# Top 50 Big Data Startup Investors in Australia in June 2026 ## Reinventure - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally.With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner,Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry. ## NAB Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software NAB Ventures is an Australian Venture Capital fund backed by National Australia Bank (one of the largest 20 banks globally). ## Airtree Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier. ## Jill Preotle - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Big Data, Catering, Hospitality Jill Preotle is a private equity investor who works with entrepreneurs seeking access to capital and growth markets. She serves on the boards of Zipcar, Red Tail Solutions, iTeam, Dancing Deer Baking Company, TaskRabbit and Daily Grommet. She holds a J.D. degree from New York University Law School. ## FreshTracks Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shelburne, Vermont, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care FreshTracks Capital - a Vermont based venture capital fund investing in Northern New England seed & early stage entrepreneurial companies. ## Skip Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Skip Capital is a private investment fund investing in technology and infrastructure ## Qualgro VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Qualgro is a venture capital (VC) fund based in Singapore that provides funding to tech startups across Southeast Asia, in areas like Data, Software, and AI. ## Jelix Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand. ## Telstra - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Market Research, Information Technology Telstra is an Australia-based telecommunications and information services company offering a full range of communications services. The company has built a fully integrated IP network and a reliable mobile network for its clients. Through its strategic investments over the years and the recent acquisition of Pacnet in Asia, it now has the largestprivately owned subsea cable network in Asia Pacific, have licenses throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas and it facilitates access to more than 2,000 PoPs in 230 countries and territories.Telstra’s international operations are headquartered in Hong Kong, where it provides wholesale and enterprise customers with a full breadth of holistic and end-to-end solutions across data, voice, satellite, and managed network services. The company was founded in 1975 and is locally headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. ## 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. ## Matt Perkes - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Software Matt Perkes ## January Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software We partner with exceptional technology companies in the Asia-Pacific region, providing flexible capital solutions to amplify their growth ambitions. ## Claremont Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: South Yarra, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Software Claremont Capital is a boutique growth equity firm. Claremont Capital invest in and raise capital for early stage Australian businesses with a compelling future. ## Allectus Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Allectus Capital is an investment company with a value focused portfolio of disruptive technology businesses. Allectus oversees and supports c.US$200m in technology assets across the Asia Pacific, UK and US and is managed by ICM Limited ## 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. ## Seven West Media - Type: VC Fund - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Services Change the tagline ## James Goodwin - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Finance, Big Data, Accounting James Goodwin - Board of directors @ Macrovue ## Anthony Musumeci - Type: Angel - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Logistics, Media and Entertainment, Art Anthony has an extensive experience in cutting edge research and commercialisation, particularly across the University sector. Over the last 10 years Anthony has worked with a wide range of new innovations predominantly in the science, engineering and information technology fields. Anthony has experience in commercialisation strategy, intellectualproperty, due diligence, marketing and promotion, negotiation, grant and capital raising from his roles at UniQuest Pty Ltd and QUT Bluebox Pty Ltd. Anthony has a scientific background having completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Chemistry) – Hons(First Class) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Materials Science / Nanomaterials at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland (UQ). Anthony has also completed a Graduate Certificate (Research Commercialisation at UQ and an Executive Masters of Business Administration at QUT.Anthony currently holds the position of Investment Manager at Uniseed Ventures. In this role Anthony is responsible for- Provision of on-going guidance and direction to investee companies, including the role of Director and / or project manager where appropriate;- Development of financial and commercial strategy, including identification of finance requirements, and investment and divestment strategies for investee companies;- Management of the process of assessment and due diligence on potential ICT and physical sciences investments- Uniseed Investment Committee Member- Management of the relationship between UniSeed and its partner universities including, where necessary, working with partners to identify potential investments for Uniseed- Development and maintenance of Uniseed's relationships with the QLD and NSWGovernment, Australian VC and commercialisation sector ## Brisbane Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Alma Mundi Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, InsurTech, Insurance We back bold and purpose-driven founders. ## Follow[the]Seed - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming Follow[the]Seed is a post-seed algorithmic venture capital fund, using a unique predictive analytical model known as Raving Fans™ to identify the next $1 Billion+ ventures. Based in Sydney, Australia; San-Francisco, USA; Tel Aviv, Israel & Beijing, China our team has over 3 decades of combined experience building startups ourselves andanother 2 decades of experience investing in over 90 companies.Oh, and we truly love entrepreneurs and innovation. ## Damien Waller - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Credit, FinTech, Finance Damien Waller is a Chairman at Point Hacks. He attended Monash University. ## Larry Summers - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Big Data, Internet, Hospitality Larry Summers ## Horizons Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence Investing in the deep science and technology that can propel humanity towards a radically better future. ## Partners for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software We partner with companies at an inflection point in their business, who are seeking flexible and customized financing, matched to their trajectory and needs. ## Daniel Gavel - Type: Angel - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, CRM Daniel Gavel is an entrepreneur and investor who has founded a number of businesses including early stage investment firm Black Sheep Capital, leading Queensland property developer Golden State Property, and venture capital firm Full Circle Venture Capital.Dan started out in financial advisory, growing his own practice before exiting the industryin 2013 and establishing Black Sheep Capital to invest in early-stage tech companies