Pollenizer has raised $500,000 for a seed fund it will use to invest in early stage Australian start-ups. Pollenizer co-founder Mick Liubinskas said he hoped to have invested all the money by June next year, with investments between $10,000 and $100,000. A key difference from other venture firms is that Pollenizer joins as a co-founder, [...]
A guest blog post by Alan Jones. More below. Think it takes millions of dollars, an MBA and a few board seats to become a VC? You’d be wrong to think so. I’ll tell you why, but first, answer this question: what is a startup? We’d probably agree that startups are lean, cash-poor, energy-rich adventures, [...]
My name is Alan Jones, and that’s been a heavy burden to bear for most of my adult life because of the notoriously tetchy radio personality and F1 race driver of the same name. Now Pollenizer has an Alan Jones of its very own. And that Alan Jones is me. This week I’ve joined Pollenizer [...]
