Top 45 Construction Startup Investors in Australia
A list of 45 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Construction startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Construction companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Construction Startup Investors in Australia
Investor | Construction Australia investments |
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Artesian VC | 9 |
Investible | 5 |
Jolimont Global Mining Systems | 4 |
EVP | 3 |
Sydney Angels | 3 |
Airtree Ventures | 3 |
Skip Capital | 3 |
Andrew Sypkes | 2 |
Viburnum Funds | 2 |
Leigh Jasper | 2 |
Blackbird Ventures | 2 |
NAB Ventures | 2 |
Significant Early Venture Capital | 2 |
Kurt Alexander | 2 |
Josh Slattery | 1 |
Black Nova Group | 1 |
Lucky Ariyasena | 1 |
CP Ventures | 1 |
William Welty | 1 |
Skyfield Capital | 1 |
Marbruck | 1 |
Lempriere Capital | 1 |
Chris Sang | 1 |
Jutech Pty Ltd | 1 |
OIF Ventures | 1 |
Metagrove Ventures | 1 |
Development Bank of Wales | 1 |
Regal Funds Management | 1 |
Skalata | 1 |
Midlands Engine Investment Fund | 1 |
Andrew Larsen | 1 |
Simon Murdoch | 1 |
MIRIN CAPITAL | 1 |
Arrowroot Capital Management | 1 |
Saniel Ventures | 1 |
Luke & Janelle Roberts | 1 |
Antler | 1 |
Robert Phillpot | 1 |
Bob Hennessy | 1 |
James McKinnon | 1 |
Emlyn Scott | 1 |
Black Sheep Capital | 1 |
SafetyCulture | 1 |
Murray Bleach | 1 |
Donald Kirk | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
- Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
- Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, Singapore
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!
- Fugu Carbon — Fugu Carbon is a machinery manufacturing company that helps in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology from air.
- Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.
Resource Capital Funds is a mining-focused alternative investments firm that partners with companies to build strong, successful, and sustainable businesses.
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Investment focus
- Construction, Software, SaaS
- Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SciAps — SciAps specializes in portable analytical instruments with the power to measure any element. Our industry-leading X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and laser-based (LIBS) analyzers are at work across every major industry.
- APE Mobile — APE Mobile develops a paperless site application for contractors in Australia. Its site application comprises features, such as operational forms, safety forms, project management, actions and defects, drawings and documents, and redline markup. David Hayward and Matthew Edwards founded APE Mobile in January 2, 2009. Its headquarters is inLeederville in Australia.
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CorePlan — CorePlan is drilling management platform for mining, exploration and drilling companies to digitise their drill program operations. Move from pen, paper and spreadsheets to digital plods, drill planning, rig management, safety compliance and more using our cloud based software.
- Nexl — Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential.
- InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Remi AI — A.I-Powered Demand Forecasting, Supply Chain AI, & Price Optimisation | Remi AI
- Trendspek — Trendspek's 3D software lets you manage high-value built assets faster, safer and with more accuracy. With millimetre detail, interact with exact digital replicas of infrastructure from your desk and collaborate with global stakeholders. Book a call with us to get started.
- Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
- TrueState — Accelerate your AI adoption with TrueState's library of high-impact AI solutions, infinitely customisable for your unique business context.
- Zeta Markets — Trade crypto like never before. Zeta lets you trade all your favorite assets at lightning speed without compromising security.
Skip Capital is a private investment fund investing in technology and infrastructure
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Australia, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Atticus — Atticus makes fact-checking quick, collaborative and secure, so you can spend less time on process and more on the things that matter.
- BurnBot — Burnbot is a tech forward provider of wildfire mitigation, vegetation management, and prescribed fire operations. We offer force-multiplying solutions that reduce the risk of wildfire damage for critical infrastructure, firefighting agencies, agriculture, private enterprise, public lands, conservati
- Archistar.ai — Archistar's world-first artificial intelligence helps property professionals find profitable land development sites, assess for feasibility and generate dozens of architectural design strategies - all within a few minutes
Andrew Sypkes
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Investment focus
- Construction, Management Consulting, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
We are an Active Ownership Investment Manager of public and private equities for high net worth individuals, family offices and institutional investors.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- APE Mobile — APE Mobile develops a paperless site application for contractors in Australia. Its site application comprises features, such as operational forms, safety forms, project management, actions and defects, drawings and documents, and redline markup. David Hayward and Matthew Edwards founded APE Mobile in January 2, 2009. Its headquarters is inLeederville in Australia.
