Top 15 Beauty Startup Investors in Oceania in December 2024
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Beauty startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Beauty companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Beauty Startup Investors in Oceania in December 2024
Investor | Beauty Oceania investments |
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Adam Schwab | 3 |
Jeremy Same | 2 |
Hezi Leibovich | 2 |
Point King Capital | 2 |
Gabby Leibovich | 2 |
Icehouse Ventures | 1 |
OIF Ventures | 1 |
Bosco Tan | 1 |
Leigh Oliver | 1 |
Alita Sales | 1 |
Aura Ventures | 1 |
Melbourne Angels | 1 |
Movac | 1 |
Blackbird Ventures | 1 |
EverYi Capital | 1 |
Adam Schwab, 36, studied Law/Commerce at Monash University before becoming a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers & acquisitions at Freehills (now HerbertSmithFreehills). At 25, Adam co-founded corporate accommodation and services group, Living Corporate Apartments. In 2010, Adam co-founded what would soon become the Lux Group. In2011, Adam co-founded of MyTable, which eventually formed part of Menulog (which was sold to JustEat in 2015). Adam is currently an investor and non-executive director of online art marketplace, BlueThumb.com.au.In 2015, Adam was named the Australian Young Executive of the Year by CEO Magazine, and Adam has been a director of the Myeloma Foundation of Australia since 2010.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Software, Art
- Seed, Angel, Series C
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bookwell — Book your haircut, waxing, nail and other appointments online. Browse venues, make a selection then book and pay online.
- Officely — Ensure your team are safe and productive when they get back to the office after COVID-19
- Healthengine — Find and book health appointments online, 24/7. View all available appointments in your local area and choose a time and place that suits you.
Jeremy Same co-founded AussieCommerce in 2010. Jeremy Same began his career as a credit trader at ANZ Investment Bank in 2002, then departed in late 2003. He co-founded Living Corporate Apartments and serves as its Director. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director of BigThanks.com.au and Sames.com.au. He was Founder and Managing Director ofMyTable, an online takeaway ordering platform, before exiting the business in 2012 in a sale to EatNow, to create Australia’s fastest growing food ordering website. He is also a dedicated amateur guitarist - much to the delight of his neighbours. He serves as Executive Director of AussieCommerce.
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Investment focus
- Art, Beauty, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Bookwell — Book your haircut, waxing, nail and other appointments online. Browse venues, make a selection then book and pay online.
- Bluethumb — Buy original art direct from Australia's leading artists. Find Abstract, Nature, Aboriginal, Pop, Nude art & more. Free shipping & free returns. Thousands of artworks & paintings for sale.
Serial entrepreneur and investor
Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Apps, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Point King Capital offers long term growth equity to founders and entrepreneurs of global consumer and financial services companies. PKC has an extensive operating experience in the consumer and financial services sectors, as well as access to a global network of operating experts and business leaders. They invest in a ‘deal by deal basis’,allowing greater flexibility to structure a transaction that aligns with the objectives of founders.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Beauty, Pet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lyka Pet Food — Life-changing dog food. Real food. Gently cooked. Delivered.
- Atelier — Everything you need to ideate, design, develop and manufacture beauty products from true innovation to in-market, in a flash.
- Factor Bikes — Factor Bikes is an online shop that supplies an extensive array of complete bikes, framesets, wheels and accessories.
Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
- Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.
- Crimson Education — Crimson Education is the world's leading higher educational consultancy helping students around the world gain admission into leading US and UK universities by up to 400%!
OIF is a venture capital firm focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs building businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Appetise — MenuAid is a cheaper, flexible and more sustainable alternative to meal-kit delivery providers. We provide Kiwis with a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes and a list of ingredients that can either be self-shopped or collected/delivered from your favourite supermarkets.
- LoveHeart — LoveHeart is an AI educator-aide that streamlines child development documentation. Write learning stories, journals, plans, and reflections in seconds. Trusted by leading educators. Get your team plan today.
- Ideally — Remarkably affordable, fast, robust and accessible research to inform and develop your ideas, concepts and products. Join us on our mission to make consumer testing a place ideas go to grow.
Bosco Tan
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
- Hello Clever — Powering PayID and PayTo real-time payments for e-commerce, billers, and businesses, with instant cashback rewards for their customers
- Atelier — Atelier is a cloud manufacturing platform for the development and scaling of beauty, health and wellness supply chains. We are the rails for manufacturing!
Leigh Oliver (Sydney) joined KKR in 2013 and is focused on investment opportunities in Australia and New Zealand. He is actively involved in KKR's investments in Bis Industries and Sundrop Farms and currently serves on the board of directors of both companies. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Oliver spent six years in the private equity team at TheCarlyle Group in Sydney. Prior to Carlyle, he worked in the investment banking division of J.P.Morgan in Sydney, and prior to that at Ernst & Young. Mr. Oliver is a CFA Charterholder, a Chartered Accountant and holds a B.A. of Commerce from the University of Queensland.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Manufacturing
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Koala Eco — Eco-friendly, natural, plant-based cleaning products. Made with Australian essential oils. Australian Made.
Alita Sales is a sales and distribution company specializing in selling and distributing health and beauty brands to pharmacies.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Manufacturing, Personal Health
- Corporate Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Baresop. — Eco-friendly skin and body care products made from organic, plant-based ingredients. Shop our range of natural personal care products today.
Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
- VycoLend — The first decentralized Crypto money market built on BTC with advanced security features for pro traders
- Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.
Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Aurtra — Aurtra delivers highly cost-effective asset management solutions for power distribution transformers through online condition monitoring and state of the art analysis.They provide the insight to significantly reduce capital costs through maximum asset utilisation. Aurtra is an Australian company, based in sunny Brisbane, Australia. Aurtra wasincorporated in 2016 and has built its IP upon a foundation of world’s best practice technology from The University of Queensland, following a decade of transformer research between academia and industry. Aurtra’s three founders, all with success commercialising hardware and software technology, recognised the potential of the technology and its beneficial impact for asset management in the power distribution industry.
- Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
- Apop Imaging — Apop Imaging develops and commercialises novel imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic tools to improve patient outcomes based on our proprietary calcitonin receptor antibody technology.
Movac is New Zealand's most experienced technology investor and is deeply integrated into the Kiwi tech sector. We've been actively investing since 1998.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
- Miruku — Miruku is a molecular farming dairy startup developing advanced dairy proteins through plant technologies that hold the potential to produce animal-free milk proteins cost-effectively.
- Re-Leased Software Company Limited — Commercial property management software that makes life easier for property managers, landlords and owners.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Build Club — Build Club is a home for big dreams and top builders where the world's top AI builders gather. The company is a team of a global network of engineers, researchers, and founders building at the frontier of AI.
- SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.
- Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.
EverYi Capital is a consumer-focused private equity firm.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Beauty, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Mistine — Mistine provides beauty products designed for asian women.
- ELECTRO X — ELECTRO X is an online food platform that offers sports and health drink that uses natural soda water and flavor-free electrolyte drinks.
- Yellow Swan Edible Fresh Eggs — Yellow Swan Edible Fresh Eggs is a domestic raw-edible egg enterprise. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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