Top 50 Construction Startup Investors in Oceania in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Construction startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Construction companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Construction Startup Investors in Oceania in April 2025
Investor | Construction Oceania investments |
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Artesian VC | 10 |
Saniel Ventures | 6 |
Sydney Angels | 5 |
Investible | 5 |
Blackbird Ventures | 4 |
Leigh Jasper | 4 |
Jolimont Global Mining Systems | 4 |
EVP | 3 |
Robert Phillpot | 3 |
Skip Capital | 3 |
Airtree Ventures | 3 |
Significant Early Venture Capital | 2 |
Viburnum Funds | 2 |
Kurt Alexander | 2 |
Andrew Sypkes | 2 |
Marbruck | 2 |
Icehouse Ventures | 2 |
Black Nova Group | 1 |
Carthona Capital | 1 |
NAB Ventures | 1 |
MIRIN CAPITAL | 1 |
OIF Ventures | 1 |
Black Sheep Capital | 1 |
Regal Funds Management | 1 |
CP Ventures | 1 |
Development Bank of Wales | 1 |
Skalata | 1 |
Josh Slattery | 1 |
SafetyCulture | 1 |
Massive Tech Ventures | 1 |
HorizonVC | 1 |
Antler | 1 |
Andrew Larsen | 1 |
Simon Murdoch | 1 |
Callaghan Innovation | 1 |
Metagrove Ventures | 1 |
Chris Sang | 1 |
Preston-Werner Ventures | 1 |
Recursive Ventures | 1 |
Skyfield Capital | 1 |
William Welty | 1 |
Shearwater Capital | 1 |
Tim Doyle | 1 |
Black Nova Venture Capital | 1 |
Arrowroot Capital Management | 1 |
Lucky Ariyasena | 1 |
Suffolk Technologies | 1 |
Murray Bleach | 1 |
Bob Hennessy | 1 |
Emlyn Scott | 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
- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- 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.
- Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Australia, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
- BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
- Arca Climate Technologies, Inc. — Carbin Minerals unlock the enormous carbon dioxide removal potential of mine waste.
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, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia, United States
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- Okkular — Okkular is an AI based fashion tech startup.
- Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
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, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Grw AI — Grw AI offers scalable 1:1 coaching solutions that leverage AI to assist B2B sales teams complete deals.
- Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
- Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.
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, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
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,
- Sonder — One app. One go-to. One support system.Sonder is the trusted wellbeing partner for some of the world’s most innovative organisations as they reimagine how to care and support their people.With a clear purpose of breaking down barriers to help, providing the right support to people at the right time. Acknowledging that there are often multiplefactors at play, and wellbeing comprises of cultural, social, environmental and vocational factors, all which play a part in getting to the root cause of issues, and on a path to wellness.The heart of Sonder's solution is a technology-driven platform supported in real time by medical and mental health experts - experts that are available every minute of every day. Their mission is to get the right outcome across any wellbeing or safety issue.Trusted by major corporations, education providers and Government to enhance wellbeing across the world, Sonder is on a mission to create a better world, accepting differences and supportive of others. A world where it's OK to ask for help, for anything, at any time of the day or night.It takes humans to help other humans. That’s why Sonder combines a human first, tech supported approach.
- Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
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
- Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
- 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.
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
- splose — splose isn’t just practice management software. It's your ally in handling the ins-and-outs of running a practice and a savvy tool for growth. At splose, we are dedicated to continuously improving and embracing the power of AI and automation to give healthcare professionals like you more time to focus on what matters most.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Australia, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
- Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
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
- Askable — Askable offers a comprehensive research platform that facilitates access to certified researchers and verified participants globally. The platform streamlines the research process from recruitment to analysis, enabling teams to gather insights efficiently.
- Visibuild — Visibuild is a construction software web & mobile platform providing real-time insights, workflows, defect tracking, ITPs inspections.
- GROWL — Discover GROWL: the smart boxing bag blending cardio, strength, and gaming. Experience an immersive home boxing coach and step up your performance.
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, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Askable — Askable offers a comprehensive research platform that facilitates access to certified researchers and verified participants globally. The platform streamlines the research process from recruitment to analysis, enabling teams to gather insights efficiently.
- InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
- 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.
