Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Australia in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Financial services startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Financial services companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Australia in December 2024
Investor | Financial Services Australia investments |
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Larry Diamond | 4 |
Stani Kulechov | 4 |
Bosco Tan | 4 |
Kain Warwick | 4 |
Craig Winkler | 4 |
Patrick Tuttle | 3 |
Mark Harbottle | 3 |
Guy Pearson | 3 |
Leigh Jasper | 3 |
Hezi Leibovich | 2 |
Robert Phillpot | 2 |
Anthony Warren | 2 |
Adrian Di Marco | 2 |
Jon Soberg | 2 |
Raffael Johnen | 2 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 2 |
Darren Patterson | 2 |
Radek Ostrowski | 2 |
Ben Taylor | 2 |
Bevan Clark | 2 |
Ken Cheung Cheung | 2 |
Joyce Yang | 2 |
Kurt Alexander | 2 |
Ashwin Ramachandran | 2 |
Gabby Leibovich | 2 |
Chris Hitchen | 2 |
David Gordon | 2 |
Daniel Johnson | 2 |
0xMaki .. | 1 |
Christian Faes | 1 |
Emrin Nurovic | 1 |
Vitalik Buterin | 1 |
Danny Gilligan | 1 |
Darren Smorgon | 1 |
Santiago Roel Santos | 1 |
Rob Antulov | 1 |
Darren Harrison | 1 |
Evan Cheng | 1 |
Paul Greenberg | 1 |
John Szangolies | 1 |
Justus Hammer | 1 |
Anthony Eisen | 1 |
Peter Gammell | 1 |
Colin Morgan | 1 |
Ben Lamb | 1 |
Paniti Junhasavasdikul | 1 |
Narith Phadungchai | 1 |
Chris Sang | 1 |
Damien Waller | 1 |
Matt Rockman | 1 |
Larry Diamond is the founder of ZipMoney, a company that provides shoppers with online credit facilities. He was previously a director at Diamond Capital Partners.
Diamond holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Technology, Sydney and a master’s degree from UNSW Australia.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
- Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
- Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- karpatkey — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
- RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Bosco Tan
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- EarthFast — EarthFast provides cryptocurrency front-end hosting solutions. It enables projects to build and deploy decentralized apps, providing a secure alternative to traditional cloud platforms.
- Firewall — Firewall is building a security layer for Web3, including the Safe Sequencer and its modular components that mitigate smart contract hacks before they impact users. Backed by NIV, Breyer Capital and Hack VC.
Craig Winkler Co-founded Australian small business accounting software provider MYOB in 1991. Craig built MYOB to be a popular business tool and brand which, in 2004, merged with Solution 6 to become Australia’s largest IT company. Craig joined Xero's board and became a substantial shareholder in 2009. He now spends the bulk of his timeworking in the philanthropic sector.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Apps
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Chaser — Automate invoice reminders, get paid faster and maintain great customer relationships. Our users get paid 16+ days sooner and save 15+ hours a week on A/R.
- Myprosperity — An all-in-one client portal with innovative digital tools to increase practice efficiencies, scale client engagement and grow revenue.
- Ignition — Engage clients, get paid and run your business on autopilot with Ignition. Create online proposals & automate client payments, all from one place. Learn more.
Patrick Tuttle
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Payments
- Series A, Debt Financing
- Australia
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.
- Skippr Cash Flow — Business financing services & solutions tailored for all Australian businesses with Earlypay's Invoice, Equipment, and Trade Financing. Contact us now!
