Andrew Gaule talks to Matthew Koertge, managing director of Telstra Ventures

Tell us about yourself.

I have worked with emerging technology companies my whole life. I started my career designing and building software and hardware systems at Fujitsu, completed an MBA and joined the venture capital industry in 1998 at Macquarie Bank, which was just starting to raise a fund. Investing through the dot.com days was amazing. We had some spectacular successes and some spectacular failures.

I then joined Deutsche Bank Capital Partners, where we managed a $2bn private equity portfolio.…