About
Welcome to Playbook Ventures
Playbook Ventures is a community-powered syndicate investing in Australia’s most exciting pre-seed and seed-stage startups.
We believe the best early stage companies are often the hardest to access. That’s why we leverage the reach, trust, and relationships built through The Startup Playbook Podcast, one of Australia’s longest-running and most influential startup podcasts, to source high quality founders before they’re on everyone else’s radar.
Our model is simple:
- Discover the best: We tap into our extensive founder and investor network to find exceptional early stage opportunities.
- Invest alongside the best: We secure allocation in highly competitive rounds, co-investing with Australia’s top VCs and respected global funds.
- Support with leverage: Our portfolio companies get more than just capital. They gain exposure, introductions, and strategic support through our platform and community.
For investors, this means curated, high potential deal flow and the opportunity to invest alongside trusted backers with aligned incentives.
We back founders solving meaningful problems, with a bias for exceptional founding teams, large addressable markets, and the grit to build lasting companies.
If you want early access to some of Australia’s best founders and a syndicate that adds real value beyond the cheque, welcome to Playbook Ventures.
Team
Rohit Bhargava
Founder & Partner at Playbook Ventures.
Rohit Bhargava is a serial entrepreneur, early-stage investor, and host of The Startup Playbook Podcast - one of Australia’s longest-running and most respected startup shows, with over 200 interviews featuring previous guests such as:
- Malcom Turnbull (Former Australian Prime Minister & Investor)
- Cal Henderson (Co-founder & CTO of Slack)
- Micha Kaufman (Co-founder & CEO of Fiverr)
- Jason Calacanis (Angel Investor - Uber, Robinhood, Calm etc)
- & 200+ others
As the founder of Playbook Ventures, Rohit helps investors get access to Australia’s most promising pre-seed and seed-stage startups, leveraging the reach of his podcast and a trusted network to source exceptional founders, win allocation in competitive rounds, and amplify portfolio companies through distribution and connections.
Beyond investing, Rohit is also the founder of The Komo Club, the world’s first human accelerator, a high-performance community and program designed to help ambitious founders, operators, and leaders win in business and in life.
Previously, Rohit was the former Co-Founder & CEO of StageLabel, a platform that helped launch and grow 150+ brands globally and Co-founded One Future Football, a global venture-backed AI sports platform. He was also an early team member of the Startup team at AWS covering approx 300 partners across Australia. He is passionate about backing extraordinary founders early and building communities that empower people to perform at their best, both professionally and personally.