Matt Harbottle co-founded Melbourne-based SitePoint.com 10 years ago with Matt Mickiewicz, and grew it into a profitable, multi-million dollar company without any venture capital or outside funding. The company has been profitable every single month since its inception and is actively involved in publishing & marketplaces for Web Professionals.In 2008, Mark spun off 99designs out of SitePoint as its own separate business. 99designs has become the market leader in crowdsourced graphic design and currently sees a new graphic uploaded to the site every 7 seconds and pays out over $1,000,000 to designers every month. In April 2011 99designs received $35m in a Round A led by Accel Partners.99designs has run crowdsourced design projects for tens of thousands of small business owners, as well as big brands like Adidas, TiVo, Dish Networks, and bestselling authors like Tim Ferriss and Rick Warren (author of “The Purpose Driven Lifeâ€).In June of 2009, Mark and Matt launched Flippa.com, a marketplace for buying and selling small websites via auction. Flippa currently sells over $2 million worth of website assets per month, with its biggest sale ever being ReTweet.com which sold for $250,000.In January of 2011, Learnable.com was launched, again as a spin off from SitePoint. Learnable is a peer to peer education platform where anyone can create an online course and sell access to it online.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, B2B, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia
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.
- Assembly Payments — Collect, refund, disburse & reconcile online payments with API automation to simplify complex payment flows. Pay & get paid instantly for operational efficiency.
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.
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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!
Leigh Jasper is the CEO of Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. Together with company co-founder Rob Phillpot, he raised A$86 million in private equity investment before listing Aconex on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December 2014. Prior toAconex, Leigh was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted for clients in the financial services, media and information technology sectors. He is a director of the Burnet Institute, a not-for-profit organization which aims to improve health in poor and vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally through research, education and public health. Leigh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Diploma of Modern Languages in French from the University of Melbourne.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
- Propeller Aero — Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.
Serial entrepreneur and investor
Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Apps, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, 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.
Co-founder Rob Phillpot is senior vice president of product and engineering, responsible for product vision, strategy and management. He has been instrumental in developing the company’s business on a global scale and ensuring that Aconex solutions deliver a superior customer experience to buyers and users. Before founding Aconex in 2000 with CEOand director Leigh Jasper, he managed document control, quality and trades on a site team at Brookfield Multiplex. Prior to Brookfield Multiplex, Mr. Phillpot was an auditor at Deloitte & Touche in Australia. He holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Planning and Design degrees with Honors and a Master of Building degree from the University of Melbourne.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Australia, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
Anthony Warren, Dealer Principal at Peter warren Toyota.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Data Integration
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
Mr Di Marco founded TechnologyOne in 1987, after extensive software industry experience in the area of large scale fixed time and fixed price software development projects to meet client-specific requirements. Mr Di Marco has more than 30 years' experience in the software industry. He is responsible for all operational aspects of TechnologyOneand its strategic direction.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Restaurants
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Restoplus — Checkout our point of sale, website, online ordering, qr code table ordering, and table booking. Contact our experts to learn more.
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
- Factory.app — Software for fabricators to create orders, collaborate on work, track jobs and communicate with customers from one location.
Jon Soberg joined MS&AD Ventures as Managing Partner in 2018.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- CASAFARI — CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time.
- HMBradley — HMBradley is a developer of a digital banking platform for savers. It rewards everyone, regardless of income, for developing sound financial habits. HMBradley 's platform offers digitized banking services featuring virtual banking technologies that let users get credit cards instantly and enjoy banking facilities anytime via a smartphoneapplication. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
- Carro — Unlock a new sales channel and let Carro uncover the perfect brand partners on Shopify. Carro enables top brands on Shopify to sell each others products through cross-store selling.
Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Software
- Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Germany, Australia
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.
- Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
- Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.
Mr Patterson has more than 20 years’ experience working with both start-up and blue-chip technology companies spanning Australia, Europe, US and Asia. As a leading senior executive, his experience includes telecoms, IT, digital media and venture capital. Mr Patterson is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alchemy Ventures, an ESVCLP venturecapital fund established to invest in teams and ideas which changes lives and industries, whilst having a positive impact on human and environmental wellness.Mr Patterson's international experience has seen him hold senior business development roles with Yahoo, ECI Telecom, Energis Communications / Cable and Wireless PLC and Cisco Systems. He has been an investor in technology ventures Abyss Solutions, Persollo, Republic Capital Management, Firstwave Cloud Technology, Lumific and Datasift where he secured investment from US venture funds.Most recently he was the CEO and Co-Founder of Australia’s only regulated property investment platform, BrickX, and was CEO and executive director of Property Connect Holdings (ASX:PCH).Mr Patterson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Directors.
