TechTalk: Preseed Primer: Backing Founders before Traction Exists (w/ Maxine Minter, GP @ CoVentures)

Hear what Australia's most active pre-seed investor looks for when there's no traction yet, just a founder and an idea worth believing in.

Maxine Minter built Australia's first dedicated pre-seed fund and leads it as the country's first solo female venture GP, making her uniquely positioned to explain how pre-seed investors actually think. In this fireside chat moderated by Maria Halasz (CEO of Genetic Signatures), she'll walk through what she evaluates when founders have no traction yet, only conviction and an idea worth backing. You'll hear directly about the infrastructure and networks that turn early ambition into real outcomes, what founders commonly get wrong in their first fundraise, and where gaps exist in Australia's pre-seed ecosystem. This is a rare, candid conversation from someone actively writing the earliest cheques in the venture game.