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Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Oceania in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Oceania in September 2025

Investor	Artificial intelligence Oceania investments
Emlyn Scott	6
Chris Sang	6
Didier Elzinga	4
Greta Bradman	4
Brendan Hill	3
Hezi Leibovich	2
Matt Berriman	2
Kurt Alexander	2
Gabby Leibovich	2
Jill Preotle	2
Donald Kirk	1
Nicholas Gruen	1
Kate Mason	1
Dion Hershan	1
Jason Lenga	1
Paul Little	1
Keith Walewski	1
Roger Allen	1
James McKinnon	1
Peter Huynh	1
Gillian Findlay	1
Shanti Mohan	1
Justin Liberman	1
Dominic Pym	1
Chadd Ciccarelli	1
Jim Craig	1
Vijay Shekhar Sharma	1
Larry Summers	1
Tara Seshan	1
Bosco Tan	1
Kenneth Auchenberg	1
Hykeem Jamaal Carter	1
Mark Clayton	1
Simon Mawhinney	1
Mark D’Alessandro	1
Jutech Pty Ltd	1
Eric Ries	1
Darren Patterson	1
Ben Armstrong	1
Julian Sarokin	1
Girish Mathrubootham	1
Tink Taylor	1
Leigh Jasper	1
Anthony Warren	1
Harald McPike	1
Cristina Cordova	1
Quinn Quinn	1
Claire Hughes Johnson	1
Nick Telson-Sillett	1
Greg Ellis	1

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Emlyn has spent more than 30 years navigating the complex landscapes of finance, financial markets and technology as a founder, public company CEO, angel investor, VC investor and fund manager. He's had the opportunity to make over 70 venture capital investments in innovative companies like Nutromics, DataRobot, Calm App, Cerebras Systems,Skylark Labs, Zainar, and Kami, and a similar number personally as an angel. He is a founder of OpenMarkets Group, one of Australia's largest online brokers. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s second largest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: - Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) - Masters Business Administration (MBA) - Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI) - Bachelor of Economics (BEc)

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Bloodstock Advantage — Stealth

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.
Bloodstock Advantage — Stealth

Didier previously co-founded technical academy award winning Rising Sun Research and is non-executive director at Tourism Australia, the Atlassian Foundation and Slingsby Theatre. If you want a short meeting, don't ask about philosophy (you were warned!).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Music
Series A, Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.
Dovetail — Make sense of all kinds of customer research in one intuitive, collaborative, and searchable research repository.

Greta Bradman

Investment focus

SaaS, AgTech, Software
Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Bardee — Transforming food waste into insect protein and fertiliser
Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.

I’m an entrepreneur, angel investor and growth marketer.I started angel investing after my ecommerce startup was acquired in 2016. I love investing because it’s one of the most intellectually stimulating things you can do. You’re constantly learning about new ideas, technologies and gaining a surface level education in many areas. I’ve investedin awesome startups from Fintech, Blockchain, Data, Sharing Economy, Renewable Energy, Health, Podcasting and Computer Vision.As an angel investor, I provide a combination of capital, time, network, and expertise to the startups I invest in.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Heidi Health — Heidi Health is modernizing primary care with AI-powered technologies to improve care's quality and accessibility. its creators and engineers is to completely eradicate missed and sluggish diagnoses worldwide. They are committed to bridging the gap between the level of care that patients desire and the level of care that doctors can delivergiven their budget constraints. To create a platform where patients can quickly and easily get the treatment they require and to give every clinician the resources they need to deliver care that is secure, efficient,
Tiliter — Tiliter's tech increases supermarket efficiency reduces loss and gives your shoppers a more convenient checkout experience.
Beforepay — Beforepay understands that traditional pay cycles are a form of financial stress. So we set out to find a better way, giving Australians the control and confidence that comes with managing your own money, on your terms.That’s why we created Pay On Demand™ - a service that allows you to access the money you have earned at work, when you choose todo so. After all, it is yours!The app also automatically predicts when your bills are due, shows you how much is OK for you to spend, and automatically creates budgets for you, effortlessly.

