# Top 50 B2B Startup Investors in Australia in June 2026

## Damian George
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, AgTech, E-Commerce

Damian George

## Pollenizer
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: B2B, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Pollenizer is a co-founder of start-up web businesses in Australia. They partner with strong founders and take equity stakes at a concept stage on consumer and SaaS businesses. The skill sets cover technology, marketing and capital raising. They also occasionally make seed investments. Their businesses include;* * ** * * * * * * * * * Their team includes;* Phil Morle, ex-CTO of Kazaa, Omnidrive.* Mick Liubinskas, ex-CMO of Kazaa, Tangler, ZaprThey are also investors and partners with 

## Investible
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Antonio Palanca
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, AgTech, E-Commerce

Antonio has previously co-founded successful e-commerce and supply chain companies both here and in Asia with China Direct Partners. He is also an experienced commercial executive having held senior management roles in IBM, Sun, and Optus communications. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics and a degree in Psychology and is a member of ESA, APS& GKHS.

## Maersk Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Software

Integrated logistics company and global leader in container shipping.

## Main Sequence Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Vulpes Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Real Estate, Internet, Software

Uninhibited Venture Investing Southeast Asia & Australia-New Zealand

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Elevation Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: B2B, Gamification, Search Engine

Elevation Capital is an early stage private investment company established in 2010. Funds are co-invested to facilitate participation in a diverse range of business ventures whilst spreading costs, risks and rewards for our shareholders.

## Sprint Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Early stage Venture Capital firm based in Brisbane that's investing in next generational Australian companies that are building a better future.

## AfterWork Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups.  Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a

## Common Sense Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, CleanTech, Sustainability

Common Sense Ventures is an Australian family office backing early-stage, fast-growing businesses. We partner with ambitious managers looking to solve problems that will help the world.

## Vulpes Investment Management Pte Ltd
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Internet, Health Care, B2B

At Vulpes, we think differently. We create long-term sustainable capital appreciation by welcoming co-investment and aligning incentives. We choose to be patient and invest in ways that are profitable, yet with benefits that are not solely financial.

## Foundamental
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Construction, Software, Real Estate

Foundamental is the first partner to exceptional founders re-creating the real world globally

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Leni Mayo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: B2B, Customer Service

Leni Mayo is Co-founder and CEO at Influx. He is Seed investor in 99designs, Hired, SitePoint and others.

## Brisbane Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Machine Learning

Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.

## SpringCapital Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

SpringCapital is an Australian Venture Capital firm investing in high-tech companies. It operates an Investment Club and ESVCLP Fund.

## Matt Mickiewicz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Human Resources, Internet, Software

Matt Mickiewicz is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of SitePoint. Mickiewicz also co-founded the web companies Flippa, 99designs, and Hired.Born in Kraków, Poland, living in Hameln -Germany, and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Mickiewicz created his first website at the age of 14 called Webmaster-Resources.com, whichlater became SitePoint. At 16, Mickiewicz traveled to Melbourne with his mother and met his soon-to-be business partner and co-founder, Mark Harbottle. At 16, Mickiewicz found himself closing $10,000 advertising deals between classes at high school. Mickiewicz barely finished high school and did not attend college.In 2008, Mickiewicz spun off 99designs from SitePoint, which went on to raise $35 million in capital from Accel Ventures, Michael Dearing / Harrison Metal, Dave Goldberg (SurveyMonkey), Anthony Casalena, and Stewart Butterfield (Flickr). In June 2009 Mickiewicz and Harbottle launched Flippa.com, the largest marketplace for buying and selling websites in the world. In the fall of 2012, Mickiewicz co-founded DeveloperAuction.com which raised $2.7 million was later renamed Hired. The company later raised a $15 million Series-A round in March 2014. By December 2014, Hired was reportedly valued at $200m and had raised an additional $15m in the capital in its Series B round.Mickiewicz was named a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur by Forbes and INC in 2011, a Smart Company 30 under 30 in 2012, and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide.

