Trent Shaw

Chief Strategy Officer @ OCS Research

📍 Greater Sydney Area, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2014
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Feb 2014
Realworld is a global technology company powering the Out-of-Home (OOH) media industry. We provide online solutions to buy and sell OOH media more efficiently.
Investor
Feb 2014
ROLLER’s vision is to help create experiences that bring joy and happiness to the world. We do this by building modern technology for leisure and attractions businesses, helping them to deliver amazing experiences for their guests. ROLLER is a complete software platform for the modern attraction. Our platform is built to support the key areas of your business, and to help you improve operations, grow revenue and delight your guests. Our innovative products include; Ticketing, Point-of-Sale, Integrated Payments, CRM, Memberships, Gift Cards, Waivers, Self-Serve Kiosks, Cashless Wallets and more. For a full feature list visit: https://www.roller.software/feature-list
Investor
Feb 2014
Socialive’s end-to-end video creation platform is the fastest and most cost-effective way for anyone to record, edit, publish, or livestream professional video at scale. Socialive’s platform empowers everyone to create video and reduces time and costs for video experts. As both a 2021 Deloitte Fast 500 and 2022 Inc. 5000 Regional winner, Socialive empowers some of the world’s leading brands to create video at scale to drive new levels of customer and employee engagement. Learn more about the Socialive team and check out our open roles: https://www.socialive.us/careers
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2025
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Jan 2025
OCS Research is a systematic research and execution platform focused on identifying, validating, and deploying trading edge across digital asset markets. We build proprietary infrastructure across on-chain data, derivatives, market microstructure, and macro signals to discover robust, repeatable strategies capable of compounding capital over time. Our systems combine: → Large-scale proprietary data infrastructure → Automated hypothesis generation and validation → Statistical robustness testing and forward deployment → Live execution frameworks focused on risk-adjusted performance Originally built from the infrastructure behind Tokenise, OCS Research represents the evolution from token analytics into systematic market research and execution. We do not optimise for hype. We optimise for persistence. What we focus on: → Systematic Strategy Research → Market Structure & Execution Analysis → Digital Asset Data Infrastructure → Validation Frameworks & Live Deployment → Capital Preservation & Compounding Our objective is simple: Find real edge. Prove it under live conditions. Scale responsibly.
2023
Co-Founder
Jun 2023
Drop is a digital music platform that embraces new technology, redefining the traditional music consumption experience by bridging the gap and fostering a deeper connection between creators and their audience.
2020
Co-Founder
Dec 2020
Founded in 2020, RAREZ is the NFT platform that enables the best creators in the music world to bring accessible and desirable digital collectibles to the blockchain. Founded by the team behind emanate.live in collaboration with Dean Wilson & Joel Zimmerman, RAREZ has hosted previous drops with deadmau5, Weezer and Dillon Francis on the WAX blockchain.
early stageMusicians
Director of Retail Partnerships
Sep 2020
Stocard is a fast-growing fintech and a global leader in mobile wallets. Klarna and Stocard have joined forces to revolutionize how people shop and pay. Together, we are an ecosystem of 400+ developers working on our apps with over 125M users. Our team is ready to fast-track to the future and create the smooothest shopping experience around the world. Our innovative and intuitive free Stocard app allows millions of consumers to turn their smartphone into a mobile wallet where they add loyalty cards from their favorite stores and sign-in new ones. They access personalized communications and offers, collect rewards and can pay directly with the app. We help retailers and brands profile, engage and drive consumers to stores and e-commerce - growing sales, loyalty and advocacy, campaign after campaign, visit after visit. To create a top-notch customer-experience in our app, maximize store/web traffic and measure campaigns ROI, Stocard’s algorithms and experts analyze millions of single sourced first party data points. We also use them to advise retailers and brands on their consumers’ true loyalty, win back lapsed ones or limit churn. We strive for building facts-based partnerships with top-tier retailers, brands and media agencies. For this, we believe our people are our most important asset. Therefore, could it be in London, Mannheim, Milan, Paris, Amsterdam, Sydney or Toronto, we care for a collaborative environment with strong team spirit. We want everyone to fulfill their potential, leave their footprint and be an essential part of our and our clients’ success.
2017
Co-Founder Chief Operations & Sales Officer
Jun 2017
Emanate is a network marketplace built for music lovers and creators. Powered by immediate payments and automated technology, Emanate connects players in the music industry in a way never before seen. Powered by Web3 technology, the platform manages the entire journey of music creation, distribution, promotion and monetisation.
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