# Top 40 Automotive Startup Investors in Australia in June 2026 ## Carthona Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally. ## Artesian VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care 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. ## Investible - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally. ## Antler Australia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Australia's only truly global early stage VC, we believe in and back the most ambitious founders from the earliest stage. ## Hyundai Motor Company - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Automotive, Software, Information Technology 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. ## RBO Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: South Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Automotive, Information Technology RBO Group is a permanent holding company that invests in private enterprises designed for long-term development. ## General Catalyst - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care Investing in powerful, positive change that endures ## Celesta Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 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 ## Main Sequence Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing We work with inventors who are building something hard from their unique expertise in science. These inventors are building the industries that will thrive for the decades to come. We have a unique working model to accelerate a company's pathway to scale. ## Egis Technology - Type: VC Fund - Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Sensor, Automotive 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. ## HSG - Type: VC Fund - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software We help founders build enduring companies. ## Blackbird Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS 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. ## GE Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Norwalk, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. 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Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. ## Defence Trailblazer - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Manufacturing, Precious Metals 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. ## Tiger Global Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Cameron Adams - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Farming, Software, Recycling 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. ## Ellerston Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection. ## Avenir - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce A future-focused growth equity firm backing category-defining companies. ## Agri Vie - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B - Focus: AgTech, Robotics, Software 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. ## ABN AMRO Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Debt Financing - Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care Regel bij ABN AMRO uw bankzaken zoals u dat wilt. 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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. ## Caltex Australia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round - Focus: Automotive, Car Sharing, Marketplace 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. ## Joshua Payne - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Internet, Automotive Joshua Payne is a Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Battery Future Acquisition Corp. ## Terrace Tower Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Portland, Oregon, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Finance, Automotive, E-Commerce Terrace Tower Group specializes in acquiring, managing, operating and leasing high-quality commercial real estate services. ## Lisa Kate Miller - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Automotive, Electric Vehicle head of product ## Autostrada - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Energy, Automotive, Electric Vehicle Autostrada specializes in the design and manufacture of a range of automotive accessories, including model-specific Cruise Controls. ## Laurence Escalante - Type: Angel - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Dairy, Retail, Automotive Laurence Escalante is the Founder and CEO at Virtual Gaming Worlds. ## Nikki Warburton - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Automotive, Publishing Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director. ## Sydney Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS 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. ## SG Fleet Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Pymble, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Delivery, Logistics, Automotive SG Fleet is a pioneering leader in delivering tailored mobility solutions across Australia, New Zealand and UK. ## Stephen Baxter - Type: Angel - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Transportation, SaaS, Photography Stephen Baxter - Founder @ River City Labs ## Quentin Wallace - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Finance, Internet, Software Quentin Wallace is the Partner and Co-Founder of Archangel Ventures.