Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Australia

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.

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

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

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

Maropost Ventures is a leading private equity firm that invests in people and their companies from the earliest days through all stages of Growth. SpaceX, Compono, Pressa and Lyres make up some of their first investments.

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.

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.

Backing a better tomorrow

We provide funding and support to help your consumer startup thrive.

They are the family office of a traditional family business.

We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a

We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.

Collis Ta'eed grew up in Papua New Guinea. He moved to Australia to attend university and later worked as a web designer, selling Flash stock on the side. His experience selling stock inspired him to co-found Envato with his wife, Cyan Ta'eed, and best friend, Jun Rung. Collis has served as Envato's CEO since the company'sfounding in 2006.

Skip Capital is a private investment fund investing in technology and infrastructure

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

Döhler Ventures is a long-term oriented & entrepreneurial investor empowering early-stage startups in the nutrition & technology ecosystem.

Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.

Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser providing investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. They provide a customized investment solution to clients in need of a targeted investment program, as well as discretionary strategies to assist clients in building investment programs based onthe University Endowment Model. They provide asset allocation, manager selection, and portfolio construction.Morgan Creek was founded in July 2004 by Mark W. Yusko, former Chief Investment Officer of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ("UNC") Endowment. The core of the Morgan Creek investment team has worked together in a fiduciary capacity for many years managing one of the most complex endowment management programs in the country. Mr. Yusko and Managing Director Mike Hennessy were responsible for building the Investment Office and subsequent Management Company operations for the UNC Endowment, and they worked closely with the Investment Fund Board to develop investment policy, set goals and objectives, establish a strategic framework, select investment managers and manage portfolio risk.

Cyan Ta'eed was born in Sydney, Australia. She worked as a graphic designer before co-founding Envato in 2006 with her husband, Collis Ta'eed, and his best friend, Jun Rung. She now serves on Envato's Board of Directors. Cyan Ta'eed is also the co-creator of New Day Box, a charity focusing on women in crisis.

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

Uniseed was established in October 2000 as a $20 million joint venture between the University of Melbourne (UM) and the University of Queensland (UQ). This proof of concept fund (Fund-1) operated with significant input and support from the commercialization offices of the two universities (UniQuest and Melbourne Ventures Limited), with staff ofthese organizations making up the majority of the Investment Committee and leading due diligence and management of most investment opportunities. Over 20 investments, typically of $250,000 - $500,000 were made from this fund.A new $40 million venture fund (Fund-2) ran from 2005-15, with the addition of a third leading university, the University of New South Wales, and a major private institutional investor, the Westscheme superannuation fund. The founding universities (UQ & UM) also committed further funds. Australian Super took over Westscheme's essets and commitments in July 2011.With the start of Fund-2, an independent management team was established, consisting of the CEO and three Investment Managers; one at each university catchment. The Investment Committee was restructured, with dedicated committees established for biotechnology or other technologies. The nominal investment limit was increased to $2.5 million to allow participation in follow-on funding rounds so as to preserve Uniseed's equity position.On 1 November 2015, Uniseed started its third and largest fund (Fund-3) with the addition of the University of Sydney and the CSIRO to the Universities of Queensland, Melbourne and NSW. This followed three high profile exits in the preceding 14 months (Fibrotech; Spinifex & Hatchtech). Each of the five partners committed $10 million over 10 years to the new fund (total fund $50 million).Uniseed’s partner research organisations spent nearly $4 billion on research, making up over 40% of the total research spend at 67 research organisations in Australia. Together, these organisations accounted for nearly 500 invention disclosures (34% of total) and 500 new registered IP rights filed (45% of total) over the same period(2013 National Survey of Research Commercialisation). Unlike private venture capital funds, Uniseed is dedicated to the needs of its research partners, and committed to servicing them consistently over the long term, irrespective of the short term conditions in external capital markets. It works in very close partnership with the research partner commercialisation companies and staff, providing a valuable adjunct to the capabilities these companies and staff provide. They in turn provide a best-practice commercialisation service tailored to their respective organisations. These companies are able to leverage to great effect the scale of operation and expertise of the Uniseed network.The fund is run with commercial discipline, ensuring independence and financial rigor in its investment decision-making processes. Success is measured by a balance of return on investment (including the flow of funds for research to further the commercialisation of intellectual property generated within the research partner catchments), the establishment of viable start-up companies, the generation of research income for research partners and the improvement of partner commercialisation processes.

