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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Australia in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Finance startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Australia in November 2024

Investor	Finance Australia investments
Reinventure	5
OneVentures	5
Carthona Capital	4
NAB Ventures	4
Partners for Growth	3
Picus Capital	3
Artesian VC	3
Sydney Angels	3
Investible	3
Significant Early Venture Capital	2
Blackbird Ventures	2
OIF Ventures	2
Entrée Capital	2
Antler Australia	2
EVP	2
Gobi Partners	2
Mastercard	2
OPTrust Private Markets Group	1
Hejaz Financial Services	1
Mechanism Capital	1
Scalare Partners	1
MMV Europe & Asia-Pacific	1
Lachlan McKnight	1
Three Arrows Capital	1
Acorn Capital	1
Tencent	1
Christian Faes	1
Portage Ventures	1
Yield Yak	1
Clean Energy Finance Corporation	1
AMP New Ventures	1
Avenir	1
Guy Pearson	1
TPS Capital	1
Muhabbit Capital Ventures	1
Hunter Equity Group	1
Ellerston Capital	1
TEN13	1
Lightning Ventures	1
James Goodwin	1
Commencer Capital	1
Mercury Capital Partners	1
KeyChain Capital	1
Quentin Wallace	1
Raj Bhat	1
MA Growth Ventures	1
Lempriere Capital	1
Mark Kalajzich	1
Matt Rockman	1
Damien Waller	1

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Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally.With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner,Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

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.
Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more.
Kepler Analytics — Kepler uses retail in-store analytics to provide retail managers with unprecedented insight into shopper behaviour and create amazing customer experiences.

OneVentures is one of Australia’s leading venture capital firms, with over $330M in funds under management. But they do more than invest. They take companies to that all important next stage, by actively shaping their future. They apply their years of international experience, operational and executional expertise to accelerate the growth of theirportfolio companies. A global growth focus drives their investment selection with their current portfolio including companies with truly innovative products tackling multi-billion-dollar problems, from needle-free vaccinations to virtual communications to adaptive e-learning.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Australia, United States, Israel

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.
StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
Employment Hero — Employment Hero is Australia's top cloud-based HR, payroll and benefits platform for employers & employees. FREE trial for...

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cherre — Connect all your real estate data and make it available to the entire organization for better investment, management, and underwriting decisions.
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.
Primary — Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways.

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

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 — Zodia Custody is a cryptoasset custodian for institutional investors.

We partner with companies at an inflection point in their business, who are seeking flexible and customized financing, matched to their trajectory and needs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
Futurerent — Futurerent is a tool that offers solutions to residential property investors for investment capital and cashflow needs.
Downpayments — In the dynamic world of real estate, time is money, capital is power, and access to the down payment is the biggest barrier to creating wealth through property. Downpayments is on a mission to transform how Amercians purchase real estate, by financing the down payment and allowing the buyer to break their commitment into affordable, manageable payments that are interest-free, or at low rates.

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
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.
Sova Health — Sova Health is a precision nutrition platform that guides users towards a healthier lifestyle with personalized nutrition advice based on accurate blood biomarker analysis. Understand what is stopping you from achieving your nutritional goal and get your personalized nutrition plan.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trendspek — Make confident decisions on high-value infrastructure with speed, safety, and precision. Use Trendspek's intuitive 3D environment to interactively report asset conditions, streamline the O&M phase with advanced workflow tools, and securely share insights with global teams for informed decision-making. Empowering teams in 20+ countries.
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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Decarice — Explore DeCarice's hydrogen retrofit technology to significantly reduce carbon emissions from your existing diesel fleet. Decarbonize with innovative solutions for a sustainable future.
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
FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

Connecting innovation to the market.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Electronics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

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
FLAIM Systems — FLAIM Systems is a virtual reality platform that develops, produces and supports the next step in skills training for emergency services.

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, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Redactive — Redactive.ai is an Enterprise AI enablement platform that accelerates regulated organisations to secure & remediate their operational (unstructured) data, preparing it to be used by AI applications (eg: Co-pilots), along with providing engineering teams inside the enterprise the tools to build their own AI use cases securely with any LLM.
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.
SafetyCulture — 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.

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

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.

