Top 10 Art Startup Investors in Oceania (July 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 48
Round size: Seed $34k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $539k–$1.5M; Series A $1.2M–$13M
Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
TokenOne — TokenOne is a Cyber Security software company that makes it easy to replace passwords, tokens and other forms of authentication with a more secure solution.

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We exist to serve great entrepreneurs with honest advice and education, investment capital that is fair, and an open door to our international network and connections.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Animation, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: New Zealand, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 23
Round size: Seed $606k–$2M; Pre-Seed $473k–$1.2M
Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

Scannable — Scannable helps Arborists, Rope Access Technicians, Riggers, and Rescuers easily manage PPE and safety equipment.
Space Rock Games — Space Rock Games is the developer behind Criminals Within - a cooperative-only action game set in a medieval fantasy kingdom. Sign up to receive exclusive development updates!
Floating Rock Studio — Floating Rock Studio

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Seed VC

Investment focus

Industry: Art, Music, Brewing
Stage:Seed
Geography: Australia, Canada, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Seed $269k–$860k
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 112
Round size: Seed $942k–$3.5M; Series A $1.3M–$5.4M
Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow

Portfolio highlights

Practifi — The leading wealth management CRM purpose-built for advisors, Practifi transforms how financial professionals connect with and grow their client base.
Calcs.com — ClearCalcs makes structural engineering calculations easy with 100+ ready-to-use calculator library to US, CA, AU, NZ, and Eurocode standards.
Fergus — Fergus is a smart field service management software for service businesses. Make job management easy and carry out work better with our all-in-one solution.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Art, Beauty, Internet
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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Grand Prix Capital is a private venture capital and investment firm specialized in rapid growth, start-up, private and microcap listed businesses.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: Australia, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 14
Round size: Seed $168k–$1.7M; Series A $1M–$2.7M
Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

Rezdy — Rezdy is the best online booking software for tour & activity operators. Discover more about the largest distribution network for tours & activities.
Betterx — Betterx is a technology company focused on infrastructure to support Web3.0 and Digital Assets.
Programa — Stop juggling spreadsheets, email chains, and multiple tools. Programa is project management software built specifically for interior design studios. Track FF&E specs, client approvals, and vendor orders in one system. Trusted by 5000+ designers. Try free for 7 days - no credit card required.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Wellness, Art
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series C
Geography: Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M
Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Australia, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 95
Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $130k–$890k; Pre-Seed $337k–$1.5M
Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

Keeyu — keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences.
ExtrasJar — Swap health insurance premiums for balanced investments and get access to your funds when using health services.
Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.

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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).

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Stage:Series A, Series B
Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 106
Lead/follow: no public data

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.

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