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Top 40 Hospitality Startup Investors in Australia in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Hospitality Startup Investors in Australia in December 2024

Investor	Hospitality Australia investments
Flying Fox Ventures	5
Tidal Ventures	3
OneVentures	2
ACAC Innovation	2
Alberts Impact Ventures	2
NAB Ventures	2
Airtree Ventures	2
TEN13	2
Midlands Engine Investment Fund	1
Skalata	1
Unified Music Group	1
Marat Kichikov	1
Rampersand	1
Tiger Global Management	1
Commerce Ventures	1
MA Growth Ventures	1
AS1 Growth Partners	1
Everywhere Ventures	1
Untitled Ventures	1
EVP	1
Dominic Pym	1
Folklore Ventures	1
Sandhill Investment Management	1
Rüfüs Du Sol	1
Matthew Kelly	1
Patty Mills	1
Michael Sharkey	1
Fifth Estate Asset Management	1
SURPLUS Equity Partners	1
Blackbird Ventures	1
Skip Capital	1
Nick Shelton	1
Howard Fyffe	1
Wildcard Ventures	1
Adventure Capital	1
ASI Growth Partners	1
Chadd Ciccarelli	1
Ruslan Kogan	1
Grand Prix Capital	1
VU Venture Partners	1

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
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
EverYoung AI — Everyoung AI is a pioneering organization in the field of Aged Care, utilizing advanced AI technology to enhance the quality of life for seniors. They are committed to building evolutionary AI solutions and have a vision to revolutionize Aged Care with new technology. Everyoung AI is inviting interns to join their team and contribute to theirmission of redefining Aged Care through innovative AI solutions. Their goal is to make Aged Care more personalized, efficient, and accessible, and they are dedicated to nurturing fresh talent in pursuit of this meaningful cause.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Asseti — Intelligent asset management. Asseti identifies, quantifies & tracks your property assets.
Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.
Orkestra — Orkestra is a renewable energy software platform that provides tools to assist energy companies in the planning, selling, and optimization of new energy deployments.

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...

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Renewable Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Gathar — Book a dining experience in your own home. Browse menus and book online, and our Culinarians will bring the ingredients, cook, and clean up.
Vaulta — Discover Vaulta's high-performance batteries for sustainable energy solutions. Revolutionising power with easy installation, maintenance, and recycling. Join the Australian-made energy revolution today!
Bloom Impact Investing — Bloom Impact Investing provides an investment platform to investors wanting to make a difference to the environment. Join us to access clean energy and cleantech investment portfolios that your future self will thank you for.

We back pioneers who share our vision for a better tomorrow.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Music
Seed, Series A, Series C
Australia

Portfolio highlights

ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.

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 — Crypto Custody, Without Compromise. Empowering global institutions to navigate the digital asset landscape simply, safely, and without compromise.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Singapore

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.
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.

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.

MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local EnterprisePartnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Software
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
CyberQ Group — Work with an award winning cyber security service provider and ensure your business remains resilient to any cyber attacks.
Centaur Robotics — Centaur believes mobility needs re-imagining to provide a real advantage for everyday human needs. Our vision is to challenge thinking through design and technology to create superhuman technology - that provides extra-ordinary mobility fit for humans in the 21st Century.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Pre-Seed, Seed
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Viewa — Viewa is an augmented reality platform that enables virtual product placement, enhances print creative, generates qualified customer leads and provides advertisers with direct sales opportunities.
Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
WhyHive — WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses.

UNIFIED is an independently owned music company that provides a varied range of services that include Artist Management, Recorded Music, Merchandise Services, Touring and Events.

Investment focus

Music, Events, Hospitality
Seed
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Muso — Muso is a live-entertainment start-up born in Melbourne and now operating Australia-wide. We help venues create better live entertainment experiences and help artists find more gigs to create more revenue opportunities. We leverage technology to make things more efficient, fair and transparent to ultimately make live music more accessible to morepeople. Eventually we hope that every venue will be a live music venue but until then we’ll work on changing one at a time.
CREATESAFE — CREATESAFE, automating the management, distribution, and marketing of music.

Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
SODA — SODA enables the next generation of consumer crypto and meme coins and allows meme coin developers to leverage Telegram.
EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Rampersand is the first investor in founders with abnormal potential in Aus & NZ. We have invested 100M+ AUD in 34 companies & returned millions to investors.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
Cuttable — Cuttable operates as an automated content agency.
JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Cresta — Self-service, live coaching, and post call insights. AI that uncovers expertise so teams can make every customer conversation count.
Kong — Kong powers APIs and microservices with the world's most popular open source API gateway and industry-leading service connectivity platform. Kong is funded by leading VC firms, including Index Ventures, a16z, CRV, GGV, Tiger Global, Stanford University, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt.
Checkmate — Integrate over 100 ordering platforms directly to your restaurant POS system and manage all your ordering platform menus in one place.

At Commerce Ventures, they are building a new and different type of venture capital firm. Their investors are a unique and strategic blend of leading entrepreneurs, senior executives, and corporates from their focus sectors (mobile, retail/e-commerce, payments, fin-tech, insurance). In addition to providing capital, they are committed tohelping their portfolio companies succeed in scaling their commerce-related innovations.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Flueid — Flueid Software Corporation is on a mission to fundamentally change how the traditional real estate transaction closing process works. With broad strategic, design, technology and operational experience within these industries, our goal is not to eliminate critical functions within the process, but to re-think them and make them smarter, whichultimately increases productivity and reduces redundancy and cost. Working with major title insurance, real estate and mortgage lending partners, Flueid develops key solutions that streamline real estate transaction workflow, automate the delivery of risk-eliminating information during closing, and optimize business processes throughout the entire process.
Class 8 — Class 8 is a transportation service company that uses OEM power to unleash carrier excellence and simplify the logistics business.
Cardless — Cardless is a credit card company. They help brands launch custom cobrand credit card products. They handle the program creation, card underwriting, lending, issuance, and top-notch customer service, while brands focus on delivering rewards truly valuable to their superfan cardholders.Cardless was founded in February 2019 by Michael Spelfogel andScott Kazmierowicz (ex-Stanford CS / Data Science, ex-Lyft, ex-Visa, ex-Goldman) and is backed by top VCs including Accomplice, Greycroft, Clocktower Ventures, as well as founders of Plastiq, SeatGeek, Flatiron Health, and FiveStars

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.

AS1 Growth Partners operates a privately held fund that invests in ambitious and disruptive technology-enabled growth businesses

Investment focus

Travel, Hospitality, Real Estate
Funding Round
Australia

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.

Everywhere Ventures (fka "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 acrossten 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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mbue — AI for Architectural review. To help Architecture, Engineering and Construction firms build better businesses by providing AI-based quality control tools.
Flora — Flora Fertility is dedicated to empowering the next generation of parents by putting the control of reproductive health outcomes back where they belongs—in your hands. It aims to revolutionize how women's health and family building are approached, making fertility care more accessible, transparent, and personalized. By reimagining thefinancial and medical aspects of family planning, we help you navigate the journey to parenthood with greater confidence, ease, and support, ensuring that your fertility choices align with your personal goals and circumstances.
Matilda Migration — Migration made simple. Specialising in Employer Sponsored visas and Partner visas. With a 99% success rate for ultimate peace of mind. Visit us now.

Untitled Group is the collective responsible for a variety of unique festivals, events, venues, tours and good times enjoyed by our artists and patrons from all around the globe.The Melbourne based collective produce over 100+ events annually within Australia and abroad, bringing hundreds of thousands of music lovers together each year.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Hospitality
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Segwise — AI powered observability platform for Growth and Product teams
Induced AI — Induced is an AI-native browser RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with smart reasoning and memory, to automate enterprise workflows of all kinds.
The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

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.

Dominic Pym is Co-Founder at Pin Payments.

