The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal Vidit Agarwal

Phoebe is a Partner in Blackbird’s NZ team with investments in Tracksuit, VeVe and Carepatron. Prior to joining Blackbird, she was a Director in the Growth Equity fund at Generation (Al Gore's Growth Equity Fund).

David is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Blackbird NZ and previously an early employee at Angel List, Carta, and 500 Startups. He then built and led the global education startup + founder community “On Deck” as CEO, raising over $100M from some of the world's top investors.

They both hail from New Zealand and have lived/worked in London, San Fransisco, New York and Melbourne.

This episode is brought to you by KPMG High Growth Ventures and Curiosity Center, and hosted by Vidit Agarwal.

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Craig Blair is the Co-Founder and Partner at Airtree, a globally recognised Venture Capital firm with $1B+ funds under management.

Before AirTree, he was a partner at Netus, a venture fund with a global top decile track record. He has also been a founder of three software businesses -- two of which were successful and one of which was a painful learning experience.

Craig was born in Ontario, Canada and now lives in Sydney, Australia.

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Adam Jones and Ringo Thomas are the Co-Founders of CLT Toolbox, a software company building solutions for structural engineers and architects that radically simplifies the process for designing with zero- and low-carbon materials.

Did you know — Buildings are currently responsible for 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions?!

Adam is the CEO and Ringo is the Chief Commercial Officer. Adam hails from Melbourne, and Ringo from NZ — and they’re now based in Melbourne, Australia with customers in various markets including Australia, Europe and the US.

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Alasdair is Executive Chairman of Macdoch, a private investment company with offices in Sydney and London. Macdoch comprises of Macdoch Ventures, investing in early stage tech startups, Macdoch Agriculture using capital to drive global climate solutions and the Macdoch foundation.

Al was previously a senior leader at Newscorp for over 20 years and fun fact: he is married to one of Rupert Murdoch’s daughters.

Al was born in Glasgow, Scotland and now splits his time between Sydney and London.

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Jillian Broadbent is one of the leading Business and Industry minds, with extensive investment banking industry knowledge and markets expertise, including a deep knowledge of risk management and regulation. She has served on the boards of many organisations, encompassing finance, the arts, and other sectors.

She is currently a Member of the Board of Macquarie Group, and previously Coca Cola, Qantas, Woolworths, Reserve Bank of Australia. She was Chancellor of the University of Wollongong for 11 years up until late 2020. In 2019, she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia for her contribution to corporate, financial, clean energy and cultural organisations, to higher education and to women in business.

Jillian was born and lives in Sydney. She has also lived in Canada and Bolivia.

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Connor is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Tracksuit. Tracksuit provides always-on, beautiful tracking to measure brand health. Tracksuit today covers 1,300 brands including many household names and recently raised $20M dollars in funding from leading investors to fuel their next phase of Growth.

Connor co-founded Tracksuit in 2021 after five years of scaling kiwi growth companies in NYC. He brings deep experience running and growing martech, saas, and direct-to-consumer businesses having been COO of Mish Guru and Head of B2B and Business Development for Noissue. Connor started his career as a corporate lawyer and found his way to startups after raising a fund to launch Auckland’s first accelerator program, Lightning Lab.

Connor was born in California, USA and now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

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