We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1.25B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Obligo — Rid yourself from the burden of security deposits and go deposit-free. Landlords paid instantly on claims, while tenants repay in installments.
Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
Sensi.Ai — Sensi.Ai developed the first audio AI that's able to analyze the routine in long term care environments, detect anomalies and provide insight on trends, with the purpose of improving the quality of care

Australia's only truly global early stage VC, we believe in and back the most ambitious founders from the earliest stage.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Australia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Skipped — Never miss a sale again. Enabling retailers to sell even when a product is out-of-stock.
Geniepay — Geniepay offers embedded B2B payment terms to help enterprise sales teams improve performance.
Yesterday — Transform your recruitment strategy with Hire Yesterday's AI-powered candidate evaluation. Make informed hiring decisions faster, streamline the screening process, and deliver a personalised experience to candidates.

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

Portfolio highlights

CorePlan — CorePlan is drilling management platform for mining, exploration and drilling companies to digitise their drill program operations. Move from pen, paper and spreadsheets to digital plods, drill planning, rig management, safety compliance and more using our cloud based software.
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.

Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Malaysia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Jazro — Robotic Academy. Develop Digital Talents . Fun Ways To Learn Programming, Coding & Robotic. Give Your Child a Memorable School Holiday. Book Now. Courses: Jazro Mbot, Make X Training, Jazro Coding, Raspberry Pi Jazro, Jazro IOT Project, Jrone, Jazro DIY, Jazro Art & Craft & Jazro Autism Robot Class.
Bateriku — Bateriku provides emergency roadside assistance for car breakdowns and car battery delivery in Malaysia with nationwide coverage. Learn more here!
DCAP Digital — Reimagine Consumer Financing With Our Full Stack Financing Platform and Lending-as-a-Service Platform, first-of-its- kind in Malaysia

Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments. They provide data services and marketing center. Their marketing materials help card portfolios and businesses. They also provide fraud prevention solutions and payment ecosystem security.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Series A, Corporate Round, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Fabrick — Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs
MTN Group Fintech — MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with a host of innovative digital financial services...
Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.

OPTrust's private markets program was launched in 2006 to build diversified private equity and infrastructure portfolios that will eventually account for 30% of the Plan's total assets (15% each). In 2013, these portfolios reached a combined market value of $3.1 billion at year-end, up from $2.5 billion in 2012.Fiscal 2013 was aproductive year for the Private Markets Group, with 11 new commitments made to both fund and direct investments. The current portfolio, now over 50 investments, is well diversified across a base of parameters including strategy, geography, vehicle and sub-asset class.Infrastructure investments continued to perform well in 2013, returning 11.8% net of external management fees, on an IRR basis, which is above the infrastructure benchmark return of 6% (CPI + 5%). Since the portfolio’s inception in 2006, OPTrust’s infrastructure investments have generated an average net annual return of 16.6% compared to 6.1% for the portfolio benchmark.Private equity holdings generated a net return of 11% for the year on an IRR basis, below the benchmark return of 24.6% which was exceptionally high due to very strong public markets performance. Since its inception in 2007, the portfolio has exceeded its benchmark return, producing an average annual return of 6.5% compared to 4.6% for the portfolio benchmark.Choose the tabs below for more information on our Private Markets Group, case studies from our portfolio, or contact information for our internal investment team.

Investment focus

Banking, Finance, Leasing
Series A, Series B, Series C
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Judo Bank — Speak to one of our relationship bankers today. Judo Bank. Boldly backing business.
Porterbrook Group — Porterbrook specialises in the leasing of all types of railway rolling stock and associated equipment to freight and passenger train operating companies in the UK.

Discover premier Islam finance and Shariah compliant mortgages from the leading halal bank in Australia. Learn more about Hejaz Financial Services today.

Investment focus

Banking, Finance, Financial Services
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Islamic Bank Australia — Islamic Bank Australia's appeal is to establish a digital-first, socially responsible bank that will revolutionize Australian banking.

Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Breakout — Breakout is a crypto-native prop business that trades on the most liquid centralized exchanges.
Nectar AI — Nectar AI is a virtual AI companion platform that offers users the ability to create and interact with the digital customized personalities and companions.

Scalare Partners is more than a technology investment fund. We provide critical funding and resourcing

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.
AsiaVerify — AsiaVerify is plugged into Asia's most authoritative and compliant government and regulatory sources. Our unprecedented coverage and intelligent platform opens the way for businesses to engage in Asian markets with greater confidence and ease.
FreeGuides — FreeGuides is a peer to peer platform, enabling locals to create, run and manage their own free walking tours.

