Investments
Over a the past several years I've looked at something like 400 startups and early stage
companies as possible investments. Here are some I have invested in.
- Bijingo has great enterprise project management
software.
- Blue Reef does role-based
access control and network enforcement, specialising in the schools market.
- Bluechiip has an RFID chip
which can be autoclaved and revolutionises tracking of medical
devices and samples.
- E-Ball does sports
simulators using a real ball.
- Gramercy Venture Advisors advises
and assists companies with capital raising.
- ProfitLink had software called Mobileezy to connect a Palm or PocketPC to an accounting
system like MYOB or Attache. Now see
Anigo Systems.
- Readify provides education,
training and consultancy around Microsoft developer products.
- StarPlayit has software
that does real-time polyphonic note detection of music played on
real instruments.
- Epiphany Games
builds real-time strategy games, that bring a world to life and
allow you to live in it and fight epic battles for survival.
- Lockbox provides security
document exchange using essentially unbreakable peer-to-peer
technology.
- Rome2Rio does very fast
multi-modal route planning, for when flying is not the whole story.
- Welldog provides
revolutionary coal mine gas testing and other advanced mining
technologies.
Most of my investment activities these days are focussed on Melbourne Angels,
an angel investment group affiliated with the AAAI. The site has lots of
reading material for people who think they want to raise capital, or get
into early stage investing.
I'm always on the lookout for the opportunity to help early stage
companies, and perhaps to invest in them. These are a few I've had a
hand in starting or shaping.
If you have an investment opportunity I might be interested in,
please contact me.