Before the Data, After the Data: How Conviction Gets Built at Pre-Seed and Growth

​A conversation with Maxine Minter (Co Ventures) & Jessica Huang Pouleur (Openspace Capital) + networking.

​Maxine Minter founded Co Ventures, Australia's first dedicated pre-seed fund, and was the first solo GP in Australia. She writes first cheques, sometimes before there's even a product.

​Jessica Huang Pouleur is General Partner at Openspace Capital, where she leads the growth equity strategy across a multi-strategy platform with over US$800M committed and offices in six Southeast Asian markets. She spent a decade at Providence Equity Partners and ran corporate strategy for Disney across APAC before moving into growth investing, and co-chairs the Singapore chapter of the Private Equity Women Investor Network.

​One invests before there is anything to measure. The other invests once there is twenty years of it. We're interested in where that leads them to see the same company differently.

​The conversation will cover what is getting funded across APAC and Australia right now and what has quietly stalled, how you build conviction with no data to point at, and what changes when the discipline shifts from judgement to diligence. There will be time on LP management for the investors in the room. Networking will follow.

​Moderated by Toby Berger, Southeast Asia Chair, XA Network.

​Hosted by Co Ventures, XA Network & Airwallex.