MMV is a multistage, global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies. We help accelerate the growth of the companies we partner with by providing capital, connections and advice.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sikoia — Streamline your decision-making with centralized customer data, comprehensive case management, and automated risk evaluation without complicated integrations.
Aspire — Multi currency business account, for start-ups & SMEs, to manage your company spends & expenses, accounts receivables & payables, invoices, bills, corporate cards & cross-border payments.
Scrut Automation — Scrut Automation makes ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and PCI DSS compliance easy, with 70% less Manual effort

Lachlan is the CEO of LegalVision. He co-founded LegalVision in 2012 with the goal of providing high quality, cost effective legal services at scale to both SMEs and large corporates.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.

Three Arrows Capital is a hedge fund manager that provides risk-adjusted returns. The firm was established in 2012 by Su Zhu and Kyle Davies and is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, Singapore.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Laevitas — Laevitas is a data analytics platform based on quantitative finance models for the crypto-asset market. The company aims to provide analysis by implementing mathematical models on data from a variety of crypto-asset derivatives markets
Delio — Crypto Financial Services Provider
Orderly Network — Orderly Network is the omnichain liquidity layer with robust SDK for Web3 DeFi builders, while enhancing spot & derivatives trading in DeFi.

Acorn Capital Specialist Emerging & Microcap Investment Management. We research and invest in the most attractive Australian based emerging or microcap companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

mx51 — Obsessed with the merchant experience.
ImmVirX — ImmVirX is an Australian company founded in 2019 with a mission to improve outcomes for patients with cancer types in which immunotherapy treatments have limited effect.
Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CMR Surgical — Welcome to CMR Surgical. Transforming surgery. For good. Our aim is to make the benefits of minimal access surgery available to everyone who needs it.
Enflame — Suiyuan Technology is a provider of neural network solutions for artificial intelligence. Its products are deep learning high-end chips developed for cloud data centers, and are positioned on artificial intelligence training platforms. The chip will adopt a unique and innovative architecture independently developed, featuring high computing power,high energy efficiency ratio, programmable, low cost, and support for mainstream machine learning frameworks. It is designed and optimized for cloud AI training.
Broken String Biosciences — Our platform accelerates the characterisation of novel gene editing technologies to unlock the next wave of cell & gene therapies.

Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK. Now building Faes & Co.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zeal — Zeal is the modern payroll platform that helps you put payroll on autopilot, handle dynamic work, and build a better worker experience. Companies choose Zeal to deliver payroll that's automated, flexible, and native.
Najar — Welii helps fast-growing companies save time and money by optimizing the purchasing process and management of all their SaaS software.
Walnut Insurance — Insurance for everyone. Pick from transparent plans made for you.

Yield Yak is a cryptocurrency website that provides tools for DeFi users.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Finance, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Colony Lab — Colony Lab is a community-driven initiative to power the Avalanche Platform growth by investing in early-stage projects.
Geode Finance — Geode Finance is a first of its kind white label liquid staking solution, tailor-made for DAOs.
Platypus Finance — Platypus invents a whole new AMM on Avalanche - Open liquidity single-sided AMM managing risk autonomously based on the coverage ratio, allowing maximal capital efficiency.

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation invests using a commercial approach to overcome market barriers and mobilize investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and low emissions technologies. They seek to catalyze and leverage private sector funding for the commercialization and deployment of clean energy technologies necessary for thetransition to a carbon-constrained economy.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate
Debt Financing, Series B, Seed
Australia, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Plenti — When it comes to money, every decision counts. From what you borrow, and when you pay it back. To where you invest it, and how you make it go further. We’re on a mission to help everyone to make the right choices — about the choices that count.
Team Global Express — Send parcels to family and friends anywhere with Team Global Express offering the BEST and fastest freight, parcel delivery service. Trusted Partner, world class eCommerce Leader in digitally connecting customers globally
Downforce Technologies — Downforce Technologies is a pioneering leader in science-led, data-driven land management solutions focused on optimising soil health, soil organic carbon levels and biodiversity. With over 30% of the world's soil already degraded, urgent action is needed to address this pressing global challenge. Our platform offers a complete,high-resolution view of the land's carbon profile, enabling precise analysis and site-specific strategies for optimizing carbon levels.

AMP was founded on a simple yet bold idea—that every individual should have the power and ability to control his or her life.

Investment focus

Finance, Big Data, Accounting
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Macrovue — HALO Technologies is dedicated to building world-leading investment technology accessible for all types of investors.

A future-focused growth equity firm backing category-defining companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Series C, Series A, Series B
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Sigma Computing — Sigma is the only BI analytics tool purpose-built for your cloud data warehouse. Uniquely scalable, with an experience you already know: the spreadsheet.

