William Deane
Managing Director @ Exto Partners
Sydney, Australia
William Deane is a venture - series unknown investor at Exto Partners in Sydney focused on Content and Apps. For more than 18 years, William has advised on, and been actively involved in financing and developing early-stage companies from both the company perspective and the investor perspective. He has assisted founders and investors to exit from private companies through trade sales, management buy-outs and public offerings.As a Co-Founder andPrincipal of Exto Partners, William assists clients with capital raising, corporate structuring, business development and strategic transaction negotiation.William is an experienced corporate lawyer, having worked in Australia with Blake Dawson Waldron’s corporate group and in the United States with Sidley & Austin’s corporate group and Skadden, Arp, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP’s investment management group. William is admitted to practice law in Victoria, Australia and New York, USA and has an L.L.B. (hons) from Bond University 1995 and a B.A (hons) from the University of Sydney 1992.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries William Deane invests in
Stages William Deane invests in
Countries William Deane invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Content 2 (67%)
- Apps 1 (33%)
- Music 1 (33%)
- Podcast 1 (33%)
- Big Data 1 (33%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (67%)
- Series A 1 (33%)
Investments
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| Zetaris is an analytical data virtualization platform providing a single application programming interface for connecting data. It specializes in digital analytics, Hadoop analytical data platforms, pattern recognition, accumulative data analytics for data security, business intelligence, event-based interaction, and analytics practices. Theplatform also helps businesses to offer new software products and conceptual frameworks for the data-driven applications industry.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria. | $22.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 05, 2022 | ||
| TRIBE’s award-winning platform helps marketers unlock instant branded content from influential creators. It allows brands to increase their marketing efficiency via a powerful platform that can be accessed through an annual subscription or pay-per-use. While everyday creators can make money creating content for the brands they already use and love.TRIBE was founded in Australia in 2015 by Jules Lund and has since expanded into the U.K. (2017) and the U.S. (2019). TRIBE has connected 6000+ brands like Unilever, Amazon, American Express, Facebook, Mars and Diageo with 50,000+ diverse creators to create over 1,000,000 pieces of branded content across 10,000+ campaigns. | $4.2M / Series A / Apr 19, 2016 | ||
| Tuned Global provides B2B turnkey streaming solutions to help brands and companies quickly add music, audio, or video streaming content and functionalities to their digital services | $5.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 05, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About Exto Partners
Exto Partners is a diversified private investment firm based in Australia.The Company Directors work with both emerging and established companies to help them achieve their business goals through capital investment, strategic planning, corporate advisory and exit planning and execution.Exto Partners build high performance globalbusinesses that embrace innovation, transform established industries and challenge existing market leaders to drive value for shareholders.
Exto Partners Contacts
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What does William Deane invest in?
William Deane invests primarily in Content, Apps and Music startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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