Nick McNaughton

Part of Sydney Angels, Inc., Sydney Angels Group Pty Ltd. is an angel investing group based in Sydney, Australia. The Australian company screens hundreds of investment opportunities every year and present their members with filtered deals that would be difficult to find and assess on one ’ s own. The company's membership consists of successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, and more, who determine the most attractive deals with the benefit of their collective wisdom. The company has invested in over 40 companies to date, selected out of hundreds of applicants per year, with many on track to return 10x to their investors. The company collaborates with like-minded angel groups in other geographies and is committed to creating a world-class investment ecosystem that helps Australian companies compete and win on the world stage. Founded in 2008 by Vivian Stewart, Hamish Hawthorn, Andrew Stead, the company helps its 100 plus members invest more efficiently and effectively in innovative Australian startups.

StageBitz Pty Ltd. provides web application for the management of props, costumes, and other items by professional production companies. The company was founded by Catherine Prosser and Mat Lawrence in 2010 and is headquartered in Canberra, Australia.

Instaclustr Pty Ltd. provides managed and hosted Cassandra and DataStax enterprise solutions. The firm offers cassandra on AWS, cassandra on azure, developer nodes and pricing. Its services include proof of concept, data migration, and architecture. The company was founded by Adam Zegelin and Ben Bromhead in 2013 and is headquartered in Bruce, Australia.

Interferex Communications, Inc. provides wireless communication solutions. It offers software radio optimization products and services for 3G/4G/Wi-Fi small cell deployments, which enable wireless operators to deploy and manage small cell networks. The firm provides radio optimization solutions. The company was founded by Mark C. Reed in July 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Entry 29 Ltd. operates as a membership organization. The private company is based in Canberra, Australia.

Instaclustr, Inc. provides managed and cloud solutions. It offers apache cassandra and datastax enterprise solutions. It allows distribution of cluster servers across cloud provider failure zones. Cassandra’s rack concept is designed to group servers within a cluster where the likelihood of a failure is correlated and to provide ongoing availability despite the failure of a group of servers. The solution also allows nodes to be replaced within a cluster with no interruption to the service provided by the cluster. The company was founded by Ben Bromhead, Doug Stuart, Peter Lilley and Adam Zegelin in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

EpiAxis Therapeutics Pty Ltd. engages in biotechnology company. It pursuing a preclinical and clinical drug development program directed at the prevention of metastatic disease by targeting the pivotal enzyme system controlling the proliferation of cancer stem cells. The company was founded by Jeremy Chrisp and Sudha Rao and is headquartered in Canberra, Australia.

Liquid Instruments Pty Ltd. engages in the manufacturing of precision measurement and gravitational wave detector instrumentation. It also offers hardware and software. The company was founded by Daniel Shaddock, Magnus Hsu, David Rabeling and Danielle Wuchenich in 2014 and is headquartered in Acton, Australia.

GRIFFIN Accelerator provides the capital which is invested in the accelerator startups. The company was founded by Craig Davis, Uwe Boettcher and Nick McNaughton and is headquartered in Canberra, Australia.