Guy has more then a decade's experience in professional practice and is a Chartered Accountant. Before Practice Ignition he founded and grew Interactive Accounting and Your Modern Practice. Guy's extremely passionate about providing small business owners with better information and better advice.

Investment focus

Software, Accounting, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
AuditCover — AuditCover provides accountants a simpler, smarter and faster way to insure their clients. With our digital onboarding, secure data sharing and direct-to-taxpayer programs.
Cake — Here at Cake Equity we make equity easier to use. Grow your company, reward your team, eliminate the hassle. Sign up for FREE today!

We develop and deploy our own proprietary, state of the art trading algorithms to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
Australia, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

zkLend — zkLend is an L2 money-market protocol built on StarkNet, combining zk-rollup scalability, superior transaction speed, and cost-savings with Ethereum’s security.
Blocklords — Be part of the most ambitious strategy game of our age.
Balthazar NFT Gaming — Balthazar is on a mission to empower the biggest community of gamers to create a self-sustaining,

Muhabbit Capital Ventures is a research-driven early-stage private venture capital incubating and investing in diverse cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dexalot — A revolutionary decentralized exchange aiming at bringing the traditional centralized exchange look and feel through a decentralized on-chain application
Vee Finance — Bridge the gap between traditional banking and crypto Defi Earn fixed/flexible return on deposited assets
Time Shuffle — Crazy RPG historical battles twisting the future and past.

Hunter Equity Group is a experienced private investors, focussed on quality insurance industry opportunities.

Investment focus

Insurance, Finance, InsurTech
Seed, Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

AuditCover — AuditCover provides accountants a simpler, smarter and faster way to insure their clients. With our digital onboarding, secure data sharing and direct-to-taxpayer programs.
KOBA Insurance — Pioneering connected usage-based insurance, KOBA offers tech-enabled Pay-per-KM, Car-sharing and Electric Vehicle insurance in Australia.

Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Australia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Data Zoo — Data Zoo is an online identity service verifying customers instantly and providing global data coverage. Keeping information protected and systems secure.
Aerologix — Get skilled drone pilots and seamless drone hire services at Aerologix. Precision, reliability, and aerial excellence are at your fingertips. Contact us today!
BiomeBank — BiomeBank is a clinical stage biotechnology company with a mission to treat our microbiome and prevent disease by restoring gut microbial ecology.

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

iion — iion the only unified game advertising platform that unites brands and game publishers. Engage gamers, monetize effectively, and unlock infinite opportunities across gaming environments.
MiLaboratories — Top-notch solutions for adaptive immunity studies
Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.

Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Vida — The AI phone agent for small business. Answer calls and texts with an AI phone agent that always works and is never busy. number that answers calls and texts with AI.
OrdinalsBot — We make it easy to inscribe ordinals. Like, really easy.
Pnkfrg Studios — Pnkfrg Studios is a mobile gaming studio startup designing games for the Lightning Network on Bitcoin.

James Goodwin - Board of directors @ Macrovue

Investment focus

Finance, Big Data, Accounting
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Macrovue — HALO Technologies is dedicated to building world-leading investment technology accessible for all types of investors.

Commencer Capital is a capital partner for founders and their emerging companies in Australia and New Zealand.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

mx51 — Obsessed with the merchant experience.

Mercury Capital Partners is a New York-based private equity firm focused on the media, communication, and entertainment industries. The firm typically makes individual investments between $2 million and $20 million dollars in a wide variety of media businesses. Mercury will often act as the lead investor in an investment round, will often have acontrolling interest in its investments, and will often actively manage its investments.Mercury Capital Partners was founded in 2015 and is based in Buffalo, New York, United States.

Investment focus

Audio, Video, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.
PixFusion — PixFusion offers personalized entertainment solutions for adults, teens, and the youth. It offers mobile apps, DVDs, and streaming and downloading videos.
Three Rings — Three Rings was an internet games development company based in San Francisco. Puzzle Pirates (casual action puzzle MMOARRPG) was their first and most successful title, followed by Bang! Howdy (Steampunk tactical turn-based MMO), Whirled (user-created Flash / web virtual world) and Spiral Knights (action adventure MMO). Three Rings also made aDoctor Who game with the BBC, a How to Train your Dragon game with Dreamworks and various Facebook games and other experiments. Three Rings was acquired by SEGA of Japan in 2011 and operated as a studio within SEGA until early 2016.

