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Blackbird, Zip’s Larry Diamond and Steve Baxter’s TEN13 back two teens with a fintech startup in a record $2.2 million seed round

Simon Thomsen - February 2, 2022 2 MIN READ

Two Brisbane teenagers tackling the ecommerce problem of abandoned carts for online sales have raised $2.2 million in the pre-seed funding for their fintech startup. Liam Millward, 18, and William Gao, 19, founded Instant in April 2021, to build the world’s simplest checkout experience. The record pre-seed raise, the country’s biggest, was led by Blackbird,… Read more »

Funding

Sneaker reselling marketplace PUSHAS raises $1.2 million pre-seed round

Simon Thomsen - October 15, 2021 2 MIN READ

Move over Banksy. While the anonymous UK street artist is grabbing headlines today after his semi-destroyed artwork, Love is in the Bin, sold for $34 million a Sydney sneaker marketplace has raised $1.2 million in a pre-seed round. PUSHAS was founded in 2017 by Justin Truong and Sandy Li and offers a secondary market for… Read more »

Investing

Steve Baxter’s syndicate VC TEN13 is on target to invest $100 million in just 3 years

Simon Thomsen - September 21, 2021 3 MIN READ

TEN13, the early-stage technology investment syndicate co-founded in 2019 by Steve Baxter, says it’s on track to deploy more than $100 million in its first three years of operation. The Queensland venture fund, which has a deal-by-deal model, has already raised and invested $30 million into 14 break-out technology companies across the globe including Australia’s… Read more »

Advice

The incredible story behind how Carted raised one of Australia’s largest seed rounds

Stew Glynn - September 17, 2021 9 MIN READ

Here’s the story of how Carted raised one of the largest seed rounds in Australian history and the strategy behind it. Holly and Mike from Carted ran the most effective fundraising campaign to gather support of world-class VCs with a record AU$13m Seed round. These headlines and deals don’t just happen, there is a process… Read more »

Advice

Steve Baxter reveals why he invested in Clipchamp, which is now being snapped up by Microsoft

Steve Baxter - September 9, 2021 6 MIN READ

Big news dropped this week – Brisbane based video editing platform, Clipchamp, was acquired by Microsoft. The following is part of a lovely note sent out to all shareholders by one of the founders, Alex Dreiling, when trying to use my own words as an intro – I failed to find better words, so I am using… Read more »

Advice

5 lessons Steve Baxter learned from 5 years on the board of Queensland tech unicorn Go1

Steve Baxter - August 13, 2021 3 MIN READ

It’s been 5 years on the board of Go1, last month they entered the unicorn club in Australia after raising $200m from Softbank and others. The Aussie startup space is humming. Each week there are new announcements on fundraising. Even better we are seeing exits as well in this space giving investors and, even better for… Read more »

Funding

A successful founder, now reinvesting in startups, explains why he likes Steve Baxter’s syndicate model

Rob McLeay - December 4, 2020 3 MIN READ

So much is written about the startup journey, but we don’t often talk about what comes next once you’ve left the business that has consumed so much of your life. When a founder launches a startup, they’re often laser focused on the problem they are trying to solve. In my case, following a chat with… Read more »

Funding

Steve Baxter’s TEN13 backed a $1.6m seed round in a book-keeping startup set to be the next Xero

Simon Thomsen - November 4, 2020 2 MIN READ

Freelancer and solo entrepreneur accounting platform Bookipi has raised $1.6 million in a seed round co-led by Sydney VC Our Innovation Fund and Steve Baxter’s investment syndicate TEN13. Bookipi, founded in 2017, is targeting the freelancer and micro SME sector with its book-keeping platform and already has a user base of more than 640,000 customers… Read more »

Funding

Steve Baxter’s seed fund TEN13 joins $1.8 million round into US audio platform Vurbl

Simon Thomsen - September 22, 2020 2 MIN READ

Steve Baxter’s investment syndicate TEN13 and LA-based angel investor Kate Vale, Google Australia’s first employee, are part of a US$1.3 million (AU$1.8m) seed round for audio platform Vurbl, which hopes to become the YouTube of audio. The startup, which is in beta and will launch before the end of the year also attracted support from LA… Read more »

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