About Us

Why Meteorical was started

The principle at Meteorical is Brian Dorricott. Brian set up Meteorical after discovering that many new Business Angels were finding it hard to get started with their first investment.

Brian Dorricott's Background

After completing a Masters in Engineering at Imperial College, he worked for Philips and Logica before setting up two companies: DeeZee Ltd and Gordano Ltd.

DeeZee Ltd provided dial-in security management software used by Internet Service Providers. EasyACS allowed secure dial-up with passwords and one-time codes to be managed with secure "IP tunnels" into corporate networks. Brian was the Architect and Managing Director of DeeZee; sold to CISCO Systems Inc. in 1997.

He was the Founder, Architect and Managing Director of Gordano Ltd from 1994 until 2003 when the company was sold to the existing management team. Gordano scored many firsts: first messaging server for Microsoft's Windows NT platform; first "try-before-buy" commercial software; first product managed by web-console; first to include text messaging and anti-spam & anti-virus options. GMS (formerly NTMail) has been purchased by over 20,000 companies in over 120 countries around the world including Fuiji Film, University of Toronto, IBM, TieRack, Marks & Spencer, Oxfam, Dolby, NASA Space Goddard Center, US Army, Cable & Wireless, NTL and Barclays Bank.

After leaving Gordano, Brian managed his investments and started making investments as a Business Angel in the South West of England. Brian is a qualified coach and has attended Cranfield's NED programme. In the last year he has worked for and as a mentor/coach to companies at SETSquared and provided mentoring to start-ups at UWE Ventures.

Brian has made Angel Investments in the following companies:

  • CoVal To date the investment failure although, after 15 quiet years, things are starting to move.
  • The Moviebooth Based in Cheltenham, Moviebooth is run by an energtic and active entrepreneur.
  • Anaxsys A medical devices company providing solutions to help with improved Asthma detection.
  • So-lar Smart Heating Solutions A company in the solar thermal green area of technology allowing space heating as well as hot water to be provided from the sun.