Austin Hill

Current

Board Member at Reseau Capital Board
Board Member & Venture Partner at Montreal Startup
Venture Partner & Investment Commitee at Montreal Startup

Venture Partner at iNovia Capital
Board Member & founding Angel at Anges Quebec
Chairman & Co-Founder at Standout Jobs Inc.
Executive Instigator, Founder & CEO at Akoha
Founder at Brudder Ventures

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Past

Executive Vice President Research & Communications at Radialpoint Inc.
President & CEO at Synomos Inc.
Co-Founder, President, Executive VP at Zero-Knowledge Systems

Executive Vice President - Enterprise Division at Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc.
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at Totalnet
Chief Technology Officer at Total.Net
Founder & CEO at Infobahn Online Services

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Education

School of Hard Knocks

Recommended

12 people have recommended Austin

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Austin Hill’s Summary

I am an active entrepreneur with a strong interest in technology startups. For the last 17 years I have been starting and operating technology companies.

As an angel investor and venture capitalist I have invested in a number of companies. I also speak at Universities, community meetups and professionally on the topics of Technology and Social Change, Entrepreneurship.

I enjoy coaching & mentoring new startup companies when I'm not too busy building companies of my own.

Austin Hill’s Specialties:

Startups, Canadian Entrepreneur, Internet Communities, Philanthropy, Angel Investing, Privacy, Venture Capital, Security Technology, Cryptography, Identity, Social Media, Technology Marketing, PR & Evangelism, Innovation

Austin Hill’s Experience

Board Member

Reseau Capital Board

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

January 2009 — Present (1 year )

Reseau Capital is a network of Private Equity and Venture Capitalists representing the province of Quebec.
Board Member & Venture Partner

Montreal Startup

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Montreal Startup is a seed investor providing mentoring, funding and advisory capital to technology startups in the Montreal community.
Venture Partner & Investment Commitee

Montreal Startup

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

MontrealStartup is a seed & angel investment firm that invests in Montreal based startups. We focus on early stage innovation funding companies at the earliest stage of their funding lifecycle.
Venture Partner

iNovia Capital

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

iNovia Capital is one of Canada’s premier managers of seed and early-stage venture capital funds, with operations in both Eastern and Western Canada. We combine access to innovative technologies, deal-structuring experience and a rigorous investment philosophy to build successful companies that deliver returns.

Whether in information technology, life sciences or cleantech, we seek out companies that have global ambitions and proven management teams, along with products that have a quick path to market. We aim to ensure that the key elements are in place early on, so that each successive round of financing can quickly build tangible value.

iNovia Capital has over $158M under management across two seed and early stage funds (MSBi Investment Fund, L.P. & iNovia Investment Fund II, L.P.) and MSBi Valorisation.
Board Member & founding Angel

Anges Quebec

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

January 2008 — Present (2 years )

Anges Quebec is a network of Angel Investors organizing and providing angel funding to Quebec based entrepreneurs.
Chairman & Co-Founder

Standout Jobs Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

January 2007 — Present (3 years )

Standout Jobs is a Montreal-based startup providing web-based tools to help companies recruit top talent more effectively.
Executive Instigator, Founder & CEO

Akoha

(Internet industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

Akoha is a new concept in social games.
Founder

Brudder Ventures

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

February 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

Brudder Ventures is the early stage angel investment firm of Austin Hill. The company makes early stage investments in Canadian technology firms.
Executive Vice President Research & Communications

Radialpoint Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

May 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 2 months)
President & CEO

Synomos Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 6 months)

Synomos is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zero-Knowledge Systems. Inc.

Intelligent Data-Policy Provisioning for Information Governance
Co-Founder, President, Executive VP

Zero-Knowledge Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1997 — January 2004 (7 years 1 month)

I was a co-founder of Zero-Knowledge Systems and acted as it's President from 1997 to 2001. I assisted the company in raising $75 million in venture financing, and was involved in all operations of product development, marketing, business development and was the public face of our work on the issues of Internet privacy.
Executive Vice President - Enterprise Division

Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1997 — January 2004 (7 years 1 month)

As on of the founders of Zero-Knowledge Systems, I was responsible for early product development, all venture capital raising, product and market strategy and was the public face of the company responsible for press, media and the marketing of the corporation.

Recently I have been the operational manager of the enterprise division of Zero-Knowledge Systems' Enterprise divsion managing the restructuring and current sales&marketing of the enterprise group of ZKS.
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Totalnet

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years )
Chief Technology Officer

Total.Net

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1994 — July 1996 (2 years )

As one of the founders of Total.Net I was the Chief Technology Officer for Total.Net one of the largest ISPs in Canada at the time.

I oversaw the integration of numerous aquisitions of ISPs, managed the authentication, networks and infrastructure for Total.Net which provided Internet service for more than 60,000 Canadians.
Founder & CEO

Infobahn Online Services

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1994 — March 1995 (8 months)

Infobahn Online Service was a Montreal based Internet Service Provider that I founded and later merged with another ISP to create Total.Net which became one of Canada's largest ISPs.

Austin Hill’s Education

School of Hard Knocks

Entrepreneurship 1990 — 1994

Additional Information

Austin Hill’s Websites:

Austin Hill’s Interests:

Technology, Startups, Venture Capital, Cancer Research, Social Entrepreneurs, Philanthropy, Internet Communities, Canadian Startup & Innovation, Angel Investing, Games4Change, Cryptography & Security, Reading,