Pollenizer is Australia’s leading start-up creation company. In three years, Pollenizer has made 25 investments, had a ~$40m exit and helped raise $10m+ in investment. Unlike other seed accelerators around the world, Pollenizer is a co-founder and hands on teammate in each start-up they build. Not just an investor or advisor. Pollenizer highlights for 2011 [...]
This morning I caught up with a lot of the team about what we’re working on. I was very happy to hear that following the Spreets acquisition by Yahoo our team was proud but focused on the work at hand. It’s interesting for Pollenizer since we are co-founders, but we step back when the business [...]
Fantastic news today for the Spreets team, for Yahoo!7, for the Australian technology community and of course the Pollenizer team. Read below for the story, and a few notes from us at the bottom. Yahoo!7 acquires Spreets – leading Australian and New Zealand online Group Buying company SYDNEY, Australia, 20 January, 2011 – Online media [...]
What an amazing year we’ve had at Pollenizer! Babies born, dresses worn, new team members, bootcamps, founders, began Pollenizer Ventures…. Fantastic! Here’s a few ways we’ve contributed to the economy in the past year… Number of jobs created: 60 Tax paid: Just the right amount. Investments made: 4 totaling $165,000 New companies formed: 8 Highlights [...]
Summary: Pollenizer portfolio company Dealised offers white label group buying platform including support and documentation to make it work. More than 15,000 vouchers have been sold through the system, valued at over $5m. Pollenizer is ready to unleash one of our portfolio companies upon the world. A customisable, all-inclusive system to run daily deals, like [...]
Good to see a list of MegaTrends coming out from Ron Conway on ReadWriteStart and Techcrunch As a quick summary of how some of Pollenizer’s portfolio fits in here; Social – 99Dresses, Posse, Linqia (exited) Real time – TanglerLive Location based services – none yet – contact us. Mobile – mogeneration, OzPDA Urban entrepreneurs – [...]
We’ve been busy and here’s the proof. Below are past editions of ‘The Buzz’ June 2011 Subscribe to The Buzz Newsletter here
Pollenizer wants to be a co-founder of your next web business. Our goal: Invest our team and money in 10 web startups by June 30, 2011. Pollenizer’s focus is on: Startup, idea-stage web businesses, In Australia, Targeting consumers, Commercially focused, With a committed founder, with industry experience, That need an experienced co-founder to invest time [...]
As many of you know, we’ve been helping Spreets get started, so we’re very excited to announce today that Spreets has launched to all Australian capital cities. Read the media release below for more info: Group buying site Spreets receives $2 million investment and joins forces with brandsExclusive in new billion dollar industry Australia’s first [...]
Briefly, I mentioned a quick business idea to Dean and Justus from Spreets. It was an alternate way to use the same technology to grow a new revenue stream. Dean’s response; “One day, but right now, I’m not wasting a single second or cent chasing anything else.” Great answer. It doesn’t cost much or take [...]
