Stuart O'Brien

Founder Houston Group

📍 Greater Sydney Area, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023
Operator-angel🌍 Australia
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Board Member
Jan 2021
Assetinsure is a specialist insurer in the Australian market. At Assetinsure we deliver innovative specialist insurance solutions to the business community. Our portfolio includes: Enthusiast Motor Insurance Credit Enhancement Surety / Contract Performance Bonds Leasebonds Mining Rehabilitation Bonds Petrobonds Domestic Building Insurance (DBI) - Victoria Owner Builders Home Warranty Insurance Landlords Insurance We differentiate ourselves by engaging experienced and disciplined professionals who can make a decision.
Angel Investor
Jan 2016
Prezzee is a digital Gift Card solution designed to change the art of gifting. Prezzee allows you to buy, send, store and redeem digital Gift Cards instantly. Prezzee was designed to solve the problem of sending Gift Cards in both corporate and consumer markets. In B2B, Prezzee Business enables simple bulk sends, instant delivery with the option to co-brand with your corporate logo. In the consumer market Prezzee allows users to never miss the opportunity to redeem a Gift Card again while allowing users to choose from 100s of top retailers. Prezzee provides real value to both users and retailers, bringing them together in one marketplace. For retailers, Prezzee creates a meaningful new distribution channel, increasing sales and giving brands visibility into the mobile digital world. By using Prezzee, retailers can gain customer acquisition, increase shopper interaction and drive social engagement. For users, they get the best retailers in one simple platform. http://prezzee.com.au and http://prezzee.com.au/business
Shareholder
Feb 2012
SocietyOne is Australia’s leading digital finance platform. Our mission is to provide a better deal for borrowers and lenders… helping both to achieve their goals. SocietyOne has been at the forefront of FinTech disruption of the financial services industry in Australia since 2012, and is widely recognised as the pioneer and leading digital lender in Australia. SocietyOne is part of the MONEYME Group.
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2023
Board Member
Jan 2023
PCYC NSW is the states leading youth charity, working in partnership with community and Police to empower youth, get kids active in life, and reduce and prevent youth crime. PCYC was established in 1937 by NSW Police and Rotary to provide young people with a safe and positive alternative to transform young lives. Over 85 years later PCYC now operates in 66 locations across NSW.
2021
Board Member
Jan 2021
Assetinsure is a specialist insurer in the Australian market. At Assetinsure we deliver innovative specialist insurance solutions to the business community. Our portfolio includes: Enthusiast Motor Insurance Credit Enhancement Surety / Contract Performance Bonds Leasebonds Mining Rehabilitation Bonds Petrobonds Domestic Building Insurance (DBI) - Victoria Owner Builders Home Warranty Insurance Landlords Insurance We differentiate ourselves by engaging experienced and disciplined professionals who can make a decision.
2018
Board Member
Sep 2018
When the Nimrod Theatre building in Belvoir St, Surry Hills was threatened with redevelopment in 1984, more than 600 people – ardent theatre lovers, arts, entertainment and media professionals – formed a syndicate to buy the building and save this unique performance space. Belvoir theatre company was formed. Over 30 years later, under Artistic Director Eamon Flack and Executive Director Aaron Beach, Belvoir engages Australia’s most prominent and promising playwrights, directors, actors and designers to realise an annual season of work that is dynamic, challenging and visionary. As well as performing at home, Belvoir regularly takes to the road, touring nationally and internationally. The Upstairs and Downstairs stages at Belvoir St Theatre have nurtured the talents of renowned Australian artists including actors Cate Blanchett, Jacqui McKenzie, Luke Carroll, Toby Schmitz, Robyn Nevin, Deb Mailman and Richard Roxburgh; writers Tommy Murphy, Rita Kalnejais, Lally Katz, Alana Valentine and Kate Mulvany; directors Simon Stone, Anne-Louise Sarks, Benedict Andrews, Wesley Enoch, Rachael Maza and former Belvoir Artistic Director Neil Armfield. Belvoir’s position as one of Australia’s most innovative and acclaimed theatre companies has been determined by landmark productions like 'The Drover’s Wife', Çounting & Cra 'The Glass Menagerie', 'Angels in America', 'The Wild Duck', 'Diary of a Madman', 'The Blind Giant is Dancing', 'Cloudstreet', 'The Book of Everything', 'Keating!', 'Parramatta Girls', 'The Alchemist', 'Waiting for Godot', 'The Sapphires', 'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', 'Stuff Happens', 'Medea', 'The Rover', 'Faith Healer', and many more. Belvoir receives government support for its activities from the Federal Government's Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council, and the State Government through ArtsNSW. It has always depended on its community of donors, partners, co-creators, artists, Board member and loyal patrons, and still does today.
2016
Angel Investor
Jan 2016
Prezzee is a digital Gift Card solution designed to change the art of gifting. Prezzee allows you to buy, send, store and redeem digital Gift Cards instantly. Prezzee was designed to solve the problem of sending Gift Cards in both corporate and consumer markets. In B2B, Prezzee Business enables simple bulk sends, instant delivery with the option to co-brand with your corporate logo. In the consumer market Prezzee allows users to never miss the opportunity to redeem a Gift Card again while allowing users to choose from 100s of top retailers. Prezzee provides real value to both users and retailers, bringing them together in one marketplace. For retailers, Prezzee creates a meaningful new distribution channel, increasing sales and giving brands visibility into the mobile digital world. By using Prezzee, retailers can gain customer acquisition, increase shopper interaction and drive social engagement. For users, they get the best retailers in one simple platform. http://prezzee.com.au and http://prezzee.com.au/business
2012
Shareholder
Feb 2012
SocietyOne is Australia’s leading digital finance platform. Our mission is to provide a better deal for borrowers and lenders… helping both to achieve their goals. SocietyOne has been at the forefront of FinTech disruption of the financial services industry in Australia since 2012, and is widely recognised as the pioneer and leading digital lender in Australia. SocietyOne is part of the MONEYME Group.
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