Jara Bockx
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Experience
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AirTree
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Australia
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Explorer
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Aug 2022 - 1 year 5 months
AirTree is a venture capital firm backing the most ambitious Australian and New Zealand founders building the iconic technology companies of tomorrow. AirTree’s Explorer program aims to empower the next generation of diverse and world-class angel investors in Australia and New Zealand through education, networks and funds to invest.
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Blackbird
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Australia
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Investment Management
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100 - 200 Employee
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Mentor – Giants in Residence
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2021 - 2 years
Blackbird is an Australasian investment firm whose mission is to invest in wild hearts, with the wildest ideas, right from the beginning. As a 'Giant in Residence', my role was to mentor early-stage startup founders in Blackbird's Giants program 🏔 Check it out here: https://blackbird.vc/giants.
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INCUBATE
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Australia
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Mentor
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Feb 2023 - 11 months
INCUBATE is the award-winning startup program at the University of Sydney. We fund students, alumni and researchers to launch high-potential startups through our accelerator and support student entrepreneurs through our community activities.
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Basiq
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Australia
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Partnerships & Startups Lead ANZ
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Jan 2023 - Jul 2023
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Partnerships & Startups ANZ
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Mar 2021 - Jul 2023
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia At Basiq, our vision is Making Finance Easy. Finance is complex and it can be hard for consumers to make informed financial decisions. We see a world where consumers are empowered to make smarter financial decisions and to engage with their finances in new and unique ways. Basiq enables this by providing an Open Finance API platform for businesses to build innovative financial solutions. Our partners include some of the fastest-growing fintechs such as Afterpay, Wisr, ZIP, Zepto… Show more At Basiq, our vision is Making Finance Easy. Finance is complex and it can be hard for consumers to make informed financial decisions. We see a world where consumers are empowered to make smarter financial decisions and to engage with their finances in new and unique ways. Basiq enables this by providing an Open Finance API platform for businesses to build innovative financial solutions. Our partners include some of the fastest-growing fintechs such as Afterpay, Wisr, ZIP, Zepto, Beforepay and Spaceship to name a few. As the building blocks of financial services, the platform facilitates the relationship between fintechs and consumers by providing access to consented financial data with the tools to uncover valuable insights and take action. Backed by Reinventure, NAB Ventures, Plaid, Touch Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Visa, over 200 fintechs rely on the Basiq platform to deliver solutions to market. If you're an early-stage startup looking to leverage real-time financial data, check out Basiq Launchpad and get started for free: https://basiq.io/startups/
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UNSW
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Australia
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Guest Lecturer
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Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Delivered a guest seminar to UNSW students as part of the Peter Farrell Cup, UNSW’s most prestigious startup idea pitch competition. The session centered around developing a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for the participating startups.
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YBF Ventures
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Australia
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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General Manager – YBF Sydney
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Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia In my role as GM, I was looking after YBF Ventures' community of high-growth tech startups and assisting the corporate partnership team, helping to deliver global-reaching innovation programs with various corporate partners.
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Senior Community Manager
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Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
Sydney, Australia
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Community Manager
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Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Sydney, Australia
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CSIRO's Data61
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Australia
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Community Development Lead
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Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
Sydney, Australia CSIRO’s data and digital specialist arm, Data61, is at the forefront of data and digital, solving our greatest data-driven challenges today.
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Interim Marketing Manager
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Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
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Marketing and Growth Manager
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Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Sydney, Australia
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Research And Policy Analyst
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2018 - 2018
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Project reviewing Australian housing and taxation policy. Focus on the nexus between negative-gearing and CGT concessions and the effects on housing affordability in Australia.
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M&C Saatchi Group AUNZ
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Australia
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Advertising Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Account Executive
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2017 - 2018
M&C Saatchi, Sydney Australia Clients - Universal Sony Home Entertainment, Lexus, Steggles, Lilydale.
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Account Coordinator
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2017 - 2017
Sydney, Australia Account Coordinator at Hidden Characters, one of ten specialist agencies that make up the M&C Saatchi Group – Australia’s largest independent communications group.
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Education
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Columbia X
Corporate Finance -
University of Technology Sydney
Bachelor of Political Science & Communications (with Distinction)