Our team has sat on both sides of the table - in investment committees, accelerators, and founding teams. We bring that perspective to every founder we work with.
Michael Macrides
Co-Founder
Investment professional with deep experience identifying and backing high-potential deep tech ventures at the intersection of breakthrough science and commercial opportunity. Michael has spent his career evaluating companies through the lens of institutional investment committees - understanding what separates fundable ventures from great technology that can't raise.
At Breakthrough Victoria, Michael served as Senior Director of Venture Capital, where he assessed and supported deep tech companies across the portfolio. He brings the investor committee perspective to every founder engagement - the same rigour, the same questions, and the same evidence standards that determine whether cheques get written.
Michael co-founded InflectionLab because he kept seeing the same pattern: world-class deep tech that couldn't raise, not because it wasn't investable, but because founders couldn't articulate why it was.
LinkedIn ↗Noel Paul
Co-Founder
8+ years across venture capital, private equity, and investment banking with deep expertise in deal structuring, financial modelling, and investment analysis. Noel brings the analytical rigour of institutional investing to every founder engagement - the same standards applied to billion-dollar transactions, applied to your raise.
Noel's career spans Deutsche Bank's investment banking division, the Lighthouse Infrastructure Fund, Rothschild & Co's advisory practice, and Breakthrough Victoria's venture capital team. Across these roles, he has evaluated hundreds of investment opportunities, built complex financial models, and sat in the rooms where investment decisions are made.
At InflectionLab, Noel leads the analytical engine - investment thesis development, financial modelling, competitive intelligence, and the evidence architecture that turns founder conviction into investor confidence.
LinkedIn ↗Why This Work Exists
We built InflectionLab around the pattern we kept seeing in investment committees: exceptional ventures losing conviction because the translation was missing.
Every member of the InflectionLab team has spent significant time in the rooms where investment decisions are made. We know how investment committees think. We know what questions get asked after the founder leaves. We know what gaps kill deals that should have gotten done - and we know because we've watched it happen.
We founded InflectionLab because we kept seeing the same pattern: genuinely world-class deep tech ventures that couldn't raise. Not because they weren't investable, but because they couldn't articulate why they were. The technology was real. The team was capable. But the translation was missing.
That's the gap we close. We act as your VC-in-Residence - pre-empting the hard questions, identifying the red flags, building the evidence base, and preparing founders to walk into those rooms with substance, not just slides.
Beyond our core team, we draw on a trusted network of specialist advisors for commercialisation strategy and domain-specific input - brought in on the engagements where their expertise moves the needle.
What We Value
Honesty over comfort
If the evidence doesn't support the thesis, we'll tell you. Our job is to prepare you for the hardest questions investors will ask - not to tell you what you want to hear.
Substance and Narrative
A compelling narrative opens the door. The evidence behind it closes the deal. We build both - the story that resonates in the room and the data room that survives diligence.
Founders in the driver's seat
We don't raise capital for you. We prepare you to run your own raise - because investors back founders who demonstrate they can manage the process themselves.
Conviction-led Engagement
We engage when we have genuine conviction in a venture. We don't take on engagements out of obligation - we take them on because we believe in the team, the technology, and the opportunity. That conviction shapes everything we do.
Work With Our Team
Submit your venture for review, or reach out directly if you have questions about our process.