Investment focus

Cooking, Hospitality, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Gathar — Book a dining experience in your own home. Browse menus and book online, and our Culinarians will bring the ingredients, cook, and clean up.
WhyHive — WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses.
Aussie Angels — A platform for investors to launch & lead syndicated investments into startups. Apply to join syndicates and invest on a deal-by-deal basis.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
HealthMatch — HealthMatch is a medical technology company that applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to clinical data to save lives.We aim to dramatically accelerate patient recruitment to clinical trials, and progress life-saving cures onto the market faster than existing practices allow.For clinicians and patients, there is a real struggleto identify and find appropriate trials, particularly where the criteria relating to each trial is inconsistently articulated. HealthMatch encodes qualifying questions relating to each patients condition. The platform matches responses to its trial dataset, and confirms only the correct-match trials for that patient — thereby streamlining the identification of suitable trials and facilitating a patient’s application to those trials.With Ai and software at the core, HealthMatch delivers a radically simple product to match patients with drug trials, backed by an execution approach to data that is deceptively complex to achieve and replicate. In doing so, HealthMatch is dramatically changing an industry that has essentially not moved beyond telephones and excel spreadsheets.
SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.

Sandhill is a nationally-recognized investment firm overseeing more than $2.18 billion in assets under management and advisement.

Investment focus

Music, Events, Health Care
Seed, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Muso — Muso is a live-entertainment start-up born in Melbourne and now operating Australia-wide. We help venues create better live entertainment experiences and help artists find more gigs to create more revenue opportunities. We leverage technology to make things more efficient, fair and transparent to ultimately make live music more accessible to morepeople. Eventually we hope that every venue will be a live music venue but until then we’ll work on changing one at a time.
BulldogIT Corporation — BulldogIT Corporation provides health information services. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Rüfüs Du Sol is a music group from Sydney, that consists of Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George and James Hunt.

Investment focus

Apps, Hospitality, Food and Beverage
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.

Matthew Kelly

Investment focus

Delivery, Logistics, Hospitality
Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Drive Yello — Looking for fast & express courier & logistics delivery services? Drive Yello is your last mile delivery partner serving Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.

Patty Mills

Investment focus

Apps, Hospitality, Food and Beverage
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.

Michael D. Sharkey, President, MB Business Capital, is responsible for the bank's asset based lending group. With nearly 40 years of experience in financial services, he oversees a nationwide market with regional offices in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Hartford, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City,San Francisco, and Scottsdale.From July 2008 until the merger with MB in 2014, Sharkey was president of Cole Taylor Business Capital and executive vice president, asset based lending.Prior to that, he was president and CEO of LaSalle Business Credit, where he helped build the group into the fifth largest asset based lending company in the United States. During his tenure at LaSalle, he also served as executive vice president for LaSalle Bank and ABN Amro. Sharkey began his career in financial services with GE Capital as a field examiner and loan officer, and moved on to Manufacturers Hanover Commercial Corporation where he served as senior loan officer. From there, he joined and within four years became president of StanChart Business Credit, which was ultimately acquired by LaSalle Bank.Sharkey is a permanent member of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Finance Association, as well as past president and chairman of that organization. He is also past president of the American Brain Tumor Association.Sharkey is a graduate of Rutgers University and J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Investment focus

Music, Events, Hospitality
Seed, Debt Financing
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Logic PD — Beacon EmbeddedWorks is a System-On-Module Manufacturer that delivers unwavering performance. Our custom System-On-Modules (SoMs) are compact, secure, and built to last.
Muso — Muso is a live-entertainment start-up born in Melbourne and now operating Australia-wide. We help venues create better live entertainment experiences and help artists find more gigs to create more revenue opportunities. We leverage technology to make things more efficient, fair and transparent to ultimately make live music more accessible to morepeople. Eventually we hope that every venue will be a live music venue but until then we’ll work on changing one at a time.

We invest in fast-growing, emerging companies.

Investment focus

Travel, Hospitality, Real Estate
Funding Round
Australia

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.

ALP.X Group is an entrepreneurial, hypothesis-driven investment- and asset manager with a focus on real assets and corporate growth.

