Olga Hogan | Head of Funds Management
Innovation Victoria

Olga is the Head of Funds Management at Innovation Victoria, where she manages the University Innovation Platform, a pre-seed co-investment program that partners with Victorian universities to back startups and spinouts emerging from their research. Her funds management work spans fund design, capital deployment governance and deal structuring. She also oversees the firm's investments in other VC funds and, through the Alice Anderson Fund, its investments in female-led startups. A Fellow Chartered Accountant with a PhD in Science, Olga co-founded a machine learning startup and has worked in research commercialisation and capital markets across Australia and the UK. Olga is also a Non-Executive Director of Eva Tilley, a standalone not-for-profit residential aged-care organisation in Melbourne, and an External Advisory Member of Deakin University's Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research. Its researchers are embedded within six major Victorian health services: Alfred Health, Barwon Health, Eastern Health, Epworth Healthcare, Monash Health and Western Health. Olga is passionate about backing researchers and founders whose companies will shape Australia's next generation of industries.