Top 10 Art Startup Investors in Australia in May 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Art startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Art companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Art Startup Investors in Australia in May 2025
Investor | Art Australia investments |
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Black Sheep Capital | 2 |
Silicon Balls | 1 |
AfterWork Ventures | 1 |
Sydney Angels | 1 |
Piton Capital | 1 |
Adam Schwab | 1 |
Jeremy Same | 1 |
Grand Prix Capital | 1 |
Acorn Capital | 1 |
EVP | 1 |
Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kleecks — Kleecks is an innovative SaaS platform that optimises performance marketing activities, improves website health and speed in real-time, and has a significant impact on businesses by increasing revenues, lowering costs, and accelerating time-to-market
- Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
- Project Manda — Transform your workspace with Project Manda's AI-driven platform. Analyse company meetings, receive actionable recommendations, and boost staff productivity and ROI
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Investment focus
- Art, Music, Brewing
- Seed
- Australia, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Preezie — Bridge the gap between in-store and online shopping through individualised journeys. Create guided selling experiences and omnichannel strategies for customer engagement.
- FleetOps — We power a network of load boards embedded inside leading ELD solutions. When you work with FleetOps, you can access 126K drivers, and automate your coverage in the spot market.
- Tribe Theory — A global business hub for startups & entrepreneurs. Visit our worldwide hostels. Explore coworking, events and access to venture capital.
We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
- Primary — Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways.
- Matilda Migration — Migration made simple. Specialising in Employer Sponsored visas and Partner visas. With a 99% success rate for ultimate peace of mind. Visit us now.
Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Okkular — Okkular is an AI based fashion tech startup.
- Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Piton Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Piton focuses exclusively on network effects businesses (marketplaces, exchanges and platforms) as this provide one of the few moats or forms of defensibility to achieve dominance. There are several forms of great network effects businesses thataren’t marketplaces that include data network effects (including machine learning and AI), businesses that rely on user generated content, as well as SaaS businesses with the potential to layer network effects around it. The firm is a stage and style-agnostic and seeks to invest from seed to late stage (€200k to €15m).
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Patient 21 — Patient21 believes that the doctor-patient connection is the cornerstone to good healthcare and that it is their responsibility to remove any impediments to it. They think that the greatest healthcare necessitates cross-specialty collaboration and universal data access. Always with one purpose in mind: to help patients and physicians make betterdecisions.In comparison to today's linked world, healthcare appears to be trapped in the past. It continues to use the same analogue and isolated processes. Patient21 is on a quest to usher healthcare into the twenty-first century. They use data to help doctors give the most personalized treatments possible. And, with the help of their professional network, they are attempting to give a comprehensive perspective of their client's health.
- Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.
- Gringo — Gringo is a car app that helps in monitoring vehicle and driver's licenses, licensing vehicles and dividing fines into installments.
Adam Schwab, 36, studied Law/Commerce at Monash University before becoming a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers & acquisitions at Freehills (now HerbertSmithFreehills). At 25, Adam co-founded corporate accommodation and services group, Living Corporate Apartments. In 2010, Adam co-founded what would soon become the Lux Group. In2011, Adam co-founded of MyTable, which eventually formed part of Menulog (which was sold to JustEat in 2015). Adam is currently an investor and non-executive director of online art marketplace, BlueThumb.com.au.In 2015, Adam was named the Australian Young Executive of the Year by CEO Magazine, and Adam has been a director of the Myeloma Foundation of Australia since 2010.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Software, Art
- Seed, Angel, Series C
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bookwell — Book your haircut, waxing, nail and other appointments online. Browse venues, make a selection then book and pay online.
- Officely — Ensure your team are safe and productive when they get back to the office after COVID-19
- Brandcrush — We are unlocking the media power of businesses globally, making it easy for businesses to work together to build brands. Our platform digitally transforms media businesses from offline PDF packs and excel spreadsheets to a powerful end-to-end software solution where partners can monetize and maximize their media potential. Businesses includingHellofresh, Marley Spoon and Clubcorp are part of the 1000 strong partner network offering the world’s leading brands and agencies authentic connections to their audiences onsite, at home and online.
Jeremy Same co-founded AussieCommerce in 2010. Jeremy Same began his career as a credit trader at ANZ Investment Bank in 2002, then departed in late 2003. He co-founded Living Corporate Apartments and serves as its Director. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director of BigThanks.com.au and Sames.com.au. He was Founder and Managing Director ofMyTable, an online takeaway ordering platform, before exiting the business in 2012 in a sale to EatNow, to create Australia’s fastest growing food ordering website. He is also a dedicated amateur guitarist - much to the delight of his neighbours. He serves as Executive Director of AussieCommerce.
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Investment focus
- Art, Beauty, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Bookwell — Book your haircut, waxing, nail and other appointments online. Browse venues, make a selection then book and pay online.
- Bluethumb — Buy original art direct from Australia's leading artists. Find Abstract, Nature, Aboriginal, Pop, Nude art & more. Free shipping & free returns. Thousands of artworks & paintings for sale.
Grand Prix Capital is a private venture capital and investment firm specialized in rapid growth, start-up, private and microcap listed businesses.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Betterx — Betterx is a technology company focused on infrastructure to support Web3.0 and Digital Assets.
- Programa — Purpose-built by and for interior designers, Programa removes headaches and distractions so you and your studio have the freedom to design.
- funding.com.au — Fast, flexible property finance solutions in Australia. Explore Bridging Loans, Buiding Loans, and more to accelerate your property goals with ease.
Acorn Capital Specialist Emerging & Microcap Investment Management. We research and invest in the most attractive Australian based emerging or microcap companies.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ImmVirX — ImmVirX is an Australian company founded in 2019 with a mission to improve outcomes for patients with cancer types in which immunotherapy treatments have limited effect.
- Conflux Technology — Conflux Technology is a new generation of heat exchangers made by metal additive manufacturing (3D printing).
- Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms
EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- splose — splose isn’t just practice management software. It's your ally in handling the ins-and-outs of running a practice and a savvy tool for growth. At splose, we are dedicated to continuously improving and embracing the power of AI and automation to give healthcare professionals like you more time to focus on what matters most.
- Nexl — Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential.
- InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.
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