With over two decades of Australian investment in building capability in research and universities, Australia now enjoys some of the most extraordinary talent and globally leading minds.This talent is creating knowledge and has the capacity of solving some of the big problems of our time but if we can’t take this know-how and intellect into theworld, then this brilliance is lost and the opportunity we have will remain just that – an opportunity.As business builders and investors, Significant has been taking up this challenge for nearly two decades. Working in collaboration with universities, researchers and state governments, we, as a collective group have a track record in translating this knowledge bank into technology, into products, into services and ultimately into businesses that:- Have become global companies- Re-shaped markets- Solved sustainability problems- Created jobs and- New career pathways for AustraliansSignificant has the capacity to create high value niche modern manufacturing industries and exports for Australia and are extremely proud of their achievements.Significant leads by example to show that Australia can commercialise its inventions, that sustainable globally competitive businesses can be created in Australia, and that early-stage investment can create immense value for investors, demonstrating that through action Significant is able to attract more capital to invest in this important space and is be able to shift the mindset (read the AFR article) that Australia is great at innovation but not at execution.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Electronics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Cyban — Advancing the way brain injuries are detected and managed
- Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
- Vantari VR — Virtual Reality for Healthcare
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.
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.
Andrew Sypkes
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Investment focus
- Construction, Management Consulting, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Fresho — The #1 order management platform for fresh food wholesale suppliers & their customers. Free demo on how to simplify ordering, picking, invoicing & payments.
- Investorist — Our revolutionary trading platform manages the process of buying and selling off the plan apartments, townhouses and house and land packages. Investorist’s members are the developers, project marketers and advisors who lead the off the plan property industry.
- Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
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, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mutinex — Discover how Mutinex helps businesses optimize marketing decisions with data-driven insights and AI-powered solutions.
- Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
- Sidecar Health — Get flexible, affordable health insurance with Sidecar Health. Choose your provider, see costs upfront, and save on care with our innovative approach.
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
- Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
- 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%!
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
Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
- BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
- Ajust — Ajust makes it easy to resolve customer complaints with banks, telcos and energy companies. It's fast, fair and free for consumers.
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 — Crypto Custody, Without Compromise. Empowering global institutions to navigate the digital asset landscape simply, safely, and without compromise.
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.
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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kleecks — Kleecks is an innovative SaaS platform that optimises performance marketing activities, improves website health and speed in real-time, and has a significant impact on businesses by increasing revenues, lowering costs, and accelerating time-to-market
- 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.
- Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
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.
The CP Ventures Fund invests in early-stage technology companies that are highly scalable, at the forefront of breakthrough technologies, and driven by the fourth industrial revolution.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Ahura AI — Ahura AI, an EdTech startup using artificial intelligence to create personalized learning tools that replicate a 1-to-1 learning experience
- Greenfly — Greenfly's short-form media orchestration software platform captures, collects, organizes & distributes videos & photos to drive fan engagement and boost revenue for sports and entertainment organizations.
- Skylark Labs — Skylark Labs develops continuously evolving and customizable threat detection systems for enhanced physical security. Our clients (CCTV or Drone companies) can customize our proprietary AI solutions at the time of deployment or continuously evolve them if needed after deployment making them preferable to other comparable market 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
- Menna — Be smarter about money and grow faster with Menna. Take control of your business finances today!
- Lineat Composites — We introduce a new aligned fibre material format that forms the basis of high-performance sustainable composite materials.
- Llusern Scientific — Llusern specialises in rapid and affordable near-patient and POC molecular diagnostics developed to detect bacterial and viral infections.
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, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TALY — TALY is a platform that is designed to find, manage and retain employees from both perfromance and personality for business development.
- Viewa — Viewa is an augmented reality(AR) content publishing platform that brings print media such as magazines to life in 3D.
- Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
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!
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Data Integration
- Series A, Seed, Corporate Round
- Australia, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Inauro — Inauro is an Australian real-time data fusion company that specialises in leveraging data from IoT devices, digital forms, ERP, CRM and other enterprise systems to create efficiencies in operational workflows. Inauro’s know-how comes from having undertaken this transformation within a large industrial organisation and having connected thousands ofmobile plant assets into operational processes and seen the ROI realised. Leveraging a cutting-edge data fusion platform, Perspio, Inauro specialises in providing real-time contextual recommendations for operational teams to make better decisions and increase automation.
- Sauce — AI customer insights for product teams
- 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
Massive Tech Ventures is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Construction, Information Technology
- Seed
- Australia
Seed stage investor in disruptive, product-driven software startups
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, B2B
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
- Pier — Pier's mission is to create tools for the next generation of innovators to improve credit access. They are developing an API to help us launch credit products. With just a few lines of code, they enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance, and servicing.
