Director of Investments / Investment Manager: Momentum Ventures: SIGNING OFF

Jason Bresnehan has completed a five-year interim management role as a Director of Investments / Investment Manager at Momentum Ventures

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Momentum Caulfield Park

Mangement of the Full Cycle of Venture Capital Portfolio Investing

Momentum Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Caulfield North, Victoria, on the outskirts of Melbourne. The fund has invested in early-stage Australian technology companies pursuing USA and global markets.

Jason Bresnehan has performed contract Investment Manager services to the VC fund for a five-year term.

Thanks to the principals, Ron Finkel and Egad Gold for giving me the opportunity to work in VC at the height of the dot-com boom, the bust and investing in great companies making a difference in their market segment. It's been quite a ride. I have learnt so much about building companies, wealth, family and character.

Jason

As an interim contract Invesment Manager of early-stage technology venture capital fund Momentum Ventures, Jason was involved in the full cycle of venture capital investing:

  • Initial Deal Assessment
     
  • Due Diligence of market and industry, key people, business model and operations underpinned by the preparation of detailed financial modelling including cashflow and P&L budgets or forecasts with supporting income and expense schedules and key assumption drivers
     
  • Tranche based seed, Series A and Series B investment
     
  • Entity structuring, including the development of Shareholder Agreements with ratchet clauses and other investor claw-back protections
     
  • Board representation with investee portfolio companies
     
  • Assisting the CEO and other senior management of portfolio companies with business development and follow up Series B or Series C rounds
     
  • Assisting the CEO and other senior management of portfolio companies with M&A, trade sale and growth opportunities and exit opportunities
     
  • Portfolio company reporting to Venture Capital Funds board and regulatory authorities.

     

Momentum Ventures 2002
Momentum Ventures 2002

Broad Range of Market and Industry Sectors

In this Investment Manager role Jason has worked across a number of technology platforms, undertaking rapid deal assessments, due diligence, preparing financial models, facilitated SWOT analysis, seed investing, Series A investing Series B investing and non-executive director board representation.

  • Pharmaceutical drug development
  • Medical device development
  • Underwater robotics
  • Freezer robotics
  • Electronics
  • Browser based software applications
  • Server-side software applications
  • Online retiling

Market segments have included:

  • Point of use vending of frozen biological reagents in medical research laboratory environments
  • Lighting electronics
  • Big data analysis software applications for telco, utility and medical research sectors
  • Anti-thrombotic treatments and measurement device
  • Gene therapy cell vectors
  • Underwater oil and gas exploration
  • Mobile field communications

Looking for assistance to commercialize an early-stage venture or project?

Contact Evahan Managing Director and Principal Consultant Jason Bresnahan to explore how we can support you, Jason Bresnehan is experienced in venture and project commercialisation.