Melbourne Angels is actively engaged in supporting the entrepreneurial community in Victoria. We regularly participate in events to promote and develop our local entrepreneurs. Melbourne Angels members are available as speakers, panellists, mentors, judges and are eager to participate in your events that support the entrepreneurial community, the early-stage investment community and the education and government sectors. To inquire about our support please write to us here.
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On this page we like to share some of our stories with you …
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On this page we like to share some of our stories with you …
Past News Items
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Melbourne Angels Members at Large, November 2011
Members appeared as featured speakers at a variety of events including:
In 2010-2011, Melbourne Angels supported and/or sponsored:
- AAAI National Angels Conference;
- AANZ Summit for Angels in New Zealand;
- ACA National Angels Summit in USA;
- Anthill Cool Company Awards;
- Asian Business Angel Forum;
- Chinese Early-Stage Investment Forum;
- Churchill Club;
- Dealers Group Private Wealth Management Forum;
- Design Victoria Design Festival;
- Kauffman Startup Weekend;
- Kuala Lumpur International Venture Capital Symposium;
- MobileMondayMelbourne;
- The Hub; and
- Transmedia Victoria International Conference and Workshops.
In 2010-2011, Melbourne Angels supported and/or sponsored:
- Australian Business Icon – Victoria
- Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship
- Engineers Australia Engineering Week Entrepreneurship Workshop
- Final Thesis Seminar for Masters of Marketing (Internet Marketing) for the Graduate School of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne
- iAwards
- Kauffman Startup Weekend
- Melbourne University Entrepreneurs Challenge
- Microsoft BizSpark Bootcamp
- RMIT BizPlan Competition
Melbourne Angels supports Geelong ICT $50,000 IT Invention Test
Melbourne Angels, as Victoria's only Angel Investor group, is an active supporter of a range of entrepreneurial initiatives in Victoria.
The $50,000 IT Invention Test is a national investment pitching competition founded by ICT Geelong. Melbourne Angels provided active support with its members delivering a number of workshops in the early rounds of the competition and judging each round of the competition.
Melbourne Angels President and Founder, Jordan Green, was a keynote speaker at the Technology Entrepreneurship Forum that preceded the final pitches and judging in Geelong on October 28th, 2011. The following week Jordan teamed with Jerry Engel from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley University in California to deliver an entrepreneur boot-camp for finalists and other contestants in the Invention Test. Melbourne Angels member Maurice Grasso was also on the faculty of the boot-camp.
This active involvement by Melbourne Angels reflects the commitment of the group to supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Victoria and the active interest of the group to invest in promising start-up ventures across a broad range of sectors. The standard of the finalists was very high and the group anticipates investing in at least one of those companies in the coming months.
Media coverage for this event and Melbourne Angels involvement includes this article.
The $50,000 IT Invention Test is a national investment pitching competition founded by ICT Geelong. Melbourne Angels provided active support with its members delivering a number of workshops in the early rounds of the competition and judging each round of the competition.
Melbourne Angels President and Founder, Jordan Green, was a keynote speaker at the Technology Entrepreneurship Forum that preceded the final pitches and judging in Geelong on October 28th, 2011. The following week Jordan teamed with Jerry Engel from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley University in California to deliver an entrepreneur boot-camp for finalists and other contestants in the Invention Test. Melbourne Angels member Maurice Grasso was also on the faculty of the boot-camp.
This active involvement by Melbourne Angels reflects the commitment of the group to supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Victoria and the active interest of the group to invest in promising start-up ventures across a broad range of sectors. The standard of the finalists was very high and the group anticipates investing in at least one of those companies in the coming months.
Media coverage for this event and Melbourne Angels involvement includes this article.
Melbourne Angels supports Bendigo Inventor Awards
Melbourne Angels, as Victoria's only Angel Investor group, is an active supporter of a range of entrepreneurial initiatives in Victoria.
The Bendigo Inventor Awards encourage imagination through a competitive process to identify, support and promote practical, original ideas that create employment and recognise Central Victoria as a centre of invention and innovation - "A Thinking City".
Read about the first workshop in the progam here. See Melbourne Angel Michael Stroeder present at the second workshop below and our members will be actively engaged in the remaining workshops and judging of the Awards.
The Bendigo Inventor Awards encourage imagination through a competitive process to identify, support and promote practical, original ideas that create employment and recognise Central Victoria as a centre of invention and innovation - "A Thinking City".
Read about the first workshop in the progam here. See Melbourne Angel Michael Stroeder present at the second workshop below and our members will be actively engaged in the remaining workshops and judging of the Awards.
Bendigo Inventor of the Year Awards
June 2011
In May and June Melbourne Angels members Jordan Green and Michael Stroeder have been panelists in Bendigo for this important regional program. These workshops were well attended with over 70 people at each workshop and networking continuing well after the official close. As usual our Angels were in high demand and able to give a variety of valuable guidance to the many inventors and entrepreneurs in the room. Several investment prospects arose that are being further evaluated by the Melbourne Angels.
