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Liam Millward
Liam Millward is the co-founder and CEO of Instant, a Sydney-based ecommerce retention-marketing platform he started at 17 with CTO William Gao. Instant helps online brands recover abandoned carts, re-engage shoppers and lift revenue through AI-driven email, SMS and audience tools. By his early twenties the company worked with hundreds of brands, drove tens of millions in incremental revenue, and raised an $18 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures at a roughly $100 million valuation, backed by Blackbird, TEN13 and Reinventure. Millward is known for a relentless focus on profit and execution speed.
Timothy Cocaro
Timothy Cocaro is the founder and CEO of Canibuild, an AI-powered instant site feasibility platform that lets builders and homeowners check in seconds whether a house, granny flat, pool or shed can go on a block of land - collapsing weeks of surveying, drafting and estimating into a single click. A builder by trade with a computer science degree from the University of Sydney, Cocaro spent two decades running RESCON Builders, Australia's largest dedicated granny-flat company, before turning his own construction frustrations into software in 2019. Canibuild raised an AUD 8 million Series A led by EVP in 2022, grew to thousands of daily users across Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and was named #1 in Real Estate at the Google Maps Platform Awards 2025.