Joel advises fast growth tech companies and investors into them, with a focus on securities and corporate finance, M&A, ECM, best practice board governance and ESOP structures and acting as general corporate counsel.

Joel’s clients include many of Australia’s fastest growing tech companies, with a strong focus advising platform and fintech businesses. Joel advises clients at all stages of the corporate lifecycle, from a seed round through to an IPO or exit transaction. Joel also regularly advises Australian and US venture capital, corporate venture capital growth equity and private equity funds on tech deals and ASX listed tech companies on their global M&A.

Joel is a strong supporter of the Australian startup ecosystem, working closely with not for profit organisations including Startupvic and Fintech Australia and he regularly provides training to startup founders on best practice for capital raising, ESOPs and attracting talent, governance, global growth and exit deals.  

Mike Nicholls is an Entrepreneur, Inventor and Technologist. 30 yrs + business experience in Sales & Marketing, CEO & MD of 4 companies with practical experience across a range of industries.

Mike helps a lot of startups, researchers and entrepreneurs in the Australian startup and research ecosystem and is the fund expert at helping startups generate their early customer leads and opportunities.

Sara Rona is a director of Startup Banking for Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and is the market lead for Australia & New Zealand, where she manages SVB’s portfolio of technology startups and venture capital funds based in the region. She is also leading global channel partnerships in Latin America, India, Australia and New Zealand, and Middle East North Africa (MENA) countries.

 
Sara joined SVB in 2018 as a director of business planning, covering Technology and Healthcare banking. There, she helped drive go to market strategy, objectives and key results for the commercial bank. She partnered closely with the leadership team to execute and operationalize communication strategy, roadmaps and division-wide initiatives. Earlier in her career, she held various roles in corporate strategy, product management and business development at various organizations like HSBC, IFC-World Bank and Deutsche Bank.

Tyler Hollenbeck's practice focuses on securities and corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate counsel, with an emphasis on the representation of emerging growth companies and venture capital firms. In addition to advising clients on general corporate governance matters, Mr. Hollenbeck has significant experience in entity formations, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and SEC reporting and disclosure. His clients include early stage, venture-backed and public companies, as well as venture capital investors and corporate investor and acquirers.

Mr. Hollenbeck represents such companies as Adaptive Biotechnologies, American Giant, Arrived Homes, Ask Nicely, Autopilot, Bsquare, Darklight, Headlight, Imperfect Foods, Magnolia Medical Technologies, Plus, Possible Finance, Propeller Aero, Relevvo. Ridwell, Sanctuary Studios, Skedulo, Truveta, Workyard and Zero Health and has represented such venture capital firms as Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Fuel Capital, Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Maveron, PSL Ventures, SignalFire, SpringRock Ventures, Trilogy Equity Partners, Voyager Capital and WestRiver Group, as well as several corporate venture capital and family office investors.