Arena Mars helps technology innovators to scale, so that everyone benefits from the tech-driven economy of tomorrow.
We’ve all seen countless reports on how Australia, US, UK and Europe need to build better scale-up ecosystems, foster entrepreneurship, and upskill populations.
Now is the time for action in Australia, so we’re putting our time, energy and funds into solving these national challenges.
Arena Mars helps technology innovators to scale, so that everyone benefits from the technology and economy of tomorrow.
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We invest in, join Boards of and advise start-ups, and we work with Australian Governments and Universities building national scale-up capabilities to ensure the benefits of technology reach as many people as possible.
We have done this before: we have four exits between us, we’ve founded and scaled start-ups worldwide and we’ve held executive roles in major global businesses. Along the way we’ve been in the boardrooms and ministers’ offices of leading companies and governments in multiple countries, advising on people-centric technological change.
Our goal is to combine our knowledge, experience, network and passion as AI, automation and education rapidly change how people work.

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Scale-up
We're building sovereign capability to support the scale of Australian tech startups through a state based, national ecosystem.
Board
We join Boards to help founders to scale internationally and create maximum value for all.
Invest
We back founders and teams with global aspirations, whose products help people.
Venture Partners
We’re engaged by VCs to assist their portfolio companies from DD to exit.
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We think this quote from Theodore Roosevelt says it all.
It is not the critic who counts, or those who point out how the strong stumble, or where the doers of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to those who are in the arena, whose faces are marred by dust and sweat and blood. For there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
But they who actually do the deeds, who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spend themselves in a worthy cause, who, at the best, know the triumphs of high achievement, and who, if they fail, at least fail whilst daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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GREG MILLER has a 30 year career in sales, marketing and customer success beginning with Silicon Valley major, Oracle, followed by a successful SFO start-up exit in the ‘dotcom boom’, continuing into executive roles with Peoplesoft and SAP, before co-founding and scaling Faethm to 26 countries. Greg continues to give his time to youth STEM education and indigenous education non-profits.


MICHAEL PRIDDIS works across product, design and technology. His first business was acquired by The Boston Consulting Group where he then led BCG Digital Ventures across Asia, before leading Faethm to acquisition by Pearson Plc. Mike was an inaugural member of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council.
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