Top 10 Email Startup Investors in Australia in May 2026

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, United States

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Blend AI — Making online advertising easy for everyone. Blend connects to your store helping you measure the impact your ads are having on revenue.
Mutiny — Mutiny is an analytics platform for marketing investments with a sizable customer base.
Fergus — Fergus is a smart field service management software for service businesses. Make job management easy and carry out work better with our all-in-one solution.

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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

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CUZIN — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
CLIQ — We understand firsthand the impact of social isolation and the longing for genuine human connection. CLIQ was born from a vision to address this issue and to fundamentally transform the way that we meet new people and form connections.
Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Singapore

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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.
JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
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.

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Yaniv Bernstein is the Co-Founder &COO of Circular.

Investment focus

SaaS, Email, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

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CoLab — Chef Prep meal ideas, chef style foods and all your favourite classic recipes. Learn to make all your favourite meals with Chef Prep.
ParkBooker — ParkBooker is an independent online travel agent, and we believe that holiday park travelers deserve more when it comes to discovering new destinations and parks and planning and booking their holidays.
Mutiny — Mutiny is an analytics platform for marketing investments with a sizable customer base.

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Starfish Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm focused on information technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Australia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Aktana — Build stronger relationships with HCPs using Aktana's artificial intelligence (AI) platform for life sciences to optimize omnichannel engagement.
DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,328,201 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
Marani — Marani helps maternity providers quickly identify and manage maternal and fetal risk as well as empowering moms to have healthier pregnancies.

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Graeme Horne - Interim Marketing Director @ OfficeServe

Investment focus

Email
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

CoLab — Chef Prep meal ideas, chef style foods and all your favourite classic recipes. Learn to make all your favourite meals with Chef Prep.

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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

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.
Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com

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Mark Bouris is the founder , Executive Chairman at Yellow Brick Road. He studied Honorary Doctor of Business (Hon.D.Bus) from UNSW.

Investment focus

Email
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

CoLab — Chef Prep meal ideas, chef style foods and all your favourite classic recipes. Learn to make all your favourite meals with Chef Prep.

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John Bryan Scott is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gumtap.

Investment focus

Email, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Angel, Series A, Series B
Estonia, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Gumtap — Search and discovery
Bolt — The smartest way to move around in cities. Forget expensive taxi rides or slow public transport. Get a ride in minutes. Download the Bolt app for iOS and Android.
OpenStore — Ingenyes has a new business model in web hosting. It provides free web hosting, then 'clips the ticket' on ancillary services provided by partners such as SEO specialists, web designers, and ecommerce platforms.The company is building a global apps store of services from web partners and connects them to small businesses via its freeweb hosting service.

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