Rosh Ghadamian: The Ultimate Wader
From student to program director to startup founder, Rosh Ghadamian’s journey with Wade Institute embodies the entrepreneurial spirit – proof that the mindset, community and networks built here can launch ventures that reach far beyond campus.
Sunday 13 March 2022 • 5 minute read
From budding entrepreneur, to key team member, side hustler and now bootstrapped founder, Rosh Ghadamian’s time at Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship has truly come full circle.Since his first day on campus, Rosh has encompassed the values of Wade Institute and the College. A naturally gifted ‘startup person’, Rosh graduated from the inaugural University of Melbourne Master of Entrepreneurship cohort in 2015.
After several years working in industry, Rosh returned to Wade Institute as Program Director of VC Catalyst - an investor executive education program. The first of its kind in Australia, VC Catalyst combines global best-practice with local expertise and has been successfully delivered to over 100 participants. Under Rosh’s watch, alumni from the program have collectively invested $38.5m in early-stage startups in the last two years, many of which are led by founders traditionally excluded from funding.Rosh however will always be a ‘startup person’. And so last year, in the depths of a Melbourne COVID lockdown, he co-founded Rhapsody Labs (RLXYZ), a creative design agency that partners with international brands,artists and Web3 communities to incubate and launch successful NFT projects. In just a few months, Rosh has grown RLXYZ to include exciting projects with brands such as ‘Tiger Beer’ (including raising $1.5 Million in 10 minutes) and ‘Dream Lab’s Reflections by Jacob Riglin’ - a first of its kind generative NFT photography project.Rosh believes that the networks and community he built through the Master of Entrepreneurship, VC Catalyst, the Victorian ecosystem, and the broader startup community has played a fundamental role in making him the founder he is today.
“My experience at Wade Institute has always been with entrepreneurship. It’s something Wade Institute and the University of Melbourne do really well. And with VC Catalyst, I was introduced to a whole new world of people: investors. I was fortunate to learn about their process, their methods and their mindsets.”Now with the burgeoning success of newly co-founded RLXYZ, Rosh is once again putting his entrepreneurial mindset, skills and networks to the test as he departs Wade Institute to fully immerse himself in his startup.
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