Leigh Jasper is the CEO of Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. Together with company co-founder Rob Phillpot, he raised A$86 million in private equity investment before listing Aconex on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December 2014. Prior toAconex, Leigh was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted for clients in the financial services, media and information technology sectors. He is a director of the Burnet Institute, a not-for-profit organization which aims to improve health in poor and vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally through research, education and public health. Leigh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Diploma of Modern Languages in French from the University of Melbourne.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
- Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
- Propeller Aero — Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.
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
- Redactive — Redactive removes the specialist Data engineering knowledge that application developers need to build scalable AI applications for internal use cases or providing new AI experiences to your customers.
- Aquila — We're powering the future by building and operating an infinitely scalable energy network.
- Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.
NAB Ventures is an Australian Venture Capital fund backed by National Australia Bank (one of the largest 20 banks globally).
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Australia, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.
- Archistar.ai — Archistar's world-first artificial intelligence helps property professionals find profitable land development sites, assess for feasibility and generate dozens of architectural design strategies - all within a few minutes
- Zodia Custody — Zodia Custody is a cryptoasset custodian for institutional investors.
Connecting innovation to the market.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Electronics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Vantari VR — Virtual Reality for Healthcare
- FLAIM Systems — FLAIM Systems is a virtual reality platform that develops, produces and supports the next step in skills training for emergency services.
- Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms
Kurt Alexander
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Josh Slattery, Slattery Building chair.
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Investment focus
- Construction, Management Consulting, Information Technology
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
Black Nova Group provide services across investment & venture capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nullify — Nullify performs product security tasks alongside your developers.
- SaasGuru — saasguru offers online bootcamps & courses for aspirants with AI cert prep plan, mock exams, quizzes, flashcards & more - to launch your career in Salesforce.
- Kismet — Find the best disability or healthcare service to support your journey
Lucky Ariyasena
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Investment focus
- Construction
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
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- Maiden Ventures — With decades of experience in advanced engineering solutions, building services design, and infrastructure planning, Maiden Ventures is the go-to expert for innovative strategies. Trusted by top-tier clientele, our team of engineers collaborates globally to bring your visions to life.
CP Ventures is a VC fund that invests internationally in early stage, highly scalable, breakthrough technology companies driven by the 4IR
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
- Ahura AI — Ahura AI, an EdTech startup using artificial intelligence to create personalized learning tools that replicate a 1-to-1 learning experience
- Ensuredit — ENSUREDIT enables and empowers end customers and Insurance Intermediaries with AI-based product platforms for transformational customer experience.
William Welty
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Skyfield Capital
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Real Estate
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Archistar.ai — Archistar's world-first artificial intelligence helps property professionals find profitable land development sites, assess for feasibility and generate dozens of architectural design strategies - all within a few minutes
Marbruck is an open-ended venture capital group. Marbruck sources, invests, and provides ongoing guidance to early / growth stage technology companies. With no outside capital, Marbruck actively manages a diverse global portfolio of 30+ companies spanning Seed through to pre-listing. Marbruck leverages its intellectual capital, its network ofpartner investors, and its deep operational experience, to successfully navigate the highest-risk, highest-reward spectrum of investing.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- VitalXP — The Action-Packed Gameverse. Lowlife Forms is our flagship IP, an evolutive looter-shooter with deep NFT customization. Vital Systems is our web3 gaming ecosystem with interoperable NFTs.
- Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
- 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.
Lempriere Capital specializes in debt advisory, equity capital raising, special funding, private equity, and trade finance solutions.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Construction
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Thriday — Thriday saves small businesses a huge amount of time and money by automating financial admin. It's like having a bookkeeper, accountant and transaction account all in one.
- Clennett Hire — Clennett Hire provides service and support projects of all sizes and offers a range of services to complement our state-of-the-art equipment.
