020 6 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane‘s Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world. We work with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems. So we make it our business to know everything about technology, startups and venture… Read more »

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Ignition Lane’s weekly wrap: Apple hits $2T, Google’s fights, Sendle delivers

- August 23, 2020 7 MIN READ

Welcome to Ignition Lane‘s Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world. We work with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems. So we make it our business to know everything about technology, startups and venture… Read more »

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