Start-up Australia was a top quartile venture capital investment company founded by George Jessup and Stephen Robinson. Institutional investors included Industry Funds Management, Macquarie Alternative Investment Fund and US based Research Corporation Technologies. This venture was a major contributor to the development of venture capital in Australia. Some achievements are:

• Raising and managing two investment funds that generated top quartile returns internationally.
• From these funds (totaling $47.7 million), distributed $85.3 million cash to give the private investors an IRR after all costs of 11.3% per year for a 12-year period. Impressively, this period spanned the Global Financial Crisis.
• Worked closely with portfolio companies to recruit management, develop high growth strategies, interact with capital markets and develop international partnerships.
• Closely involved in a wide range of corporate transactions and liquidity events in portfolio companies.
• Played a key role in assisting portfolio companies in raising a further $179 million from other sources.
• Five therapeutic drugs taken into clinical trials.
• One drug approved for marketing in the US.
• Participated in a wide range of M&A activity in portfolio companies to achieve liquidity including; sale of Technico to an Indian company, acquisition of Absalus Inc., merger of EvoGenix with Arana, sale of Arana to Cephalon Inc., sale of Iliad Chemicals to Bionomics and sale of Promics to Peptech.
• Played a key role in two IPOs: Alchemia and EvoGenix.

The PIEL Survey is a research app which conducts surveys throughout the day. It is designed to gather survey data from people in their daily lives. This allows for a more nuanced understanding of a participant's patterns of thoughts and feelings than traditional survey methods. The survey and schedule are set by the researcher. Results are emailed back to the researcher. The app uses the methodology known as "Experience Sampling Methodology" or "Momentary Ecological Assessment". The PIEL Survey app has been used in research projects in more than 40 universities around the world. and features in more than 65 publications and dissertations. The app is available in the Apple Store and Google Play.

PIEL Data

The PIEL Data is a research app which facilitates data management of survey data. It merges data from multiple participants and exports the data in a form suitable for analysis in spreadsheet and statistical software. The app is available in the Apple Store.