Interview with Brian Cooke - Cooke Capital and Brisbane Angels
Channel: Robotics Australia Group
Date: 2021-08-16

In this chat we speak with Brian Cooke, the founder of Cooke Capital micro venture capital and personal angel investment fund. Cooke Capital invests in daring entrepreneurs that believe in endless possibility. Brian is an active angel investor and a member of Brisbane Angels. Angel investing allows Brian to combine his interests in investing with a passion for advising and mentoring young innovative startup companies. He is also a member of the investment committee for the ImpaQt Fund (www.impaqtqld.com.au) & he consults to a range of clients and some of his more recent projects include advising an Australian venture capital firm on their portfolio mix and advising a major Australian property group with identifying and negotiating a major acquisition and then taking it to successful completion. He has a successful record of working with boards and senior executive teams to deliver meaningful strategic and operational change. His experience spans a number of industries where he provided practical commercial advice to help clients cut through the complexities associated with major acquisitions and divestments. 

This talk is part of our ongoing engagements with the Australia relevant ventures community to challenge the belief that is ‘sooo hard’ for Australian companies seeking capital investment in robotics to secure support and that venture capital in Australia won’t fund the world leading technologies emerging right here. Robotics Australia is committed to unpacking and challenging this for our Network of members over a series of casual chats with key players to gauge the realness of the claim that funds and appetite to invest into homegrown technologies exist, and to get direct feedback into how we can make Australian robotics opportunities more investable! 

Brian has very kindly given us some of his time to provide insights into the landscape from a very successful VC’s perspective - click below to listen and remember to leave comments!