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Di Challenor on raising Australia's largest ever seed round
In the heart of Haymarket in Sydney’s CBD, a group of 110 engineers and bankers are building a new company that simplifies how banks operate.
At the helm of this operation, which is called Constantinople after the Roman Empire, is a formidable woman called Di Challenor. Never being the one to tell herself no, Di and her co-founder Mac Duncan hold a unique title in Australian business history as the duo to raise the largest ever seed round for Constantinople – $32 million.
So what went into the making of this founder? In this episode, Di Challenor sits down with Natasha Gillezeau to talk about life growing up as the daughter of a mining executive, which meant regularly moving schools and always being the 'new girl', how to raise capital, and the sheer power of never giving up.