ABOUT

A team with
a track record.

Ampere backs the top 1% of founders in Australia, helps them build for the world, and turns them into leaders we look up to.

“Set impossible goals. Dedicate decades of your life to them. Inspire the world.”

Christie Jenkins

 Xillions

Our belief

We coach founders
like elite athletes.

The best athletes in the world have coaches.
The best founders should too.
Usually, that's the mentors and our team.
Sometimes, it means pushups.

Your custom and bespoke approach to help each founder and their company is outstanding. The team go ABOVE and BEYOND at every damn turn. It's not human what you do. It's exceptional x10!

 Xillions

Michelle Reeves
 Xillions
OUR METHOD

Leadership is a skill. It can be learned.

Leadership is the foundational skill of all elite founders. And like any skill, we can learn it by practicing with the best in the world. Our founders learn directly from:

01

The Special Forces

Where the cost of a wrong decision is a human life.

02

Executive coaches

Who work with some of the best leaders in the world.

04

Researchers

Who study the science of leadership.

03

Elite sport

Where feedback loops are immediate and standards constantly have to rise.

led by

Christie Jenkins

Athlete, investor, founder. The proof of the thesis.

Athletes and founders both chase a mission with a less than 1% chance of working. We perform under pressure, and we turn failure into fuel. That mindset is not born. It is trained.

#1

in Australia, top 10 in the world, across three sports

investor

former Managing Director of Techstars, ex-Blackbird investor

speaker

TEDx, South by Southwest, Necker Island, Paris Olympics

When Christie was MD of Techstars Sydney, she did 150 founder interviews in two weeks while across two polar opposite timezones, and wrote 48,000 words of personalised feedback, inside three days. Massive action, massive heart. That's what you're signing up for with Ampere.

 Xillions

Kevin Lu
Atrium
AMPING AUSSIE AMBITION

Meet our advisors

People who have built some of Australia's best companies and funds.
And who exemplify leadership.

Christopher Marr

Co-founder of Sonder and ThinkMD.  20 years a Special Forces officer.

Helen Norton

Former Partner, Finance and Operations, AirTree Ventures

Dominic Pym

Founder of Euphemia Family Office. Co-founder of Up Bank, Triple Bubble, Ferocia, Pin Payments, and Clear Interactive

Brad Feld

Partner at Foundry, Co-founder of Techstars, Author of Venture Deals

LEARN TO INVEST

Venture Fellowships

Breaking into venture capital is hard - very hard.
We commit to training 2 new investors every year.
You'll be in the room with us and the founders.

01

Sourcing and selection

Starts midway through applications and runs to the end ofselection. You review applications, sit in on founder interviews, and help make investment decisions.

01

The accelerator

Join for the three months of the program and work alongside the 12 founders we select, from the retreat through to demo day.

Two fellowships a year

Part-time and unpaid

Closer to an MBA than a job.

Register interest