Top 40 Automotive Startup Investors in Australia (June 2026)
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Carthona Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $404k–$50M |
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Investible
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $250k–$20M |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $40k–$15M |
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Antler Australia
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, Sweden, Philippines | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $128k–$2.7M |
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Right Click Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $200k–$16M |
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Caltex Australia
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Corporate Round | Automotive, Car Sharing, Marketplace | |
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Joshua Payne
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Finance, Internet, Automotive | |
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Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $34k–$35M |
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Agri Vie
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, Australia | Series B | AgTech, Robotics, Software | |
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Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Renewable Energy, Energy, Clean Energy | $539k–$3M |
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Sailun Group
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Venture - Series Unknown | Retail, Automotive, E-Commerce | |
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General Catalyst
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $1.6M–$135M |
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Celesta Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Israel | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$130M |
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HSG
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Hong Kong | Series A, Series B, Series C | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $4.4M–$214M |
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GE Equity
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, Israel | Series C, Series B | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $6M–$55M |
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MA Growth Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Series B, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $616k–$44M |
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Oskar Hartmann
Angel
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1 | Germany, India, Russian Federation | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive | $300k–$52M |
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Defence Trailblazer
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | Mining, Manufacturing, Precious Metals | $13k–$236k |
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Cameron Adams
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Farming, Software, Recycling | $1.1M–$4.4M |
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Avenir
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, France | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, FinTech, E-Commerce | $18M–$200M |
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ABN AMRO Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, The Netherlands, United Kingdom | Series B, Debt Financing | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $5.5M–$537M |
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Five V Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Series A, Private Equity, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $2.2M–$54M |
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Matthew Browne
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Construction, Information Technology | $155k–$3M |
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Laurence Escalante
Angel
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1 | Australia, Singapore | Seed, Convertible Note | Dairy, Retail, CleanTech | |
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Sydney Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $120k–$1.5M |
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Egis Technology
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Sensor, Automotive | |
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St Baker’s Energy Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Series B, Series A | Electric Vehicle, Automotive, Transportation | $23M–$126M |
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Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $8M–$260M |
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Ellerston Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $850k–$24M |
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Taronga Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Construction, Information Technology | $962k–$27M |
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Seven West Media
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series C | Software, Internet, Financial Services | $40k–$25M |
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.4M–$55M |
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Nikki Warburton
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Retail, Automotive, Publishing | |
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Quentin Wallace
Angel
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1 | Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed | SaaS, Finance, Internet | $539k–$1.3M |
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Terrace Tower Group
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Series A | Finance, Automotive, E-Commerce | |
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Lisa Kate Miller
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Software, Automotive, Electric Vehicle | $1.1M–$4.4M |
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Autostrada
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | Energy, Automotive, Electric Vehicle | |
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Stephen Baxter
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Transportation, SaaS, Photography | |
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SG Fleet Group
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed, Series B | Delivery, Logistics, Automotive | |
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Hyundai Motor Company
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Automotive, Software, Information Technology | |
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Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $404k–$4.2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M; Series B $9.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
- CoverRight — Use CoverRight's tools to find a personalized Medicare plan and get the best coverage for your situation! Compare and enroll in Medicare Advantage, Medigap, and Prescription Drug Plans, all in one place.
- Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.
Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $404k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
- Directo — Directo operates as an independent B2B e-commerce pharmacy marketplace.
- EdenFarm Indonesia — EdenFarm Indonesia merupakan Start Up B2B, Pemasok bahan makanan mulai dari produk segar hingga sembako untuk restoran, warung nasi, hingga toko grosir.Menjual berbagai bahan pangan untuk usahamu mulai dari restoran hingga warung nasi
Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 227
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- CUZIN — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
- Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
- Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
Australia's only truly global early stage VC, we believe in and back the most ambitious founders from the earliest stage.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Sweden, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $128k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $128k–$627k
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- upcover — upcover is Australia's award winning Online business insurance provider for All type of business owners, startups, consultants, freelancers and gig economy workers in Australia. Get a quote online today.
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
- Blakthumb — Blakthumb is an Operating System software for cannabis and food producers. We make your operations so simple and intuitive, it's like running on autopilot.
Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $200k–$3.6M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- black.ai — Build smarter spaces with Black.ai
- Tability — Automate the boring parts of OKRs to cut the waste and spend more time doing what really matters.
