21.Rob Stokes
Vital Stats
- Types of Start-ups funded: Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile
- Bio: Founded Quirk 16 years ago, recently sold majority stake. Recently started investing in and buying a number of business mainly in marketing, education and B2B software.
- Background info: “Rob’s a serial entrepreneur, a redhead, and has more fire than most can handle. He runs Quirk like a well-oiled machine. Rob is also one of FlyH2 Aerospace’ angel investors,” says Mark van Wyk, founder of FlyH2 Aerospace.
Examples of start-ups they’ve funded:
- Coinsetter: Wall Street-based high performance bitcoin exchange. Acquired by Kraken Digital Asset Exchange.
- Quirk: Digital Marketing Agency. Acquired by WPP Group.
- FlyH2 Aerospace: Unmanned Aircraft Alpha that is low cost, high impact environmental surveys.