Partner, Square Peg Capital
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Board Member (former) | Vow | Square Peg Capital |
| Board Member (former) | Partly | Square Peg Capital |
| Board Member (former) | Neara | Square Peg Capital |
| Boss (former) | Startmate | Startup Daily |
| Partner | Square Peg Capital | Startup Daily (24 Jun 2025), Startup Daily (11 Dec 2024), Our Innovation Fund, Startup Daily (26 Mar 2024), Square Peg Capital (13 Dec 2023), Square Peg Capital (13 Dec 2023), Square Peg Capital (13 Dec 2023), Startup Daily (24 Apr 2023), Startup Daily (17 Apr 2023), Square Peg Capital (17 Apr 2023), Square Peg Capital (23 Dec 2021) |
Stories naming James Tynan. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Square Peg has backed NexusMD, a Melbourne startup using AI agents to cut hospital admin work, in a $6.3 million seed round; cofounder Mike Zhu earlier sold Baikemy Net to ByteDance.
Neara, an Australian AI infrastructure startup, raised $45 million led by EQT, Partners Group and Square Peg Capital, with Skip Capital and Prosus Ventures returning; funds target North American and European expansion.
Square Peg partner James Tynan interviews Neara's chief commercial officer Jack Curtis on the company's 3D modelling of energy networks, doubling grid capacity, and constraints on the energy transition.
Square Peg partners discuss climate tech investing at the firm's AGM: venture's role, regulation, energy cost tailwinds, and startups they flag such as Tomorrow.io, Vow, Neara and Amber; also recalls Occidental buying Carbon Engineering.
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Square Peg's blog runs a conversation from its 2023 AGM in which partner James Tynan interviews Neara's chief commercial officer Jack Curtis about the company's grid-modelling software and the energy transition.
Ignition Lane's weekly wrap: Tiger Global's losses and past Australian bets, MilkRun and TradeSquare closures, Cyara's Spearline acquisition, a Co Ventures pre-seed fund, Square Peg's partner promotion and LaunchVic's 30×30 picks.
Square Peg has promoted James Tynan, a 2020 hire who previously ran Startmate, to partner; the piece also lists startups he has backed for the firm, such as Vow, Neara, Partly and Blinq.
Square Peg announces James Tynan as its newest partner, with reflections from Vow's CEO and Square Peg's investment team on his approach, plus his board roles at Partly and Neara and sector outlook.
Square Peg Capital's year-in-review recaps its 2021 portfolio: raises it led or joined, SPAC listing decisions, Vend's acquisition, new investment-team hires, and its newsletter and podcast output.
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