

E84 - Dan Phillips, Macquarie Capital
May 20, 2020
53:37
Dan Phillips has spent most of his career building up Macquarie Capital's Venture Capital Group. Somewhat of a well-kept secret in the Australian startup ecosystem, in the past 25 years the Venture Capital Group has done 36 deals and deployed almost $600 million dollars of capital into some fantastic companies. The group has 11 companies currently in the portfolio.
In this pod interview, Ian and Dan discuss:
-The implications of COVID for Australian startups
-Some success stories from the past 25 years
-How their hands-on investing model works
-The sectors and geographies the group focuses on
-The strategies that lead to a 90%+ success rate with investments
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