Christine Kaine (entrepreneur) (born 1949) is associated with the angel investor, business matching and startup technology movement in Australia. She is the founding director of Business Angels Pty Ltd (established 1992) which is an Australian angel investor service, also known as a matching business angel network, using custom-designed software to match businesses with investors. She started her investor matchmaking service after reading a newspaper article about angel investors who invested time and money so that growing businesses could achieve their potential. Private Capital for Private Companies, authored by Christine (1998) is a practical guide for people looking for an angel investor. This guide documents the history and experience of angel investors and business angel business startup matching in Australia. It also introduces people to a series of systems that will give them a greater chance of successfully participating in the business angel process. Christine Kaine set up her first matching business in 1987 in Armadale, Melbourne, called peoplebrokers. This business matched housemates, house minders and friends. She computerised the matching business as soon as it was possible to do so. She was one of the first businesses in Australia to adopt the World Wide Web. As part of her focus on customer relationship management, Christine had one of Australia’s first e-commerce websites when the National Australia Bank was the only Australian bank that offered online transactions. Christine is a founding member of the Unstoppables entrepreneur movement in Australia. This is a collaborative movement for entrepreneurs to come together with passion and purpose, raise the financial intelligence of Australia, create greater productivity, progress, and prosperity and leave a significant legacy for generations to come. In 2014 she set up a new matching service called CrowdEntrepreneurs which taps into the growth of crowdfunding which is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, typically via the internet.
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