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Working with talented and driven founders solving climate change makes everyday at Prtnr inspiring. Yesterday we had a great meeting with Shan V. the CEO and Founder of Climate and Social Impact SaaS company Klean - Sustainability for Retail We've been working with Shan on his go to market plans and on his climate and impact partnerships. Klean provides three modules, the one we've been working on recently is called Impact@Checkout. It allows a consumer to support a climate project or social impact cause that aligns with their values as part of their shopping experience, at checkout the retailer donates an amount on behalf of the customer to help offset the purchase. Klean enables retailers to align their brand with their customers by partnering with organisations acting on climate change and delivering social impact projects. We're working with Shan and the team at Klean to form more partnerships with reputable and verified climate projects and local social impact causes. Making it easy for these organisations to register on Klean's website and creating shared marketing campaigns to promote new partners and the causes they're supporting. Giving retailers opportunities to partner with and promote the causes they care about is helping them build strong brands with their customers. Interestingly the data is showing that consumers are spending more each order when they have an option to support a climate or impact project they care about. We see applications for Impact@Checkout for any organisation that cares about environmental and social impact and wants to build a great brand with their customers on their ecommerce platform. This includes traditional retailers, power and water utilities, councils, insurance companies, health care providers and many more. If you'd like to learn more please reach out to Shan V. https://lnkd.in/gYfsfmZt

A shoutout to a couple of the awesome #climatetech founders we get to work with. Andy Hill and Mike Capps at Planet Price. As investors it's a privilege to work with founders tackling #climatechange. We're helping Andy and Mike with their go to market strategy, branding and storytelling. Listening to Andy explain why he founded Planet Price and to Mike about how his 6year old daughter Ava said he had to join as a cofounder because he needed to save their planet. It's really inspiring and makes us want to do everything in our power to help them build a global company having global impact. Planet Price allows government ministers, agency heads, company directors, executives, staff, the public and consumers to ask a simple question.. "What's the planet price of this??? What's the planet price of this new product, service, trip, building, infrastructure project, etc.. Is there a better option that achieves the same outcome at a lower Planet Price??? Giving the Planet a seat at the table and making the true cost to the planet transparent as a simple and comparable dollar value is what Planet Price does. It's no longer acceptable for people to make purchasing decisions on the financial price only, it's time we also considered the planet price. If you would like to find out more about Planet Price please reach out to Andy or Mike. www.planetprice.io

6 Months in and things at Prtnr (pronounced Partner) are starting to take shape. Welcome to our first bi-annual update on LinkedIn. We started life as Partner Ventures, but over the last 6 months as our thinking has evolved so has our brand. Starting a new business is a great process, start with an idea, high level vision, partially defined mission, lots of lessons from previous roles and the excitement of making a positive impact. Opportunities arise & things develop differently to how you'd planned, which is part of what makes being a founder interesting. I started an investment and advisory business to enhance the health & longevity of our planet and people. To back Queensland founders and build ecosystems that would accelerate their causes & our economy. I also felt like I had some unfinished work from my time at QIC working on the #QVCDF, so I promised myself I'd help the VCs and accelerators we backed to get connected in Queensland. I've started but still have some work to do on this.. 6 months in here are some of the highlights: Our Vision is now clear, we look at everything through the lens of creating a sustainable and vibrant future. We're proud to have led the investment round in Klean - Sustainability for Retail to support Shan V. with his ambition of bringing climate and social impact to consumers during their eCommerce experience. We've partnered with and backed two more exciting companies that we'll share more about soon. We now have 9 investments (8 Queensland, 1 Victoria). We've reviewed 14 startup investment opportunities in a serious way and had over 100 startups pitch to us. We're in an investment process with 2 exciting companies and hope to proceed with these over the next quarter. We've mentored and run master classes at the LX Health accelerator. We organised and hosted the #QueenslandFutureEnergyEvent for 150 people at The Precinct to connect #startups, #VC's #Accelerators #Universities #EnergyUtilities #Government We've mentored, run OpenPitch nights and master classes at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) QUT Entrepreneurship We've been supporting Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service on their digital and data advisory board. We've also been working with Queensland Government Minister Mick de Brenni on the Minister's Procurement Advisory Council. We've spoken at numerous events & continue to encourage Queensland Government, large corporates & Brisbane 2032 about the economic, social, environmental benefits of partnering with & buying from local startups. We've kicked off two advisory projects with great clients. I'm super excited that we've grown the team to include Manoj Bhatt Jason Seed Sarah Gair, MBA Thanks to everyone that we've engaged with in the first 6 months. Please reach out if we can be helpful. Our new website is coming, in the meantime, you can check out our landing page & register for updates at www.prtnr.au Cheers Wayne Gerard Founder Prtnr

We're really excited to announce our investment in @Klean, a standout Queensland startup focusing on sustainability solutions for retail. Founded by @Shan V., Klean meets the rising demand among Millennials and Gen Z consumers who seek retailers and eCommerce companies committed to #climatechange action and social responsibility in their communities (#ESG). If you're in retail, we would love to discuss how we can assist you. Klean not only provides climate and ESG solutions, the data from Klean’s existing clients shows a significant boost in Average Order Value (up to 33%), Conversion Rates (approximately 15%), Repeat Purchases (still being captured), and ROI (5-10x), and they're just getting started. Special thanks to @SimonThomsen and @Startupdaily for sharing this news. #StartupFunding #Sustainability #ClimateTech #AdvanceQueensland https://lnkd.in/g6V9vAFZ