Providing strategic capital and expertise to established and growth businesses around the globe.

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

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Tenacious Ventures - Australia's first and only dedicated agrifood tech VC firm.

We provide venture capital, expertise and advice to advanced manufacturing-focused Australian startups with global ambitions.

Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

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

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.

Honan Capital family office is an investment firm.

In the mid of 2018, Bitburger Holding founded the investment company Bitburger Ventures for its investments in start-ups. The aim is to combine the growth potential of young, innovative companies with the financial strength and access to different expertise along the value chain of the Bitburger Group. Our heritage as a medium-sized family businesswith a long-term orientation distinguishes Bitburger Ventures from pure financial investors and offers young entrepreneurs a unique added value. Our activities focus primarily on the German-speaking area, where we have been operating for 200 years. Through our industrial holdings in leading medium-sized companies that are successful in various industries and in international markets, we have direct access to different networks and various competencies. We are pragmatic, accessible and credible and expect the same from our venture partners.Bitburger Ventures invests venture capital in the form of minority holdings in already established start-ups, preferably in the Seed to Series B phase. Our investment focus is on consumer-facing business models, but we are also interested in leading alternative technology and service solutions. Following the tradition of a family business, we sustainably support our portfolio companies on their growth path. Bitburger Ventures also invests in international venture capital funds.

ACAC Innovation provides angel investment, mentoring and support to game-changing startups. We work with founders to turn their innovative ideas into successful businesses.

We work with inventors who are building something hard from their unique expertise in science. These inventors are building the industries that will thrive for the decades to come. We have a unique working model to accelerate a company's pathway to scale.

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

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

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies

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

Bunge is a global agribusiness and food company operating in the farm-to-consumer food chain. The Company is engaged in oilseed processing, producing and supplying fertilizer to farmers in South America, and selling packaged vegetable oils worldwide. The Company conducts its operations in three divisions: agribusiness, fertilizer, and food andingredients. These divisions include four reportable business segments: agribusiness, fertilizer, edible oil products and milling products. Its agribusiness division is an integrated business principally involved in the purchase, storage, transport, processing, and sale of agricultural commodities and commodity products. Its fertilizer division is involved in every stage of the fertilizer business, from mining of phosphate-based raw materials to the sale of retail fertilizer products. Its food and ingredients division consists of two reportable business segments: edible oil products and milling products.

Bombora is a unique portfolio of actively managed high growth pre-IPO and listed equities. We have generated returns of c.25% per annum over the past 8 years

Venture capital investment can raise funds for your small business. Venture Capital Firms in the UK like Agronomics is a biotech venture capital firm which invest into the clean meat sector.

Agriculture Victoria works in partnership with farmers, industries, communities, and other government agencies to grow and secure agriculture in victoria.

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

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

Board Member at YourGrocer.

We believe that with a positive mind-set, the use of exponential technologies and the backing of a supportive community anything is possible.

Dominic Pym is Co-Founder at Pin Payments.

Laurence Escalante is the Founder and CEO at Virtual Gaming Worlds.

Chris is a founding member of Computershare Limited (established in 1978) and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 1990. Chris’ extensive knowledge of the securities industry and its user requirements from both a national and international perspective, coupled with his passion and long term strategic vision, have been instrumental in developingComputershare into a global company that is unique in its provision of a full range of solutions to meet the needs of listed companies and their stakeholders.Chris became the Computershare Group's Executive Chairman in November 2006 and relinquished his executive responsibilities in September 2010. Chris was last re-elected in 2012, but retains the role of Non-Executive Chairman. Chris now brings his extensive experience guiding Computershare to the board of Smart Parking.