# Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Oceania in June 2026

## Blackbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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.

## Icehouse Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Flying Fox Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.

## Investible
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Skalata
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.

## Sydney Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

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.

## Jelix Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand.

## Possible Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.

## Transition Level Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Health Care

Founded by Steve Baxter, Transition Level Investments provides equity capital and operational expertise across Seed and Series A rounds to Australian companies.
Our team focuses on a company-growth approach, adding value by assisting founders to build their expertise, expand their team, build product, scale locally and globally to position for asuccessful exit. We have a track record of identifying investment opportunities in the Australian market and helping enable global growth.

## Artesian VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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.

## Clinton Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Clinton Capital Partners is a VC advisory business that specialises in raising capital and growing shareholder returns, for early stage technology companies and their investors. In addition, we invest our own funds to align company, investor and advisor. We have completed >70 successful transactions, and crystallised 14 liquidity events.Clinton Capital Partners has a long and established track record of growing companies, raising capital, conducting mergers, and creating liquidity events. When raising capital, we feel early-stage companies underestimate the time involved, the distraction to the underlying business, and the importance of identifying the “right culturally aligned” investors for their journey.

## Airtree Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

## Giant Leap Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Software

Giant Leap is Australia's first venture capital fund to be 100% dedicated to investing in exceptional, rapidly scalable impact businesses.

## Punakaiki Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Punakaiki Fund Limited makes long-term investments into high-growth, revenue-generating New Zealand companies. The company holds 20 investments, $32.3 million in assets, and is raising money in December 2017 for further investment.

## Right Click Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm

## Alium Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Apps

Alium Capital focuses on listed and unlisted technology investments to generate out-sized returns. The company invests in technology, innovation, and early-stage businesses, all the way through to publicly listed assets.
It specializes in the fields of finance, investing, innovation, and capital.Alium Capital was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.

## Rampersand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

We back ambitious ANZ tech founders from inception to seed, with proven support, no empty promises, and a track record of helping startups scale smarter.

## BetterLabs Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Australia, Isabela, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Grant
- Focus: Education, FinTech, Software

BetterLabs is an early-stage venture capital fund and venture studio based in Perth, Australia. Backed by RAC the fund invests in technology and opportunities that impact next-generation insurance, clean technology, mobility, work and money. The studio creates ventures to solve challenges in these domains and we also invest in them.

## Folklore Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

Folklore is a team of investors, founders, and builders committed to supporting Australian and New Zealand tech founders. We are a first cheque to forever investment firm, and we believe in the power of founder vision and the potential of teams, right from the start.

## Breakthrough Victoria
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology

The Breakthrough Victoria Fund is a $2 billion investment by the Victorian Government to drive investment in research and innovation.

## Sparkbox Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, EdTech

Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor

## SEEK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Human Resources, Recruiting, Software

SEEK is a diverse group of companies that have a unified purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organizations succeed. The Group encompasses a strong portfolio of employment, education, and volunteer businesses which span across Australia, New Zealand, China, South East Asia, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, andBangladesh. SEEK makes a positive impact on a truly global scale, operating in a total of 18 countries with market-leading positions in 14 countries. It creates world-class product technology solutions to address the needs of job seekers and hirers and facilitate the matching between job seekers and hirers across our online employment marketplaces. Online Education Services (‘OES’) offers leading online education and SEEK Learning offers trusted advice in relation to career-related education. SEEK’s commitment to having a positive impact on society is reflected through the diverse range of initiatives which its businesses across the globe partake in to support the communities they operate within. In Australia and New Zealand SEEK Volunteer is each country’s largest single source of volunteering opportunities offering not-for-profit organizations free access to post volunteer opportunities. This free marketplace is something SEEK is exceptionally proud of. Over its 20 years of operation, SEEK continues to innovate within the markets it operates in. It provides a culture of excellence and acceptance in our workplaces and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of the organization.

## Amasia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Amasia is a thesis-driven, global venture capital firm currently focused on sustainability and climate. Using a nuanced framework designed around behavior change, we invest in founders with global ambitions, from the Seed to Series B stages, across the United States, Southeast Asia, India, Europe and Latin America. We facilitate their growth withaccess to global markets, global best practices, and global knowledge.

