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If think the Australian startup scene is small you should see the size of the investor pool! Every event is like going to a wedding. I was at the Sydney final presentation and some interesting starts in this cohort. I am already an investor in SmartrMail (great team and product), but I thought Nightingale and EverProof were very interesting too.
>Every event is like going to a wedding. If you think Sydney investors are a tiny minority then try Melbourne. I stopped going to any startup events because I have become all too familiar with all the investors. We got selected for "unpitch" in Victoria and cursory glance at investors revealed that I already met all the investors multiple times before
Try Canberra. The scene is small and cargo-culty to the extreme. Half of every pitch event is untested, unmarketable products - usually some bored public servant with a slap-dash ecomerse site.