startup-ecosystem-mapping-report

Frequent Founders and
SERIAL ENTREPRENEURS
People or groups of people within the ecosystem
that have founded multiple companies. This does not
necessarily represent financial value created.
STEVE DALTON
Share Your Love
Gold Coast TechSpace
Refactor
secluded.io
GC Tech Shop
Dalton Technology
Sensaware
AARON BIRKBY
Coded Intelligence
Internet Here
SenseHubly
Arinda Internet
App Start Studios
The Chat Room
Aptek
Beyond The Black Stump Productions
Silicon Lakes
AVRIL JEAN
Smooth Operator
Creature Creative
Neo Media Networks
STEPHEN NEATE
Subtle Difference
My Sunshine Coast
Brolga Real Estate
KRISTY OUWERKERK
Veilability
Wedding Village
Toto Solutions
PETRINA BUCKLEY
PAUL JONES
Credosity
Last Thursday Club
Magneto Communications
MARK WHITE
Greencloud Labs
Mobile Monday Brisbane
Locatrix Communications
STEVE BAXTER
Right Pedal Studios
River City Labs
Transition Level Investments
PIPE Networks
SENet (ISP)
TRISTAN MATTHIAS
PAUL KNITTEL
Documaps.io
Pixler Webdesign
FlowPro
STEVE BAXTER
Stephen is one of Queensland most active investors
through his seed fund Transition Level Investments,
and also one of the most active founders, having
founded both River City Labs (technology co-working
space) and Right Pedal Studios (seed accelerator for
game studios). He is currently a board member and
advisor to several companies including ASX listed
Vocus Communications, and investor in many startups
including txt4coffee, TrekTraka, goCatch, OrionVM and
Atomo Diagnostics.
At age 15 (1986) Steve joined the army serving for nine
years (1995) working on electronics, & whilst still in
the army at age 23 (1994) he convinced his fiancée to
invest their $11,000 savings (which was to be a deposit
on their first home) into building an ISP in their rented
house using six telephone lines and grew it to the 7th
largest ISP in Australia at the time. His company was
acquired by Ozemail just before the dot com bust of
the early 2000s. After taking a year off to fish he cofounded
PIPE Networks in 2001 with Bevan Slattery,
which floated with a $14m market cap. PIPE was later
acquired by TPG Telecom for $373m.
AARON BIRKBY
Aaron is one of the founders at Silicon Lakes
(incubator), founder at App Start Studios (app
development company), and founder of Coded
Intelligence (a remote telemetry monitor system for
amusement rides and vending machines). Aaron was
also a founding Director for 8 years at Arinda Internet,
a business that specialises in internet kiosks, wireless
hotspots and digital wireless advertising systems, prior
to selling it in late 2012. He has been involved in
setting up numerous other IT start-ups, including Web
Site Writers, Softcom Consulting, The Chat Room, and
Perfect World.
Before moving to the Gold Coast in 2004, he was the
A/g Manager of Intelligence Systems for Customs in
Canberra, had various intelligence roles in the National
Crime Authority, NSW Crime Commission, and was
a Consultant at PwC in Sydney. He has a Bachelor of
Science (Physics and Mathematics) from the UNSW,
and a Bachelor of Law from the University of New
England.
STEVE DALTON
Steve founded Secluded.io a sensor platform for remote
areas in 2014. Prior to this he co-founded Sensaware
(formerly Rehydrate), a wearable device that assists
rural fire-fighters to stay hydrated, and one of the
winners at the first Gold Coast Startup Weekend in
2013. Steve founded Gold Coast Tech shop in 2012 a
marketplace for Open Source & hackable hardware such
as Arduino, Electronics kits & Raspberry PIs. Since
2006 he has been an organiser for Barcamp Queensland
(a meetup group), is a Silicon Lakes Ambassador, and
recently started the very popular Lego workshops for
kids, held in the School holidays. He originally studied
at the University of Birmingham from 1992-96.
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