Podcasts – Movac

Step Change – being bold to achieve success

Movac Operating Partner Serge van Dam 28th January 2020 There’s a classic Kiwi cookbook – Edmonds Cookbook – that lives in many Kiwi kitchens and is a great example of how to transform your business. If you’re a baking products company and you want to sell more flour, how do you do that? Well, you […]

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Innovation Moats. What are they & why are they important?

Movac Partner David Beard 10th December 2019 New Zealand tech businesses are sailing against three headwinds. We’re too small, we’re too far away and we’re too slow. Let me unpick that a bit. Building businesses in a population of just five million is tough and to succeed we have to go global from day one. […]

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Olympic rower to Venture Capital Investment Analyst

Values, resilience and work ethic: The story behind Peter Taylor’s transition from an Olympian to a Movac Investment Analyst.

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It’s not a pitch, it’s a conversation: The Art of Raising Capital

Movac Partner – Mark Vivian 30th September 2019 Seeking out capital can be a lonely and frustrating business as I’ve learned over the past decade raising funds for Movac Funds 2, 3 and 4 but it gives us a chance to put the shoe on the other foot. The process we go through is no […]

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When is your business ready for Series A funding?

Movac Investment Director – Jason Graham 30 August 2019 Series A is the lingo we use to describe capital financing one step up from seed funding. Movac is a series A and beyond tech investor so let me explain what we look for if you come knocking for capital for your business. While an angel […]

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What drives Movac and founding partner Phil McCaw

Movac Partner – Phil McCaw 31 July 2019 It was an exciting time back in 1998. No one quite knew what a force the internet would become. But back then when we started as Abbott, McCaw, Richter and Associates we had an eye to the future. We wanted our business to generate cash flow which […]

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