The Beginning
Jeremy Atkin co-founded Bandera Capital, a deal-by-deal syndicate investing in Australian hard-tech startups at the pre-seed and seed stage. The first investments were made in May 2020 — Sea Forest and 5B — both of which have since gone on to achieve significant commercial milestones.
The thesis was simple: Australia has world-class hard-tech talent across energy, industrials and agriculture. But capital at the earliest stage was — and remains — almost non-existent. The opportunity was structural, not cyclical.