Dr Olga Hogan

Olga is the Senior Investment Director at Breakthrough Victoria, where she co-designed and now leads the $100 million University Innovation Platform – a pre-seed co-investment program that partners with Victorian universities to back the startups and spinouts emerging from their research. The Platform also runs a Fellowship program, which invests in early-stage founders taking their first steps out of the lab. 

A Fellow Chartered Accountant with a PhD in Electrochemistry, Olga has co-founded a deep tech startup and worked in research translation and capital markets across Australia and the UK. 

She is committed to backing the researchers whose science will shape Australia’s next generation of industries. 

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