Chris Abbott

Growth & Product Innovation | Advisor and Investor | Venture-Backed Founder

📍 Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2022
Operator-angel🌍 Australia
3
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Late stage
5y
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Portfolio

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Investor & Adviser
Jul 2022
If you’re a brand, agency, school, club or fan - thousands of sports stars & celebrities from across Australia & the UK are at your fingertips. Founded by AFL Hall of Famer, Matthew Pavlich and former AFL Star, James Begley, Pickstar is the best place to book well known identities for virtual or in-person events, marketing campaigns, guest speaking, brand ambassadorships, skills clinics … or anything else you can imagine. With over 2500 sports stars, media, TV, business, chef and other celebrities, Pickstar works FAST with ALL budgets, and it’s free to create a request and notify your favourite stars. Big brands such as Netflix, Amazon, Canva, Mad Mex, REA Group, Carsales, Nestle, Kellogg’s, CGU, SBS Sport, UNIQLO, McDonalds, Uber, CBA, EY, Amazon, Milo and Westpac use PickStar, as do thousands of businesses, brands, charities, councils, sports clubs and schools/unis - working with any budget from small to enterprise. With a purpose built platform that connects you to a marketplace of the world’s best talent and their agents - bringing your next campaign, event, activations or brand to life through well known Stars is now at your fingertips. Simply enter your budget Enter your brief Talent apply to it You get a shortlist and choose who. Only pay if you book. No hidden fees and free to place a request! How easy is that? Still not convinced? Check out our verified reviews from hundreds of our clients: https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/www.pickstar.com.au
Advisor | Investor
Oct 2021
Airspeeder is the world’s first racing series for hydrogen-electric flying cars. Our mission will accelerate eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) advanced aviation technology through intense sporting competition. This mobility revolution, underpinned by future tech will transform urban air mobility (UAM), global logistics and even medical applications with a clean-air electric vehicle (EV) solution. Our racing multicopters are developed at our advanced aerospace engineering hub in Adelaide, South Australia by Alauda Aeronautics engineers drawn from elite motorsports, automotive, aviation and even FPV drone, electric plane, electric vehicles and passenger drone backgrounds. Airspeeder’s vision will deliver the most exciting and future focused motorsport on the planet. Following our successful 2022 inaugural unmanned season, elite pilots will take to the skies to race prop-to-prop while navigating electronically governed racetracks in the skies above some of the most visually arresting scenery in the world. Join us.
Advisor | Investor
Jun 2021
Naomi Henn, CrowdClips founder, is a former competitive athlete and her goal was to follow in fathers footsteps who was an Olympian grade athlete himself. After every Athletics meet Naomi would spend hours upon hours with her Dad analysing video footage from the Athletics meet to identify the important moments. There was no solution that would identify the unique moments that matter from the event and be able to package it up ready for distribution to create awareness and promotion. CrowdClip was born and its patent pending AI technology takes video and allows it to be personalised and ready to be distributed. With CrowdClip you can create customised professional looking videos based on your experience of a video or an event, for anyone on any budget, from; federations, teams, players, attendees, or fans from a sporting event, to a yacht week event, business conference, or a wedding.
Experience · 5 entries
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Investments (3)
Founder (1)
2024
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
Jan 2024
Creating worlds where physical and virtual merge for competition, rewards, education and social impact.
2022
Investor & Adviser
Jul 2022
If you’re a brand, agency, school, club or fan - thousands of sports stars & celebrities from across Australia & the UK are at your fingertips. Founded by AFL Hall of Famer, Matthew Pavlich and former AFL Star, James Begley, Pickstar is the best place to book well known identities for virtual or in-person events, marketing campaigns, guest speaking, brand ambassadorships, skills clinics … or anything else you can imagine. With over 2500 sports stars, media, TV, business, chef and other celebrities, Pickstar works FAST with ALL budgets, and it’s free to create a request and notify your favourite stars. Big brands such as Netflix, Amazon, Canva, Mad Mex, REA Group, Carsales, Nestle, Kellogg’s, CGU, SBS Sport, UNIQLO, McDonalds, Uber, CBA, EY, Amazon, Milo and Westpac use PickStar, as do thousands of businesses, brands, charities, councils, sports clubs and schools/unis - working with any budget from small to enterprise. With a purpose built platform that connects you to a marketplace of the world’s best talent and their agents - bringing your next campaign, event, activations or brand to life through well known Stars is now at your fingertips. Simply enter your budget Enter your brief Talent apply to it You get a shortlist and choose who. Only pay if you book. No hidden fees and free to place a request! How easy is that? Still not convinced? Check out our verified reviews from hundreds of our clients: https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/www.pickstar.com.au
2021
Advisor | Investor
Oct 2021
Airspeeder is the world’s first racing series for hydrogen-electric flying cars. Our mission will accelerate eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) advanced aviation technology through intense sporting competition. This mobility revolution, underpinned by future tech will transform urban air mobility (UAM), global logistics and even medical applications with a clean-air electric vehicle (EV) solution. Our racing multicopters are developed at our advanced aerospace engineering hub in Adelaide, South Australia by Alauda Aeronautics engineers drawn from elite motorsports, automotive, aviation and even FPV drone, electric plane, electric vehicles and passenger drone backgrounds. Airspeeder’s vision will deliver the most exciting and future focused motorsport on the planet. Following our successful 2022 inaugural unmanned season, elite pilots will take to the skies to race prop-to-prop while navigating electronically governed racetracks in the skies above some of the most visually arresting scenery in the world. Join us.
Advisor | Investor
Jun 2021
Naomi Henn, CrowdClips founder, is a former competitive athlete and her goal was to follow in fathers footsteps who was an Olympian grade athlete himself. After every Athletics meet Naomi would spend hours upon hours with her Dad analysing video footage from the Athletics meet to identify the important moments. There was no solution that would identify the unique moments that matter from the event and be able to package it up ready for distribution to create awareness and promotion. CrowdClip was born and its patent pending AI technology takes video and allows it to be personalised and ready to be distributed. With CrowdClip you can create customised professional looking videos based on your experience of a video or an event, for anyone on any budget, from; federations, teams, players, attendees, or fans from a sporting event, to a yacht week event, business conference, or a wedding.
2018
Non Exec Director & Founding Partner
Jan 2018
We are a lean Management Consultancy We create and optimise digital products and experiences that increase user engagement and drive sustainable business growth. We do this through world-class creativity and best practice design-thinking. At north, we believe the best work is created in collaboration with you – our client-partners. Whether you are creating or optimising, we challenge the status quo and create amazing digital experiences to drive sustainable business growth.
early stageDesign Services
Investment activity
2021–2022 · 3 investments
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