and other assets. Today, Black Sheep Capital is one of Australia’s most active angel and seed investors, and has funded a wide range of startups including Airtasker, Sendle and Go1.Dan plays an active role backing and mentoring startups, and contributing to the development of Australia’s innovation eco-system. He brings his commercial acumen and strong corporate networks to his investment activities, and believes strongly in the power of collaboration in helping new ventures grow to their full potential. ## Right Click Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm ## Australian Medical Angels - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Machine Learning, Sports Medical Angels is the premier medical and health-specific angel investment syndicate, comprised of over 1,000 clinicians from across Australia. ## NextView Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity. https://nextview.vc/ ## Inception Asset Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Finance, Big Data, Robotics Inception Asset Management is a professional wholesale investment manager with a global focus on private markets and alternative investing methods. They support the investing goals of its founders and their close network of high-net-worth investors and family offices. It is an investor-first method, allowing for a more coordinated, targeted, andinfluential approach to investment. ## Global Founders Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## 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. ## Nikolas Majola - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Gaming, Big Data Nikolas Majola is an entrepreneur, founder and investor. ## Union Square Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City. ## Christian Faes - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK. Now building Faes & Co. ## Qantas Loyalty - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: PaaS, SaaS, Big Data In addition to the core business of transporting passengers and air freight, Qantas operates a number of subsidiaries, including QantasLink and Jetstar. ## Carthona Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Skyfield Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Big Data, Software, Real Estate Skyfield Capital ## Barry Winata - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Wealth Management Barry Winata is the Founder and Managing Partner of Steamworks Ventures. With 10+ years of experience across Silicon Valley and Australia, he has been actively involved in all aspects of the business and product lifecycle from technology leadership, engineering, and design, to product management, strategy, growth, and operations. Some of hisnotable gigs include the CSIRO (leading research institute of Australia), BAE Systems, Cochlear, Sensity Systems (acquired by Verizon), and Skylo Technologies (Softbank invested). Barry is highly connected with the startup and investment community across both the US and Australia. On the side, he is also an active angel investor and startup advisor with investments across Australia, the US, and Europe. Barry graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with a BEng in Electrical Engineering (Honors) and a BBus in Finance and Economics (Distinction). ## Hugo de Jong - Type: Angel - Location: Earlwood, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Software Hugo de Jong is a Partner at Beames Capital. ## AMP New Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Finance, Big Data, Accounting AMP was founded on a simple yet bold idea—that every individual should have the power and ability to control his or her life. ## EVP - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey. ## Abraham Robertson - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Software Abraham Robertson is a Director and co-founder at STROPRO. He attended University of Technology Sydney. ## Dorcas Investments - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Software Dorcas Investments Limited was incorporated on April 25, 2016, and as of May 13, 2016, is a live private company limited by shares. ## Curt Shi - Type: Angel - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: iOS, Apps, News Curt is an entrepreneurship and skateboarding evangelist & rainmaker with specialty in early stage venture investment and cross-border deals. Currently Curt is nurturing a number of ventures such as Cheduoshao, Boolaw, Qian8ao, Catapult Sports Group (ASX listed), F&B Education, Spring.me, VenturEase, among others, contributing his strengthon building a more healthy entrepreneurship culture in China and Australia.Been passionate on skateboarding for over 20 years, Curt is an experts for action sports life style specializing in reaching the X-Games and trend-setting youth markets. Curt holds a Master’s degree in International Communication from Macquarie University, Sydney, a GD of Translation and Interpreting with University of Western Sydney, as well as a B.S.of International Trade from Jiangsu University, China. He is Founding Partner of Imprint Capital Partners, splitting his time between China and Australia. ## Exto Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Apps, Content, Internet Exto Partners is a diversified private investment firm based in Australia.The Company Directors work with both emerging and established companies to help them achieve their business goals through capital investment, strategic planning, corporate advisory and exit planning and execution.Exto Partners build high performance globalbusinesses that embrace innovation, transform established industries and challenge existing market leaders to drive value for shareholders. ## Australia and New Zealand Banking Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Learn about easy and secure ways to manage your money. ## Suffolk Equity Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Transportation, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Suffolk Equity Partners was founded in 2011 as an investment vehicle focused on finding businesses and entrepreneurs of promise. We seek companies and people we believe in, and help them achieve their goals of growth and improvement.With experience in finance, distribution, retail, operational management, and family business, the Suffolk Equityteam believes in portfolio diversity and finding thoughtful ways to add value to our portfolio companies. ## William Sahlman - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Georgia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Mobile Apps, iOS Lead Entrepreneurship Professor and Dean of External Relations, Harvard Business SchoolWilliam Salhman is an advisor to HST Solar where he guides the firm on strategy. He is the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff – Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The d’Arbeloff Chair was established in 1986 to support teachingand research on the entrepreneurial process. His research focuses on the investment and financing decisions made in entrepreneurial ventures at all stages in their development. Sahlman has written numerous articles and two textbooks on topics including entrepreneurial management, venture capital, private equity, deal structuring, incentives, commercializing science, and the role of entrepreneurship in the global economy.In April 2011, the National Venture Capital Association gave Sahlman The American Spirit Award, which was created in 1999 to recognize individuals who have shown outstanding leadership by applying business skills, knowledge, expertise and resources to make a meaningful contribution to society. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business Economics (1982), also from Harvard. ## Accomplice - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.