Top 10 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Australia in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Crowdfunding startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Crowdfunding companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Australia in January 2026

Investor	Crowdfunding Australia investments
Tank Stream Ventures	1
Artesian VC	1
Blackbird Ventures	1
Bevan Clark	1
Colinton Capital Partners	1
John Bacon	1
Telstra Foundation	1
CVC Capital Partners	1
Investec	1
Chain Capital	1

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Tank Stream Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in strong teams solving core human problems!. We support founders with an almost obsessive vision to disrupt existing industries, create new ones and improve lives through technology.We like Founders with a problem solving vision as opposed to a solution driven one. We seetechnology as an enabler rather than an end in itself.We like to get involved as early as we can and are flexible in terms of geography – we’ve made investments from Hobart to Stockholm, with a strong concentration in Australia and the US.Through Tank Stream Labs, Australia's leading entrepreneurial community and co-working space, we are surrounded by entrepreneurs, thought leaders and ingenious opportunities every single day.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Biteable — Biteable is an online, web-based, video builder. Regardless of budget and skills, Biteable helps you create professional videos in minutes. Our easy to use software empowers millions of businesses, schools, organizations, professionals, and individuals across the globe. Biteable's mission is to help anyone put their message in motion. If youcan make a Powerpoint presentation, you can make a Biteable.
Flare — Flare is a free HR software. It's Australia's largest benefits platform offering pre- and post-tax employee benefits for your workplace.
YourGrocer — YourGrocer operates an online fresh food market for busy people. It offers fresh produce, bakery, meat, seafood, deli and grocery, organic, and coffee products. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Brunswick East, Australia.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
SAMA Fertility — SAMA Fertility is a virtual fertility clinic that offers fertility care and treatments, including preservation and evaluation services.
Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Marloo — Marloo is an AI-assistant that empowers financial advisers to focus on building client relationships, instead of paperwork.
Syenta — Syenta is transforming the electronics manufacturing sector. Our patented fabrication method enables the 3D printing of multi-material electronics with fewer steps and less waste.
PsiQuantum — PsiQuantum is building the world's first useful quantum computer.

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Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.

We are an Australian private equity investment group that helps realise the potential of great businesses - Colinton Capital Partners

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Financial Services
Private Equity
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Moneytech — Moneytech Offers funding against Invoices for both sales on credit terms & Trade Purchases, Secured Term Loans as well as Asset Finance with the ability to fund
FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

John Bacon

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Venture Capital, Funding Platform
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

VentureCrowd — VentureCrowd is an alternative investments crowdfunding platform providing investors unique access to fractional equity, property and credit investment opportunities.

Telstra Foundation has committed to helping 1 million children and young people to be more included, empowered, and connected by 2030.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Crowdfunding, Funding Platform
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.

CVC has seven complementary strategies across private equity, secondaries and credit, through which we invest on behalf of pension funds and other leading institutions

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Retail
Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Odevo — We are on a mission to become the leading force within property management and residential services through the combined power of people and technology. Join us.
Hempel — We help you protect your most valuable assets with our high-quality coatings
DealStack — Dealstack is the operating system for private capital, built for private capital, by private capital professionals.

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Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Monese — Monese is a digital banking alternative that provides mobile-only, multi-currency accounts in 31 countries across the European Economic Area, for those who are underserved by the traditional banking system. It was launched in 2015 by Norris Koppel, after his first-hand experience of the hassle involved with opening a bank account in a new country.With a fully-featured and fully localized banking experience (both its apps and its customer service are available in 14 languages), Monese allows people and businesses to spend and save like locals across Europe. Its proprietary “Know Your Customer” technology can validate a customer’s identity in real-time, allowing accounts to be opened in a matter of minutes, from a mobile app.
Splend — Change the way you own your rideshare vehicle for good with Splend. All-Inclusive vehicle packages for your Uber journey, in one easy weekly payment.
Openpay — Openpay is a cutting-edge in-store, in-home and online payments solution that features a buy now and pay later service, interest-free. Openpay allows customers to make in-store and online purchases, and effectively split the payment for these purchases into multiple repayments over time. The company generates revenue from fees charged to merchantsand customers in exchange for the use of its payments platform.Openpay is available across Australia and New Zealand in many industries including retail, medical, automotive, home improvement, and more.

Chain Capital was established in April 2015. The teams covered in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Moscow, London and Shanghai. The core members are the industry experts from Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Mangament, Facebook, Qudian, Ogilvy, ShopEx and others. Chain Capital specializes in investing blockchain projects, discoverand help the outstanding teams to better use blockchain technology in order to make the world better.