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Investment focus
- Sports, 3D Technology, Commercial Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Clearmatch — Alternative funding, fixed income marketplace
- Persollo — Analyse any Instagram, TikTok, YouTube account, sell on social media in just 1 click and discover influencers with the audiences you need. AI powered. Designed for mobile. The results are magical.
- LocalAgentFinder — LocalAgentFinder provides homeowners with the ability to compare and connect with the most suitable real estate agents. Their unique service changed the game and set the standard in one. Choice. LocalAgentFinder allows anyone to compare a wide range of local agents to learn how they’re different, without the ring-around or upfront appraisals. MostAustralian agencies have provided them their information, including their fees.The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Victoria, Australia.
A talented developer and an architect able to hit the ground running. With his broad skill set, he has contributed to the success of many small local and big international projects. Effective in taking applications from inception to completion and in improving the existing solutions. Motivated by challenges and driven by ambition agileproblem-solver.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- prePO — Democratizing Pre-IPO Investing
- Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
- Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.
Ben Taylor is the Managing Director at Oxygen Home Loans. Ben attended AGSM @ UNSW Business School.
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- WeMoney — WeMoney is focused on obtaining an Open Banking license so that the Fintech firm can gain access to customer banking data, which may be used to improve the quality of services offered to them.WeMoney’s platform lets users keep track of their pending utility bills and other recurring payments. The platform also aims to help customers with managingtheir savings and monitoring their monthly income. Joveski revealed that his company is also developing features that will use behavioral science and AI to help users make better or more informed financial decisions.
- 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.
Board Member at YourGrocer.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
- Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.
Mr Ken Cheung is a CEO of MCC International.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
- Gushcloud International — Gushcloud International is a top influencer marketing agency based in several locations around Asia - Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Korea, Japan, Greater China and in the West - USA, Australia.
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
Joyce Yang - Founder @ Global Coin Research
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
- Socket — Socket is a Web3 privacy infrastructure for social interactions for crypto-related purposes.
- CrowdPad — CrowdPad is the world's first mobile social token app built on Solana to enable creators to build tokenized communities
Kurt Alexander
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Ashwin Ramachandran is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. He was a Research Engineer at ThunderCore. He attended Duke University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- ZKX — ZKX is a permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet.
- Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
- INIT Capital — Lend, Borrow, and Access Yield Strategies with Liquidity Hook
Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.
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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.
Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
- Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
- Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
David Gordon - Chairman @ Ordermentum Pty Ltd
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Investment focus
- B2B, Mobile, FinTech
- Series A, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Ordermentum Pty Ltd — 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.
Daniel Johnson is the Founding Partner at We Scale Startups. He attended New Entrepreneurs Foundation.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Data Integration
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
0xMaki is a SushiSwap's co-founder.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Web3
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Burrata — Burrata landing page.
- Blur — Blur aims to solve these problems and move the NFT space toward becoming institutional-grade while increasing decentralization.
- Ref Finance — Ref Finance is a DeFi platform built on NEAR Protocol that costs less than $0.01 for transactions.
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.
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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.
Emrin Nurovic
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Ethereum, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- prePO — Democratizing Pre-IPO Investing
- Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
- Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.
Vitalik Buterin is the Founder & Developer of TOKENEO. He previously worked at NextThought, LLC as a Developer Intern. Vitalik Buterin attended the University of Waterloo.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Ethereum
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
- Truemarket — Truemarkets is a decentralized prediction platform.
