We appointed the Head of Portfolio, a venture leadership hire, to build and back the next companies. One of several senior appointments we delivered for X15.
X15 — x15ventures builds and backs ventures with the reach of Commonwealth Bank behind them.
The market for this leadership
Live MitchelLake intelligence across Fintech / Payments and Oceania.
More leadership we placed at X15
Adjacent signals across Fintech / Payments
Leadership Change · Oceania
Microba Life Sciences →Director Ian Frazer departed the board of ASX-listed Microba Life Sciences on 21 October 2026; a final Director's Interest Notice was filed.
“a merger would create a leader in microbiome and infectious disease diagnostics, with broader revenue and customer bases and a materially stronger balance sheet to meet the significant global opportunity facing the merged group.”
Capital Raising · Oceania
Forward Deployed →Chemical threat detection startup Forward Deployed raised $1M to turn its DINGO detection system into field-ready equipment for hostile zones.
Partnership · Oceania
Orbis Investment Management →Orbis Investment Management appointed Heathcote Investment Partners to distribute its global equities strategy in New Zealand, widening access for local financial advisers and wholesale investors.
M&A Activity · Oceania
La Trobe Financial →Canadian public pension fund OMERS has acquired a minority stake of nearly 20% in Australian lender La Trobe Financial from its owner Brookfield.
Partnership · Oceania
Brennan →Australian systems integrator Brennan has been designated an OpenAI Select Partner under the OpenAI Partner Network, to build, sell and deliver OpenAI-based AI solutions to enterprise customers.
Partnership · Oceania
SCX.ai →Sydney-based SCX.ai (ASX:SCX) has joined Elon Musk's SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network as a launch partner alongside NVIDIA, Snowflake, Databricks and MongoDB. It will integrate its AI models and tools with Grok and build plugins linking Grok to its Australian-hosted infrastructure.