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Top 45 Education Angel Investors in Oceania in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Education Angel Investors in Oceania in December 2024

Investor	Education Oceania investments
Mark Livings	3
Josh Rowe	2
Chintaka Ranatunga	2
Chris Sang	2
Didier Elzinga	2
Greta Bradman	2
Paul Gampe	2
Steve Baxter	2
Emlyn Scott	2
Bradley Chan	1
Guy King	1
David Kenney	1
Bill Conn	1
Andrew R. H. Preston	1
Kirsti Grant	1
Terry Hartan	1
Boon Hwee Koh	1
Chase Coleman	1
Thomas Rice	1
Gabby Leibovich	1
Scott Nolan	1
Peter Bencivenga	1
Sam Friend	1
Matt Berriman	1
Bevan Clark	1
Rayn Ong	1
Danny Chan	1
Mathew Kuppe	1
Trevor Folsom	1
Simon Crook	1
Sam Altman	1
Robert "Bob" McLean	1
Chadd Ciccarelli	1
Scobie Ward	1
Greg Ruddock	1
Brendan Hill	1
Sasha Baranikov	1
Fiona Mary Bones	1
Bernard Sabrier	1
Jeff Dean	1
Denice Scala	1
Kate Mason	1
Duncan Alexander	1
Benny Kleist	1
Ruslan Kogan	1

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Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands.

Investment focus

Content Marketing, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Edoome — The most friendly and easy to use social learning management system that connects teachers with their students for effective communication and collaboration and provides tools to help teachers save time in planning, assessing and keeping track of their students’ progress, unifying everything in just one platform.
Compono — Smart, easy-to-use HR management products for sourcing talent and helping them grow.
Creatively Squared — Digital content that brings consumers closer to brands. Create engaging photos, videos and digital ads at scale

CEO at realAs

Investment focus

Education, Marketing, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia

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!
REALas — REALas provides Australia's most accurate price predictions on properties listed for sale. This includes auctions and private sales. Nationally, on average we've predicted within 5% of the sale price over the past 12 months.Visit https://REALas.comREALas started with a conversation between friends who were determined to givebuyers more realistic price predictions to guide their bids at auctions or offers at private sales.In 2011, we set out to develop the smartest property price prediction service in Australia. An international search led us to some incredibly talented data scientists, right here in Australia, at RMIT University.Using the latest research in data science, lots of property data, local market knowledge from property experts, and input from buyers - we developed our proprietary algorithm.And so, REALas was born.Fast forward to today, REALas has been rigorously tested across the Australian market. Nationally, on average we’ve predicted within 5% of the sale price over the 12 month period beginning Sep 16 to Aug 17. And we have not stopped there. Our algorithm continues to adapt as the market changes.In 2016, ANZ acquired REALas so we can continue in our pursuit to provide the most accurate predictions in the Australian property market, and supports us in the work we do from afar.REALas will continue to keep it real for property buyers so they don’t waste their time out there.
GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.

Chintaka Ranatunga

Investment focus

Software, Apps, EdTech
Seed, Series B
New Zealand, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kami — Kami gives superpowers to teachers by giving them fast and easy tools for classroom management, grading, planning and more. Visit now to enjoy better.
APIMatic — The Trusted Developer Experience platform for APIs. Achieve faster API onboarding via automatic SDKs, docs, code samples, and guided walkthroughs.
QuiverVision — Experience the immersive wonder of 3D Augmented Reality with engaging coloring experiences that let your creativity run wild.

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Anility — 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.

Didier previously co-founded technical academy award winning Rising Sun Research and is non-executive director at Tourism Australia, the Atlassian Foundation and Slingsby Theatre. If you want a short meeting, don't ask about philosophy (you were warned!).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Music
Series A, Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.
Dovetail — Make sense of all kinds of customer research in one intuitive, collaborative, and searchable research repository.

Greta Bradman

Investment focus

SaaS, AgTech, Software
Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Bardee — Transforming food waste into insect protein and fertiliser
Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.