- Rarimo Foundation — Rarimo Foundation, which aims to facilitate the development and growth of a new generation of social applications.
Danny Gilligan is a Co-Founder and Managing Director Reinventure Group. Danny has worked on both sides of the table as an entrepreneur and corporate venture capital executive. Danny was Co-Founder of Gizmo Corporation a BRW Fast 50 company 2 years running and a Co-Founder of Data Republic a venture working in the emerging space of big data. Hehas also worked within large companies in various strategic, commercial and venture capacities dealing with the effects of digital disruption.Most recently he was Director of Digital Ventures at APN News & Media and prior to that worked in telecommunications as CFO of the Australian Consumer division of AAPT and as part of the Group Strategy and M&A function of Telecom NZ. Danny commenced his career as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG before moving into Corporate Finance.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Banking, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
- Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
- Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.
Darren Smorgon
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Ethereum, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- prePO — The decentralized Pre-IPO & Pre-Token trading platform
- Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
- Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.
Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Arcium — The first parallelized confidential computing network.
- MegaETH — MegaETH is the first blockchain in real time and entirely on-chain, immediate, interactive apps are enabling mankind to reach its greatest potential.
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
• Over 25 years advisory and executive experience
• Participated in over 30 financing & M&A transactions, ranging from $300K to over $1bn
• Developed Fairfax's strategic direction on growth, media convergence and digital expansion
• Ex Hall Capital Strategies, Fairfax Media, The Coca Cola Company and Booz & Co.
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- WeMoney — WeMoney is focused on obtaining an Open Banking license so that the Fintech firm can gain access to customer banking data, which may be used to improve the quality of services offered to them.WeMoney’s platform lets users keep track of their pending utility bills and other recurring payments. The platform also aims to help customers with managingtheir savings and monitoring their monthly income. Joveski revealed that his company is also developing features that will use behavioral science and AI to help users make better or more informed financial decisions.
Darren Harrison
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Investment focus
- FinTech, SaaS, Gaming
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Rush Gold — Digital Gold and Silver Money Platform - Buying gold and silver is now simple and accessible. Rush is the easiest way to buy, sell, exchange and offer.
- InsureVite — InsureVite is a Singapore based, Enterprise B2B InsurTech startup on a mission to help insurers transform their customer experience through social messaging apps. Our digital assistant combined with robotic process automation can be embedded into any mobile apps or websites, enabling customers to connect and transact easily, quickly and seamlesslywith their insurers in a single interface (no re-direct or pushed out)
Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Australia
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- PARSIQ — Explore the future of blockchain with PARSIQ - Your gateway to advanced blockchain monitoring, smart triggers, and real-time intelligence. Empower your crypto journey with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled insights. Join us in revolutionizing the way you interact with the blockchain ecosystem
- Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.
- Kernal Biologics — Kernal biologics is an onco-selective mRNA therapeutics company located in Cambridge, MA
Paul Greenberg
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- E-Commerce, Men's, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
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- Waave — We are giving you back control. Security, visibility and freedom of choice over your money. | Pay by Bank | Wendi | Open Banking
- Refundid — Receive your refund in real-time as you decide to make a return. Refundid lets you shop online with confidence, guaranteeing an instant and effortless returns process.
- InStitchu — InStitchu is an online custom clothier specializing in tailor made menswear. Customers are able to design custom made garments online which are then made to their exact measurements.InStitchu provides tailor made, high quality menswear through a simple online ordering process. Once a customer has added measurements to their profile, a suit orshirt can be ordered in a few minutes and on its way in two weeks. There are multiple ways for a customer to get their measurements perfected and enjoy that “perfect fit” InStitchu customers keep coming back for - our measurement guide will take you on a journey from your living room to the hustle and bustle of our tailor’s studio. Customers can choose from a wide range of globally sourced high quality wool and cotton fabrics, and when you’ve chosen, we’ll deliver your design right to your door. This new approach to shopping is stress free and cuts out the middleman, allowing us to deliver customers luxury tailor made suits and shirts without the high price tag.
