Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business as Next Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.
Date | Company Name | Round | Money Raised | Industry | |
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May 21, 2019 | Sorare | Pre-seed | €550K | Blockchain | Detail |
Jan 27, 2016 | Civic | Seed | $2.75M | Blockchain | Detail |
Sep 18, 2014 | Hyphen Group | Seed | $6M | Banking | Detail |
Dec 1, 2013 | CoinJar | Series Unknown | $500K | Bitcoin | Detail |