# Alistair Croll

> Alistair Croll is a seed investor at Solve For Interesting (Montréal) backing Apps and Family. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Solve For Interesting](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solve-for-interesting)
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Aug 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alistaircroll
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/acroll
- Website: http://www.solveforinteresting.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alistaircroll

Alistair Croll is an entrepreneur, author, and startup accelerator. He is the is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent, an executive at CloudOps, an advisor to various technology venture firms, the founder of the Bitnorth conference, and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies.Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startupaccelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry’s largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O’Reilly Strata.Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O’Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O’Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 50% |
| Family | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Messaging | 1 | 50% |
| Parenting | 1 | 50% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orion Labs | Orion Labs is the voice-first communication platform for deskless & frontline teams. It delivers instant and secure voice, location, and data messaging across a constellation of connected devices, applications, and AI-powered services.This combination enables mobile teams to collaborate without losing focus, on any device, across anydistance, without boundaries. The Orion platform includes the Orion Push to Talk app along with Orion Sync and Onyx wearables. These work with Orion’s web-based command center, advanced location services, language translation, voice bots, and workflows. Orion interoperates with traditional VoIP and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems, and Orion’s APIs and SDKs enable developers to build on and extend the Orion platform.The company was founded by cloud infrastructure pioneers Jesse Robbins and Greg Albrecht, who were inspired by their unique experiences using traditional radios as first responders. Orion is backed by leading investors and is based in San Francisco, California.Orion was recently named an IDC Innovator, received an Edison Award for Voice Technology, and won the 2018 “IoT Wearables Innovation Vendor of the Year” and “AI Breakthrough Best Overall Bot Solution” awards. | $6.3M | Series A | Aug 20, 2014 |  |
| HighScore House | HighScore House is rethinking the way kids earn the things that they want, while making the lives of families easier and more positive than ever before.We use game design to motivate kids to take on new challenges and help develop important habits like delayed gratification.Parents create a virtual economy in their home where kids earnstars for completing tasks and redeem them for real parent approved rewards. | $168K | Seed | Jan 26, 2012 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avalon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalon-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fuel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Solve For Interesting

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Solve For Interesting.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alistair Croll | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alistair-croll |

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## FAQ

### What does Alistair Croll invest in?

Alistair Croll invests primarily in Apps, Family and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alistair Croll last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alistair Croll closed in Aug 2014. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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