Founder and CEO of Urban Purveyor Group, John Szangolies is one of the leading forces in Australian hospitality. With 18 restaurants and bars across NSW, Victoria and QLD, as well as a bespoke beverage import business and commissary kitchen, Urban Purveyor Group comprises some of the country’s most notable venues. Originating in 1976 with thelegendary Löwenbräu Keller, the group also includes The Argyle and Bavarian Bier Cafés across Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Further, Urban Purveyor Group’s dining venues have proven to be formidable additions to the Australian restaurant scene. In 2013, Ananas Bar & Brasserie was named Best New Restaurant at Savour Australia Restaurant & Catering Awards, and received its first Chef’s Hat from the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide. Saké Restaurant & Bar has also held a coveted Chef’s Hat each year since opening, while The Cut Bar & Grill brings a taste of New York’s famous steakhouses to The Rocks.Employing over 1500 people, Urban Purveyor Group continues to expand, helping to shape the future of hospitality in Australia.
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- B2B, Wholesale, Trading Platform
- Seed
- Australia
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- Kaddy — Deal directly with your favourite alcohol and beverage suppliers online through our free-to-use platform. All your supplier, order and invoice information in the one place so pubs, bars and restaurants can get back to business providing amazing customer experiences. Find out more.
Justus is a seasoned entrepreneur who has been working in the technology space for over a decade. First as a founder of Spreets and later as an investor and advisor to other startups such as Airtasker. His latest venture is Sellable with which he plans to revolutionise the real estate landscape in Australia.
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- Retail, Fashion, FinTech
- Seed, Series A
- Australia
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- Upstreet — 'NextGen Loyalty Solution', 'FinTech', 'Share Trading', 'Marketing Solution', 'B2B', 'B2C', 'DtC', "Share Rewards"
- Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
- Foodini — Foodini is an app that enables users to develop a customized profile of their dietary requirements and connects those with food allergies and intolerances with the restaurants and menu items that are most suitable for them.
Anthony is the co-founder, CEO and Managing Director of Afterpay, which he launched in 2014 with Nick Molnar and listed on the ASX in May 2016. Prior to his current role, Anthony was Executive Chairman of Afterpay Touch Group for two years. Prior to co-founding Afterpay, Anthony was the Chief Investment Officer at Guinness Peat Group (GPG). He wasactively involved in a number of financial services, software and technology companies in which GPG was a major shareholder. Prior to GPG, Anthony was involved in investment banking, specialising in mergers and acquisitions in Australia and the United States.
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- Financial Services, Apps, Payments
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United Arab Emirates
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- Postpay — Postpay is an e-commerce company that offers easy installment loans to shoppers, enabling them to make purchases without financial strain. Explore the website for a variety of features, exclusive deals, and featured brands. Shop stress-free and enjoy affordable shopping with Postpay.
- Steppen — Steppen is a free fitness creator marketplace. It is designed to help fitness creators build, showcase and monetise their online community, whilst helping fans achieve their fitness goals! Find workouts, follow friends, track progress and share your fitness journey. Become a fitness content creator, build your community and monetise it all on Steppen.
- Honey Insurance — Smart home insurance designed for modern life. Honey offers Homeowners, Renters and Landlord Insurance powered by technology. Get insured in 3 minutes.
Peter is a director of numerous companies in Australia, USA, UK and China and was formerly Managing Director of Seven Group Holdings. Peter brings his background in investment management, banking and leadership to Octet, with a focus on growth and bringing the company to the fore of the financial technology sector.
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- Financial Services, Apps, Credit
- Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
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- Credible — As a multi-lender marketplace that allows borrowers to receive competitive loan offers from its vetted lenders, Credible empowers consumers to take control of their finances. After answering a few questions about themselves, consumers can receive rates without affecting their credit score or sharing their personal information with lenders untilthey're ready to proceed with an offer.Credible is fiercely independent and committed to delivering fair and unbiased financial solutions for millennials.