## Guy King
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, B2B

Guy King is the Co-Founder of Stateless Systems Pty Ltd. Guy King wrote BugMeNot as a "slapped-together" weekend project in 2003 that went on to become a worldwide hit.
After time working a Realestate.com.au, Guy King founded Stateless Systems in 2007 and launched RetailMeNot, a consumer coupon sites.

## Flexport
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Logistics, Software, E-Commerce

Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.

## KTM Ventures Innovation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Wholesale, Trading Platform

Running as a ESVCLP under the Australian Venture Capital Act, KTM Ventures Innovation Fund LP is a Tax-effective fund for high Investment returns behind pre-IPO and private expansion capital.
Our differentiated position from traditional Venture Capital is the fund looks to help drive companies to

## Bevan Clark
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, B2B

Board Member at YourGrocer.

## Third Sphere
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Transportation

Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.

## PRTNR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Software, Information Technology

A FITTING CONCEPT - PRTNR was founded with the objective to get you essentials that are specifically tailored to your body. Every person is unique, so why are we all still molded to the standard Small, Medium or Large? Let PRTNR give you that personal attention you deserve and fit you expect.Today, tailored clothing can cost an unthinkable amountbecause apparel industry factories just aren't set-up to manufacture one-off products. The massive $14B apparel industry is dominated by one primarily brick-and-mortar player. We are introducing a number of firsts into an age old space - from the fit data we collect to the algorithm to the better bras we manufacture as a result. We create a deeply personal shopping experience - each customer sees a personal touch to the entire shopping experience.For more information on us or our processes please visit www.prtnrbrand.com

## 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.

## Transition Level Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Health Care

Founded by Steve Baxter, Transition Level Investments provides equity capital and operational expertise across Seed and Series A rounds to Australian companies.
Our team focuses on a company-growth approach, adding value by assisting founders to build their expertise, expand their team, build product, scale locally and globally to position for asuccessful exit. We have a track record of identifying investment opportunities in the Australian market and helping enable global growth.

## Capital Markets Technologies
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, B2B, Mobile

Capital Markets Technologies provides venture investments to financial and health technology startups.

## Side Stage Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Side Stage Ventures is a founder-led seed fund backing outlier founders in Australia.  We write the first  cheque into the best early stage companies. Then we lean in to help the founders build & scale.

## Wavemaker Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

## Andromeda Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Scheduling

Andromedia Global is a private equity based in Sydney, Australia

## David Gordon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: B2B, Mobile, FinTech

David Gordon - Chairman @ Ordermentum Pty Ltd

## John Szangolies
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Wholesale, Trading Platform

Founder and CEO of Urban Purveyor Group, John Szangolies is one of the leading forces in Australian hospitality. With 18 restaurants and bars across NSW, Victoria and QLD, as well as a bespoke beverage import business and commissary kitchen, Urban Purveyor Group comprises some of the country’s most notable venues. Originating in 1976 with thelegendary Löwenbräu Keller, the group also includes The Argyle and Bavarian Bier Cafés across Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Further, Urban Purveyor Group’s dining venues have proven to be formidable additions to the Australian restaurant scene. In 2013, Ananas Bar & Brasserie was named Best New Restaurant at Savour Australia Restaurant & Catering Awards, and received its first Chef’s Hat from the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide. Saké Restaurant & Bar has also held a coveted Chef’s Hat each year since opening, while The Cut Bar & Grill brings a taste of New York’s famous steakhouses to The Rocks.Employing over 1500 people, Urban Purveyor Group continues to expand, helping to shape the future of hospitality in Australia.

## Co Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2B

Co Ventures: Empowering pre-seed founders to create billion-dollar global companies from day one. Australia's first specialist pre-seed venture capital fund.

## Bay Grove
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Supply Chain Management, B2B

Bedrock    Bay Grove is an Owner-Operator with a Simple Strategy       Learn More

## Four Cities Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newton, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

We partner with great teams and invest to help them grow.

