My guest for Ep156 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Matt Browne, the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Black Nova Ventures.

Prior to becoming a VC, Matt was the Co-founder and CEO of DoneSafe, a cloud based safety platform that grew to over 1.5M paying users before being acquired by HSI in 2020.

He also Co-founded Whispli, a Y-Combinator alumni SaaS startup which clients including Qantas, Westpac and Oxfam.

Now, alongside being one of the founding members of Upflowy, Matt is also the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Black Nova Ventures. A $20M early-stage VC fund built for B2B technology startups.

Despite only recently announcing the launch their fund, they have already made 23 investments to date.

In this interview we discussed a range of topics including:
- Matt’s journey in launching, scaling and eventually exiting DoneSafe
- Dealing with co-founder breakups
- How to build investor conviction for pre-revenue or pre-product startups
- The rise of the Founder VCs 
- & much more!

Full show notes available at startupplaybook.co

Startup Playbook Podcast - Connecting you to the best entrepreneurs, investors and experts to help you grow your startup/ online business

Ep156 - Matt Browne (Co-founder & Managing Partner - Black Nova VC) on the rise of the Founder VCs

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