Stephen Baxter
Founder @ River City Labs
Brisbane, Australia
Stephen Baxter is a seed investor at River City Labs in Brisbane focused on Software and Transportation. Stephen Baxter - Founder @ River City Labs
- Total investments:
- 8
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Stephen Baxter invests in
Stages Stephen Baxter invests in
Countries Stephen Baxter invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$2.6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (25%)
- Transportation 2 (25%)
- IaaS 1 (13%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
- Travel 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (38%)
- Angel 2 (25%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
- Corporate Round 1 (13%)
Investments
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Car Next Door is an online marketplace, providing a booking system and a range of in-vehicle technologies to make car-sharing safe, fast, keyless, and easy for both car owners and car borrowers. It will enable 10,000 Australians to share their cars with neighbors, thereby removing the dependency on personal vehicle ownership and fundamentallychanging the way people make their transport decisions.Car Next Door is based in Sydney, Australia. | $1.2M / Corporate Round / Jul 04, 2018 | |
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Car Next Door is an online marketplace, providing a booking system and a range of in-vehicle technologies to make car-sharing safe, fast, keyless, and easy for both car owners and car borrowers. It will enable 10,000 Australians to share their cars with neighbors, thereby removing the dependency on personal vehicle ownership and fundamentallychanging the way people make their transport decisions.Car Next Door is based in Sydney, Australia. | $5M / Series B / Feb 05, 2018 | |
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GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources. | $2.6M / Seed / Dec 11, 2016 | |
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GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources. | Seed / Jul 29, 2015 | |
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OrionVM is a Wholesale Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) company that has developed a revolutionary technology suite (virtual storage, compute, orchestration and virtual networking) to enable the delivery of high performing, highly reliable cloud solutions at market leading price-to-performance ratios. Groundbreaking engineering supportsPublic, Hybrid and Private Cloud deployments and offers an agile system for internal consumption or resale. OrionVM’s Wholesale Cloud Platform provides the best margins, superior performance, and increased technical reliability for resellers and wholesalers of cloud services. OrionVM’s head office is in Sydney, Australia, with U.S. offices also in the San Francisco Bay Area. | Angel / Nov 01, 2011 | |
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Travelshoot is all about connecting travellers with local photographers around the world. | Seed | |
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Created in 2011 by two tech savvy entrepreneurs, goCatch has grown to become a multi-award winning free smartphone application that connects passengers directly with taxi drivers allowing customers to book a cab with certainty every time.Co-founded by Andrew Campbell and Ned Moorfield, the goCatch app has been supported by the NSW Department ofTrade and Investment. goCatch has also formed partnerships and alliances with several prominent blue chip companies including Google, Microsoft, Nokia, PayPal and RIM. Australians have embraced goCatch with tens of thousands of drivers and passengers nationwide downloading the convenient booking service. goCatch is now one of the fastest growing apps in the country and is the clear market leader in the taxi sector. | Angel | |
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DoseMe is unique decision support software that leverages clinically validated pharmacokinetic drug models, patient characteristics, drug concentrations and genotype to guide dose optimisation. It’s the world’s first precision dosing tool designed for clinical practice that uses Bayesian dosing methods. Its simplicity and portability means Bayesiandosing benefits can be brought to every bedside. | $500K / Seed |
Co-Investors
About River City Labs
River City Labs is a coworking community of like minded individuals who came together to promote and develop early stage and start up businesses and entrepreneurial activity in the mobile, Internet, telecoms and technology sector in Brisbane and surrounding regions in Australia.They are more than desks, they are a community of passionate,motivated people just like you!Their varied work spaces include lounge areas, open work spaces, offices, and desks all available on daily, casual or monthly plans. At River City Labs members are surrounded by like minded people all cutting a similar path, as well as having access to mentoring, regular networking events, seminars, workshops and opportunities to connect with venture capitalists, investors and other entrepreneurs.They are a not for profit organisation with an independent board and staff of the facility are not involved in any capacity with an accelerator, investment company or any another firm hoping to derive services revenue from the entrepreneurs who work in the Labs.It’s their wish to encourage other accelerators, incubators and professional services companies to follow suit as well as come along and be involved – they think the best way to do this is not to get in their way but create a focused forum that allows all to participate.River City Labs is about being the focal point for activity in the early stage and start up space in the mobile, Internet, telecoms and technology sector in the Brisbane area. Their focus is on driving the local ecosystem of mentors, angels, venture capitalists, investment bankers, accountants, lawyers, business advisors, contract web design and developers and any other relevant party to help out the businesses using the Labs.
River City Labs Contacts
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Colin Kinner
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FAQ
What does Stephen Baxter invest in?
Stephen Baxter invests primarily in Software, Transportation and IaaS startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Stephen Baxter's check size?
Stephen Baxter typically joins rounds of $500k–$2.6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stephen Baxter participates in.
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