Investment focus

Travel, Resorts, Hospitality
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Unyoked — Book off-grid wilderness cabins in Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

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

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.
Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Neara — Predictive modeling software for proactive network governance. Quantify and prove network needs in any scenario. Run precise analyses in hours and days instead of months or years in the field.
Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
Drop — Drop provides liquid staking protocol for Interchain assets. It is an inaugural member of the Lido Alliance. It removes the specified protocol from a database.

Nick Shelton is a Director & Publisher at Broadsheet Media. He attended Melbourne Business School.

Investment focus

Apps, Hospitality, Food and Beverage
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.

Howard Fyffe is a Managing Director at VAST Data. He Attended NYU Stern School of Business.

Investment focus

Delivery, Logistics, Hospitality
Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Drive Yello — Looking for fast & express courier & logistics delivery services? Drive Yello is your last mile delivery partner serving Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.

Led by Tennis Australia and some of the biggest names in tennis, Wildcard Ventures is a venture capital fund built to turbocharge SportsTech startups and their founding teams from the very beginning of their journey.

Investment focus

Apps, Sports, Tennis
Seed, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
Kabata — Full workout comprehension. Data-driven coaching. Gamified progression. Welcome to the next generation in connected fitness.
SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis

Adventure Capital is a leading Australian early-stage technology venture fund. Adventure Capital is intently focused on advancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem benefiting from Australia’s significant human capital and intellectual property by providing opportunities for innovative, driven and intelligent entrepreneurs to reach their fullpotential.Adventure Capital’s current fund, the Digital Accelerator LP, is a super-angel style venture fund focused on finding and guiding early-stage tech companies that are capital-efficient, and have global ambition and potential to succeed.Adventure Capital is Founding Investor of the York Butter Factory, a co-working space for high-potential seed-stage companies and next generation building management platform EQUiEM. The Digital Accelerator fund portfolio includes world #1 mobile publishing platform Oomph, leading AdTech DSP/RTB Brandscreen (acquired by Zenovia), social media platform Peazie, retail activation tool suite Myagi, education sales and marketing augmentation and optimization solutions provider doMore, and breakout technology businesses 121cast and Axiflux.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Myagi — Myagi is a B2B network + suite of apps that connects people and companies to the knowledge sources in their supply chain they need to deliver exceptional customer experiences and drive performance at every node
Omny Studio — The complete audio management solution for podcast and radio stations
Pantreeco — pantree brings 24/7 self-service artisan food markets to residential buildings

ASI Growth Partners is an investment Firm.

Investment focus

Travel, Software, Analytics
Series A, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

HIVERY — HIVERY is an innovative AI Category Management Optimization company delivering AI solutions to CPGs and Retailers.
Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.

Chadd Ciccarelli

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Triggr — Triggr is a SaaS platform helping sales teams predict buyer intent and close more deals.
Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.

Ruslan Kogan is a serial entrepreneur, having created and run many successful businesses. He is one of the pioneers of online retail in Australia, and his Internet ventures have expanded to include a global footprint. His companies have operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, with much more international expansion planned. Histremendous success made him Australia's wealthiest self-made person under the age of 30. The technology manufacturer and online retailer he created, Kogan.com, has gone on to become the biggest online retailer in Australia, valued at over $400 million.Ruslan Kogan is a regular guest contributor to TechCrunch, Forbes, Gizmodo, and other outlets.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

Grand Prix Capital is a private venture capital and investment firm specialized in rapid growth, start-up, private and microcap listed businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Online Portals, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Rezdy — Rezdy is the stress-free online booking software for tour & activity operators. Discover more about the largest distribution network for tours & activities.
Bluethumb — Buy original art direct from Australia's leading artists. Find Abstract, Nature, Aboriginal, Pop, Nude art & more. Free shipping & free returns. Thousands of artworks & paintings for sale.
funding.com.au — Fast, flexible property finance solutions in Australia. Explore Bridging Loans, Business Loans, and more to accelerate your property goals with ease.

A multi-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Colombia, India

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Wegrow-app — Wegrow is a digital platform where your teams share & scale best practices in marketing, sales, supply chain, HR, to drive efficiency & margin.
Orchard Robotics — We develop advanced camera systems and computer vision software to enable precision crop load management for growers.

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