Operating as a senior software executive director with a substantial technical foundation, Paul has led multidisciplinary teams globally for over 20 years. Paul has significant experience in all aspects of the software industry; executive directorship; acquisitions, investments, development, quality engineering, program management and operations.Expert in distilling complex products, solutions and services into clearly understandable language and presenting at all levels from IT Management to C-suite and Board levels. With experience in cloud, networks, data centers, and open source globally, Paul has developed specific expertise in the open source technology landscape. As a highly effective manager, he has a proven track record of managing global teams and products whilst delivering outstanding financial results.Specialties: Executive Director | Software Development | Agile | Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure | Globalization | Internationalization | Localisation | Operations | Team management

Investment focus

Software, Tutoring, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Vygo — Empower Universities. Build Scalable & Data-Driven Student Support Ecosystems. Enhance campus life & operations.

Steve Baxter - Non-Executive Director @ OtherLevels

Investment focus

Transportation, SaaS, Photography
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Go1 — GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.
Travelshoot — Your holidays are really important to us to create good memories and we are offering Worldwide Photographer Services. Get the best vacation photographer NYC & across the globe. Visit us now!
Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.

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).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

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

Brad is the CEO of Banna Property Group that owns and manages shopping centres, commercial offices, hotels and standalone retail shops. He is also the director of HaymarketHQ A unique co-working space situated in the heart of Chinatown

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

ELLA App Pty Ltd — ELLA is a mobile and web application that offers a range of services for teachers.The application enables its users to set learning goals and provides them with micro-certification recommendations. In addition, it offers social media integration to obtain gamification services. Furthermore, it enables its users to capture their teaching skillsand obtain actionable insights.ELLA was launched in 2015 by Matt Esterman, Wai Yat Wong, and Atul Pandey and is based in Sydney.

Guy King is the Co-Founder of Stateless Systems Pty Ltd. Guy King wrote BugMeNot as a "slapped-together" weekend project in 2003 that went on to become a worldwide hit. After time working a Realestate.com.au, Guy King founded Stateless Systems in 2007 and launched RetailMeNot, a consumer coupon sites.

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.
YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne

David Kenney

Investment focus

Education, Language Learning
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Funetics — Funetics is a digital English-pronunciation platform that helps its users be fluent in English. It was launched in July 2013 and is based in Paddington, Australia.

Bill Conn

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Online Portals
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Academy Xi — At Academy Xi, we help APAC's largest and most sophisticated organisations optimise performance with concise, actionable training solutions.

Andrew R. H. Preston

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

LearnCoach — Learn from 2500+ video tutorials and practice questions for 80 NCEA standards. LearnCoach covers everything you need to master NCEA and get your best results ever!

Kirsti Grant - CEO & Co-founder @ Populate

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Consumer Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Komodo — Komodo is the complete wellbeing solution for schools to measure and improve the effectiveness of their wellbeing strategies.
Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.

Terry Hartan is a Managing Director at Assetsecure. He Attended University of Sydney.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Industrial, Information Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

HINDSITE Industries — HINDSITE powers the spread of know-how from subject matter experts to your frontline. Automate microcredentialing using Workflows and provide access to a global microskill library and remote mentoring.

Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.

Chase Coleman is the Founder of Tiger Global

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
Series B, Series C, Series F
United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Brex — Simplify expense management with Brex's spend management platform. From business cards to banking, empower growth, automate processes, and get better insights.
Capitol AI — Capitol uses the power of AI & Design to make better, faster decisions with data.
Daring Foods — Craveable delicious plant chicken made from non-GMO plants and a short list of wholesome ingredients.

Portfolio of the Global Innovation Share Fund at Perpetual (post-IPO). Angel investor in Australia. Mentor at Startmate, an Australian startup accelerator.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alta — Alta is a virtual reality company developing A Township Tale, a social VR multiplayer experience!
WORK180 — WORK180 is a global jobs network that operates at the forefront of a new workplace revolution. Our function is twofold.As an advocate for working women, we provide job applicants with a transparent directory of endorsed employers who support diversity, inclusion and equality.We share information around pay equity, flexible working, paidparental leave, equal opportunities and a range of other important criteria. Before an employer comes on board, we put them through a pre-screening process and on average, about 80% of companies who apply to work with us, pass our criteria.
Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.

Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.

Partner at Founders Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, 3D Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, New Zealand, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Kami — Kami gives superpowers to teachers by giving them fast and easy tools for classroom management, grading, planning and more. Visit now to enjoy better.
Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
StyleRow — StyleRow is a design company that focuses on streamlining the design process for designers and creating an experience for brands and showrooms to work together, all in one place. It features an online-based portal that allows design professionals to scale their businesses.The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in California, UnitedStates.

Peter Bencivenga

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

CareMonkey — CareMonkey automates school and district processes; eliminating paperwork and saving time and money with award-winning features:- Online parent consent forms & payments, with automated notifications and reminders - Parent managed medical data - Online staff forms & trip approval processes - Staff mobile app with offline access to medical& trip data - Group messaging via text, email & push notificationsThere’s no paper, better engagement, and less work for schools, teacher and parents.CareMonkey is designed, built and supported by CareMonkey Pty Ltd, a software company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.The system is used by schools, universities, in sport, for HR, scouts, the disability sector, camps, youth groups, churchs and other community groups.

Sam Friend - Advisor @ AVUXI

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel, Big Data
Seed, Angel
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Go1 — GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.
AVUXI — AVUXI has ranked the popularity of every location on Earth to provide Location Context for Travel, Real Estate and Retail. Its pioneering GeoPopularity Engine and TopPlace™ product suite offer detailed Worldwide coverage, offering the quickest answer to where are the top places in any city. TopPlace™ products increase revenues and reduce timeconsuming location context data review, processing and research.

Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ratio — Ratio Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.
Tailwind Acquisition — Tailwind Acquisition is a purpose-built investment company that seeks to partner with a world-class founding and executive team. The company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. It also seeks tocapitalize on the multiple decades of combined investment experience of the company’s management team, the board of directors, and Advisors who are both technology entrepreneurs as well as technology-oriented investors with a shared vision of identifying and investing in technology companies.Tailwind Acquisition was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
TRAVLR — TRAVLR is a revolutionary white label technology provider that consolidates the global travel industry into one seamless platform via its unique ‘Travel as a Service’ model.The company licences its full service travel platform to the world’s leading media companies, enabling their audiences to discover, plan and book curated, once-in-a-life-timetravel experiences.In turn, media companies are able to retain audiences within their ecosystem for longer, optimising for conversion by providing customers a seamless path from content through to real world experience.This unique ‘win-win-win model’ benefits all key stakeholders including consumers, media companies and the travel industry, who have traditionally experienced a fragmented travel booking journey across multiple platforms and providers.TRAVLR was founded in 2017 by Bali Bible founder Simon te Hennepe and has strategically located offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Denpasar. Its partners include Network 10, MTV, Bali Bible and Stuff.co.nz.

Board Member at YourGrocer.

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.

Rayn Ong - Partner @ Archangel Ventures

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Marketplace
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Minke — Send, save and invest crypto with zero fees and an experience as intutive as your bank.
Pushas — Buy & Sell Authentic, Brand-New Sneakers From Australia's Favourite Sneaker Store. Widest selection of hype, exclusive sneakers: Air Jordans, Yeezys, Nike, Adidas, Off-Whites & more. AfterPay, Klarna, ZipPay & Laybuy available. 'Authenticity' guarantee on every sneaker purchase or your money back.
Vouch — Vouch allows you to collect, edit & share authentic videos with a single link. Capture customer video testimonials, employee feedback, win-loss reports & more.

Danny Chan

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Seed, Convertible Note
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Blerter —
LearnCoach — Learn from 2500+ video tutorials and practice questions for 80 NCEA standards. LearnCoach covers everything you need to master NCEA and get your best results ever!

