Ep156 - Matt Browne (Co-founder & Managing Partner - Black Nova VC) on the rise of the Founder VCs by The Startup Playbook published on 2021-10-07T06:32:16Z My guest for Ep156 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Matt Browne, the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Black Nova Ventures. Prior to becoming a VC, Matt was the Co-founder and CEO of DoneSafe, a cloud based safety platform that grew to over 1.5M paying users before being acquired by HSI in 2020. He also Co-founded Whispli, a Y-Combinator alumni SaaS startup which clients including Qantas, Westpac and Oxfam. Now, alongside being one of the founding members of Upflowy, Matt is also the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Black Nova Ventures. A $20M early-stage VC fund built for B2B technology startups. Despite only recently announcing the launch their fund, they have already made 23 investments to date. In this interview we discussed a range of topics including: - Matt’s journey in launching, scaling and eventually exiting DoneSafe - Dealing with co-founder breakups - How to build investor conviction for pre-revenue or pre-product startups - The rise of the Founder VCs - & much more! Full show notes available at startupplaybook.co Genre Business