RCL Accelerator
VC Fund
Brisbane, Australia
RCL Accelerator is a startup accelerator powered by muru-D based in Brisbane, Australia.Started in 2015, RCL Accelerator ran the first pilot program under the "powered by muru-D" name in Brisbane. With such a successful outcome from the first program, the RCL Accelerator has quickly become a go to place for startup companies. Once ayear they invest a small amount of money ($60k) in up to 10 companies. The startups move to Brisbane for 3 months full time and then supported part time for an additional 3 months. The RCL-A partners/mentors work closely with the teams to get them into the possible position to take on their global market opportunities. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, when the startups present their business plans to a carefully selected, audience of investors.Coverage of Previous Demo Days:BNE1 - Pilot
- Total investments:
- 62
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
- Last fund:
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Industries RCL Accelerator invests in
Stages RCL Accelerator invests in
Countries RCL Accelerator invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Cristo Pajust
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Ken Macken
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 20 (32%)
- Education 9 (15%)
- Mobile Apps 8 (13%)
- Health Care 6 (10%)
- B2B 5 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 50 (81%)
- Angel 4 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (6%)
- Funding Round 3 (5%)
Country
- Australia 37 (60%)
- Singapore 9 (15%)
- Thailand 2 (3%)
- Indonesia 2 (3%)
- United States 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Cristo Pajust
Founder & CEO
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Founder & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ken Macken
Entrepreneur In Residence
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Entrepreneur In Residence | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Kapiche
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Kapiche is a B2B SaaS company that has built an experience intelligence platform to help customer-centric organisations understand and optimize the experiences they deliver. The platform is built around their Natural Language Processing technology which can take 10s of 1,000s of pieces of unseen customer/employee feedback data (both structuredand unstructured) and, in minutes, with no prior setup and no pre-trained models, identify the salient themes being discussed, how the respondents feel about those themes, and what impact it has on your business. | $1.2M / Seed / Sep 03, 2019 | |
Monarc Global
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Monarc Global is real-time, accurate, pricing software for charter aircraft operators and providers. Monarc Global provides operators with the tools needed to automate their adhoc prices, and the tools to externalise on their own website.Operators can also partner or align themselves with other operators, aircraft brokers, or third partyaggregators by using our multipoint API giving operators a global reach. | $500K / Seed / Jul 10, 2019 | |
Vygo
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The Vygo platform gives every learner a social education community. For learners, the Vygo platform organises their institution's ecosystem of mentors, advisors, tutors and other social support services at their fingertips. It gives learners the right tools to find and engage with the people they need, whenever they need them, wherever theyare in the world. With Vygo, education institutions are able to reinvent their social support ecosystem online and ultimately improve their student outcomes and scale their impact. Vygo is working universities around the globe who are pushing social education experiences into the future. | $269K / Pre-Seed / Sep 04, 2018 | |
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Monarc Global
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Monarc Global is real-time, accurate, pricing software for charter aircraft operators and providers. Monarc Global provides operators with the tools needed to automate their adhoc prices, and the tools to externalise on their own website.Operators can also partner or align themselves with other operators, aircraft brokers, or third partyaggregators by using our multipoint API giving operators a global reach. | $67K / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2018 | |
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Vygo
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The Vygo platform gives every learner a social education community. For learners, the Vygo platform organises their institution's ecosystem of mentors, advisors, tutors and other social support services at their fingertips. It gives learners the right tools to find and engage with the people they need, whenever they need them, wherever theyare in the world. With Vygo, education institutions are able to reinvent their social support ecosystem online and ultimately improve their student outcomes and scale their impact. Vygo is working universities around the globe who are pushing social education experiences into the future. | $40K / Pre-Seed / Oct 01, 2017 | |
CheckIt
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CheckIt is a mobile app that helps people gain 80 per cent of the insight of an educational book anytime and anywhere they want.Read any book in minutesRead the summary of the world's best-selling nonfiction books.Learn to be smart and faster every dayRead each of the main ideas for 2 minutes and the entire 20 minute summary onthe mobile app anytime, anywhere.Absorption of knowledge is not limitedThe library summarizes 1000+ titles from 17 topics ranging from business to psychology compiled by professionals with expertise in various fields. | $31K / Seed / Aug 30, 2017 | |
Maxwell Plus
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Maxwell Plus is an AI platform for data driven clinical diagnostics. Maxwell Plus gives clinicians, researchers, and companies the tools they need to accelerate the design, development, delivery of clinical diagnostics built upon medical imaging, pathology and other data. The first diagnostic model available on Maxwell is for prostate cancer. | Seed / Apr 01, 2017 | |
Viberent
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Viberent is a cloud based rental management system for SME equipment rental companies providing them strategic advantage through innovative inventory tracking, financial management and end-to-end rental management solutions. | Apr 01, 2017 | |
2ndLease
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2ndLease is a rental marketplace that enables individuals or businesses to rent appliances and other household goods to each other. Their vision is to create a community-based alternative to the existing household rental/purchase options, in the process reducing their landfill burden and providing a cost effective alternative for those inneed. | Apr 01, 2017 | |
TalentVine
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TalentVine is a recruitment consultant marketplace that makes it simple for employers to compare, select and engage with specialist recruiters. We capture key metrics, historical performance data and peer-reviewed ratings on recruiters, their areas of specialism and their access to key candidates. This enables employers to easily hire the righttalent through specialist recruiters, at fees and terms that both parties agree.TalentVine's software suite includes a vendor management platform for enterprise employers to manage all third-party recruitment relationships. This provides organisations with a seamless way to release roles to the market, receive customised bids from specialist recruiters that are best positioned to help them make key hires, and manage candidates through the in-built ATS. | $40K / Seed / Oct 01, 2016 | |
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FAQ
What does RCL Accelerator invest in?
RCL Accelerator invests primarily in Software, Education and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 62 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at RCL Accelerator?
The team at RCL Accelerator includes Cristo Pajust (Founder & CEO) and Ken Macken (Entrepreneur In Residence). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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