What VCs look for in early-stage business and founders

Ren is a 25-year experienced revenue leader with a proven track record of exceeding targets and growing large, complex accounts within the Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) industry.

She has led and won enterprise and large, complex deals at Globe Telecom (Singtel Group), Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia), Ruckus Wireless, and Vodafone, contributing to more than 130M Euro career sales.

As the creator of the B2B Sales Maturity Framework, Ren's mission is to empower sales professionals. She achieves this by integrating strategy, processes, and behaviours to drive client action, optimise sales cycles, and achieve revenue growth.

An engineer by education and holds an MBA in Business and leadership and sales coaching certifications. Ren is building and co-founding Fraxional, a start-up that helps organisa

Venture capital partner, professional director, and strategic advisor specialising in business innovation, growth, transformation, and change.

Former senior executive with over 20 years of experience in strategy, innovation, digital growth, transformation, and disruption in New Zealand. As Chief Executive of Spark Ventures, led the development of Spark's innovation arm and created new businesses including Lightbox, Qrious, Skinny, and Bigpipe. Proven track record in building and executing corporate, market, business, and product strategies in the telecom, media, internet, digital, and energy sectors.

Active start-up mentor and investor. Self-proclaimed "incredibly average cyclist." Purpose-driven leader. Supporter of Cure Kids Fiji.

Currently focused on Maker Partners, helping build great bus