- Nomad Atomics — At Nomad Atomics, we develop innovative quantum sensors to solve outstanding problems in mining, underground resources and navigation
Caltex Australia Limited is an Australia-based transport fuel supplier and convenience retailer company. The Company is engaged in the business of purchasing, refining, distributing and marketing petroleum products, and operating convenience stores across Australia. The Company operates through two segments: Supply and Marketing, and Lytton. TheSupply and Marketing segment is an integrated transport fuel supply chain that sources refined products on the international market, and sells Caltex fuels, lubricants, specialty products and convenience store goods through a national network of Caltex, Caltex Woolworths and Ampol branded service stations, as well as through Company owned and non-equity resellers and direct sales to corporate customers.
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- Industry: Automotive, Car Sharing, Marketplace
- Stage:Corporate Round
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.
Joshua Payne is a Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Battery Future Acquisition Corp.
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- Industry: Finance, Internet, Automotive
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 311
- Round size: Seed $34k–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3M; Series A $3.4M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
- Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.
- Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com
Agri-Vie is a private equity investment fund focused on food and agribusiness in Sub-Sahara Africa with a mission to generate an above average investment return, as well as demonstrable socio-economic development impacts through its equity investments in food and agribusinesses. As such, Agri-Vie is styled as an ‘impact investment fund’, harnessinginvestment disciplines to address development challenges.The fund was initiated by SP-aktif and Sanlam Private Equity with the cooperation of South African and international investors as well as the Makotulo Consortium. The fund’s vision is to be a catalyst for sustainable growth in Africa through investing in one of the foundational sectors of the continent.Agri-Vie seeks to realise this vision through deploying development capital and management know-how according to sound investment and business principles.
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- Industry: AgTech, Robotics, Software
- Stage:Series B
- Geography: Belgium, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Biotalys — Biotalys is an Agricultural Technology (AgTech) company that employs its proprietary Agrobody technology platform to develop crop and food protection products. The company develops a new generation of protein-based biocontrol solutions, shaping the future of sustainable and safe food supply. Biotalys' unique protein-based biocontrols combinethe high-performance characteristics of chemicals with the clean safety profile of biologicals, making them ideal crop protection agents for both pre- and post-harvest applications.It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in the Biotech hub in Ghent, Belgium.
- BEELINE Technologies — BEELINE Technologies is the global software partner for clients requiring integrated autonomous control and navigation technologies for land-based vehicles. Quality assured and agile, we develop integrated solutions across all industries.For more than 10 years, the company’s diverse and experienced teams have worked with original equipmentmanufacturers and technology organisations, to deliver flexible, leading-edge technology solutions for self-propelled, ground-based vehicles. BEELINE is proud of its pioneering spirit, and its innovative, autonomous solutions are used extensively around the world.BEELINE’s commitment to product innovation continues through its investment in sophisticated technology research and development programs that deliver outstanding solutions to our clients.BEELINE is in an exciting growth phase that continues to build value for its existing clients, whilst applying that experience, knowledge, and capability to new industries and technologies.
Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund The Fund makes seed & follow-on investments in clean energy focused startups from approved accelerators, incubators, university programs & angel
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Clean Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $539k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enosi — Enosi traces ‘your’ energy – matching site-specific, half-hourly energy demand with site-specific, half-hourly generation data – across the grid. From this Enosi: - Allocates, sorts and prioritizes settlements of that energy supply amongst a defined “community” - Delivers price and usage data to that community’s common retailer for easysettlement on monthly retail bills
- Oxamii — Oxamii is a peer-to-peer marketplace that allows businesses to purchase renewable energy from local producers.
- BlockTexx — BlockTexx is an early stage clean technology company that recovers polyester and cellulose from textiles and clothing.Through an Australian developed patent pending process that combines chemical recovery technology and advanced manufacturing to produce high quality recycled materials of rPET pellets and cellulose powder from textile waste.BlockTexx is positioned at the end of the value chain, where raw materials and end-of-use solutions have the highest environmental impact and revenue potential.
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- Industry: Retail, Automotive, E-Commerce
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mobile Tyre Shop — Mobile Tyre Shop Provider of mobile car tyre fitting services that deliver and fix new tyres to customers. Tire staff at the company help consumers find tyres that match their existing tyres or provide alternate options that fit their budget, driving style, and safety needs.They offer services including tyre sales, batteries, onesite fittings,puncture repairs, rotation, wheel balancing and more.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1593
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$18M; Series A $6M–$70M; Series B $12M–$135M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- OM1 — In healthcare, results really do matter. We're measuring and forecasting outcomes at a whole new level - transforming population data into precision health using real-world data and AI
- Render — Deploy and scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth. Build faster on intuitive cloud infrastructure for the modern web.
- Section4 — Section4 membership gives you unlimited classes with the best minds in business.
