Ian Gardiner's Investment Thesis | Investment Thesis with Kali Norman
Jelix Ventures Partner and Innovation Bay Co-Founder Ian Gardiner has spent more than two decades living every side of the startup table.
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Investment Thesis
with Kali Norman
Building an investment thesis from the ground up — one conversation at a time.
About the show
Host Kali Norman invites listeners to join her on her journey as a startup investor, as she builds her own investment thesis from the ground up—learning directly from experienced investors who have already defined (and redefined) theirs.
Through candid, structured conversations, Kali uncovers the thinking, frameworks, and experiences that shape the way money moves in early- and growth-stage investing.
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Building an investment thesis from the ground up — one conversation at a time.
Kali Norman
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Ian Gardiner's Investment Thesis | Investment Thesis with Kali Norman
Jelix Ventures Partner and Innovation Bay Co-Founder Ian Gardiner has spent more than two decades living every side of the startup table.
Mick Liubinskas' Investment Thesis
Climate Salad founder Mick Liubinskas has spent more than 25 years obsessing over one thing: backing incredible people. From building one of Australia's first online business databases in 1998, to the dot-com crash, to co-founding Pollenizer, Mick has built…
Katharine Giles of Brandon Capital - The Investment Thesis Behind Backing Life Sciences
Katharine Giles started her career as a doctor, but quickly realised that life on the medical frontline wasn’t the path she wanted to stay on.
Don McKenzie's Investment Thesis
Kali Norman sits down with Don McKenzie, Co-Founder of Tribe Ventures, to unpack how his investment thesis has evolved over more than two decades of angel investing and company building.
Alex Khor's Investment Thesis
Kali Norman builds her investment thesis with Alex Khor, co-founder of AfterWork Ventures — on pricing risk, backing founders, and why optimists make money.
Alan Jones of M8 Ventures - Distribution barriers and backing founders you want to be mates with
Veteran angel investor and M8 Ventures co-founder Alan Jones joins host Kali Norman to unpack his 20-year investing journey
Rohan Workman of Skalata — Backing overlooked founders as AI rewrites the thesis
Skalata Ventures co-founder and CEO Rohan Workman joins host Kali Norman to unpack a thesis built on backing overlooked founders — capital-lean companies with a defensible edge, founders who can read a balance sheet and ship an MVP, and che
Taryn Pieterse of Rampersand — How a VC backs early-stage founders
Rampersand partner Taryn Pieterse joins host Kali Norman to unpack how she backs early-stage founders — from A$250K–A$2M first cheques to the founder traits she screens for (grit, execution, balanced
Episode Five: Dan Coughlan's Investment Thesis
Podcast host Kali invites listeners to join her as she builds her own investment thesis from the ground up—learning directly from experienced investors who have already defined (and redefined) theirs.
Episode Four: Maxine Minter's Investment Thesis
In this session, we sit down with investor and founder Maxine Minter.
Jodie Imam's Investment Thesis
Kali Norman sits down with Jodie Imam, co-founder and CEO of Tractor Ventures, which provides revenue-based financing so companies can grow without diluting ownership.
Elaine Stead's Investment Thesis
Elaine Stead is a Principal at Main Sequence, with a focus on the “Humanity Scale Healthcare” challenge.
Matt Macfarlane's Investment Thesis
In this session, we sit down with investor Matt Macfarlane.
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Kali Norman
Head of Growth, Innovation Bay
Kali Norman is Head of Growth at Innovation Bay, which runs events, pitch nights and investor communities connecting tech founders with angel investors, venture capitalists and industry. She is also Head of Programming for West Tech Fest, the technology festival held each year in Perth and Fremantle.
She previously worked at Spacecubed in Perth as a senior manager, focused on building its community in the Perth CBD and regional centres.
On Day One she hosts Investment Thesis with Kali Norman, in which she builds her own investment thesis through structured conversations with experienced investors about how they back early- and growth-stage companies.
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