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, India
Jutech Pty Ltd
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
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
- LinkBy — Linkby turns content into sales and connects high quality content creators with premium advertisers. Make your brand famous with cost-per-click press releases.
- Bridgit — Bridgit is an Australian privately owned non-bank lender. At Bridgit, it is our mission to revolutionise property financing and offer Australians a solution that helps them progress in life, without any of the red tape. When it comes to buying property it can be very competitive and difficult to find the perfect home, a Bridgit loan is a greatoption for homeowners who want to buy on their terms by finding their next home without having to sell first. Through the use of technology we make it easy, with a 5 minute online application, same day approval and no monthly repayments you can focus on the important things.It is all about giving hard working Australians the opportunity to make progress in their lives, without the hold backs.
- DataMasque — Simply mask your sensitive data while maintaining its function for testing, development, training and analytics. DataMasque makes it safe to explore, implement and harness the opportunities that data provides, free from privacy concerns or compromise.
We invest in founders building the future of industry across Australia, the US and South-East Asia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- VAPAR — VAPAR offers CCTV pipe inspection software. The software is AI integrated for better results and accuracy.
- tikpay — tikpay is building a modern ticketing and payment solution for transport operators & authorities. We grow revenues, lower costs, enable operator collaboration and delight travellers by reducing friction in transport payments. Our mission is to enable travellers to pay for transport however, whenever, wherever ... easily.
- TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
Development Bank of Wales is formed in 2001 by the Welsh Assembly Government. Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tendertec — Tendertec is an award winning AI venture opening the door to personalised, preventative, and cost-effective care. Established in 2017 by Dr. Afroditi Konidari and Rui Zhang, Tendertec develops room sensing technology to support independent living for elderly and vulnerable people. Its first product is a safety & monitoring system enabling careproviders to effectively monitor vulnerable people and make data-driven decisions that improve their quality of life and care. Tendertec has been awarded a €242K grant by the Welsh Government, won the “Disruptive Product” award by GE Healthcare at EIT Health and has been named one of Vodafone’s 5G DIG Top 20 start-ups with the most potential to take advantage of the advent of 5G internationally.
- Optimise AI — Optimise AI is a decision support tool providing essential tools to gain deep, intuitive insights to reduce the energy and carbon consumption of your facility.
- Argonaute RNA — Developing safe and reliable methods of temporarily silencing target genes in different tissue cells.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Funding Round, Series B, Convertible Note
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nykaa — Nykaa is an e-Commerce platform for different beauty and wellness products for men and women. They also offer comprehensive content including product reviews, beauty how-to videos, articles by experts, and an e-beauty magazine. Their helpline helps to choose products and services best suited for customer's needs. Nykaa's products areauthentic sourced directly from brands and provide a delivery experience.Nykaa was founded in 2012 by Falguni Nayar and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
- Send Payments — SendFX provides cross-border payment and remittance services to individuals and SMEs.
- Send Payments — Send is a fast-growing fintech delivering embedded finance solutions to well-known brands.
Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, Apps
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- humii — Humii provides actionable insights to companies by tracing customer interactions.
- SupplyScope — Revolutionise the way you manage your product development lifecycle with SupplyScope's all-in-one AI-driven platform.
- Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.
MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local EnterprisePartnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Manufacturing, Software
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
- CyberQ Group — Work with an award winning cyber security service provider and ensure your business remains resilient to any cyber attacks.
- Centaur Robotics — Centaur believes mobility needs re-imagining to provide a real advantage for everyday human needs. Our vision is to challenge thinking through design and technology to create superhuman technology - that provides extra-ordinary mobility fit for humans in the 21st Century.
Andrew is a Venture Partner with Tempus Partners, and an experienced founder and investor. He is a Director of HealthEngine a leading Australian healthtech company, a Director of UK EdTech stand-out Wonde, and an active investor in software and internet companies. Andrew is a Board Member of StartupAUS an industry body committed to developing theAustralian startup ecosystem and Founded Perth’s first tech co-working space.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Construction
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- nyfty.ai — We make little robot helpers to automate workflows, from Site Attendance & Manpower Logging, COVID-19 Prescreening & Emergency Messaging on Construction sites. Integrated to Procore (with more to come), our software bots do tasks on your behallf. It does the work you hate.
