Jeffrey Tobias

Managing Director at The Strategy Group: Delivering Innovation | improving Customer & Employee Experience | Delivering AI strategy | Taking a design-led approach | Adjunct Professor and Fellow at UNSW AGSM

📍 Greater Sydney Area, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2013𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Angel investor🌍 Australia
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Jun 2013
Oneflare is an innovative technology start-up that is disrupting the local services marketplace. Founded in 2011, we’ve assisted over 400,000 Australians, we've helped some rip through their to-do list, some find help in an urgent crisis and many finally finished long term projects. Oneflare has helped over 100,000 Australian business owners find work, through connecting customers to the right expert, first and every time, getting thousands of jobs from to-do to done. In 2014, Oneflare acquired Renovate Forum – Australia's largest online renovation forum and in early 2015 we acquired Word Of Mouth – Australia's largest ratings and reviews site. We also featured in Deloitte’s Fast 50 in 2016 and 2017 as one of Australia’s 50 fastest growing businesses.
Senior Advisor and Investor
Oct 2010
DesignCrowd (www.designcrowd.com) is a global online marketplace for logo design, graphic design and web design. You can outsource or 'crowdsource'​ any creative project on DesignCrowd - from logo design to website design to t-shirt design - and receive design ideas from over 500,000 designers from around the world! It's a faster, cheaper and more creative way to get the design you're looking for. DesignCrowd also operates BrandCrowd (www.brandcrowd.com) a marketplace for premium logo templates and a leading logo design maker tool (www.brandcrowd.com/maker).
early stageGraphic Design
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2013
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Jun 2013
Oneflare is an innovative technology start-up that is disrupting the local services marketplace. Founded in 2011, we’ve assisted over 400,000 Australians, we've helped some rip through their to-do list, some find help in an urgent crisis and many finally finished long term projects. Oneflare has helped over 100,000 Australian business owners find work, through connecting customers to the right expert, first and every time, getting thousands of jobs from to-do to done. In 2014, Oneflare acquired Renovate Forum – Australia's largest online renovation forum and in early 2015 we acquired Word Of Mouth – Australia's largest ratings and reviews site. We also featured in Deloitte’s Fast 50 in 2016 and 2017 as one of Australia’s 50 fastest growing businesses.
Alternative Media
Investor
Jan 2013
2010
Senior Advisor and Investor
Oct 2010
DesignCrowd (www.designcrowd.com) is a global online marketplace for logo design, graphic design and web design. You can outsource or 'crowdsource'​ any creative project on DesignCrowd - from logo design to website design to t-shirt design - and receive design ideas from over 500,000 designers from around the world! It's a faster, cheaper and more creative way to get the design you're looking for. DesignCrowd also operates BrandCrowd (www.brandcrowd.com) a marketplace for premium logo templates and a leading logo design maker tool (www.brandcrowd.com/maker).
early stageGraphic Design
2003
Managing Director | Innovation, Customer Experience and Business Model Transformation
Feb 2003
The Strategy Group’s expertise sits at the nexus between the corporate, entrepreneurial and academic worlds. We are human-centred strategists, with an obsessive focus on delighting our clients by enabling them to put their customers at the centre of everything they do. We deliver value by combining the rigour of businesses, the leading knowledge of academia and the pragmatism of entrepreneurs. We help organisations with digital transformation, innovation, customer experience, employee experience and business model transformation. Our approach is design-led and our expertise includes design thinking, creative problem-solving, putting the customer in the centre, journey mapping and rapid experimentation. Clients that we have helped range from large corporates, through to governments, and even startups. Some of our clients include Adobe, Axicom, Stryker, Blacktown Council, University of Technology, Toga, Woolworths, ANZ, Mirvac, the NSW Government and Cisco.
Reading Systems
Joint Managing Director
Jan 2003
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