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First Audience Q&A, Top Startup News, Crypto & Awards 🎧
New episodes from Day One podcasts for startup enthusiasts.
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August 12, 2024
⚡ DayOne.fm Updates ⚡
Listen to the latest and biggest startup funding news headlines on The Startup Retro with co-hosts from Overnight Success, Gemma Clancy & Will Richards.
Get an insider view into early-stage investing decision-making on First Cheque’s first audience Q&A episode with co-hosts Cheryl Mack & Maxine Minter.
Understand the latest crypto trends on FinTechFun with host Chris Titley interviewing Vakul Talwar from Crypto.com.
🚀 Funds, Acquisitions & Insights with The Startup Retro 🚀
Each week, The Startup Retro uncovers the narratives behind the capital raises, celebrates major wins, and explores significant developments reshaping Aussie startups.
For the past two weeks, co-hosts Gemma Clancy and Will Richards have dived into the latest startup fundraises, VC fund data, and other useful resources for the Aussie startup scene.
EP7: OneVentures' 7th fund, Accelerator Cohorts & Google Monopoly Ruling
 | Listen to this episode for updates on the ambitious founders within the new accelerator cohorts at Remarkable and Startmate, review the impact of OneVentures as they target a $200 million 7th fund, understand a new US court ruling that Google has an illegal monopoly, and learn the regular KaaS and the startup fundraising features of the week. |
EP6: Canva’s AI Buy, SAVCF Report & BFF Grant Axed
 | Listen to this episode to delve into Canva’s acquisition of Leonardo.AI and listen to an interview with Elli Hanson from Side Stage Ventures, one of Leonardo’s investors. Also discussed is the South Australian Venture Capital Fund and the state government’s report on its effectiveness, as well as the axing of federal government’s Boosting Female Founders (BFF) grant program. |
Listen to the latest episodes to stay up to date with the big news and current trends for Aussie startups.
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âť“ First Audience Q&A Deep Dive âť“
First Cheque exists to share some of the most interesting and informative early-stage investing conversations in Australia, and around the world.
"Owning a tiny bit of a company doesn’t mean that you can’t generate a great return." - Maxine Minter
In this episode, co-hosts Cheryl Mack and Maxine Minter turn the tables on themselves and go deep into answering audience questions about early-stage investing submitted by readers of the Overnight Success and Capital Brief newsletters.
 | In the episode, Cheryl and Maxine dive into their process and thoughts on early-stage investing including: the importance of secondaries, building strong founder-investor relationships, navigating high valuations, insights on gender diversity, and lessons from their anti-portfolio - their biggest missed investment opportunities. |
Listen to the episode for more honest insights into the life of early-stage investors.
First Cheque is supported by our wonderful sponsors.
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🏆 Startup Daily Awards 🏆
Want to celebrate some of the top leaders in tech? Join Startup Daily for the Best in Tech Awards - an event to celebrate startups and their ambitious operators.
The Best In Tech awards are a major celebration of the innovation, impact and diversity of the Aussie tech startup and scaleup community. A big congratulations to all finalists for the 15 different awards!
First Cheque Podcast co-host Cheryl Mack from Aussie Angels is nominated for the Airwallex supported Industry Champion Award and was nominated alongside industry leaders Vicki Stirling, Emily Casey and Dickie Currer.
Day One is supporting The GSD Award with some incredible organisations in the running: Birchal, Tank Stream Labs, Cut Through Venture and LaunchVic.
 | Join the gala awards ceremony and dinner in Sydney to celebrate the innovation, impact and diversity of Australia’s tech startup and scaleup community. |
đź“… Wednesday 4 September 2024
đź“Ť Ivy Ballroom by Merivale, 320 George St, Sydney
đź’Ľ Unfunded & Independent đź’Ľ
Unfunded celebrates the underdog spirit and innovation outside the conventional funding pathways. Listen to stories from founders and operators who share their stories of grit and ingenuity to build startups on their terms.
Unfunded has a huge interview release coming this week!
Follow the Unfunded podcast on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to download the episode as soon as it’s released on Fridays.
Catch up on previous interviews with: Sheree Rubinstein from One Roof, Lucy Lloyd from Mentorloop, Aaron Cowper from ShopGrok, and Steve Scheding, from Green Atlas.
📲 Getting into Crypto on FinTechFun 📲
The tech visionary and powerhouse behind Sub11, Chris Titley hosts insightful interviews with finance founders and executive leaders deep-diving into the Aussie FinTech scene - all with a sprinkle of fun.
"Australians love technology and there's a huge investment and interest from Australians in cryptocurrencies." - Vakul Talwar
Listen to this week’s episode of FinTechFun with host Chris Titley interviewing Vakul Talwar, General Manager of Australia and Head of Product at Crypto.com - Aussie’s leading crypto platform where you can buy 350+ cryptocurrencies. Vakul discusses his professional journey, his experiences at notable FinTech companies (including General Electric, PayPal, and Afterpay), and his focus in his current role fostering crypto adoption locally.
 | Listen to the episode to learn more about: rapid rising adoption of cryptocurrency with a predicted 700 million users by the end of the year, operating in 130 markets, introducing the ability to pay for everyday items with crypto around AUS, and their future plans to solve consumer problems with new products - includ. a trading platform for high-net-worth individuals. |
Listen to the episode to learn more from Vakul about the latest movements in crypto.
Catch up on previous episodes with FinTech experts: Danny Pezeshki - Instantia, Anson Parker - Up, Jordan Lawrence - Volt, Daniel Kniaz - Weel, Linda Coker - Co-Operty, Jeremy Hastings - Hutly.
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