As published in Investor Daily, 20 April 2020 In the last 25 years there have been four global economic shocks (19 October 1987, November 2000, 9 March 2009, and now), with the 1997 Asian debt crisis and Australia’s recession in 1994 being localised events. The lessons learned by investors during…

In our post Calling out to the Fearless, we asked: What will the world look like in another 10 years? Who will build the next great startups — the next ‘Atlassian’? And who will fund these opportunities? The answers to these questions are in front of us. One of the…

Every year in July we send out a detailed annual letter to our investors indicating what we’ve done in the prior year and what we expect to do in the coming year. …

In the constant flow of the next-biggest-deal news cycle, it’s easy to forget that we are still in the early days of venture capital in Australia. In comparison to more mature global ecosystems like in the US, Australia’s VC ecosystem is just ‘five minutes’ into a much longer supercycle. Australian…

Eighteen months ago, we invested in a founder who had the vision to provide better access to life-changing clinical trials for patients globally. Over this time, HealthMatch has emerged from a founder vision and a product in testing to a company that counts thousands of patients globally and exclusive partnerships…

In the year 2019, the delivery of critical pharmaceuticals and pathology is still tied to old-world transport such as single-engine boats, fixed-wing aircraft, and the humble Hyundai i30 that we’ve seen in urban centres, replete with a foam esky in the back. In spite of the great Hyundai-Esky innovation, one-third…

At Tempus Partners we focus on identifying great founders building unique companies — period. And with that comes a desire and a need to embrace people and ideas regardless of a team’s backgrounds, races, genders, identities, religions and ideologies. In fact, within Tempus Partners we ask that each team member…

Each one of us will encounter minor ailments throughout our lifetime, and unfortunately many of us will also encounter more serious and life threatening illnesses. In each instance we will be prescribed medication and drug treatments that have passed through a complex and highly regulated 4-stage trial process. …

Crime (broadly) is a crippling social and economic problem, which society has ultimately come to accept and minimise in the absence of an inability to eliminate it. In retail and online environments, theft is an accepted cost of doing business. Theft is factored into standard operating practice, it is an…