KeyChain Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, FinTech
Seed
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Envio — Envio is a dev-friendly, speed-optimized, modern blockchain indexing solution that addresses the limitations of traditional blockchain indexing approaches and gives developers peace of mind. By harnessing the power of Envio, developers can overcome the challenges posed by latency, reliability, and costs across various sources. Envio serves as thefront door for any application’s need to access, transform, and save real-time or historical data, from any EVM smart contract.If you're a blockchain developer looking to enhance your development process and unlock the true potential of Web3 infrastructure, look no further. Join our growing community of elite developers, check out our docs, and let's work together to revolutionize the blockchain world and propel your project to the next level. Follow Envio on Twitter and/or Lenster for updates on new features, or jump into our Discord for any questions.
Time Shuffle — Crazy RPG historical battles twisting the future and past.
Portal Fantasy — Portal Fantasy is a pixel adventure RPG game driven by an epic story arc. From the moment gameplay begins, you’ll enter a tale complete with a cast of brave Heroes and Architects with endless questing opportunities. Befriend, raise and fight alongside Porbles as you explore the different worlds as a Hero. Create and design worlds to beencountered by other players on their journey as an Architect. Portal Fantasy brings two roles and revolutionary game mechanics together in a modern twist to this classic genre.

Quentin Wallace is the Partner and Co-Founder of Archangel Ventures.

Investment focus

Finance, Internet, Automotive
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
Minke — Send, save and invest crypto with zero fees and an experience as intutive as your bank.
Modo — Declutter your mind with our app to boost your mental wellbeing and productivity. modo helps you be present in the moment and focus on what matters most.

Raj Bhat

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

CarClarity — Find low rate car finance in just 60 seconds. CarClarity compares 30+ lenders to find your best car loan rates based on your circumstances. Save time and money with fast car loan approval.

MA Financial Group's Asset Management division manages investments for institutional & wholesale investors across real estate, credit, private equity & venture capital.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Series B, Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

DR2 — DR2 provide technology to their healthcare partners including 13SICK, and DoctorDoctor.
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.
Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.

Lempriere Capital specializes in debt advisory, equity capital raising, special funding, private equity, and trade finance solutions.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Construction
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Thriday — Thriday saves small businesses a huge amount of time and money by automating financial admin. It's like having a bookkeeper, accountant and transaction account all in one.
Clennett Hire — Clennett Hire provides service and support projects of all sizes and offers a range of services to complement our state-of-the-art equipment.

Mark Kalajzich is the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Lendi. He attended Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Investment focus

Legal, Finance, Health Care
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.

Matt is an investor in venture businesses and will soon be basing himself in the United States working with Square Peg Capital. He invests across a wide sector of industries and geographies. Matt and his wife have a foundation where they focus on community projects, which have the ability to enhance the social sector.Prior to working as aninvestor in his own right, Matt was one of the three original founders of SEEK LTD. Along With Paul and Andrew Bassat, Matt took SEEK from business plan to become one of Australia’s most successful online businesses. SEEK is now an ASX Top 100 Listed company with a market capitalisation of $4 Billion, and with businesses in the UK, China, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.Matt also is an accomplished speaker and helps many organisations realise their full potential through his business insights. Matt holds a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from Monash University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, B2B
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vend — Vend is web-based point-of-sale and retail management software. Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores.Vend runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Even though Vend is web-based it works offline, so users can keep making salesif the internet drops out.Vend integrates seamlessly with other web applications used to run retail stores, like accounting, eCommerce, appointment scheduling, and others.The Vend platform is subscription-based, never requires backups or upgrades and lets retailers get on with running their retail enterprise instead of worrying about their IT infrastructure.
Magnet Capital — Launched in 2017, Magnet Capital is an Australian investment fund focused solely on crypto and digital assets
Ordermentum — Ordermentum is a wholesale online order management system for the food and beverage industry. Book a free demo to learn how mobile ordering and payments can help you.

Damien Waller is a Chairman at Point Hacks. He attended Monash University.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Nimble — Nimble provides a fast solution to short-term financial hurdles. A Nimble loan is paid back over weeks, not months or years. Their world-leading profiling technology allows customers to receive an instant decision upon completing an application.You'll know if you've been approved straight away - not hours or days later. Their freshapproach to lending means there's no waiting around for someone to assess your application. No sitting around anxiously wondering whether you're approved or not.You'll have an answer within a minute and cash can be in your bank account within 60 minutes. Nimble re-branded from Cash Doctors in October 2012.

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