Community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Aus and NZ. Tweeting to demystify early-stage VC investing and spotlight ANZ startups.

Joined March 2021
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HELLO WORLD! Today marks our official public launch! To celebrate the occasion, a 🧵on who we are and where we’ve come from.
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Excited to be part of the Reverse Pitch Night series run by @vidags10 featuring @EVP_VC @AfterWorkVC @blackbirdvc hosted by @hidovetail where we’ll be lifting the lid of which VCs you should chat to for your next raise 👀
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What. a. crew. Great to bring together the AfterWork crew and the @AfterNauts for our inaugural NAUT FEST, and to partner with @airwallex to make it all happen!
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A big congratulations to our co-founders @alexjkhor and @adrianmpetersen for their recognition in Forbes 30 under 30 (lnkd.in/dSHgq6NV)!
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It’s been 1 month since we launched our #NFT project @AfterNauts, and the ingenuity and initiative shown by this group has been🤯 Better yet, the vast majority of projects and hijinks have been driven by the community - not the team. In the last month -
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What sets AfterWork Astronauts apart from other NFT projects is that most members are #web3 curious - rather than web3 natives. We’re proud to be many nauts’ first NFT - and the place which launched their exploration of the web3 galaxy
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If you’re thinking of dipping your toes into web3 - we’re still minting over at mint.afterwork.vc/ - the whole crew are excited to meet new ‘nauts, so jump onboard the voyage to the Kuiper Belt!

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AfterWork Ventures retweeted
🚨GIVEAWAY TIME 🚨 LIMITED EDITION: Custom Genesis Skull 🖤☠️ How to enter: -Tag 2 friends who NEED this in their wallet! -Use the #Skullish ☠️☠️☠️ -Retweet! READY, SET, GO!!!!!!!🚦
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NFTs and AfterWork have the same red-hot centre - community! Excited to preview our very own NFT project - Astronauts After Work, launching in January 2022. Read more about it here: afterwork.vc/astronauts
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This particular 'naut belongs to @FlintCasey!
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AfterWork Ventures retweeted
1) Start with why. Audience ≠ community. Don't start a group chat for your followers or customers and expect a healthy community to form! Be thoughtful - do these people need a place to connect? Or will your community be yet another Slack/Discord they check occasionally?
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Congratulations to Ripe Robotics for an awesome presentation at #startmatedemoday! We were stoked to invest in Ripe's seed round, read our investment notes afterworkreading.substack.co…

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#startmatedemoday is kicking off and @BradyFlockart is blowing the roof off already!
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In the last hundred years, there has been remarkably little innovation in deathcare services. We believe we're living through an inflection point. Several trends are converging, creating space for a wave of innovators in the death sector. afterworkreading.substack.co…

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Literally no one: Us: What would ANZ venture capital manifested into a tropical jungle look like? 🤔 Read our explainer on the VC asset class: afterworkreading.substack.co…
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1/ Today, upon reaching $10 million AUD in commitments, we have called a first close on our first ‘professional’ venture capital fund. Our first close comes precisely 155 days after March 15th - the day we said ‘Hello World!’ afr.com/technology/start-up-…
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Today’s milestone is not the celebration of an achievement, but a chance to recognise those who’ve helped us get to the starting line, and who stand here alongside us. Thank you for believing in us, even as our belief in ourselves sometimes wavered.
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Your belief is what has allowed us to turn what started after work into our life’s work.
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