Simon Newstead
Founding Partner at Bovotica
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Newstead is a founding partner and early-stage investor focused on transforming Asia’s food, agriculture and climate sectors, blending 11+ years of operational and investing experience from Melbourne. He leads Better Bite Ventures and cofounded the Asia Climate Hub and a weekly Food Meets Climate podcast that surfaces founders building climate-friendly food systems. A serial builder and backer, Simon has founded or invested in dozens of alt-protein, agri-tech and climate startups—from consumer brands to deep tech—bringing both go-to-market and engineering-savvy perspectives. His background in electrical engineering and a decade-plus in tech leadership (including senior product and emerging technologies roles at Juniper and Siemens) gives him a rare mix of technical rigor and venture intuition. Simon also co-founded consumer ventures and a human-accountability app that ties commercial products to nonprofit impact, signaling a pragmatic commitment to altruism. He’s known for actively connecting founders across Asia and for turning learning projects into scalable businesses and investments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
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Github contributions (4)
polljoy/polljoy-Unity
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 1 day
polljoy/polljoy-android
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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