Your partner for creating opportunities from AI

AI adoption for Boards and leadership teams of mid-market businesses.
Venture support for AI startups.

AI-Ready?

Hands-on support for Boards and executive teams
Staff capability-building and organisational change management
Find, prioritise and implement AI use-cases
Design, build and deploy AI Agents and Custom GPTs
Design and implement AI-first business processes
Risk management

AI Uplift Program

Co-designed and delivered with the Peregian Digital Hub, AI Uplift helps leadership teams of mid-market companies build practical, business-aligned roadmaps for AI adoption. The program supports executives in using AI themselves, identifying AI opportunities, uplifting internal capability, managing risks, and building pilot projects.
To date, the program has supported about 100 businesses that collectively employ over 2,000 staff across multiple sectors.

"a huge thank you to the entire team for putting together such a thoughtfully designed and empowering program. The calibre of insights, support and real-world application throughout the workshops has been invaluable for our business growth"

Startup growth

Fractional commercial roles - CEO, COO, Bus Dev
Early customer discovery and validation
Go-to-market
Capital raising

Team

Director - Steve Telburn
Steve has spent over 15 years advising mid-market organisations, helping identify and drive strategic opportunities created by emerging technologies.
An experienced Board Director, Steve is currently a Director and the Chair of the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee at Exercise and Sports Science Australia, the peak body for over 11,000 allied health professionals.Steve is a seasoned venture leader, taking four early-stage ideas through to Series A funding, a milestone reached by just a small fraction of startups. Over the past two decades, he has founded or led multiple deep-tech ventures across AI, cloud, IoT, gaming infrastructure, and digital health, with backing from Australia’s top VC funds.Steve is now a Venture Partner at Antler, the world's most active investor in AI startups.

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