- Functionly — Functionly is the org chart builder for modern leaders. Automatically generate your chart, optimize resources, and plan change.
- Vitruvian Form — Vitruvian manufactures a connected fitness hardware, develops software and fitness class content.
Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
- Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
- Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
Mirin Capital invests in disruptive, technology led companies that focus on solutions to big problems. We are particularly interested in investing in technologies that:
Significantly disrupt traditional business models
Help enterprises solve big problems
Make the world better or more interesting
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Water
- Seed, Series C
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- TokenOne — TokenOne is a Cyber Security software company that makes it easy to replace passwords, tokens and other forms of authentication with a more secure solution.
- The Safety Compass — Safety Compass provides the link between people at work and critical safety info through augmented reality and smart notifications.
- Unscrabble Solutions — Unscrabble is a solution that companies use to connect with other companies, their suppliers, and customers. When connections are made, information can be shared between the companies easily, quickly and accurately.Unscrabble simplifies the engagement processes, reduces the time it takes to gather and evaluate company information and makes iteasier to keep information up to date.No more forms, emails spreadsheets and expensive portals. Unscrabble helps companies keep information up to date in a single location and streamline the access to it by your trusted connections.
Arrowroot Capital Management is a growth equity firm based in Santa Monica focused on growing, mature, and recurring revenue software businesses. We seek to partner with management to accelerate growth and help guide the company to its ultimate exit. Arrowroot targets equity investments in the range of $5 million to $25 million, and has theflexibility to pursue larger opportunities. Arrowroot's capital is typically deployed to achieve very distinct goals including, but not limited to:– Working capital and growth investment
– Liquidity for founders and/or management
– Liquidity for previous venture or angel investors
– Acquisition capitalArrowroot’s capital is flexible, but investment characteristics generally include:– Minority or majority positions
– Board representation
– 2 to 4 year hold periods
– Highly incentivized management teams; commonly via new option grants
– Arrowroot seeks to optimize the investment amount in order to efficiently grow businesses and create healthy capital risk dynamics for founders, current management, and past investorsTarget Company Characteristics:– $5 million+ revenue run-rate
– Strong recurring revenue growth rate
– Proven, effective and efficient sales and marketing strategy
– Mission-critical, B2B software that typically solves a pain-point in compliance, workflow, security, and/or optimization
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Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, E-Commerce
- Series C, Series D, Funding Round
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Protecht — We are the Risk management experts providing cost-effective risk management software to help you achieve your strategic objectives. Visit us to know more.
- Ayla Networks — Ayla Networks is a leading provider of digital twinning, device management & application enablement for the Internet of Things (IoT). Contact us now to learn more.
- Clickatell — Be part of the Chat Commerce & customer engagement mobile revolution with Clickatell's range of products & solutions. Build revenue and customer engagement now!
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Smart, passionate, resilient founders building the future
We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect that you are humble enough to know
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Heidi Health — Heidi Health is modernizing primary care with AI-powered technologies to improve care's quality and accessibility. its creators and engineers is to completely eradicate missed and sluggish diagnoses worldwide. They are committed to bridging the gap between the level of care that patients desire and the level of care that doctors can delivergiven their budget constraints. To create a platform where patients can quickly and easily get the treatment they require and to give every clinician the resources they need to deliver care that is secure, efficient,
- Nexl — Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential.
- ProcurePro — Unlock procurement, Enable performance.
Luke & Janelle Roberts
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
Co-founder Rob Phillpot is senior vice president of product and engineering, responsible for product vision, strategy and management. He has been instrumental in developing the company’s business on a global scale and ensuring that Aconex solutions deliver a superior customer experience to buyers and users. Before founding Aconex in 2000 with CEOand director Leigh Jasper, he managed document control, quality and trades on a site team at Brookfield Multiplex. Prior to Brookfield Multiplex, Mr. Phillpot was an auditor at Deloitte & Touche in Australia. He holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Planning and Design degrees with Honors and a Master of Building degree from the University of Melbourne.
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- Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Australia, India, United States
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- Tint Paint — Tint Paint manufactures decorative paints for a wide range of colors for commercial and residential uses.