Serial entrepreneur and investor Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.

Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ratio — Venture capital fund
Tailwind Acquisition — Tailwind Acquisition is a purpose-built investment company that seeks to partner with a world-class founding and executive team. The company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. It also seeks tocapitalize on the multiple decades of combined investment experience of the company’s management team, the board of directors, and Advisors who are both technology entrepreneurs as well as technology-oriented investors with a shared vision of identifying and investing in technology companies.Tailwind Acquisition was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
TRAVLR — TRAVLR is a revolutionary white label technology provider that consolidates the global travel industry into one seamless platform via its unique ‘Travel as a Service’ model.The company licences its full service travel platform to the world’s leading media companies, enabling their audiences to discover, plan and book curated, once-in-a-life-timetravel experiences.In turn, media companies are able to retain audiences within their ecosystem for longer, optimising for conversion by providing customers a seamless path from content through to real world experience.This unique ‘win-win-win model’ benefits all key stakeholders including consumers, media companies and the travel industry, who have traditionally experienced a fragmented travel booking journey across multiple platforms and providers.TRAVLR was founded in 2017 by Bali Bible founder Simon te Hennepe and has strategically located offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Denpasar. Its partners include Network 10, MTV, Bali Bible and Stuff.co.nz.

Kurt Alexander

Investment focus

Mining, Retail, Medical
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.

Jill Preotle is a private equity investor who works with entrepreneurs seeking access to capital and growth markets. She serves on the boards of Zipcar, Red Tail Solutions, iTeam, Dancing Deer Baking Company, TaskRabbit and Daily Grommet. She holds a J.D. degree from New York University Law School.

Investment focus

Big Data, Catering, Hospitality
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bridj — BRIDJ's powerful tools streamline the planning, scheduling & operation of bus & fleet transport. Work with BRIDJ to simplify your operations making them more time & cost efficient
ezCater — EzCater is an online catering marketplace that allows individuals to order food from local caterers. Co-founded by Briscoe Rodgers and Stefania Mallett in August 2007, ezCater is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Donald Kirk

Investment focus

Mining, Retail, Medical
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

Nicholas Gruen is a prominent Australian economist and commentator on innovation and the CEO of Lateral Economics and Chairman of the Open Knowledge Foundation (Australia). He was formerly Chairman of the Australian Centre for Social Innovation, the Australian Government's Innovation Australia and founding chairman of Kaggle. Lindsay Tannerhas described him as "Australia's foremost public intellectual".

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software
Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

OneTouch — (breezedocs has now changed its name to OneTouch)OneTouch is a cloud-based platform that automates document processing using OCR and natural language processing.Customers simply upload their business documents; our software will then identify the document and then run a variety of automated processes, such as document re-labelling,splitting, as well as extracting, redacting and repurposing relevant data. Our software incorporates a machine-learning algorithm which improves over time with increased adoption.

Kate Mason

Investment focus

SaaS, EdTech, Software
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.

Dion Hershan, Executive Chairman and Head of Equities at Yarra Capital Management.

Investment focus

Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Sapia — PredictiveHire is a team of data scientists, artificial intelligence experts, IO psychologists and recruitment industry veterans who’ve joined together on a mission to change the way candidate assessment is done, by leveraging the power of smart technology. We believe all people decisions should be based on data and analytics – not gut feeling.With the help of technology, we want to level the candidate playing field and help reduce unconscious biases in the hiring process. Offices in the US, UK and Australia

Jason has overall stewardship of SEEK’s international investments and international corporate strategy including new investment opportunities. Jason also leads the Strategy and Business Development team for SEEK's Australian and New Zealand online employment businesses.Jason has been with SEEK since 1999 in a variety of senior roles andhas been instrumental in developing SEEK's strategic direction as well as establishing and driving key parts of the business, including the development of the Group’s significant international assets.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Blockchain
Series B, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Shippit — Shippit is the multi-carrier shipping software helping you become the store every customer loves. Powering delivery for thousands of Australian sellers, stop dreading fulfilment and knock it out in minutes. Try it free today.
Behaviol — Behaviol is a tech company building a new virtual sporting world on the metaverse, where sports people are virtual characters, powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.

