Richard Moore

Angel investor, tech founder and former ASX-listed CEO (Dark Blue Sea) with a 35+ year career across investment banking, funds management and early-stage technology. Co-founder of MooCoo Ventures. Represented Australia at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1983 (bronze).

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• He worked for BT Funds Management for seven years, where he 'managed all the trading of Australian equities and derivatives' and sat on the asset allocation group - an actual asset-management trading role (Bankers Trust Australia), the clearest trading-desk experience in his record.Jan 1, 2024
• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Two actual finance roles are documented in his own biography: (1) BT Funds Management for seven years, where he 'managed all the trading of Australian equities and derivatives' and served on the asset-allocation group - a real trading-desk role at a bank-owned asset manager; and (2) he built and ran Citi's Equity Capital Markets business in Australia in the late 1990s - an investment-banking role. The employer classification: BT Funds Management is an asset manager (part of Bankers Trust Australia), not a hedge fund or market-making firm, and Citi's ECM is investment banking, so the trading seat is genuine and asset-manager-based rather than a pure systematic/quant fund role. No hedge-fund, market-making, or systematic/algorithmic-trading employer appears in his record. Student competitions (IMO 1983) are not counted as employment. Identity is supported by his self-authored personal site and MooCoo's team page.Jan 1, 2024
• MooCoo Ventures' own team page describes his pre-DBS career as a 'financial services career at Bankers Trust Australia and Citigroup' and states a First-Class Honours in Pure Mathematics, independently corroborating the BT/Citi timeline and the honours degree.Jan 6, 2025
• Self-authored biography states he was CEO of Dark Blue Sea, an ASX-listed internet company, for nine years before it was acquired in 2010; Dark Blue Sea is confirmed by ASX/delisting records as having been listed 2002-2010 and delisted after acquisition.Jan 1, 2024
• Domain Name Wire reported (Apr 2009) that Moore had been CEO of Dark Blue Sea since 2001, would step down at end-June 2009, and would continue part-time in an executive director role - pinning the CEO tenure to 2001-2009 with a transition to part-time director.Apr 2, 2009
• Before angel investing he worked in finance in Sydney: he set up and ran Citi's Equity Capital Markets business in Australia in the late 1990s during the dot-com boom, an investment-banking role rather than a systematic or market-making trading seat.Jan 1, 2024
• He founded Convergence Capital Australia, a licensed Australian financial services provider (AFSL 503221) focused on helping early-stage companies raise capital - a corporate-advisory business, not a proprietary trading or quant fund.Jan 1, 2024
• Represented Australia at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1983, winning a bronze medal (rank 73, total 18) as a student at Prince Alfred College, South Australia.Jul 1, 1983
• Co-founded MooCoo Ventures with Brian Cooke; the partnership states 80+ investments together across software, deep tech, AI and patented innovation, and he describes 70+ personal angel investments made since 2013 at roughly 10-15 new deals per year.Jan 6, 2025
• He holds a BSc(Hons) in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Australian National University (1984-1987) and describes himself as 'a mathematician with a computer science degree' with a long interest in commercial applications of technology.Jan 1, 2024
• Participated in Climate Change AI / Kaggle-style ML benchmark collaborations, including 2024-2025 competitions on wildfire and hurricane prediction, reflecting a continuing applied-ML and data-science interest alongside investing.May 28, 2026
• He writes about angel investing at angelportfolio.com.au, where his own account ties his investing to the mathematics of portfolio construction (the 'ten-sided die' / portfolio-size model), framing his investing through a probability lens.Jan 1, 2024