- Arkham Technologies — Unify your data and transform your operations with our Data & AI Platform
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.
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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- E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- 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.
- Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
Callaghan Innovation is a stand-alone Crown Entity established on 1 February, 2013. Their role hasn’t previously existed in New Zealand.When they succeed, all New Zealanders will benefit from a stronger economy, higher value exports, more productive and sustainable resource use, more jobs and higher incomes.International evidence showsadvanced technology institutes like Callaghan Innovation have been successful at helping businesses build innovation capability that contributes to their growth and the broader economy.
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- AgTech, Construction, Horticulture
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- New Zealand
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- Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
- DNAiTECH — At DNAiTECH we develop innovative portable isothermal amplification instruments for point of care diagnostics, in-field applications, and rapid DNA testing.
- Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.
We invest in founders building the future of industry across Australia, the US and South-East Asia.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States
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- 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.
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, India
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- Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
- Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
- Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.
PWV invests in early-stage companies.
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- SaaS, Energy, Oil and Gas
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
- Mote — Mote is creating new gasification technologies to produce cost-competitive carbon-negative hydrogen. We offer hydrogen at scale with our uniquely integrated gasification plant.
- Brightband — Responsible development and maintenance of advanced Earth System AI for the long-term benefit of all humanity and the Earth.
Recursive Ventures is a San Francisco based Micro VC fund investing in US and Israeli Pre-seed and Seed Tech Startups disrupting industries through use of Data and Artificial Intelligence.Recursive is a Solo Capitalist fund managed by Itamar Novick with support from a seasoned group of Founders, Operators, and go-to-market experts. We arefounders ourselves and partner with you to build momentum and find smart capital to scale your business. As a Solo Capitalist – a VC operating like an Angel – we make decision in days, not weeks, and dedicate our time to support founders.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
- Aption — Aption provides equity pooling solutions for founders, executives and early employees to protect startup equity value.
- Perspective AI — Have meaningful customer conversations at scale. Understand what truly matters to your customers, make decisions with conviction, and plan with precision.
Skyfield Capital
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- Big Data, Software, Real Estate
- Series A
- Australia
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- 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
William Welty
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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.
Shearwater Capital is a $100m venture fund which has three founders as partners. We're investing our own capital. We invest in founders who we like and trust, and who are passionate about building generationally great companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Marketplace
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
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- Lyka Pet Food — Lyka Pet Food: for puppers living their best life. We deliver fresh, homemade dog food straight from our Australian kitchen to your door.
- ClearCalcs — ClearCalcs makes structural engineering calculations easy with 100+ ready-to-use calculator library to US, CA, AU, NZ, and Eurocode standards.
- EvenBetter — EvenBetter is helping companies build a workforce where everyone thrives regardless of gender.Using AI, we provide powerful insights and recommend the right actions for closing the gender pay gap and building diverse, high-performance teams.
Tim Doyle is a Founder at Eucalyptus.
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- Apps, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia, New Zealand
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Championing the next generation of B2B technology startups.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
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- 8seats — 8seats offers secure, effortless messaging! Boost productivity with real-time chat, team collaboration, and tools designed for businesses of any size. Get started for free!
- Nullify — Nullify performs product security tasks alongside your developers.
- Altai — Altai is a bespoke casting platform which offers unparalleled collaboration between Artists, Agents, Casting Directors and Clients.
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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- Software, Big Data, E-Commerce
- Series C, Series D, Funding Round
- United States, Australia, Canada
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- 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!
Lucky Ariyasena
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- Construction
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
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- Maiden Ventures — We are a startup in Sydney, Australia. We develop platforms to help Contractors to build better and smarter. Our first solution is Tribus. Construction industry create lot of data. Every project has requirement to comply with Contracts, Projects Specifications, Drawings, Regulatory compliance docs etc. Some contracts are over 5,000 pages long!.We make it easy to search all that content. Visit https://tribus.app/
Suffolk Technologies is launching the third annual Suffolk Boost Program: an intense 6-week program to help promising startups solve their biggest business problem in the construction technology space.
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- Construction, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Higharc — Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects and improves each step of design, construction and sales for home building.
- Handle — Purpose-built for material suppliers and contractors to manage the entire process of payments and lien management.
- Trunk Tools — Construction and manufacturing workers are more productive if the right goals and incentives are in place. We can help!
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!
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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- Finance, Software, Construction
- Seed
- 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.
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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- Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
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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.
- Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
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