Mathew Kuppe is a founding partner and managing director for 360T Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, a position he has held since December 2006 when he opened up the company´s regional headquarters in Singapore.Prior to this role Mathew held the position of chief technology officer at the company´s headquarters in Frankfurt, where he was responsible for thelong-term architecture, technical organization and overall technical strategy of the company.Mathew brings more than 15 years experience in Information Technology to his role at 360T including more than 7 years in the finance industry working for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in London and Singapore, and for CIT Group in Sydney developing and implementing financial software and systems.Prior to founding 360T, Mathew served as a senior manager in systems development for Newcourt Financial in Sydney.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Industrial, Information Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

HINDSITE Industries — HINDSITE powers the spread of know-how from subject matter experts to your frontline. Automate microcredentialing using Workflows and provide access to a global microskill library and remote mentoring.

Elevation Capital was formed by a group of successful entrepreneurs who have co-invested in order to pool together their capital and experience. We consider ourselves to be “venture accelerators” rather than venture capitalists. After starting my first fledgling business at the age of 17, I truly understand the unique challenges faced byentrepreneurs and I am aware that it takes more than just capital for a company to succeed.Recently, Blueprint Management and the various business's we developed (up to 10 companies over 13 years) has given me exposure to the difficult challenges that every entrepreneur will face. My experience has involved the creation of a company with only $10K start-up capital, which grew to over 950 staff. This business was then sold to a private equity group. The success of this venture has given me invaluable knowledge that I can now share with others to guide them in the future.Specialties:If there is one simple thing I have learnt in recent times about investing into growth companies, it is: "to not waste anyones time".Elevation Capital is a professional and committed organisation and is able to invest quickly when a good business opportunity presents itself. We appreciate the challenge that entrepreneurs face when trying to raise capital while also dealing with the daily time constraints of running their businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.
Juggle Street — Juggle Street helps you find local babysitters, nannies, au pairs, tutors and before and after school care providers. We are a local neighbourhood network connecting people around Australia.

Simon Crook - Founder @ CrookED Science

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

ELLA App Pty Ltd — ELLA is a mobile and web application that offers a range of services for teachers.The application enables its users to set learning goals and provides them with micro-certification recommendations. In addition, it offers social media integration to obtain gamification services. Furthermore, it enables its users to capture their teaching skillsand obtain actionable insights.ELLA was launched in 2015 by Matt Esterman, Wai Yat Wong, and Atul Pandey and is based in Sydney.

Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator from 2016 through 2019. Sam Altman attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Beacon AI — Beacon AI is building the future of flight safety for commercial and private fleets.
ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.

Robert "Bob" McLean

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Online Portals
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Academy Xi — At Academy Xi, we help APAC's largest and most sophisticated organisations optimise performance with concise, actionable training solutions.

Chadd Ciccarelli

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Triggr — Triggr is a SaaS platform helping sales teams predict buyer intent and close more deals.
Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.

Scobie Ward is the Chairman & CEO of Ward Ferry Management.

Investment focus

Software, E-Learning, Language Learning
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Straker Translations — Straker Translations is revolutionizing the translation industry by offering fast, efficient and cost effective translations with their unique pay-per-hour translation model, it enables clients to significantly reduce their ongoing translation costs as well as simplifying the translation process.Founded in 1999 by Grant Straker, as a softwarecompany specializing in multi-lingual content management for websites, they morphed in 2010 into Straker Translations, a global translation agency with offices in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand building a global client base that includes: Sun Life Financial, Glaxo Smith Kline, Caterpillar, Creative, Exxon Mobile, Fuji Xerox, Mailchimp and BP.

Greg Ruddock is a Chairman at Calyx Private Equity.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Industrial, Information Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

HINDSITE Industries — HINDSITE powers the spread of know-how from subject matter experts to your frontline. Automate microcredentialing using Workflows and provide access to a global microskill library and remote mentoring.