Paul Little

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Affinda — AI-powered information extraction solution provider, for the automation of high-volume document workflows

Keith Walewski

Investment focus

Customer Service, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.

Roger Allen, director and co-founder of A&B, has practical credentials directly relevant to the Fund based upon over thirty years as a chief executive of a major Australian IT services company with worldwide operations, then 13 years as an active investor in private companies in the ICT industries.Roger grew shareholder value in ComputerPower from $250k in 1978 to $170m in 1995 (at the time of his retirement) and also grew the annual revenue to over $300m and staff to more than 3,000. Roger obtained private equity from News Corporation, through the direct involvement of Rupert Murdoch, prior to taking Computer Power public on the ASX in 1987. He has direct personal experience in selling Australian information technology products and services in the USA, Europe, Asia, as well as Australia.He served for six years until 1997 as deputy chairman of Austrade and is very well known throughout the information technology industry in Australia and internationally. He was the first chief executive from an Australian company to be elected chairman of the Australian Information Industries Association, has represented Australia at the World Computer Services Forum and was vice-president of the Asia-Pacific industry organisation. He has also served on two advisory councils to the Prime Minister and has chaired state advisory boards in both NSW and Victoria. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Entrepreneur-ship of Swinburne University and regularly lectures at INSEAD in the School of Entrepreneurship. Roger was recently awarded the 2007 Pearcey Medal for Lifetime Achievement in recognition for his outstanding contribution to the ICT industry.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unleash live — Providing computer vision and live video streaming capabilities from virtually any camera for enterprises wishing to improve operations and improve safety across industries such as Energy, Transport, Resources and Renewables
August Robotics — We automate dirty, dangerous and dull tasks all over the world.
Fingerprint For Success — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.

James McKinnon - Managing Partner @ MIRIN CAPITAL

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Spacelli —
Expert360 — Hire elite consultants, project managers, data analysts, designers, and developers for your most important local & remote work
StorReduce —

Peter Huynh is a co-founder and partner at Qualgro VC.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
Australia, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Bizzi — Bizzi is focused on helping accountants automate financial processes like pay bill, approvals, receipt scanning, compliance, and book-keeping using its RPA (robotic process automation) technology.
Medoo — Medoo is the smart coaching software that helps coaches increase coachee retention, engagement and throughput.
Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more.

Gillian Findlay is the Chief Operating Officer at Immutable.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Twine AI — Twine AI create an operating system for modern go-to-market and product teams.

Shanti Mohan is an angel investor and the Co-founder & CEO of LetsVenture, an online platform enabling angel investment in early-stage startups that has facilitated more than 900 investments with a portfolio value of over $8 billion. She is also the CEO of trica, an equity-management and transaction platform, and part of LetsVenture.Headquartered in Bangalore, Shanti felt the need to connect startup founders and promising angel investors early when most people saw little possibility of sealing deals online. Almost a decade later today, LetsVenture has facilitated more than 900 investments and manages a portfolio of over $8 billion so far, backed by Accel and Chiratae Ventures as well as industry luminaries like Ratan Tata, Rishad Premji, Nandan Nilekani, Mohandas Pai, Sharad Sharma, and Anupam Mittal.As the platform grew over the years, Shanti’s vision to simplify and make private market investments more transparent and accessible continues to be the driving force. This larger goal has led LetsVenture to deliver timely products and features, including the technology platform for equity management and growth stage investments trica and cap table & ESOP management tool trica Equity.Other notable initiatives include the launch of Scalix, a Founder OS product to make starting up easy.As an angel investor with core expertise in consumer internet, embedded technology, and enterprise, Shanti recently launched Propell micro fund. She has invested in more than 40 startups, including Trell, Jar, Siply, Spottabl, Junio, Pariksha, GoBillion, Goat brands, Giva, and Bimaplan, among others. Shanti is the Nominated Committee Member, the Alternative Investment Policy Advisory Committee (AIPAC) of SEBI. She is also a Member of the Karnataka Vision Board for Startups.She is the founding venture partner for RBF Fund N+1 Capital, and LP Advisory Board at Pioneer Fund.Passionate about trekking, Shanti has recently launched Pragati, an initiative to help and support villages in the Himalayan region.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Transportation
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Aulerth — Aulerth is a high-fashion and digital-first jewellery startup. Aulerth offers jewellery that is couture-inspired and consciously made.
Minkspay — Minkspay is a payment solutions company
Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!

