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Sophie Taylor started her career as a corporate lawyer in the intellectual property team at K&L Gates. Now, she is Chief of Staff at Blackbird Ventures.

Anna Turvoll began her career at Goldman Sachs as an Analyst. Now, she is COO at v2food.

Anna Prell was a corporate lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills. Now she is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Forage.

‍In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, a butterfly flaps its wings, and across the globe a poor business decision is made. Good decisions are at the heart of business success, however today most businesses cannot afford to spend hours contemplating the “right” decision.

Syndicates can benefit founders who are unable to secure much-needed capital at their earliest stages and angel investors who may not be able to access the cap table directly.

As we conclude our third Fellowship cohort (first women-only cohort), we are catching up with the Fellows to share their experience of the program. Hear from Nicole Meaker.

Before the fellowship Simone was a Senior Product Manager at water monitoring and management company, Farmbot. Now she’s the Chief of Staff at Number 8 Bio – a synthetic biology start-up.

Prachi was working as a research fellow at a think tank at the time of the fellowship and is now working as a policy/financial analyst at the ACT Treasury.

Sam has spent most of her career to date working operations in and around small businesses, from being the general manager of a rum bar at 23 to rolling out full ops systems and processes across Jamie Oliver's Australian restaurants, to a tech and agile scaleup sized consultancy.

Magda was a Data Scientist in Poland before moving to Syndey to become a Data Scientist at Cloud infrastructure company, Kablamo.