Side Stage Ventures
Elli Hanson is a seasoned investor and entrepreneur currently serving as Principal Investor at Side Stage Ventures, a founder-led venture capital fund, and as a Non-Executive Director and Board Member at Sense Of Self (S.O.S). Additional roles include mentoring at Startmate and co-founding Flaus, recognized for notable innovations. Prior experience includes co-founding and leading Dr. Dri's as Co-CEO, directing Caster Town Ltd, founding TINA as CEO, and holding various senior positions at Ogilvy Worldwide including Global Director of Design Strategy. Elli holds an Executive MBA from USC Marshall School of Business, multiple undergraduate degrees in design, business, and communication from prestigious institutions, and was awarded a Killam Fulbright Fellowship.
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Side Stage Ventures
Side Stage Ventures is a founder-led venture capital fund that backs the top 1% of founders in Australia at the earliest stage. We write small cheques into the best early stage companies. Then we lean in to help the founders build & scale. We are a team of founders who have backed and built two Australian unicorns, raised over $200M from some of the best VC’s in the world, been acquired by Apple, bootstrapped to $20M + revenue and built Australia’s first dedicated revenue-based startup investment fund. We started investing together, as a syndicate, alongside a community of 100+ founders and operators and now we’re building the seed fund that we wish we had when we were starting out.