I’m an entrepreneur, angel investor and growth marketer.I started angel investing after my ecommerce startup was acquired in 2016. I love investing because it’s one of the most intellectually stimulating things you can do. You’re constantly learning about new ideas, technologies and gaining a surface level education in many areas. I’ve investedin awesome startups from Fintech, Blockchain, Data, Sharing Economy, Renewable Energy, Health, Podcasting and Computer Vision.As an angel investor, I provide a combination of capital, time, network, and expertise to the startups I invest in.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
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,
Tiliter — Tiliter's tech increases supermarket efficiency reduces loss and gives your shoppers a more convenient checkout experience.
Beforepay — Beforepay understands that traditional pay cycles are a form of financial stress. So we set out to find a better way, giving Australians the control and confidence that comes with managing your own money, on your terms.That’s why we created Pay On Demand™ - a service that allows you to access the money you have earned at work, when you choose todo so. After all, it is yours!The app also automatically predicts when your bills are due, shows you how much is OK for you to spend, and automatically creates budgets for you, effortlessly.

Sasha Baranikov is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Fleet Space Technologies. Sasha Baranikov attended the University of Adelaide.

Investment focus

Education
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Outread — Outread uses AI to summarize key academic publications. (Blinkist is useful for academic study.

Fiona Mary Bones

Investment focus

Education
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Outread — Outread uses AI to summarize key academic publications. (Blinkist is useful for academic study.

Bernard Sabrier is currently the Chairman of Unigestion.

Investment focus

Education, E-Commerce, E-Learning
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Zookal — Zookal.com is the largest student portal in Australia providing a variety of service lines that make students' lives easier.The largest service line is Textbook Rentals which provides a faster, easier and cheaper alternative to what is available disrupting the current textbook market. We solve one of the biggest pain points forprice-conscious students by providing textbooks at a fraction of the price that they are currently getting them for in the Australian market.Zookal also provides a digital video platform, test prep apps and textbook solutions.

Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow in Google's Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain team, Google's deep learning research team in Mountain View, working on systems for speech recognition, computer vision, language understanding, and various predictive tasks. He has co-designed /implemented five generations of Google's crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co-designed / implemented major pieces of Google's initial advertising and AdSense for Content systems. He is also a codesigner and coimplementor of Google's distributed computing infrastructure, including the MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner systems, protocol buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow, a popular open-source system for machine learning.Jeff received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Mark Weiser Award and the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Japan, Australia

Portfolio highlights

TollBit — The platform for AI content licensing at scale. TollBit helps you monitor AI traffic, manage licensing deals & monetize your content in the AI era.
Roboflow — With just a few dozen example images, you can train a working, state-of-the-art computer vision model in less than 24 hours
Marimo — Marimo is an open-source reactive platform for developers working on Python.

Denice has been involved in education for over thirty years, twenty two years as a leader working internationally. Denice can be found as @denicescala on Twitter.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

ELLA App Pty Ltd — ELLA is a mobile and web application that offers a range of services for teachers.The application enables its users to set learning goals and provides them with micro-certification recommendations. In addition, it offers social media integration to obtain gamification services. Furthermore, it enables its users to capture their teaching skillsand obtain actionable insights.ELLA was launched in 2015 by Matt Esterman, Wai Yat Wong, and Atul Pandey and is based in Sydney.

Kate Mason

Investment focus

SaaS, EdTech, Software
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.

Duncan Alexander

Investment focus

E-Learning, Industrial, Information Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

HINDSITE Industries — HINDSITE powers the spread of know-how from subject matter experts to your frontline. Automate microcredentialing using Workflows and provide access to a global microskill library and remote mentoring.

Benny Kleist is a Founder & COO of Eucalyptus.He attended The University of Queensland.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Life Science
Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Proto Axiom — Early-stage funding to growth capital, we guide scientific breakthroughs from proof-of-concept to commercial success. Our hands-on approach to support Australian research is a first-in-country model.
NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!

Ruslan Kogan is a serial entrepreneur, having created and run many successful businesses. He is one of the pioneers of online retail in Australia, and his Internet ventures have expanded to include a global footprint. His companies have operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, with much more international expansion planned. Histremendous success made him Australia's wealthiest self-made person under the age of 30. The technology manufacturer and online retailer he created, Kogan.com, has gone on to become the biggest online retailer in Australia, valued at over $400 million.Ruslan Kogan is a regular guest contributor to TechCrunch, Forbes, Gizmodo, and other outlets.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

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