Capability

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Entrepreneurs in Residence Pty Ltd (eir) unites leading experts and industry practitioners to offer guidance, training, ​and support in scaling operations. We focus on creating value, securing funding, and achieving shareholder success.

Our express aim is to make your business relevant, relatable, realistic, and importantly, reachable.

Our philosophy revolves around four key principles: management, market, money, and momentum.

With over 35 years of combined experience working with entrepreneurial ventures and capital providers, we ​understand the unique challenges and barriers faced by both sides and how to bridge the gap between them.

We believe that sustainable and successful ventures are built on entrepreneurs and investors leveraging insights, ​expertise, networks, and teams to develop capability, connections, and capital.

This is why we adopt a thoughtful approach with early-stage businesses and investors, ensuring that effective ​corporate structures, business models, capital strategies, and market connections are established to foster scalable, ​high-impact, and investment-ready ventures.

Greg Riebe

Executive Director

Co-founder of eir, WA’s first technology incubator managing ​federal funds, Greg has over 20 years’ experience in ​commercialisation, advisory, corporate innovation, and venture ​management. He excels at identifying how enabling technologies ​and scalable business models can create high-performance, ​fundable enterprises. He is a founding member of Perth Angels ​and in 2020, was awarded Angel Investor of the Year and WA ​Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year.

Danielle Riebe

Associate Director

Danielle has extensive experience in innovation management ​and investor relations, as well as local government, marketing ​and events, and international film programming. Her deep ​understanding of the entrepreneurial ecosystem stems from ​collaborating with leading industry practitioners, ​spearheading various initiatives and working with diverse ​impact-driven business ventures.