Jessy Wu

Founder and Managing Director

2024 - Current

Encour is a strategic communications agency that emboldens clients to command the narrative.

Partner

2023 - 2024

AfterWork Ventures is a $20 million community-powered VC fund that invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups in Australia and New Zealand. In pooling our diverse skills, functional knowledge, and networks, we are able to punch above our weight in the quality of our dealflow, the incisiveness of our due diligence, and the breadth of support we provide to our portfolio companies. Website: afterwork.vc

Principal / Head of Community

2022 - 2023

Investment Manager / Head of Community

2021 - 2022

Fellow

2020 - 2021

Alongside my role at NAB Ventures, I was a Fellow at Afterwork Ventures.

Senior Investment Analyst

2020 - 2021

NAB Ventures is a $110 million VC fund making strategic investments in high-growth tech companies strategically aligned to NAB group. The fund has a global mandate and is stage-agnostic.

Secondee

2020 - 2020

I completed a part-time, remote secondment to Binarri-binyja Yarrawoo (BBY), the backbone organisation implementing the Empowered Communities reform agenda in East Kimberley.

Associate

2018 - 2020

I gained a breadth of experience across industries (financial services, health, higher education, government) and competencies (operating model, deal strategy, M&A).

Winter Intern

2017 - 2017

Conducted research as part of comprehensive independent review of quality assurance mechanisms in Australian hospitals. Published in "Strengthening safety statistics: How to make hospital safety data more useful" (2017)

Campus Brand Ambassador

2016 - 2016

Research Intern

2016 - 2016

Research published in ANU Journal of Undergraduate Research: Wu, Jessy. 2017. “Gifted Underachievement: The causes of gifted underachievement and interventions to reverse this pattern”. ANU Undergraduate Research Journal 8 (August), 13–26.

Electorate Officer

2016 - 2016