James Tynan, Principal, Square Peg

James a Principal on the investment team at Square Peg, one of Australia’s biggest venture capital firms – empowering exceptional founders across Australia, Israel and South-East Asia.

Previously James ran Startmate, Australia’s leading tech accelerator where he launched the Startmate Fellowship to help people launch their careers in startups.

Before that, James was based in the US where he helped scale Khan Academy from YouTube success to the biggest ed-tech organisation in the world. As VP of Strategy and Ops, James built the BD and Marketing functions and ran the Educator/Classroom business.

James Tynan scaled

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