David rohrsheim biography

Article from "InDaily" by Jim Plouffe

David Rohrsheim has taken over managing theSouth Australian Venture Capital Fund and has some advice for startup founders eager to secure seed money.

Having cut his teeth in San Francisco as a startup analyst before earning a MBA from Stanford, David Rohrsheim returned to Australia in 2012 to help set up Uber.

The 38-year-old has now come home to Adelaide to manage the $50 million South Australian Venture Capital Fund established by the state government to help accelerate the growth of early-stage companies to a national and global scale.

Rohrsheim, who is based in the Stone & Chalk offices at Lot Fourteen in the CBD, said that his job is to meet with startups everyday to determine who and what to invest in.

“My job is to meet South Australians with crazy ideas, and sometimes we get to give them money,” Rohrsheim said.

“When you’re looking at a s