Max Nick Horomona

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Principal at Highline Venture Partners · Climate

Highline Venture Partners
Sydney, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
9+ years experience
Seoul National University
English, Spanish
Investing
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Overview

I invest in climate at Highline Venture Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 5 boards. Backed 22 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Hyundai Motor and Atlassian. Most at home with venture capital and hardware. Learning to sail.

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  • Founders building in climate
  • Questions about climate
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  • Decks without a clear ask
  • Offshore staffing offers

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Skills
energyclimate techventure capitalhardware
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $2M cheques into pre-seed climate in Europe

Cheque size
$2M
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Climate
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Sydney, Australiaventure capitalhardwareclimate tech
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Apr 2022 - Present
    Highline Venture Partners · 4 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 24 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 3 boards.
  2. Associate Product Manager
    May 2020 - Apr 2022
    Hyundai Motor · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Ran 167 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  3. Principal Product Manager
    Jan 2019 - May 2020
    Atlassian · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Backed 20 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
  4. Product Manager
    Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
    Woolworths Group · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 18 days to 2.
    • Ran 85 customer interviews before writing the first spec.

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Education

  1. Seoul National University
    BS, Economics
    2013 - 2017

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