Justin thrives on working with dedicated entrepreneurs focussed on building innovative businesses.In addition to Square Peg Capital, Justin is Principal and Chief Executive at Jagen, a Family Office with investments across all major sectors. With origins in manufacturing and real estate the family is active in all stages of Venture, Growth andPE investing.Justin holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Dental
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Pearlii Pty Ltd — Premium, sustainable oral care products making positive change in the world. 50% of profits donated to providing free dental surgery to people in need of a little help.
Unified Healthcare Group — UHG has been providing innovative solutions for businesses & healthcare providers since 1997. AFR Most Innovative Companies - 4 years running!

Dominic Pym is Co-Founder at Pin Payments.

Investment focus

Cooking, Hospitality, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Gathar — Book a dining experience in your own home. Browse menus and book online, and our Culinarians will bring the ingredients, cook, and clean up.
WhyHive — WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses.
Aussie Angels — A platform for investors to launch & lead syndicated investments into startups. Apply to join syndicates and invest on a deal-by-deal basis.

Chadd Ciccarelli

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Triggr — SaaS Platform, Real-Time Sales Notifications and Top Quality Contact Data to Help Your Sales Team Close More Deals.
Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.

Jim Craig, Independent Director and Chairman - Investment Committee at AustralianSuper.

Investment focus

Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Sapia — PredictiveHire is a team of data scientists, artificial intelligence experts, IO psychologists and recruitment industry veterans who’ve joined together on a mission to change the way candidate assessment is done, by leveraging the power of smart technology. We believe all people decisions should be based on data and analytics – not gut feeling.With the help of technology, we want to level the candidate playing field and help reduce unconscious biases in the hiring process. Offices in the US, UK and Australia

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.

Investment focus

Internet, News, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
Naxatra Labs — Light, Efficient, Powerful Made in India motors and controllers for Electric Vehicles
Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!

Larry Summers

Investment focus

Big Data, Internet, Hospitality
Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bridj — BRIDJ's powerful tools streamline the planning, scheduling & operation of bus & fleet transport. Work with BRIDJ to simplify your operations making them more time & cost efficient
Belong — Renting is the new American lifestyle. We didn't create it. But we're making it sing.

Tara Seshan

Investment focus

Customer Service, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.

Bosco Tan

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.

Kenneth Auchenberg is an individual investor

Investment focus

Customer Service, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.

Hykeem Jamaal Carter

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Blockchain
Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

Mark Clayton

Investment focus

Software, Intelligent Systems, Information Technology
Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Mooven — Mooven is a technology platform that enables the infrastructure and transport industry to deliver roading projects faster and with fewer complaints by managing disruption and understanding traffic conditions with real-time visibility.

Simon Mawhinney is a managing director of Allan Gray.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Affinda — AI-powered information extraction solution provider, for the automation of high-volume document workflows

Mark D’Alessandro

Investment focus

Blockchain, Online Games, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Behaviol — Behaviol is a tech company building a new virtual sporting world on the metaverse, where sports people are virtual characters, powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

Jutech Pty Ltd

Investment focus

Mining, Retail, Medical
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Serbia, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.

