E91 - Tom Humphrey, Access Venture Partners

Tom Humphrey is an experienced Aussie entrepreneur and Partner at Access Ventures, a venture capital fund based in Denver, Colorado that invests in early stage technology companies. Before joining Access, Tom helped grow two successful startups, OurDeal and Kanopy. He was COO of OurDeal, a “group-buying” ecommerce website in Australia and helped scale the business to a successful exit to News Corp. Tom was also COO/Director of Sales of Kanopy, a B2B video streaming platform that he saw through an exit to L2 Capital in 2018, delivering a 14x return to investors.

In Phaedon's conversation with Tom, the two cover:

• The story of building Kanopy with his sister Olivia

• How Tom managed rapid growth when OneDeal scaled from 8 employees to 80+ in a year

• The segments and markets Tom is excited to invest in

• Qualities Tom looks for in a founder

• The value of partnering with a VC

• Why he lives in Colorado instead of San Francisco