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
- VERSATILE — VERSATILE uses machine learning and AI to optimize construction processes. It captures and analyzes data points to deliver real-time insights on job site performance and streamline decision-making. Mounted under the hook of any crane, this first-of-its-kind technology offers unparalleled production data on any job site including information onmaterials, redundancies, construction progress, and crane utilization.It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California.
Bob Hennessy was appointed Group CIO of Lendlease in June 2015 and is based in Sydney, Australia. Bob has close to 40 years experience in technology across a range of industries, including steel manufacturing, transport, financial services, telecommunications and consulting. Prior to joining Lendlease, Bob was CEO of Pacteras Australian and NZbusiness having sold his privately owned consulting firm to them in 2012. Pactera was a NASDAQ listed entity at the time of the sale but was subsequently acquired by Blackstone International in 2014. Previous roles include leading the technology stream supporting the integration of BT, Rothschild and Westpac Financial Services, which saw him appointed CIO of the integrated company. Bob was also CIO of TNT Asia Pacific driving the integration of the Australian business from 1996 to 1998 following the acquisition of TNT by the Dutch PTT. As a consultant, Bob conducted reviews of transformation programs in telecommunications, health and retail fuel. He has sat on client steering committees for major transformation programs in banking, manufacturing & distribution and transport. Bobs experience as an executive in industrial sectors and volatile business conditions lends him a rare combination of experiences invaluable for companies on the cusp of significant change. His combination of client-side and sell-side roles, coupled with his entrepreneurial experience brings an appreciation of a range of business perspectives.
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- Australia
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- Mastt — Better Capital Works Portfolio Management - Make better, quicker business decisions with real time transparency over your capital works program.
James McKinnon - Managing Partner @ MIRIN CAPITAL
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- Cyber Security, Software, Information Technology
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- Australia
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- Spacelli —
- Expert360 — Hire elite consultants, project managers, data analysts, designers, and developers for your most important local & remote work
- StorReduce —
Emlyn is a successful founder and investor with personal investments in fast growing tech companies like Kami, A.Kin, MealMe, Segna, and EnsuredIt. Managing Partner at CP Ventures and the founder of OpenMarkets Group, Australia's second-largest retail broker. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s secondlargest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Masters Business Administration (MBA), Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI), and Bachelor of Economics (BEc).
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- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
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- REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
- Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
- Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Australia, United States
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- Beamible — Get the most for and from your workforce. Deconstruct work down to its individual components so it can be reconstructed to better meet the needs of the business and the employees. Reduce turnover and burnout, enable flex and drive efficiency with Beamible.
- Aerotruth — Aerotruth is a B2B SaaS solution which automates the document on-boarding process for banks, financial institutions and fintechs
- Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Data Integration
- Series A, Seed, Corporate Round
- Australia, Philippines
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- Inauro — Powerful workflow automation and seamless IoT data fusion | AI | Machine Learning | Data evolution
- Sauce — Sauce is a product management software platform that offers high-performing product managers to close the loop and achieve product outcomes, take action on customer insights and save time reporting to stakeholders.
- Unleash live — Enterprise real-time computer vision and live video streaming capabilities from virtually any camera for improved operations and safety across Energy, Transport, and Resources
Murray Bleach is the Non-Executive Director of Zanbato. He was with the Macquarie Group for over ten years from 1999 to 2009. During this time, he led the North American infrastructure business in pioneering success in the infrastructure sector.He played a leading role in a broad range of successful investments in toll roads, property, airservices, water, energy, utilities, aged care and telecommunications, including landmark transactions such as the privatization of the Chicago Skyway and the acquisitions of Atlantic Aviation and Duquesne Light.Murray was also appointed head Head of North America and Director and Co-CEO of Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and President of Macquarie Holdings (USA) Inc. In 2008, Murray returned to Australia as Global Head of Private Placements until his retirement from Macquarie in 2009.Murray has taken up a Non-executive Director role with Industry Funds Management as Chairman of its Board Investment Committee and serves on the Board of Directors for several infrastructure and energy companies.
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- Construction, Management Consulting, Information Technology
- Seed
- Australia
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- Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
Donald Kirk
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- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
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- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
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