Mr Patterson has more than 20 years’ experience working with both start-up and blue-chip technology companies spanning Australia, Europe, US and Asia. As a leading senior executive, his experience includes telecoms, IT, digital media and venture capital. Mr Patterson is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alchemy Ventures, an ESVCLP venturecapital fund established to invest in teams and ideas which changes lives and industries, whilst having a positive impact on human and environmental wellness.Mr Patterson's international experience has seen him hold senior business development roles with Yahoo, ECI Telecom, Energis Communications / Cable and Wireless PLC and Cisco Systems. He has been an investor in technology ventures Abyss Solutions, Persollo, Republic Capital Management, Firstwave Cloud Technology, Lumific and Datasift where he secured investment from US venture funds.Most recently he was the CEO and Co-Founder of Australia’s only regulated property investment platform, BrickX, and was CEO and executive director of Property Connect Holdings (ASX:PCH).Mr Patterson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Directors.

Investment focus

Sports, 3D Technology, Commercial Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Clearmatch — Alternative funding, fixed income marketplace
Persollo — Analyse any Instagram, TikTok, YouTube account, sell on social media in just 1 click and discover influencers with the audiences you need. AI powered. Designed for mobile. The results are magical.
LocalAgentFinder — LocalAgentFinder provides homeowners with the ability to compare and connect with the most suitable real estate agents. Their unique service changed the game and set the standard in one. Choice. LocalAgentFinder allows anyone to compare a wide range of local agents to learn how they’re different, without the ring-around or upfront appraisals. MostAustralian agencies have provided them their information, including their fees.The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Victoria, Australia.

Ben Armstrong is the Founder at Archangel Ventures. He attended Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Josef — Automate lawyer-client conversations, document drafting and providing legal services. Josef is a software platform with a chatbot interface.
nyfty.ai — We make little robot helpers to automate workflows, from Site Attendance & Manpower Logging, COVID-19 Prescreening & Emergency Messaging on Construction sites. Integrated to Procore (with more to come), our software bots do tasks on your behallf. It does the work you hate.

Futurist • Crypto • Founder @ The Automation Fund

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Robomart — Hail a store on wheels and get snacks, or pharmacy goods in minutes, and shop right at home. Now available in West Hollywood. Download the Robomart iOS app now.
Fr8 Network — We’re building the efficiency layer to solve today’s challenges and power the future of freight - from AI and automation to self driving trucks.
Ocean Protocol — Monetize AI models & data while preserving privacy

Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HuddleUp — HuddleUp is an AI-based team culture platform empowering Managers to boost team engagement & productivity using conversational AI, personalised learnings & peer connections. Build engaged, high-performing remote teams with HuddleUp. Book a demo now!
NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!

Tink Taylor is COO, Founder, and President of dotMailer and dotDigital Group and has been pivotal in the development of digital marketing since its outset in both the UK and now the US.Serving as a key and influential member of the UK DMA’s Email Council and also the IAB since 2006, Tink’s been judging the Email, Mobile and Agency categories at theUK DMA’s awards for over half a decade. Now chair of the email marketing category, he is constantly striving to help individual organizations, and the industry as a whole to develop and progress.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketing, Advertising
Seed
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Compono — Smart, easy-to-use HR management products for sourcing talent and helping them grow.
Traverse Data — Digital Media Solutions, Inc. (DMS) drives better business results through our innovative digital performance advertising solutions.

Leigh Jasper is the CEO of Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. Together with company co-founder Rob Phillpot, he raised A$86 million in private equity investment before listing Aconex on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December 2014. Prior toAconex, Leigh was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted for clients in the financial services, media and information technology sectors. He is a director of the Burnet Institute, a not-for-profit organization which aims to improve health in poor and vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally through research, education and public health. Leigh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Diploma of Modern Languages in French from the University of Melbourne.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Construction
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
Propeller Aero — Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.