Queensland's Future Energy Event is shaping up to be a great event.. The event is at capacity with huge interest from Utilities, Startups, Investors, Universities, Government, Engineering Companies and other service providers. Looking forward to having Paul Martyn kick off the event with his keynote Department of Energy and Climate Our amazing moderators Michael S. Duggan and Ashleigh Morris (GAICD) have been working with their panels to ensure each discussion has rich and valuable content. There will be a Q&A session so we're looking forward to heaps of participation for the audience. We have a bunch of really interesting Queensland Startups showcasing their thoughtful and relevant technology so be sure to make time to have a chat with them. Look forward to seeing everyone next Wednesday afternoon at The Precinct for a 4pm kickoff. Advance Queensland CS Energy Energy Queensland Powerlink Queensland CleanCo Queensland Stanwell Corporation Limited Coreo Ashurst Partner Ventures

We've saved some tickets for Queensland's Future Energy Event happening The Precinct 4-7pm on 5 June. This is a special shoutout to the energy utilities, large engineering companies, investors, startups and Government agencies focused on the energy transition. To build a world leading and globally competitive renewable energy industry in Queensland we need to inspire, connect and empower the future generation of industry leaders. I'm encouraging you to invite a couple of emerging leaders, graduates and high potential employees to this event, they are important stakeholders and stewards for Queensland's future energy industry. There are only a few tickets left please book today. Energy Queensland Michael Dart - Chief Customer Officer, Energy Queensland Teresa Dyson CleanCo Queensland Tom Metcalfe CS Energy Emma Roberts Powerlink Queensland Stanwell Corporation Limited EDL James Harman Paul Martyn Department of Energy and Climate Natalie Wilde Department of State Development and Infrastructure Linda Dobe Department of Regional Development, Manufacturing and Water Jamie M. Lea Diffey Department of Environment, Science and Innovation CSIRO QUT (Queensland University of Technology) The University of Queensland ARM Hub (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Queensland AI Hub Queensland Energy Club Sprint Ventures Jekara Group EnergyLab Main Sequence Wayne Gerard Planet Price Michael S. Duggan Ashurst Andy Hill Joris Eerkens Squirrel Energy Pty Ltd Advance Queensland

Partner Ventures launches in the US with the appointment of #VenturePartner Jason Seed.   Partner Ventures Founder Wayne Gerard shared "It’s great to have Jason onboard, he brings two decades of experience scaling startups from the Bay Area. I first meet Jason in 2013, early in our RedEye journey and back before there was vibrant supportive startup community in Australia. Jason helped us craft our first pitch deck and build our network and understanding of the Silicon Valley startup and venture capital communities. Jason’s experience helping Australian companies prepare for and expand into north America is legendary. He bridges the gap with deep relationship’s and hands on experience launching SaaS companies in North America. Jason’s commercial skills including supporting Australian startups with nuanced US “Go To Market” planning, pricing structures, early pipeline development and first sales. Jason also has great relationships with important US networks to help Aussie companies find and attract talent, distribution partnerships and the right US venture investors to help accelerate US growth."   Jason is based in Palo Alto the heart of Silicon Valley and has helped businesses land and expand across North America.   Partner Ventures is focused on building a sustainable and vibrant future, we partner with exceptional founders building world class businesses in Medicine 3.0, Climate Tech and the Energy Transition. Our mission is to help Queensland and Australian founders scale their businesses to have global impact. Advance Queensland Advance Global Australians Queensland Chief Entrepreneur #Climatetech #Medicine3 #EnergyTech #Energytransition #Healthtech

Welcome to Queensland's Future Energy Event! 4-7pm 5 Jun Join us at The Precinct at 4pm for an afternoon full of innovation, thoughtful conversations and practical inspiration. Join the conversation and extend your network as we delve into the future of energy in Queensland. Connect with industry stakeholders from established and emerging utilities, network with thought leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, service providers all focused on helping Queensland realise the potential of our energy transition. Through collaboration we can capitalise on this once in a generation opportunity and leverage this multi-billion dollar investment to build local industry and supply chains and strengthen our communities creating social, economic and environmental opportunities and outcomes. If you're an #energytech #energytransition focused Queensland startup and you would like to showcase your solution please reachout as we have a limited number of spots available Michael S. Duggan James Harman Teresa Dyson Michael Dart - Chief Customer Officer, Energy Queensland Joris Eerkens Megan Fisher David Finn Ashleigh Morris (GAICD) Tom Metcalfe Emma Roberts Mike Capps Natalie Wilde Linda Dobe Paul Martyn Wayne Gerard Ashurst EDL Energy Queensland EnergyLab Coreo CleanCo Queensland CS Energy Department of State Development and Infrastructure Department of Regional Development, Manufacturing and Water Department of Energy and Climate Department of Environment, Science and Innovation Advance Queensland Queensland Chief Entrepreneur Jekara Group Planet Price https://lnkd.in/geJb_KPW

Our new website is live in Beta (MVP) still waiting on the SSL certificate so it will show up as in-secure for another couple of hours. Would love your feedback and ideas www.partnerventures.vc

PROBLEM MARKET FIT When people are thinking about starting a startup they often ask us “how do you determine if it’s the right problem to solve?” Here’s how we think about “problem market fit” 6 questions to determine if your startup idea is worth pursuing? * Is the pain that your solving valuable to your customers as demonstrated by their willingness to pay for your product (ideally it’s more important than other things they could spend their money on) * Can you deliver this profitably at scale (can you build a business with the right unit economics) * Is it legal (things that aren’t yet legal cost a lot more) * Are you competing with an 800 pond gorillas core business * Is you solution relevant in multiple geographies and industries * Is your business resilient to market cycles