John Henderson@johnhenderson
The past year has been one of my hardest ... and proudest. After many (many!) hours on planes, I'm thrilled to announce we've closed our latest $650m set of funds. The big news is that over half of it comes from tier 1 global LPs.
This is a huge moment for the Australian startup ecosystem. The same investors who back the likes of Sequoia and Accel in the US are now supporting Aussies and Kiwis just getting started. We've spent more hours than I can count educating them on what our local backers have known for a decade: ANZ is producing truly world class disruptors at an ever increasing rate. Their participation in our ecosystem is great for founders and also other funds as the floodgates will no doubt open up from here.
Massive thanks to my team mates for the good times (and tough times) working together on this in far flung parts of the world and huge congrats to Airtree's new Principals (👏 @sidkasbekar, @RaajRayat, @dancoughlan_ ). Deep gratitude also to our existing backers for supporting us again and, most importantly, the founders of Airtree's 125 portfolio companies whose performance made all of this possible.
If you're building the next @Canva, @Linktree_ , @go1com , @airwallex, @EmploymentHero, @acloudguru, @PetCircleau, @Immutable, or @SafetyCultureHQ ... I'd love to chat! ft.com/content/8eb0d3…
