Two Tractor Ventures OGs have teamed as much as assist deeptech founders with their funding plans.
Warwick Donaldson’s CapXcentric has partnered with GROUP GROUP, the brand new specialist advisory and storytelling curation agency based by Garry Williams.
CapXcentric helps Australian know-how startups entry funding on the very best phrases, from essentially the most acceptable traders.
works with a variety of firms primarily with a basis in commercialising analysis in science and engineering, together with life sciences, agriculture, power, local weather tech, cybersecurity, AI, area and aerospace, superior supplies, robotics, {hardware}, and quantum computing.
Williams stated the companies the collaboration gives vary from capital elevate preparation and execution; investor negotiations, and knowledgeable insights.
Between them Donaldson and Williams have beforehand labored on greater than 150 capital raises price $400 million, plus and $50 billion in debt.
Williams stated working with Donaldson at Tractor Ventures provides them a powerful understanding of one another’s strengths in capital elevating.
“I’ve long taken an interest in his unique and incredibly specialised ability to help this whole fundraise process make sense for deeptech founders,” he stated.
“He’s informed based on his previous experience of doing the thing, and to me, he provides the right kind of advisory for those founders to succeed, and scale.”
Williams stated he’s noticed 1000’s of periods of founder advisory “and availability heuristic is most definitely a real thing” with advisors “leaning on the first example that comes to mind” to supply judgments and make selections.
‘So I’ve lengthy discovered it very refreshing to watch Warwick at work, offering financially technical however commonsense recommendation for founders on how they obtain their mission, which is effectively researched and complete,” he stated.
‘I guess, we each reject the notions of poor and compromised advice in the technology world for founders. So, like a moth to a flame, I’m veering in direction of a collaboration with Warwick to collaborate on content material and brand-building efforts, in order that he can proceed to supply the advisory and framework that deeptech founders must execute their capital elevate, through CapXcentric, and his publication ‘The Aussie Startup Capital Nerd.’
Williams was the primary worker at Tractor Ventures, taking care of their model, advertising and marketing and engagement, because the alt capital supplier scaled dramatically within the ANZ market latest years. This yr he determined to launch GROUP GROUP as a specialist advisory and storytelling curation hybrid, focussed on the overlap between know-how, tradition and capital.
CapXcentric founder Warwick Donaldson
CapXcentric founder Warwick Donaldson stated he’s labored on greater than 150 startup fundraises.
“I’ve always placed the utmost importance on providing founders with the best possible advice to be able to fundraise most effectively,” he stated.
“My best work is with deeptech companies. These founders work on incredibly complex solutions, often with highly technical financial requirements included. Helping unlock crucial investor partnerships for these founders is what I pride myself on, and love doing as they have positive impacts on the world.”
Donaldson stated working with Williams at GROUP GROUP “is a strategically aligned growth exercise, and we have the same beliefs when it comes to quality advisory services, in the founders favour.”
