The Tractor Ventures team is made up of some of the very best technology operators in APAC.
Former founders, with extremely deep horizontal and vertical expertise, here to advise you on further growing profitable & sustainable business, on your terms.
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Aprill heads up the advisory service, ensuring portfolio companies can easily access Tractor’s network of experienced AU/NZ startup founders, operators and investors for help with achieving their growth objectives.
Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer
Jodie runs the show at Tractor. She's an exited founder and experienced mentor, and you'll want to bring her in when you are building community, sales and teams.
Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer
Matta is our ex tech geek, ex recruiter, ex Bus Dev person. Some say he's a walking LinkedIn, but not us. You'll want to talk to him for strategy, business modelling and the intricacies of capital-raising.
Chair
Darcy is our finance generalist- ex-institutional investments, VC and serial co-founder. You'll want to talk to him about everything from financial modelling to governance & more.
General Partner - NZ
Kirsti is our resident people geek. She's scaled up Auror from 10-75+ ppl (& Vend from 40-250 before that) and you'll want to engage her on creating amazing team & employee experiences.
General Partner, Capital Management
Raj brings a lot to the Tractor team growth in regards to his experience from roles in Capital Management Advisory at RTG Capital Partners, Prospa & as partner at KPMG Australia.
General Partner - NZ
Lance is our specialist/generalist. He's run product and ops at Vend, and has seen all kinds of stuff. You'll want to engage him when building & scaling products & everything in between.
Director of Advisory
Noga is the EIR at Tractor- she's a Venture Partner at Black Nova Capital, a former corporate lawyer and exited online marketplace founder. You'll want to ask her about capital, board advisory & much more.
Marketing & Engagement
Gaz is a community engagement specialist, driving internal and external storytelling and growth via marketing, content, activations and partnerships.
Chief Credit & Risk Officer
Bhush is our FinOps specialist at Tractor- after roles in enterprise risk at Prospa and time at CapGemini, Bhush is heavily involved in our day to day investment committee decision making.
Director of Engineering
Matty has more than 15 years experience working in software development, in the UK, US, Australia, and New Zealand, & has held roles across different sized startups, corporates and agencies (whilst maintaining a strong caffeine dependent lifestyle)
Community Builder
Olivia is our Community Builder, working alongside all the Tractor portfolio companies, helping them scale up their capacity. She's a relationship builder, strategic program designer and European Handball representative for Australia!
Capital Growth Partner
Darragh works with founders and operators at growing technology companies to explore their finance options by utilising Tractor non-dilutive funding to scale a bit faster than what they are now. Financial storytelling, focussed on the cost of capital to a business, is where Darragh's focus lies.
Director of Sales
Nick leads our sales function here at Tractor, often having in-depth discussions with financial decision makers in technology companies about the cost of capital to their business. With years of experience leading a sales function at Prospa, Nick particularly enjoys building high performing, fun and supportive sales teams. (Also apparently enjoys ultra-marathons?!)
Capital Strategy Partner (Growth)
Kimia helps a vast range of tech-enabled companies access the capital they need to scale, sustainably. Having worked in VC based tech companies and enterprise sized global companies, she’s an ex-founder, ecommerce enthusiast and brand-builder!
Credit Analyst
Conor is an experienced investment analyst, having worked on mid-market IPOs, capital raises, commercial expansion projects and customer engagement strategies. He’s also increasing our quote of sports fanatics here at Tractor (taking over quickly)
Growth Marketing
Dan leads our growth marketing initiatives at Tractor, helping us scale our growth efforts across acquisition, sales ops, automation, analytics, content, and well, many other growth-related things. With over a decade of marketing experience working across a variety of industries and verticals, he brings a wealth of experience to the team to help us with scaling. Also another sports fanatic to add to the quota :).
Chief Financial Officer
Francine has a background leading APAC Finance Teams as part of Global companies, specialising in finance transformations and mergers post-acquisition, board partnerships and investor relations. We lean on Francine’s expertise in leading high-performing teams through dynamic business landscapes.