Welcome to Melbourne Angels!!
We are an inclusive group of Angel investors aiming to realise high returns from investing in high growth, entrepreneurial Australian businesses.
We are based in Melbourne with members from metropolitan and rural Victoria, and links to Angel groups across Australia, USA, Europe and Asia.
We are keen to hear from anyone with a serious interest in Angel Investing, whether you are already part of another Angel community, an experienced investor or serial entrepreneur, or just interested to find out whether what we do fits with what you do/want to be doing.
We welcome approaches from entrepreneurs seeking investments. Please read through the information for entrepreneurs on this site and, if you choose to submit your information for consideration just follow the submission links available on every page.
Please read more about Angel Investing and our particular interests and processes on these pages, and contact us if you think you fit into any of those categories. We look forward to hearing from you!
Topical Items of Interest
Commercialisation Australia gets ready …
December 2009
The new programme from the Australian Government to assist young companies has been launched under the banner of Commercialisation Australia. The suite of assistance initiatives under this programme are replacing COMET, Commercial Ready and other government programmes that have been cancelled over the last 18 months. The assistance replacing those programmes is detailed on the Commerciaisation Australia web site and comprises up to $50,000 to access specialist advice and services (similar to COMET), up to $200,000 over two years to assist in the recruitment of experienced executives, 1:1 matching Proof-of-Concept grants of $50,000 to $250,000 to test the commercial viability of a product/service/process and repayable grants of $250,000 to $2m to take a new product/srvice/process to market.
Why invest in a growth business now?
December 2009
Early-stage investing is inherently counter-cyclical, just see the history of VC success in Silicon Valley, or, for a different perspective, read what Sir Richard Branson has to say. To read about the drive around the world for innovation as a response to lead recovery from the GFC check out this IEEE Spectrum article.
