About Us

Who are we?

Brisbane Strategy Ventures (SV BNE) is a Venture Studio, located in Brisbane with personnel and resources in Brisbane, Melbourne, Austin, and New York. We are a deep technology venture studio, which is now working on a third cohort of projects and companies. As such, our core role is in commercialisation, exclusively focused on validating and advancing technology in the fields of automation, robotics, and communications. Our team primarily works to advance spin outs and action spin ups for corporations and institutions. As a Corporate Venture Studio, we have built companies from idea to execution, including technical communications, robotics, and AI related software and hardware concepts. Each year, we work with a small cohort of spin outs and spin ups.

 

For corporations and institutions, we help build companies that are fundamentally fundable, and under certain circumstances we take equity in companies. We also act on behalf of a Delaware LLC which invests in spin ups. Our team leverages a global long-standing network of engineers, venture capitalists, strategic venture, and researchers to validate, translate, and capitalise technology that we deem as valuable at the onset, building mass saturation potential for the technology, through a well-planned seed round. We can participate on our own account in both pre-seed and seed transactions.

Why Is This Our Passion?

From the onset, we wanted to turn the 20+ years of experience of the founders, into traction and track record, through each of our cohorts. We wanted to build on local ecosystems, leverage our experts, build companies, fund companies, and follow their path, exploring forms of ownership and strategy work. We now take small amounts of equity 3-6% at the outset, up to 9% of cash investment, focusing on building visibility toward B round. The key to our thesis is that the technology must be validated, and supporting teams brought in as needed with a supporting and collaborative deeply knowledge capital constituency. We model success and we believe that the technology differentiation and partners are key at the outset.

Meet the Team

The team brings some great experience in venture, with broad exposure to start-up, growth, operations, finance, and successfully spinning out and spinning up companies. The venture building team and a deep panel of global technical advisors, and network, are sector specific. 

 

The team focuses on robotics, artificial intelligence and communications deep technology spin outs from institutions and corporations.

Director

Bipin Manuel

bipin@brisbaneventures.com

Director

Lisa Lombardi

lisa@llaw.com.au

Associate

Cormac Doyle

cormac@brisbaneventures.com

Analyst

Cole Suter

cole@brisbaneventures.com

Analyst

Nick Miller

nick@brisbaneventures.com

Analyst

Chantal Duffy

chantal@brisbaneventures.com

Advisor

Elliot Duff

Advisor

Mark Askey

Advisor

Gary Morgan

Advisor

James O'Brien

Advisor

Hong Tran

Advisor

Rakshit Kejriwal

Advisor

John Tsoucalas

Advisor

Luke Nesci