Ms Jackson says so far, working with her husband is going well. I think that the investment community and maybe the world is only just starting to work that out.". I think that needs to change. "I was looking for phenomenal entrepreneurs who had really deep experience and were solving a real problem with a global outlook and I just found this really incredible pool of female talent.". The initial series D raise earlier this year saw new investors ANZi Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, join previous backers, including DST Global, Tencent, Sequoia Capital China, Hillhouse Capital and Horizons Ventures. Ben Collier at The Agency sold the Bellevue Hill and Paddington homes. Politics. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales' School of Computer Science and Engineering. Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes decided early in their careers to give away 1 per cent of profits. Skip Capital, Kim Jackson and Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar's private investment fund, has led a $2m round in sustainable packaging start-up Zero Co. Atrium style doors open from the living area to a Peter Glass-designed pool. Picture: Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for Fortune. It's somewhat incongruous then that her own public relations firm plugs Ms Jackson as the "Atlassian co-founder’s wife". ", "Australia's 200 richest people revealed", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scott_Farquhar&oldid=983762269, People educated at James Ruse Agricultural High School, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 October 2020, at 03:02. Copyright 2019 Pinstripe Media - Digital Publishing and Video Production Agency Sydney [4] He attended James Ruse Agricultural High School in Carlingford, NSW. "I wasn't going out looking for female founders," Ms Jackson says. I was always either the only or one of two females in a room. The Point Piperhome set on 6,986 square metres (75,200 sq ft) had been in the ownership of the Fairfax family since 1891 and was vacant for nearly twenty years prior to its purchase by Farquhar.
Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar are only $1bn short of the title of the richest Australians. A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. The couple have emerged as the mystery $16.25 million buyers of the Bellevue Hill home of businesswoman Jane Hewitt. Farquhar often carries the epithet of accidental billionaire after he and his business partner Mike Cannon-Brookes founded Atlassian with the aim to replicate the A$48,000 graduate starting salary typical at corporations without having to work for someone else. In 2017 Farquhar purchased from the Fairfax family its former ancestral Sydney harbourside home, Elaine, for approximately A$ 75 million. Studied Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Commerce, through networks, contacts and expertise and capital. THE Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar and his wife, Skip Capital’s Kim Jackson, have bought an in-between house for their family of five. "We will choose different companies for each of us to lead the investment. In the past 10 years, the rich have become richer at a faster rate than probably in this nation’s history. We are a really great team and we have separated the roles extremely well.". In 2020 it was reported that Farquhar plans a partial knock-down of unsympathetic renovations to Elaine, and rebuild … Daily startup news and insights, delivered to your inbox. I was on a scholarship with Comalco Engineering and I worked ... on the floor of the smelter wearing my King Gee pants and top, 1000-volt boots and hard hat and respirator. We make no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the information, nor do we accept any liability or responsibility arising in any way from omissions or errors contained in the content. "I worked every Christmas holidays at the aluminium smelter near Yeppoon.
Point Piper home of Malcolm and Helen Spry sells post auction, Holey Moley Newtown building hits the market with $5m plus price expectations, New Kurraba Point project offers rare harbourside lifestyle, Wallabies star Michael Hooper buys four-bedroom home in Manly, Rugby league player turned hotelier Steve Bowden lists $14m Southern Highlands trophy home. Scott Farquhar, 37, has come a long way in the property market since 2006 when he bought his first home, a two-bedder in Pyrmont for $1.41 million, where he still lives. "It pains me that 90 per cent of VCs are male. I felt very happy there.". A household products company hoping to reduce the plastic waste by reusing containers for everyday products such as shampoo, liquid soaps and laundry wash has raised $2 million in seed funding, led by Skip Capital, the family VC run by Kim Jackson, wife of Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar… He is married to Kim Jackson and they have three children. Cara is the small business editor for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald based in Melbourne, How Kim Jackson is carving her own path beyond 'Atlassian co-founder's wife'. Regular backer Square Peg Capital also returned for the latest cash injection, which continues to value the fintech at US$1.8 billion, having raised US$400 million in equity funding since its founding in Melbourne in 2015. [6][7], With Cannon-Brookes, Farquhar is the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company with more than 51,000 large and small organisations as customers – including some of the biggest names in media, manufacturing and technology[8] – use Atlassian’s tracking, collaboration, communication, service management and development products. In the six short months since starting investment company Skip Capital, Kim Jackson has quickly become one of the most influential investors in the country.