About
Adrian is an experienced technology entrepreneur and investor who has started and built several extremely successful companies including ActiveHotels.com (which became Booking.com) Europe’s largest online hotel booking website, sold in 2004 after four years, delivering a 16 fold return to investors. Adrian was then founder of AlertMe.com in 2006, a home energy monitoring system and leading technology innovator in cloud based Smart Home Services. He sold to Centrica PLC in 2009 on moving to Australia. Adrian has angel investments in 12 technology companies and is currently a shareholder and board member of ASX listed Eastern Iron Limited and is encouraging them to use clean energy for both the future mine site and transport needs. In 2010 Adrian co-founded Australian Solar Group to help drive the expansion of large- scale solar projects in Australia.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 927 investors hold the Co-Founder and CEO role in VCSift. Adrian Critchlow is one of them.
- • 705 investors are based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
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