## Flash Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Flash Ventures is a pre-seed investor that provides pre-seed capital to talented founders, supporting them to build game-changing businesses.
Flash Ventures is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

## Perth Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melville, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: B2B, Retail, Wellness

Formed in late 2010, then known as the Western Australian Angel Investors In. the Perth Angels is a network of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in Perth, Western Australia.​WA Angel Investors are members of the Australian Association of Angel Investors Ltd (AAAI) and support the AustralianPrivate Equity and Venture Capital Association Ltd (AVCAL).

## RetailTech Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Wholesale, Procurement

RetailTech Capital helps founders who lead high-growth technology-enabled businesses.

## Rocket Internet
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech

Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.

## 5H Values Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Retail, Marketplace

5H Values Capital invests time and money in founders who are, in that order, humble, honest, happy, hungry, and high-performing.

## Pure Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: B2B, Mobile, FinTech

PURE is a boutique asset manager for Wholesale and Sophisticated Investors. We target double digit returns after fees and pay quarterly cash distributions. We are unique in Australia providing micro and small-capitalisation companies with access to flexible, hybrid growth capital in the form of convertible debt/equity instruments.

## Regal Funds Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Convertible Note, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Regal Funds Management was founded in 2004 by Andrew and Philip King. Regal utilises a long/short investment strategy and performs investment management and investment advisory services to a number of Australian Unit Trusts and Cayman Island Companies.

## Inhouse Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Retail, Marketplace

We are the #1 place for founders, industry leaders and VC to match, advise and invest faster. The ecosystem is messy so we made it simple.

## Aussie Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Services, B2B

A platform for investors to launch & lead syndicated investments into startups. Apply to join syndicates and invest on a deal-by-deal basis.

## King River Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Blockchain

Venture capital for high growth software companies.

## Skalata
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education

Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.

## Mark Harbottle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, FinTech

Matt Harbottle co-founded Melbourne-based SitePoint.com 10 years ago with Matt Mickiewicz, and grew it into a profitable, multi-million dollar company without any venture capital or outside funding. The company has been profitable every single month since its inception and is actively involved in publishing & marketplaces for Web Professionals.In 2008, Mark spun off 99designs out of SitePoint as its own separate business. 99designs has become the market leader in crowdsourced graphic design and currently sees a new graphic uploaded to the site every 7 seconds and pays out over $1,000,000 to designers every month. In April 2011 99designs received $35m in a Round A led by Accel Partners.99designs has run crowdsourced design projects for tens of thousands of small business owners, as well as big brands like Adidas, TiVo, Dish Networks, and bestselling authors like Tim Ferriss and Rick Warren (author of “The Purpose Driven Lifeâ€).In June of 2009, Mark and Matt launched Flippa.com, a marketplace for buying and selling small websites via auction. Flippa currently sells over $2 million worth of website assets per month, with its biggest sale ever being ReTweet.com which sold for $250,000.In January of 2011, Learnable.com was launched, again as a spin off from SitePoint. Learnable is a peer to peer education platform where anyone can create an online course and sell access to it online.

## Matt Rockman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Apps, B2B

Matt is an investor in venture businesses and will soon be basing himself in the United States working with Square Peg Capital. He invests across a wide sector of industries and geographies. Matt and his wife have a foundation where they focus on community projects, which have the ability to enhance the social sector.Prior to working as aninvestor in his own right, Matt was one of the three original founders of SEEK LTD. Along With Paul and Andrew Bassat, Matt took SEEK from business plan to become one of Australia’s most successful online businesses. SEEK is now an ASX Top 100 Listed company with a market capitalisation of $4 Billion, and with businesses in the UK, China, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.Matt also is an accomplished speaker and helps many organisations realise their full potential through his business insights. Matt holds a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from Monash University.

## Scalare Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Scalare Partners is more than a technology investment fund. We provide critical funding and resourcing 

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