finance & venture capital

Editors: Anastasia Santoreneos
Photography: Steven Chee
Judges: Michael Tolo & Angela Priestley


Gaby Rosenberg
Age: 28

Bio

Gaby Rosenberg co-founded Blossom App in 2021 to  
make bonds and other debt instruments more accessible.  
Its two products, Blossom Save and Blossom Plus (managed by financial services firm Fortlake Asset Management) aim for returns of 5.7% and 6.75% a year, respectively. At the end of March, Blossom had more than 26,000 users and funds under management of $112 million, generating over $5 million in revenue since inception. 

Mitchell Hughes, Jerry X’Lingson
Age: 23, 22

Bio

Mitchell Hughes and Jerry X’Lingson are the co-founders of NextGen Ventures, Australia’s first venture capital fund that aims to power student founders at their earliest stage. The company has so far raised $2 million for its first fund, and aims to back 36 founders in three years with $70,000 cheques. More broadly, NextGen hopes to make Australia a great place to build.  and aims to back 36 founders .

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Jackson Zeng
Age: 29

Bio

After joining as its first-ever employee back in 2017, Jackson Zeng worked his way up to become the CEO of Caleb & Brown, a Melbourne-based cryptocurrency brokerage, which was recently sold to Swyftx in a deal worth between $100 million and $200 million. A former eSports bettor,   Zeng entered the crypto space after identifying Bitcoin as a reliable solution for   secure online transactions.  


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