At Rampersand, Rod Hamilton works as a hands-on product mentor rather than just a capital partner, having joined as Venture Partner to launch and lead Rampersand's Product Counsel, which connects founders with experienced product operators. Drawing on his time at Culture Amp, where he built the company's first product using a six-page PDF prototype before writing code and personally closed its first sale, a $400 subscription to a nonprofit, he now applies that same discipline by encouraging founders to say no to feature requests that don't fit their broader strategy.
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AI, SaaS, Marketplaces, Future of Work, Deeptech / Hardware
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Pre-Seed - Seed
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A$250K–A$2.5M
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Rampersand is a venture fund for ANZ-born founders building anywhere in the world, with a process built to be checked by founders themselves: a sub-two-week path from first meeting to signed term sheet, reference calls with founders they've disagreed with, and a written framework (What Do We Need To Believe) that lays out the specific beliefs behind each investment. They focus on AI-native software, vertical AI, and areas where software meets physical industries like hardware and robotics, backed by concrete efforts to connect founders with customers and specific companies through named intro paths.
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