Anthony Glenning
Investment Director @ Starfish Ventures
Melbourne, Australia
Anthony Glenning is a Series A investor at Starfish Ventures in Melbourne focused on Software and SaaS. Anthony Glenning joined Starfish Ventures in January 2010 focusing on information technology investments. His responsibilities include evaluating investment opportunities, performing due diligence, negotiating terms, execution of new portfolio investments and managing portfolio companies. From 1999 to 2009, Anthony was an entrepreneur involvedin a number of companies. Anthony was founder and CEO of Tonic Systems, a company that developed software for creating and managing presentations online. Tonic Systems was acquired by Google in 2007, where Anthony worked for the next 2 years within the Google Docs team. Anthony was also a founding, non-executive director of Cameron Systems, a company providing FIX protocol, software solutions to financial businesses, until it was acquired by Orc Software in 2006.Prior to 1999, Anthony worked at Strategic Decisions Group as a management consultant specializing in high-risk, high reward decision analysis. Before that, Anthony was a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, working on a range of projects including Energy Star power management compliance and the Java workstation. Overall, Anthony has spent a total of 14 years living in Silicon Valley and breathing entrepreneurship.Anthony holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) (Hons) and a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) from the University of Melbourne, and a Master's of Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.Anthony is currently a director for Aktana, BugHerd, DesignCrowd, MetaCDN, NitroPDF, Ourcast and Scalify.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
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Industries Anthony Glenning invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (33%)
- SaaS 2 (17%)
- Analytics 2 (17%)
- Collaboration 2 (17%)
- Cloud Computing 2 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (33%)
- Series B 2 (17%)
- Funding Round 2 (17%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
Country
- Australia 5 (42%)
- United States 2 (17%)
Investments
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| Aktana helps life science companies get the most out of artificial intelligence for commercializing their products. Its platform harnesses machine learning algorithms to enable marketing and sales teams to optimize their engagement with prescribing physicians. Aktana supports more than 100 brands and more than half the top 20 pharmaceuticalcompanies worldwide to increase revenue, capitalize on data investments, and drive channel productivity and results. The company’s focus on the life sciences market allows Aktana to understand and incorporate unique market dynamics more deeply than the major AI players. Headquartered in San Francisco, Aktana also has offices in New York, Philadelphia, London, Barcelona, Tokyo, Osaka, and Shanghai. | $17.6M / Series B / Jun 08, 2016 | ||
| DesignCrowd is an online marketplace for logo, website, print, and graphic design services providing access to freelance graphic designers and design studios around the world.Through crowdsourcing 2.0, DesignCrowd provides its users with access to a virtual team of over 430,896 designers from around the world allowing its users to tap intointernational design talents. It allows its users to post projects and receive more than 50 designs through the platform.DesignCrowd was launched in January 2007 and is based in Sydney, Australia. | $4.7M / Series B / Feb 04, 2015 | ||
| BugHerd is a visual feedback tool. With the help of the BugHerd browser extension, you can collect website feedback and track bugs directly on a page. It’s like using sticky-notes on a website!With a simple point and click, you can send feedback to your dev teams to track tasks visually with at a glance info. BugHerd sends complete and contextualinfo from the feedback (including screenshots, browser, OS & CSS selector data) to be fully managed via a project and task management kanban board.BugHerd offers a 14 day trial period for new customers. Monthly subscription start from $29/month.BugHerd was founded in 2011 by Alan Downie and Matt Milosavljevic. | $673K / Series A / Aug 24, 2014 | ||
| Nitro is a document productivity company that helps organizations of all sizes eliminate paper, accelerate business processes, and drive digital transformation by providing PDF productivity and eSigning for all in a single, affordable solution. Its products include Nitro Pro consisting of PDF creator, PDF editor, PDF converter, Merge PDF, PDFannotator, Protect PDF, among others, Nitro Cloud consisting of electronic signatures, collaboration, and Nitro Analytics. | $3.1M / Series A / Oct 09, 2013 | ||
| Ourcast Inc. has a mobile app that it says can accurately predict precipitation during the next two hours. | $200K / Seed / Sep 01, 2013 | ||
| Atmail is a provider of WebMail and Email Server solutions for Unix/Linux systems.Atmail provides a complete Webmail system for existing POP3/IMAP accounts. Use the software as a professional Webmail interface for existing customers and provide more then just standard Webmail. Atmail Email Server edition provides a completemessaging platform for any business. Based on open standards, the software provides a reliable mail server and groupware system for mission critical systems. | $2M / Nov 20, 2012 | ||
| MetaCDN provides global cloud-based content delivery, video encoding and streaming services. Whether you need basic content delivery or sophisticated media encoding and streaming, MetaCDN has you covered. | $2.3M / Series A / Oct 17, 2012 | ||
| Ourcast Inc. has a mobile app that it says can accurately predict precipitation during the next two hours. | $500K / Oct 02, 2012 | ||
| Nitro is a document productivity company that helps organizations of all sizes eliminate paper, accelerate business processes, and drive digital transformation by providing PDF productivity and eSigning for all in a single, affordable solution. Its products include Nitro Pro consisting of PDF creator, PDF editor, PDF converter, Merge PDF, PDFannotator, Protect PDF, among others, Nitro Cloud consisting of electronic signatures, collaboration, and Nitro Analytics. | $3.5M / Series A / Apr 03, 2012 | ||
| DesignCrowd is an online marketplace for logo, website, print, and graphic design services providing access to freelance graphic designers and design studios around the world.Through crowdsourcing 2.0, DesignCrowd provides its users with access to a virtual team of over 430,896 designers from around the world allowing its users to tap intointernational design talents. It allows its users to post projects and receive more than 50 designs through the platform.DesignCrowd was launched in January 2007 and is based in Sydney, Australia. | $3M / Series A / Nov 02, 2011 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Starfish Ventures
Starfish Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm focused on information technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies.
Starfish Ventures Contacts
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Anthony Glenning
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Eve Burgess
Financial Accountant
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Felicity Donnelly
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John Dyson
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Justin Roberts
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