Sydney Startup Office Hours - Gandel Invest x Tidal Vc x Black Nova
Founder Office Hours is an informal, small group session designed to give founders direct access to investors in a relaxed and open setting.
Whether you want feedback on your pitch, fundraising strategy, investor conversations, growth, positioning, or simply want to understand how investors think, bring your laptop and questions and we’ll talk through them together.
There’s no pitch competition and no formal presentation. Just an opportunity to sit down, ask questions, get practical feedback and meet other founders going through similar challenges.
Spaces will be kept intentionally small to make sure everyone gets time to participate.
Coffee’s on us. ☕
About Gandel Invest:
Gandel Invest is a family office with an international mandate and a portfolio of 40+ companies. We back innovative businesses that are reshaping industries and focus on building strong, long-term relationships with founders, teams, and co-investors. Beyond capital, we look to be a thoughtful partner and provide support where it’s most meaningful as companies scale.
About Tidal Ventures:
Tidal is a thesis-led venture fund backing the founders building AI-native Systems of Work. Software used to support the work. Now it does the work. The shift is generational, and the companies that get there first will own the categories they create. We invest across Australia and the US, leading rounds at the earliest stages and backing winners through to scale. We sit close to our founders, work hard alongside them, and bring decades of operating and investing experience to the categories we believe in most.
About Black Nova Venture Capital:
Black Nova is an operator-led fund investing at pre-seed and seed into mission-critical B2B technology, the kind embedded so deeply in a regulated or operational workflow that a customer cannot switch it off without something breaking. Boring is better. Founded in 2020 by two operators who built and exited their own companies, we write first cheques into the unglamorous corners of large markets and put more than twenty venture and operating partners behind the teams we back.
A note from us
Thank you for your interest in joining us. You're what makes these events so great and we really appreciate you taking the time to register!
For transparency, all registrations are initially placed on a waitlist due to limited capacity. We'll confirm attendance as spots become available, with final confirmations typically sent by 5:30pm the day before the event.
If we're unable to offer you a place this time, we hope to see you at a future event. We'll keep your details on hand and be in touch about future opportunities to connect!