What are your value inflection milestones? x15’s Laura Faulconer shares pitching advice for startups

Laura Faulconer, portfolio director at x15ventures, leads a team responsible for growing and maturing the x15 portfolio, providing strategic support to help scale existing ventures, and scouting for new and emerging opportunities.

She’s led the portfolio function and healthtech and deeptech investmets at Antler, and managed investment at NZ deeptech fund WNT ventures. She co-founded The Actuator, Australia’s first national medtech accelerator, and designed and launched The Generator, Monash University’s flagship entrepreneurship program.

In August, Faulconer joins SmartCompany as a guest judge at the Pitch, our early-stage startup competition. Here are her two cents on the startup funding landscape, and her tips for founders pitching to VCs.