Celesta Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs and disruptive technology companies. Their management team and investment professionals leverage over 400 years of accumulated investment and operational experience and bring to their portfolio companies a deep and unmatched network of value-added strategic relationships.Celesta Capital invests globally and has offices in California, Israel, India, and China
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Series A $3M–$40M; Series B $1M–$70M; Series C $2M–$130M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Biomason — Biomason builds with carbon, the same way nature does. We use microorganisms to grow sustainable structural cement materials for the construction industry. Our technology harnesses the power of biology to reinvent traditional portland cement offering a stronger and CO2 neutral alternative.
- Prellis Biologics — Prellis Biologics is expanding the possibilities of human health through human tissue engineering.
- Brilliant — Transform any house or apartment into an easy-to-use smart home with the Brilliant Smart Home System. We make Home Controls, Light Switches, and Smart Plugs.
We help founders build enduring companies.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: China, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 751
- Round size: Series A $4.4M–$100M; Series B $12M–$200M; Series C $26M–$214M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
- Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
- Yunzhou Zhiwei — Yunzhou Zhiwei is a high-tech startup focused on serving large-scale equipment maintenance industries such as aviation, aerospace, shipbuilding, and rail transit. It leverages smart maintenance concepts and advanced digital technologies to make complex equipment maintenance more efficient and lean. The company drives industrial transformationtoward intelligent maintenance, helping enterprises enhance growth, efficiency, and operational excellence.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series C, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Series B $6M–$55M; Series C $18M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Univa — Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundredsof companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany.
- Mzinga — Mzinga is the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Through a combination of enterprise-class technology, strategy and online moderation services, Mzinga social solutions enable businesses to increase revenue and lower costs by improving brand visibility, workplace satisfaction, and customerloyalty. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Mzinga supports more than 14,000 communities and 2.5 billion monthly social interactions from 40 million unique visitors in 160 countries worldwide.To learn more about Mzinga, visit www.mzinga.com.
- Redfern Integrated Optics — Leading global supplier of single frequency narrow linewidth lasers, modules, and subsystems to clean energy, security, oil & gas, test/measurement markets.
MA Financial Group's Asset Management division manages investments for institutional & wholesale investors across real estate, credit, private equity & venture capital.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $616k–$17M; Series A $2M–$8.1M; Series B $4.6M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sonder — Sonder's employee care platform is the future of workforce health, medical, safety and wellbeing. One platform. All the support. Learn more.
- Apera Hotels — Apera Hotels is a platform designed to provide accommodations in hotels that cater to the mid-range market.
- Avena Communities — Avena Communities provides a platform for communities, offering diverse property options for both permanent and holiday living.
Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $300k–$52M; Series A $7.4M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.
Transforming defence innovation through strategic partnership between the University of Adelaide (UoA), the University of NSW (UNSW) and industry partners, with support from the Australian Government Department of Education.
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- Industry: Mining, Manufacturing, Precious Metals
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $13k–$236k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hullbot — Hullbot is a developer of a robotic in-water cleaning system designed to inspect, map, and clean the hull of a boat without a human operator present. They offer design, development, and deployment of autonomous drones, delivering solutions to stop the growth of marine organisms, improve performance, and extend the time between haul-outs. Theirembedded intelligence enables their robots to interact with the environment on-the-fly.
- ADR (Australian Droid + Robot) — Industrial robotics and automation. We provide robot and drone solutions to solve problems. At Australian Droid and Robot our motto is 'Safety by Separation' - our robots are built for hazardous environments - humans are not.
- Advanced Alloy Holdings — Tailored alloy solutions for advanced applications
Prior to Fluent, Cameron spent almost 4 years at Google, first working as lead designer on Wave and then creating future concepts for browsing social content. Prior to that he ran his own successful design consultancy, has authored four books on web design and regularly speaks at conferences around the world.
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- Industry: Farming, Software, Recycling
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Agronomeye — Agronomeye uses the power of 3D farm modelling to transform your decision-making process.
- Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
- Marlee (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.
A future-focused growth equity firm backing category-defining companies.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Series A $18M–$50M; Series B $30M–$125M; Series C $50M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nivoda — Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe.
- ShopMy — ShopMy is the affiliate marketing and collaboration tool used by the top content creators and brands in the world.
- Sigma Computing — Sigma is the only BI analytics tool purpose-built for your cloud data warehouse. Uniquely scalable, with an experience you already know: the spreadsheet.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Debt Financing
- Geography: United States, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Series B $5.5M–$50M; Debt Financing $14M–$537M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Mowi — Home - Mowi Company Website
- Zenobe Energy — Zenobe Energy ( formerly known as Battery Energy Storage Solutions Limited) is the largest independent owner and operator of battery storage in the UK. We transform the way grid operators and businesses use power to reduce costs, improve reliability and benefit the environment.
