SYD VENTURES

We go on lots of dates with entrepreneurs from all over the world, making sure we're not missing out on new and exciting opportunities. Like in any good relationship, choosing the right partner can be tricky. Although we are approached with hundreds of pitches every year, we only invest in a handful of teams who meet our stringent criteria. We are looking for passionate, creative, stimulating, and innovative teams, and most importantly, ones who we believe are capable of executing their vision successfully. As we're specializing at the early stages, frankly, quite often we don't really have a clue if we've made the right call or not, but once we've decided, we simply take the leap of faith and work for the best... We only invest in companies who we believe we can contribute real value to. This is why the interest of the startup company is at the top of our priorities, and our term-sheets clearly reflect this. For example, we don't take preferred shares and we ask the founders to sign..