TEN13 launches angel investor Maverick program

Venture syndicate TEN13 has launched its Maverick program to assist angel investors with traditionally inaccessible investment opportunities.

The Maverick program will provide the angel investors with capital and access to deals beyond Australia, in markets including APAC, LATAM and Africa.

The team of founding Mavericks include serial entrepreneur Brendan Hill, angel investor Harrison Uffindell and investment syndicate Side State Ventures.

Hill has invested in over 20 start-ups over his 10 year angel investing career, Uffindell was an early career founder funning BizOps ANZ for Airbnb before his investment career and is now VP of growth and operations at scale-up, Partly, and Side Stage Ventures is a collection of seven founders turned investors.

According to Stew Glynn, managing partner and co-founder at TEN13, “By combining the business’ network-based investing syndicate and back-end infrastructure with an intimate network of angel investors, our Mavericks program will enable unfettered access to a new world of investment opportunities.

“The momentum we have already seen is testament not only to the business’ agility to scale and break into new markets, but also to the extraordinary level of expertise and guidance provided by our team of Mavericks, who we are tremendously excited to welcome to TEN13.”

Uffindell said, “No angel investment program provides the opportunity to invest in international prodigies as the Maverick program does. With technology advancing at a never-before-seen rate, the question is not if the next Google or Canva is waiting around the corner, it’s where. I am excited to work with TEN13 to comb emerging markets like APAC, LATAM and Africa for the next unicorn, and take Australian and New Zealand investors on an international investment journey.”

To date TEN13 has invested over $10 million across 11 Maverick deals since its launch.

TEN13 has raised a total of $70 million, supporting 32 start-ups including unicorns Chipper and Go1.