The compounding snowball is the only way to grow the New Zealand tech ecosystem.
In this episode of the WFLS podcast, we chat with Samantha Wongโ ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฌ? ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐.
Sam is a Partner at Blackbird. Originally from Australia, she now heads up the office in Taฬmaki Makaurau (Auckland), where she raised its inaugural $60M New Zealand fund in 2020 and is continuing Blackbirdโs Kiwi adventure!
Sam has broad investment interests including digital healthcare, robotics, IoT and B2B software. Sam sits on the boards of Halter, FirstAML, Foundry Lab, Partly, Harrison AI and Workyard.
Sam is passionate about diversity in technology and venture capital and spear-headed the release of the Model Code of Conduct for the Startup Community as well as a venture capital internship program for women.
Prior to joining Blackbird she was a legaltech startup founder, an e-commerce product and strategy manager, and practiced in corporate and litigation teams at Minter Ellison before career-pivoting into startups in 2010.
She is a proud mother of an energetic toddler and on weekends can often be found at a local park running after a scooter or coming down a playground slide. She loves exploring the beautiful Aotearoa whenua with her family as well as yoga when her schedule allows.
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WFLS Podcast
The We F*@kin Love Startups podcast comes from the best Recruiters in the Startup ecosystem in Talent Army. Listen to Troy Hammond, our founder, talk to people from the startup ecosystem in New Zealand and beyond, and tell their stories of how they got into the industry.
Hear more of the lives that led them there. Now they are in the industry, they break down what they are doing and how they are doing it.
And a lot of laughs along the way.
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