(”Kesh”)
About me.
Partner @ Stoic VC; an early stage venture fund solving our world’s most intractable problems by a) Redesigning human health b) supercharging compute c) rebalancing the earth. To do this, we partner with Uniseed – commercialisation body managing 65% of Australia R&D output. I currently sit on a few committees including Uniseed, Antler and NSW government’s Biosciences fund. Prior to this, I spent a few years investing personally, at other funds, fundraising for startups and building my own telehealth business. When I’m not investing or recovering from sporting injuries, I love to write – both in music and blogging. Drop me a line.
What I do.
Hoffman lays it out best:
…..venture capital investing is an exercise in “predictive anthropology.” We’re forecasting what the landscape of market demand, competition, and products/services will look like in the future.
Truths.
- Curiosity has a longer shelf life than passion.
- Surprise is a necessary condition of beauty.
- Cut your frenemies.
- In a hyper-optimised and frictionless world, find a few things you care about.
- Don’t do stupid things. Nothing compounds more over time.
Low +ve | High +ve | |
Low -ve | Acquaintances: indifferent | Friends: consistently supportive |
High -ve | Enemies: consistently undermining | Frenemies: ambivalent |
Personal Bets.
- Paraform ; First money
- Inventia Life Science ; not when everyone else did
- Diagnose-io ; pre-seed
- O3 ; pre-seed
- Nextgen Ventures ; Fund I
- Stealth Thought-Speech BCI ; first money
- Stealth AI Music Therapeutic ; first money
Progress.
Age: 26
Adjusted Age: 45