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We're in this together, investing in bold ideas and the founders brave enough to chase them.
The posts and insights here reflect our collective hunch, that the future's full of unknowns, and no one can predict it. But with shared perspectives and a little optimism, we just might back the ones who get it right.
AI is clearing maths’ backlog of open problems. Why that makes university commercialisation the next golden age, and what it means for angels.
Why AI doomerism looks like a list of problems to an angel investor and cybersecurity, defence and regtech startups I expect founders to pitch
A SAFE vs priced round is a governance decision disguised as paperwork. How I think about where an angel deal sits on the grey scale of governance.
Good analysis is the entry fee. Richard Moore on why the startup pitch narrative decides who gets funded, and what a 1999 water float taught him.
AI capex is at record levels and the grid can’t keep up. The data centre energy startups that close that gap are being founded in Brisbane right now.
Australia’s downstream processing dreams always died on freight. Exporting intelligence weighs nothing, and that changes things for Queensland gas.
A $31.9bn data centre is going on a Queensland feedlot. The scarce input isn’t gas or land, it’s speed to power. Here’s what that tells an angel investor.
The expensive-vs-cheap AI model debate is priced in tokens. The real question is the AI services stack, and where the angel opportunities in it are.
Angel capital moves in a cycle: arriving late, retreating fast. A mental model for reading the flow, and why market weakness is often the best opportunity.
Every angel carries a mental model of the upside, whether or not they have written it down. Mine is that I have a 1 in
Startup exits cluster at $20–40m because that’s where a founder’s personal number gets met. Why that gravity makes the big outcomes unforecastable.
Angelmatic automates the discipline of angel investing: diversified, prequalified, hands-off. Why I built it, and why I’d use it myself.
The biggest venture wins were built in the grey. Why angel investing regulatory risk is really a bet on where politics lands, and how I read it.
MooCoo backs Neosframe, the Brisbane platform that puts advertising compliance into the software instead of the policy document.
An angel investment thesis isn’t a one-liner about a sector. It’s what you build once you admit you can’t pick winners.
The AI data centre backlash has a physical focal point: energy, water, noise. Two technologies are making that target disappear, and the deals are local.