- Driva — Online finance made easy with Driva. We find the best loan options for you from 30+ lenders. We give you the options, you make the choice.
- Unlockd — Unlockd is changing the way people use and pay with their digital devices.The revolutionary white label mobile platform is the first to create an “attention” based virtual currency platform. In exchange for viewing relevant ads, content or offers upon unlocking their smartphone, users amass points to redeem on items like mobile credit, premiumentertainment content or loyalty points.They can also complete other in app tasks like taking surveys, downloading apps and viewing videos to generate even more rewards.Unlockd’s unique win-win-win model means partners, whether they be telcos, streaming services or loyalty programs, address customer retention and acquisition while driving new revenue streams and increasing ARPU. Major content and advertising partners including Twitter, Yahoo, MoPub and high profile brands such as McDonalds, British Airways, Doritos and Uber, receive coveted first access to consumers at their most engaged digital moment. Unlockd provides the opportunity to deliver the right content at the right time, resulting in market leading engagement and click through rates. Unlockd’s enterprise grade proprietary technology is tailored to meet industry needs via three product streams:Unlockd Connect targeted specifically at forward thinking mobile operators, with five major markets in operation including in the USA with Sprint Telecom subsidiary Boost Mobile, UK with Tesco Mobile, India with Aircel and Indonesia with AXIS.Unlockd Stream is the ultimate ad funded platform for OTT subscription content providers and launched in 2017 with MTV’s music player MTV Trax. The first and only ad funded model that offers an uninterrupted listening and viewing experience for consumers, Unlockd Stream enables providers to monetise non-paying subscribers Unlockd Loyalty provides a platform for loyalty programs to solve challenges like member engagement & increased frequency of point redemption, contributing to the health of the loyalty program ecosystem. It launched in 2017 with one of Australia’s largest programs, flybuys.The company was founded in Melbourne in 2014 and has strategically located offices in New York, London, Singapore and New Delhi.
Colin Morgan
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- PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed
- Australia
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- upcover — upcover is Australia's award winning Online business insurance provider for All type of business owners, startups, consultants, freelancers and gig economy workers in Australia. Get a quote online today.
Ben Lamb - Chief Commercial Officer @ Prospa
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- Apps, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed
- Australia
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- WeMoney — WeMoney is focused on obtaining an Open Banking license so that the Fintech firm can gain access to customer banking data, which may be used to improve the quality of services offered to them.WeMoney’s platform lets users keep track of their pending utility bills and other recurring payments. The platform also aims to help customers with managingtheir savings and monitoring their monthly income. Joveski revealed that his company is also developing features that will use behavioral science and AI to help users make better or more informed financial decisions.
Paniti Junhasavasdikul
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- FinTech, Marketplace, Financial Services
- Seed
- Australia
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- Bigstone Finance — Bigstone Capital is an Australian Fintech Company which is developing a marketplace to connect small business borrowers and investors. Bigstone aims to provide loans on the basis of real business performance, rather than on strict eligibility criteria. They give investors the opportunity to invest directly in small businesses while diversifyingtheir risk.
Narith Phadungchai - Partner @ Lighthouse Capital Partners
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- FinTech, Marketplace, Financial Services
- Seed
- Australia
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- Bigstone Finance — Bigstone Capital is an Australian Fintech Company which is developing a marketplace to connect small business borrowers and investors. Bigstone aims to provide loans on the basis of real business performance, rather than on strict eligibility criteria. They give investors the opportunity to invest directly in small businesses while diversifyingtheir risk.
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, India
Damien Waller is a Chairman at Point Hacks. He attended Monash University.
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- 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.
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.
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- Mobile, Apps, B2B
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, United States
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- 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 Pty Ltd — 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.
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