- IGNIS Energía — IGNIS Energía is a company specialized in the management and representation of cogeneration plants.
Five V Capital is a leading, growth-focused private equity & venture capital firm in Australia and New Zealand
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $3M–$5.6M; Series A $2.2M–$50M; Private Equity $44M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $250M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Blastone — BlastOne is a supplier of blasting and coating equipment, abrasives, and painting equipment.
- DyFlex Solutions — Incorporating adaptive technologies to unlock new levels of success for your organisation using next-generation SAP solutions backed by industry expertise.
- Checkbox — Checkbox is an award-winning no code platform which allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.
Matthew Browne is a Co-Founder and CIO at Upflowy.
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- Industry: Software, Construction, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $155k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
- Portainer — Portainer is a self-service container service delivery platform. It is the definitive container management GUI for Kubernetes, Docker and Swarm.
- iNSPIRETEK — More Than (Just) An Athlete Management System We go further by empowering young athletes, coaches, parents, teams and sporting organisations to gain insight into mental health and wellbeing through tracking, evidence-based content, support and interventions through our Prevention-via-Prediction platform. Our accessible and affordable WMS focuses on the whole athlete, not just their
Laurence Escalante is the Founder & CEO at VGW
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- Industry: Dairy, Retail, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bae Juice — 100% Korean pear juice
- Green Li-ion — Green Li-ion is a deep clean technology that solves the existential risk to the precious metals industry and the environment. Its patented deep technology is Cleaner, Faster, and 4x more profitable than current Lithium-Ion Battery recycling and the only technology to fully Rejuvenate the battery cathode. It was founded in 2020 and is based inSingapore.
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- 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
- Quizling — Quizling is an educational app that allows its users to make quick quizzes on their iPhone or iPad. Its users have the ability to plug their iPhone or iPad into their smart board or digital projector and challenge their class.Quizling is designed for teachers, students, and classrooms. Its aim is to make a teacher’s life easier, a student’slearning more interesting and challenging, and to help make the classroom a fun and engaging place. It can be used to preview a topic and check prior learning or before a test. Students also have the opportunity to make their own quizlings and challenge each other.Quizling was launched in 2012.
- 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.
EgisTec specializes in the IC design, research and development, and the testing and sales of capacitive fingerprint sensor. Egis Technology Inc. provides fingerprint biometrics and data encryption solutions. The Company specializes in integrated turnkey solutions with an emphasis on sensor performance and software usability.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Sensor, Automotive
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AIStorm — AIStorm is an AI startup that develops chipsets that can process data directly from devices. AIS technology is analog and mixed-signal technology. The sensor itself can deal with events, make decisions, and can perform complex analysis. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
- Calumino — The world's first thermal sensor designed for mass-market applications. Discover how our innovations cater to any application, ensuring safety and efficiency.
Reshaping the Future of Energy and Mobility
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- Industry: Electric Vehicle, Automotive, Transportation
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series B $23M–$126M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AMSL Aero — AMSL Aero is an electric Vertical Take Off & Landing aircraft.
- Applied EV — Software Defined Vehicle Technology
- Revel — Electrifying cities through charging hubs, all electric rideshare, mopeds and eBikes.
Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 881
- Round size: Series A $8M–$50M; Series B $17M–$130M; Series C $26M–$260M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.2B in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
- Regrello — Regrello is an AI-powered platform designed to revolutionize supply chain and manufacturing operations. Traditional supply chains often rely on outdated methods like email and legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, leading to inefficiencies and communication challenges. Regrello addresses these issues by offering intelligent verticalsolutions that streamline processes, centralize data, and enhance collaboration among internal and external teams. The platform's advanced AI capabilities enable rapid customization, allowing businesses to tailor solutions in hours rather than months. By automating workflows, Regrello reduces manual tasks by up to 45% and accelerates cycle times by 35%, resulting in increased productivity and cost savings. Trusted by over 150 leading manufacturing companies, including industry giants like Dell, Regrello provides enterprise-grade security and compliance, ensuring data integrity and protection. The platform's user-friendly interface facilitates seamless integration with existing systems, promoting efficient communication and data sharing across the supply chain. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, Regrello empowers businesses to optimize their operations, improve quality, and gain a competitive edge in the manufacturing sector.Regrello Corp. was founded in December - 2020 and Headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Avicena Tech — It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs.Avicena’sultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects.
Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $850k–$16M; Series A $2.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ansarada — Always achieve the best outcome with Ansarada's advanced Virtual Data Room solutions. Leave legacy data rooms behind & join the world's top dealmakers now.
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- EcoJoule Energy — EcoJoule Energy delivers intelligent, Australian-made power management systems that improve energy quality, reliability, and efficiency.
Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business. Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia.
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- Industry: Software, Construction, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $962k–$7M; Series A $4M–$10M; Series B $8.7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ampd Energy — A state of the art battery system with high output power electronics powers the most demanding of loads. Enabling the use of zero or low carbon energy sources.
- Xandar Kardian — FDA-cleared, contactless Remote Patient Monitoring radar sensor enabling proactive health care through continuous vital sign monitoring.
- Hubble.Build — Build better, faster, safer and cost-effective with our construction management software. Learn how to digitise and automate your construction worksite workflows.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $40k–$3.4M; Series C $1.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carbar — Buy, finance or subscribe to your next car online. Sell your car without haggling, get an instant valuation.
- InStitchu — InStitchu is an online custom clothier specializing in tailor made menswear. Customers are able to design custom made garments online which are then made to their exact measurements.InStitchu provides tailor made, high quality menswear through a simple online ordering process. Once a customer has added measurements to their profile, a suit orshirt can be ordered in a few minutes and on its way in two weeks. There are multiple ways for a customer to get their measurements perfected and enjoy that “perfect fit” InStitchu customers keep coming back for - our measurement guide will take you on a journey from your living room to the hustle and bustle of our tailor’s studio. Customers can choose from a wide range of globally sourced high quality wool and cotton fabrics, and when you’ve chosen, we’ll deliver your design right to your door. This new approach to shopping is stress free and cuts out the middleman, allowing us to deliver customers luxury tailor made suits and shirts without the high price tag.
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves.We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 256
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$13M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $14M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Identiq — Identiq's network members fight fraud and improve user experience by validating new users and vouching for ones they already know without sharing any personal user data at all.
- Toka — Toka develops cutting-edge and lawful digital forensics, intelligence and force protection capabilities to empower government agencies strengthen homeland security.
- Imagindairy — It's dairy, done differently. Our animal-free dairy products are lactose-free, growth hormone-free and cholesterol-free.
Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director.
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- Industry: Retail, Automotive, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
Quentin Wallace is the Partner and Co-Founder of Archangel Ventures.
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- Industry: SaaS, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $539k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
- Minke — Send, save and invest crypto with zero fees and an experience as intutive as your bank.
- Modo — Declutter your mind with our app to boost your mental wellbeing and productivity. modo helps you be present in the moment and focus on what matters most.
Terrace Tower Group specializes in acquiring, managing, operating and leasing high-quality commercial real estate services.
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- Industry: Finance, Automotive, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carma — Want to sell or trade in your old car? Good news: Carma takes care of both! Get a valuation online, with easy drop-off and seamless transition between cars.
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- Industry: Software, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Good Car Company — We provide high-quality and affordable electric cars and vans across Australia to assist in an equitable transition to low emissions transport.
- Marlee (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.
Autostrada specializes in the design and manufacture of a range of automotive accessories, including model-specific Cruise Controls.
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- Industry: Energy, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EVOS Energy — Check out EVOS. Australian Made EV Chargers, Management Solutions and EV Software. Energy Solutions for EV Fleets, Home, SMB and Strata.
Stephen Baxter - Founder @ River City Labs
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- Industry: Transportation, SaaS, Photography
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Go1 — Go1 offers training content from 250+ industry-leading providers, delivered seamlessly through any HR tech stack.
- Travelshoot — Your holidays are really important to us to create good memories and we are offering Worldwide Photographer Services. Get the best vacation photographer NYC & across the globe. Visit us now!
- Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.
SG Fleet is a pioneering leader in delivering tailored mobility solutions across Australia, New Zealand and UK.
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- Industry: Delivery, Logistics, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DingGo — DingGo | Free quotes from local car body shops using just a few photos of your damage. Car ding? DingGo!
- Zoomo — Check our reliable electric bikes and enjoy flexible lease plans in Australia, US, UK, France and more soon!
The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.
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- Industry: Automotive, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
- WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
- Obsidian Sensors — Obsidian Sensors develops a glass microelectromechanical system designed to manufacture automotive sensors. The MEMS uses infrared imaging for applications like security cameras and autonomous vehicles, enabling clients to get incumbent silicon MEMS-based sensors easily. it was founded in La Jolla, California in 2017.
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