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, [...]
We’re happy to announce that Dealised have raised $5.3m From Singtel Innov8 and Yuuwa Big congrats to the Dealised team in Pollenizer for an amazing year. From starting the company to growing some great customers and now closing this funding from excellent investors, it’s a hard job, done well. Hat’s off to Oliver, Andy, Serdar, Kevin, [...]
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, [...]
“We’re 99% there,” says the very excited entrepreneur. “Fantastic, well done. Only 50% of the way to go,” responds the veteran advisor. We often laugh at this at Pollenizer. It’s something we hear lots of people say when they are starting a new web business, establishing a new partnership, closing a sale or raising investment [...]
