It has been a lot of fun working alongside Di and Mac over the last couple of years. Square Peg are thrilled to be backing them again and having Prosus Ventures join us on the journey as well as Airtree continuing to back the company.
Well done Team Constantinople!

Great work Silvija and the team at ⁦Deputy⁩
There is nothing better than when a client has so much love for your product that they want to invest!
Congrats to ⁦Ashik Ahmed⁩ on the amazing business you have built. afr.com/technology/aus…

You understand a lot about a movement by its supporters. Hamas is a death cult and it’s supporters are of a similar ilk to the defenders of Pol Pot and Stalin in past generations. History will treat these people badly.

There is only one western country in the world where a conservative party is outpolling their more progressive opponents among millennials; Canada.
The reason is pretty simple; they have prioritised building homes and housing affordability as a key priority.
Governments of all

It is hard to argue that the vicious and relentless attacks on Jews and Israel are purely a case of “anti Zionism” and are not anti semitic when the level of anti semitism in the US is at the highest levels since the 1960’s. An evil and ancient hatred has been unleashed around…

The incredible improvement in operating margin of most growth stage tech companies in the last 2 years is a reflection of their incredible scalability but also a reflection of most of them being asleep at the wheel on cost control over the prior decade.
The risk is that some of…

We need comprehensive tax reform in Oz and key components should be to lower the corporate tax rate and abolish dividend imputation.
A high corporate tax rate creates disincentive to invest in Australia (vs other countries) and dividend imputation creates disincentive for…

In terms of national prosperity, this is the only thing that matters and we have been doing terribly for a long time.

I love this! It was a written by a couple of our Square Peg founders (who are in stealth mode) about the process of designing a product.
Truly understanding feedback is a real art and knowing the difference between something people “like” and something they “are absolutely…

An important story about hatred and intolerance

tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

No words for the depravity of these people.

theage.com.au/national/hundr…

Congrats Sam Kroonenburg and team on launch of matchbooks
One of the attributes of a world class startup ecosystem is that it not only produces amazing founders but it produces amazing repeat founders.
So stoked for you mate and so bullish about startups in Oz in 2024 and

As a country we are doing the equivalent of borrowing short and lending long.
Iron ore prices underpin our fiscal position but they can change in an instant. On the cost side, we are committed to unsustainable recurrent costs which we won’t be able to fund when iron ore prices…

The far right and the extremists in the “progressive” left have nothing in common except………

This in a country where 90% of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, after centuries of Polish anti semitism.

This is so scary.
It is what our housing price chart would look like, if there was data going back to 1600!!
Intergenerational inequality, manifesting most profoundly in lack of housing affordability, and lack of productivity growth are tearing at the fabric of Australian…

If you spend 30 minutes a day on TikTok, you are much more likely to be an anti semite. A frightening but not surprising stat given the hate that is being spewed on TikTok.
Thanks to Anthony Goldbloom for everything he is doing to tell this really scary story.