Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

Below are some of the portfolio companies Pollenizer has helped build.

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Spreets is an Australian-focused group buying platform co-founded by Pollenizer in December 2009 and sold to Yahoo7 in January 2011. As a founding partner, Pollenizer provided Spreets with strategic. technology, design and marketing support. Phil Morle was on the board.

As the ‘Social Network Marketplace’ Linqia helped monetise social networks by connecting brands and their agencies as well as attracting valuable partners. As technical founder, Pollenizer realigned Linqia’s product focus allowing it to move and develop quickly. Share buyout by new investors.

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Owned and developed by Pollenizer, Dealised provides group-buying platforms to enterprise businesses in several countries including the UK, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the middle east and America. Dealised supports its partners with ongoing training and analytics to ensure they stay on top of the fast-moving group-buying space.

Friendorse allows people to discover the products and services their friends recommend. Pollenizer is currently driving technical, design and customer acquisition activity. Phil Morle is on the Friendorse advisory board.

As winner of the Next Web Australia “Best Mobile Startup” Award in 2010, mogeneration has one of the world’s leading iPhone/iPad content management platforms. It helps publishers and media companies such as NRMA, News Limited and True Local communicate in new ways. Recently, Mogeneration concluded a multi-million capital raise. Mick Liubinskas is on the board.

Wooboard is a fun online game that you can use to motivate your team. It is a employee incentive game proven to unlock the superhero abilities hidden in all your employees.

NobleVillage is a private club that offers members an exclusive experience at Sydney’s premier restaurants. Members receive insider pricing, treatment and access to Sydney’s top food destinations.

Little Red Box is positioned to become Australia’s premier online cosmetic business. Initially customers will subscribe to receive a monthly box of cult and specialty beauty products.

Unrenovated is exclusively for unrenovated property listings and is uniquely targeted to attract buyers looking for unrenovated properties in Australia. Pollenizer acts as the technical co-founder for Unrenovated.

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MythofMe is a set of tools to help you write the stories of your life. You can share them with loved ones, print them in a book, or keep them private as a record of your own memories. Pollenizer acts as MythofMe’s technical co-founder.

OzPDA has developed an array of mobile applications, most notably OzWeather for the iPhone and iPad, both of which consistently top the best seller list on Australian iTunes. Pollenizer has provided strategic and product input into the development of these and other successful OzPDA applications.

With Pollenizer’s technical and design support, Posse improved its core transaction engine and API to allow more suppliers and increase channels of promotion. Pollenizer also played a key part in helping Posse find significant investment. Phil Morle is on the board.

StageBitz is a SaaS-based inventory management system for the entertainment industry. Using StageBitz, props professionals can manage the whole life-cycle of a prop from design through realisation to use and storage. As co-founder, Pollenizer supports StageBitz with customer development.

Tangler is a network of discussion forums that allows real-time, persistent conversation into which contributors can deploy and share rich media such as images, videos and flash widgets easily. Pollenizer provided technology, design and customer acquisition support.

TravelCandy showcases deals to boutique hotels around Australia. As technical founder, Pollenizer is driving the TravelCandy’s product and design.

Mixin allows users to share their future social calendars in rich ways. Pollenizer played an advisory role with technical and marketing support.

Lingopal is a user-friendly, multilingual translator for your desktop, iPhone and iPad. Pollenizer provided technical support and advised Lingopal on product, design and marketing at the beginning of the project. iPhone and iPad applications were developed by mogeneration.

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SportsPassion provided a set of management tools which better enable volunteer administrators to communicate and organise their teams.