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SecondQuarter has raised $83 million for its second fund, which lets start-up investors, founders and employees sell their shares without a company sale or IPO.

Australia’s first secondary VC fund, SecondQuarter, is raising more than $100 million for its new fund and has appointed A Cloud Guru’s Sam Kroonenburg as venture partner.

Tech jobs could flee offshore, Aconex founder warns Feb 22, 2021 – 12.32pm Share The founder of successful local software start-up Aconex, Leigh Jasper, warns that the next wave of tech jobs could flee offshore as COVID-19 accelerates the technology sector but the growing venture capital scene increasingly makes bigger bets overseas. Mr Jasper, whose company was bought for $1.6 billion by Oracle in 2017, said Australia was falling behind other tech hotspots, despite increasing levels of ventu...