The group actively supports entrepreneurs and innovators throughout the State of Victoria. We know that great ideas will come from many sources and great investment opportunities arise in all of our State's towns and cities. Working with regional communities is just one way to promote the success of early-stage enterprise in Victoria.
Later in the year Melbourne Angels members will participate in other events to support the Bendigo Inventor Awards and their important role in showcasing the imagination and talent of inventors and entrepreneurs in regional Victoria.
The group actively supports entrepreneurs and innovators throughout the State of Victoria. We know that great ideas will come from many sources and great investment opportunities arise in all of our State's towns and cities. Working with regional communities is just one way to promote the success of early-stage enterprise in Victoria.
Later in the year Melbourne Angels members will participate in other events to support the Bendigo Inventor Awards and their important role in showcasing the imagination and talent of inventors and entrepreneurs in regional Victoria.
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Melbourne Angels members at Large, November 2010
Our members have featured as presenters, judges and guest speakers at a variety of events in 2010 including the AAAI National Angels Conference in Glenelg, the ACA Summit for Angels in North America, the AANZ Summit for Angel in New Zealand, the Victorian Design Festival, the France-Australia Chamber of Commerce, the Australian Business Icon and many others.
Melbourne Angels members at Large, November 2010
Our members have featured as presenters, judges and guest speakers at a variety of events in 2010 including the AAAI National Angels Conference in Glenelg, the ACA Summit for Angels in North America, the AANZ Summit for Angel in New Zealand, the Victorian Design Festival, the France-Australia Chamber of Commerce, the Australian Business Icon and many others.
Churchill Club
|  A fun night was had by all!! |
The John Heine Entrepreneurial Challenge 2009 December 2009
Our members are frequently involved in university business competitions as judges, mentors and organisers. This year we were very pleased to have five members involved in the John Heine Entrepreneurial Challenge which commemorates a great Australian business man and entrepreneur. This year the competition, organised by the Queensland University of Technology was held in Melbourne at the Swinburne University of Technology - Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship on December 10th and 11th with the awards dinner Friday night at the Stamford Plaza Hotel in the CBD.
Melbourne Angels members David Bennett, Paul Breen and Wolfgang Kissel were mentors for competing teams from Bond University, Australian National University and Swinburne University of Technology respectively. Members Tom McKaskill and Jordan Green were judges for the competition. Other Angel support for this competition included Ruth Drinkwater, CEO of the Australian Association of Angel Investors who was also a judge.
All the teams from around the nation made an impressive effort with their projects and the organisers are to be commended on an outstanding success for the series of events that comprise the Challenge.
We are particularly proud of our members Wolfgang Kissel and Paul Breen who mentored the first and second place winners, respectively. This certainly emulates the success we strive to deliver to the entrepreneurs who gives us the opportunity to invest in their businesses.
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MEGA- Growing Australia’s Digital Economy November 2009
MEGA is an Entrepreneurship Masterclass series which takes participants from the mobile, digital content and ICT industries through an industry-driven development program to build their creative, technical and business skills for the development of new products and services for global markets.
Melbourne Angels is very pleased to be the first Investor partner to the MEGA programme. The culmination of the MEGA programme is the Pitch Day. This year Melbourne Angels member Jordan Green was fortunate to be invited to judge the Victorian Pitch Day which saw 13 companies present. We congratulate all the teams for their impressive efforts and we recognise the achievements of the winners, Real Estate Monkey and Demic.
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Commercialisation Australia CEO Appointed 19th April 2010 Melbourne: Minister Kim Carr announced the appointment of Doron Ben Meir as the inaugural CEO of Commercailisation Australia.
Read more here ….
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Australian Innovation System Report 19th April 2010 Melbourne: Innovation Minister Kim Carr announced the Australian Innovation System Report 2010. The first of a new annual series of reports on the performance of Australia’s national innovation system that builds on the commitment by the Australian Government in Powering Ideas: An Innovation Agenda for the 21st Century to produce an annual report on innovation.
Read more here ….
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Blueprint for Sustainability in Australia
March 22, 2010 Melbourne: World Water Day
Siemens recommends Australia invest $60b over the next 10 years in renewable and low CO2 generation technologies, and $23b over the next 10 years in water infrastructure technologies to make water available for the increasing population.
The research concluded that the water crisis in Australia can be averted using currently available technologies. The report claims that the 2020 energy target of 5% below 2000 greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved through renewable and low CO2 electricity generation coupled with aggressive energy efficiency measures.
Read more here …
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Why invest in a growth business now?
December 2009
Early-stage investing is inherently counter-cyclical, just see the history of VC success in Silicon Valley, or, for a different perspective, read what Sir Richard Branson has to say. To read about the drive around the world for innovation as a response to lead recovery from the GFC check out this IEEE Spectrum article.
