INVESTING IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Mentoring, investing, advising and working hands-on to build teams, accelerate growth and achieve goals.
m15e ventures is the operating arm of Perth-based non-executive Chair, director and investor Matt Macfarlane's advisory and angel investment activities.

ABOUT MATT MACFARLANE

Founder of m15e ventures

A Perth native Matt spent 11 years in Europe working in telecommunications M&A through the 90's. After returning to Perth he co-founded Web 2.0 startup Minti in 2004.

In 2009, Matt co-founded Yuuwa Capital LP, a A$40m Venture Capital fund and led the IT investments of the fund (incl. Agworld, icetana). The initial fund is now wound up and Yuuwa is undertaking new activities led by my co-founders - I have no ongoing involvement in Yuuwa.

Matt was the founding CEO of icetana.ai (ASX:ICE) - a global SaaS software company providing video analytics technology to identify abnormal behaviour and events for large-scale surveillance - and is the current Chair of the Board after leading the company to an IPO and rebuilding the team over a 5 year period to 2023.

He was a founding Director at AEGIC (the Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre) in 2012 and is the current Chair. He is a non-executive director at AgriFutures - an organisation that focuses on growing the long-term prosperity of Australian rural industries and he is Chair of PetRescue, national animal welfare charity with a vision of a future where every pet is safe, respected and loved

Matt has invested over $1m of his own cash into more than 25 Australian startups as an angel investor (some companies listed below). He is an active participant in the local startup community through roles as Company Chair, Non-executive director, advisor, competition judge, and mentor