The new Aotearoa lead of Australasia’s biggest VC firm
Phoebe Harrop, the new local lead for Blackbird VC, joins Simon Pound to dig into what makes a good VC investment, what makes a great founder and how does NZ stack up against Australia?
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Show Notes
Blackbird VC recently netted $800m from a sale of a portion of their holding in Canva. They are, by some distance, the largest and one of the most successful VC firms in Australasia. In Aotearoa they have backed Tracksuit, Veve, Partly and Halter and their work to lift up the venture ecosystem includes Sunrise, Startmate and the Giants programme. Phoebe Harrop is the new local lead, with a background in consulting at Bain, working for Al Gore’s investment firm Generation and a few years growing the business in NZ. She joins Simon Pound to dig into what makes a good VC investment, what makes a great founder and how does NZ stack up against Australia?
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