## Square Peg Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.

## NAB Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

NAB Ventures is an Australian Venture Capital fund backed by National Australia Bank (one of the largest 20 banks globally).

## New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS

New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, a New Zealand-based private equity fund, manages fund of funds investments and direct co-investments.

## Larsen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Education, SaaS

Larsen Ventures is a lean, driven and strategic venture investment firmWe believe in alignment, long-term thinking & investor due diligence

We like metrics, traction & perseverance

We invest in people
1/3 of our focus is on Health and Education;

We like the thematic & overall gains for society2/3 of our time is spentlearning from peers, digging into research,

chasing leads & hanging out on caffeinated zooms in the endless search for;Founders with Traction

Founders with Insight

Founders with Perseverance and Courage

Founders with an innate ability to question EverythingWe have patient capital that engages & contributes to your Journey

Accelerate your business with our portfolios' intellectual capital

## K1W1
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology

K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.

## ALIAVIA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, TV, Art

ALIAVIA Ventures is a California-based firm focused on venture capital investing in U.S. and Australian-based female founders building world-changing enterprise and consumer tech companies. Their team is made up of operators and investors who have scaled tech businesses from $0 to $500 million through an IPO with a unique deal flow source and anextensive global network that supports high-potential female founders to deliver outsized long-term performance. Potential portfolio companies have at least one female founder with a significant equity position and a C-level role.

## Archangel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together.

## Greyrock Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series D, Series A
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, Enterprise Software

Greyrock is a private investment company focused on education and technology.

## Mark Livings
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Education, Communities

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.

## Eleanor Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, Software, Marketing

INVEST IN TECH TOGETHER

## TEN13
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

## Significant Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care

Significant Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing transformative technologies and the ambitious founders behind them.Founded by the Hindmarsh family, Significant Ventures invests in deep tech, applied science and research-driven innovation emerging from Australia’s leading universities and research institutions. The fundcombines capital with active, hands-on support—helping early-stage companies shape their strategy, attract talent, and access follow-on funding.With a network of expert operators, advisors and institutional partners, Significant Ventures focuses on turning high-potential ideas into globally scalable businesses. The team works closely with founders across sectors including life sciences, climate tech, AI, education and advanced manufacturing.Driven by a commitment to impact, collaboration and long-term value creation, Significant Ventures exists to build the next generation of high-growth companies that will lead Australia’s innovation economy

## OIF Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

OIF is a venture capital firm focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs building businesses.

## EVP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.

## January Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software

We partner with exceptional technology companies in the Asia-Pacific region, providing flexible capital solutions to amplify their growth ambitions.

## Hezi Leibovich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Apps, FinTech

Serial entrepreneur and investor
Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.

## Carthona Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

## Rayn Ong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Marketing

Rayn Ong - Partner @ Archangel Ventures

## HESTA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Private Equity
- Focus: Solar, Semiconductor, Information Technology

HESTA Super Fund is the Australian industry superannuation fund for people working in health and community services. Become a member today.

## Vulpes Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Real Estate, Software

Uninhibited Venture Investing Southeast Asia & Australia-New Zealand

## Saniel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Construction

Helping passionate
founders build the future 

Saniel Ventures is a private investment group supporting high growth technology companies. Get in touch      

We invest in people
first 

Smart, passionate, resilient founders building the future

We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect that you are humble enough to know

## Stephen Baxter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Stephen Baxter - Founder @ River City Labs

## Adi Dassler International Family Office
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Gaming, Sports, eSports

As a MFO, we provide our clients and families with Best-In-Class solutions, family office advice.

## Emlyn Scott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Emlyn has spent more than 30 years navigating the complex landscapes of finance, financial markets and technology as a founder, public company CEO, angel investor, VC investor and fund manager. He's had the opportunity to make over 70 venture capital investments in innovative companies like Nutromics, DataRobot, Calm App, Cerebras Systems,Skylark Labs, Zainar, and Kami, and a similar number personally as an angel. He is a founder of OpenMarkets Group, one of Australia's largest online brokers. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s second largest 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)
- Bachelor of Economics (BEc)

## SafetyCulture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Data Integration

Digitize & improve elements of your operations. Give your teams the knowledge, tools & confidence to work safely & meet higher standards.

## Flying Kiwi Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups