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Steve Wilson

General Partner at Outlier Ventures

The Rocks, New South Wales

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2023

    Dark Horse DAO is a collective focused on acquiring, managing, and maximizing yield-generating NFTs across the growing ecosystem of utility gaming and performance-based AI platforms.

  • General Partner

    2020

    Founded in 2014, Outlier Ventures is the world’s leading Web3 accelerator and most active Web3 investor, with a renowned reputation as the go-to authority for Web3 founders, investors and partners. With a portfolio of over 300 startups from every region of the world across its accelerator program Base Camp and token launch advisory Ascent, Outlier Ventures has helped raise over $350m in seed funding across its various accelerator programs. Outlier Ventures’ portfolio includes leading Web3 companies including Biconomy, Boson Protocol, Brave, Cheqd, Cudos, DIA Data, Fetch.ai, IOTA, Ocean Protocol, Root Network and XAI. Outlier Ventures partners with global industry protocol leaders, including Aptos, Filecoin/IPFS, Hedera, NEAR, Polkadot, Polygon and Wormhole, along with leading global brands to design bespoke programs by its team of experts that help refine business strategy, product-market fit, community growth, token design and governance as well as investor and mentor networks.

2020 - 2020

  • Vice President - Strategic Advisor to Chairman / CEO Capgemini ANZ

    2020 - 2020

    After 7 years leading WhiteSky Labs, we were acquired by Capgemini in March 2020, I am Strategic Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of Capgemini ANZ with an additional focus across Capgemini APAC and Japan, working with the executive leadership team. Focused on business strategy for existing markets Capgemini operates in across the APAC region including the identification of new opportunities to accelerate growth. Priorities include enabling positive and sustainable business change, both internally and for key customers through the implementation of enterprise solutions, that are both innovative yet also highly focused, pragmatic and relevant to specific industries and also the current macro-economic and geopolitical environment we are operating in today.

2013 - 2020

  • CEO

    2013 - 2020

    WhiteSky Labs has been 100% focussed on the MuleSoft AnyPoint platform for the past 5 years. This is all WhiteSky does and as such we are unique in the APAC region we believe. As specialists not generalists - WhiteSky provides a full range of services for MuleSoft across the SDLC; including Strategy and Architecture, Organisational Readiness including C4E / COE, Project and Programme Planning (how else can you get reuse), Project and Programme Delivery and Managed Services. As a team of specialists in enterprise integration, the management and key staff have worked together for a long time and are well known and easy to reference. We are proud of what we do and also of winning back-to-back awards from MuleSoft as APAC Delivery Partner of the Year 2017 and APAC Solution Partner of the Year 2018. Currently operating out of Sydney, Melbourne and offshore COE in Manila, WhiteSky has grown to over 75 people as at July 2018.

  • Sales Operations Director

    2013 - 2013

    Day-to-day operational sales management of Red Rock's ANZ sales teams. Management of the bid process, sales pipelines with responsibility for Red Rock's Oracle relationship.

  • Strategic Accounts Director

    2011 - 2013

    Operational sales management across VIC and NSW sales teams as well as development of key partnership relationships.

  • Enterprise Architecture and SOA Practice Director

    2009 - 2011

    Sold Glue AP to UXC, the ASX listed parent company of Red Rock.

2006 - 2009

  • CEO

    2006 - 2009

    Owner of the Asia Pacific business of glue: an IT strategy consultancy focusing on Enterprise Architecture, Business Process and SOA.

2002 - 2006

  • Sales Manager

    2002 - 2006

    UK based strategy consultancy focused on Enterprise Architecture, Business Process, Enterprise Integration and delivery services across the Tier 1 integration stacks.

2001 - 2002

  • Sales Manager

    2001 - 2002

    French systems integrator specialising in object oriented technologies.

2000 - 2001

  • Sales Executive

    2000 - 2001

1999 - 2000

  • Trading Platform Manager

    1999 - 2000

    Global exchange for the food and drink industry.