Anthony Warren, Dealer Principal at Peter warren Toyota.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Data Integration
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.

Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Imagr — We have built the first vision-only, white-label autonomous checkout solution that retailers can own, operate and scale themselves. Imagr is designed to layer into any supermarket, with no store fit-outs required.The Imagr system is an end-to-end autonomous checkout solution that enables retailers to automate the checkout in their supermarket.The system consists of a mobile Imaging Station - this utilizes our machine learning platform to image products and load them into our system so they are ready to be recognised when put into the trolley. Shopping trolleys fitted with the Halo (home to the lights and cameras that drive our AI platform) recognise items as they go in and out of the trolley without the need for barcodes. A retailers app, retailers can track shopping sessions and manage trolleys. And a shoppers app, for customers to pair with the trolleys, track shopping sessions and checkout. All parts of the Imagr system are designed and built in house by Imagr.
Starling Bank — Transform the way you manage your money with Starling Bank. Enjoy personal and business banking online and at your fingertips, always. Apply in minutes.
Health Data Analytics Institute — HDAI specializes in transformative healthcare data analytics and predictive tools designed for hospital systems and ACOs to enhance patient care and optimize resource allocation.

Cristina Cordova is the COO at Linear. She was previously a partner at First Round Capital. Cristina previously served as the Head of Platform & Partnerships at Notion. Before Notion, Cristina spent more than seven years at Stripe as it scaled from 28 to nearly 3000 people, leading the Partnerships function and the business units for Stripe’sCorporate Card & Treasury products. Cristina was also previously an active angel investor, focusing on founders building fintech, SaaS and developer products as she advised and invested in more than 50 startups.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Gentrace — Test generative AI across teams. Automate evals, tune retrieval systems, and edit prompts for reliable LLM products and agents. Start for free today.
Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.

Adrian became a serial entrepreneur who had multiple exits across the USA, Australia and NZ. Adrian is co-founder and lead investor at AngelCube, Melbourne’s first venture accelerator, which provides seed investment and mentoring for technology start-ups and recently won StartupSmart magazine’s “Best Start-up Investor” award. Adrian is alsofounding chairman of Investors' Organisation, whose mission is to grow the pool of investors willing to support Australia’s next generation of entrepreneurs, through collaboration and idea exchange. Adrian has invested in more than 40 Australian and US startups.

Investment focus

Transportation, Software, Apps
Angel, Seed
Australia, United States, Cambodia

Portfolio highlights

BookMeBus — Travelling or planning your trip across Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand? Find the best deals on bus, taxi and ferry tickets on BookMeBus.com. Book now!
PoweredLocal — Wish you could uncover who's walking into your locations? PoweredLocal converts your real world visitors into a digital profile, complete with contact information, and sends this data into your existing marketing and CRM platforms. In real time.
Freight Exchange Pty Ltd — Multi-Carrier Shipping Software | TMS | FMS | ERP

Claire Hughes Johnson is the chief operating officer of Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Johnson lives in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
SafetyKit — SafetyKit automates Trust and Safety. SafetyKit's AI agents allow Operations, Risk, and Trust teams to scale review, enforcement, and appeals without throwing more people at the problem. This means faster, better decisions than traditional outsourced reviewers. The founders are ex-Airbnb, Meta, and Stripe, where they owned compliance,onboarding, and supportability reviews.
Glide — Glide redefines account opening and lending with seamless digital experiences. Simplify account opening and loan origination with a platform built to drive growth, enhance experiences, and streamline operations.

Exited Founder of DesignMyNight (Acquired 2019), Co-Founder trumpet, Founder of Venture Arm Horseplay Ventures, Angel Investor in 55+ Startups and Podcaster - Pitch Deck

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
sequel — A digital family office for the world's best athletes investing in the world's best startups, advancing humanity.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.