About
We're one of Australia's most friendly investment syndicates, bridging the gap between angels and the country's most promising startups through content and community. Our mission is simple: democratise access to high-quality early-stage investment opportunities across Australia and New Zealand.
Our Edge
What sets us apart isn't just our deal flow; it's our community. Through Overnight Success, we've built one of Australia's most beloved and trusted media platforms for startup operators, founders, and VCs. This content and distribution network doesn't just inform the sector; it also supports it. It creates unprecedented access to high-growth startup opportunities.
To paint a picture, our audience isn't just people interested in startups; they're the people creating and investing in them. Our audience includes investors from most VC funds across Australia, including Blackbird, Airtree, Square Peg, OIF, EVP, Startmate, and more. On the scale-up side, we have readers from Canva, Atlassian, and most exciting up-and-coming companies like Lorikeet, Lyka, and Euc. For founders who are just getting started, OS is one of their most trusted guides.
We're focused primarily on pre-seed and seed stage AI-first companies, where we believe small teams will achieve outsized outcomes, and capital deployed will perform better. But our community's reach means we also secure coveted secondary positions and later-stage opportunities in Australia's highest-quality scale-ups.
How We're Different
Lower barriers, higher quality. We proactively reduce the minimum investment requirement where possible. $5,000 can be a significant hurdle for many operators; we'll aim to reduce this where possible, making premium deals accessible to more experienced investors.
Education-first approach. Through exclusive content, events and courses, we help syndicate members build confidence and expertise in startup investing.
Network-driven deal sourcing. Our founding members aren't just investors; they're operators, founders, and current VCs who've scaled companies from zero to Series B and beyond. Our founding members see deals during their day-to-day, and can share them with the wider syndicate.
Leadership & Community. At the helm is Will Richards, Founder of Overnight Success, supported by a carefully curated group of Founding Members. Of course, our distribution through the OS media network gives us a significant advantage in securing deal flow.
Investment Focus
- Pre-seed and seed opportunities in AI-first startups
- Secondary positions in high-growth Australian companies
- Follow-on investments in our portfolio companies
We're not just investing in Australia's next unicorns, we're helping create them.
Team
Will Richards is the Founder of Overnight Success and has been active in Australian startups for over 5 years. He is also a senior associate at strategic communications firm Encour, which works with Venture Capital funds, startups and scale-ups.
Before working in the startup landscape, Will developed extensive experience in private equity and within family offices, particularly in the early education and childcare sector, transacting childcare assets and properties. It was in this role that he started writing OS and developed and interest in early stage investment. This led him to move into managing an angel investment group, the Regional Angel Investor Network.
Throughout the journey, will has been an active writer about startups. He has been published in Capital Brief, Startup Daily and SmartCompany.
Will has been an active angel investor in the US and Australia, having deployed personal cheques into several early-stage startups.
Connect with will on LinkedIn here.