Top 25 InsurTech Startup Investors in Australia in May 2025
A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Insurtech startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Insurtech companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 InsurTech Startup Investors in Australia in May 2025
Investor | InsurTech Australia investments |
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Folklore Ventures | 2 |
Carthona Capital | 2 |
Antler | 2 |
Jelix Ventures | 2 |
Sydney Angels | 1 |
Greenlight Reinsurance | 1 |
Hollard Insurance | 1 |
Hunter Equity Group | 1 |
Rafael Niesten | 1 |
Alma Mundi Ventures | 1 |
Alium Capital | 1 |
Allectus Capital | 1 |
Airtree Ventures | 1 |
Brick & Mortar Ventures | 1 |
Raf Uy | 1 |
Nine Four Ventures | 1 |
Antler Australia | 1 |
Patricia Priest | 1 |
BetterLabs Ventures | 1 |
Transition Level Investments | 1 |
Union Square Ventures | 1 |
Giant Leap Fund | 1 |
Counterview Capital | 1 |
Colin Morgan | 1 |
Fifty-Second Celebration | 1 |
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.
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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.
- SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.
- Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.
Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
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- Qlarifi — Consumer lending decisions transformed with real time, comprehensive data.
- 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
- Ajust — Ajust makes it easy to resolve customer complaints with banks, telcos and energy companies. It's fast, fair and free for consumers.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
- Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
- FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fugu — Cheap green carbon at scale for the dawn of the e-fuel age
- Fugu Carbon — Fugu Carbon is a machinery manufacturing company that helps in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology from air.
- Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.
Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia, United States
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- Okkular — Okkular is an AI based fashion tech startup.
- Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Greenlight Re (www.greenlightre.ky) is a specialist property and casualty reinsurance company based in the Cayman Islands and Ireland. The company provides a variety of custom-tailored reinsurance solutions to the insurance, risk retention group, captive and financial marketplaces. Established in 2004, Greenlight Re selectively offers customizedreinsurance solutions in markets where capacity and alternatives are limited. With a focus on deriving superior returns from both sides of the balance sheet, Greenlight Re's assets are managed according to a value-oriented, equity-focused strategy that complements the Company's business goal of long-term growth in book value per share.
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- Insurance, InsurTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- InRev — Contract Surety Bonds in Seconds
- District Cover — District Cover takes a data-driven approach to understanding city-based businesses' risk profiles and creates tailored insurance policies for small businesses. We exist to ensure brokers and small businesses can rely on consistent access to insurance solutions that empower continued growth. Our proprietary, non-admitted commercial insuranceproduct provides a new solution as existing options become harder to get, less relevant, and more expensive.
- Vivere Partners — Vivere is a tech-enabled MGA providing specialty property and management liability solutions for complex risks. We combine industry expertise with advanced analytics to deliver faster quotes, tailored coverage, and competitive terms.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, South Africa, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Bdeo — Bdeo provides a visual intelligence solution designed to change the way customers connect with insurance companies. Its platform enhances the customer journey beginning with underwriting and all the way through the time the claim is processed, also recognizing risks, damage, and providing assessments in real-time, allowing insurance companies todetect fraud or pay customers in the event a claim is approved.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
- Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!
- Simply — Life, Disability and Funeral Insurance
Hunter Equity Group is a experienced private investors, focussed on quality insurance industry opportunities.
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Investment focus
- Insurance, Finance, InsurTech
- Seed, Angel
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- AuditCover — Protect your business with seamless tax audit insurance. Get reliable coverage, avoid penalties, and secure peace of mind. Get a quote today!
- KOBA Insurance — KOBA Insurance is on a mission to help over 10M Aussie drivers lower their annual premiums by only charging them for what they use.Powered by our technology platform, we're unlocking your car's onboard computer and enabling your car to join the IOT revolution. KOBA uses connected car data to measure actual kilometres travelled, offeringa true pay-per-km insurance policy and a fairer solution to low-usage drivers. KOBA is launching in October 2021. Visit www.kobainsurance.com to pre-register and join the pay-per-km movement today.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Insurance, InsurTech
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, United States, United Kingdom
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- LAIIER — The best LAIIER of defense against liquid leak-driven damage in buildings and industrial equipment.
- Ole Insurance Group — Ole Insurance Group focuses on offering protection and well-being products and services through technology. Ole Insurance Group was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Puerto Rico.
- Epoch Biodesign — Mellizyme Biotechnology is currently operating in stealth.
Alium Capital focuses on listed and unlisted technology investments to generate out-sized returns. The company invests in technology, innovation, and early-stage businesses, all the way through to publicly listed assets.
It specializes in the fields of finance, investing, innovation, and capital.Alium Capital was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Beforepay — Beforepay understands that traditional pay cycles are a form of financial stress. So we set out to find a better way, giving Australians the control and confidence that comes with managing your own money, on your terms.That’s why we created Pay On Demand™ - a service that allows you to access the money you have earned at work, when you choose todo so. After all, it is yours!The app also automatically predicts when your bills are due, shows you how much is OK for you to spend, and automatically creates budgets for you, effortlessly.
- Academy Xi — At Academy Xi, we help APAC's largest and most sophisticated organisations optimise performance with concise, actionable training solutions.
- DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,281,559 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
Allectus Capital is an investment company with a value focused portfolio of disruptive technology businesses. Allectus oversees and supports c.US$200m in technology assets across the Asia Pacific, UK and US and is managed by ICM Limited
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Diraq — Diraq uses spins in silicon quantum dots as qubits. Diraq's qubits are compatible with existing CMOS processes and can fit billions of qubits on a single chip. To transform our world, quantum computers need billions of qubits and Diraq has the IP, the team and the plan to get there.
- Mist — Empower international students with Mist: the all-in-one app for managing student life abroad. Simplify tasks, stay connected, and focus on education and personal growth.
- Listing Loop — ListingLoop.com.au is a real estate marketplace for pre-market and off-market properties that connects buyers, sellers and agents. Through smart tech and modern design, Listing Loop is shaking up the traditional way that real estate is done in Australia. Buying and selling a property is faster, easier and less expensive. Patented property matchingtechnology notifies buyers in real time when a suitable property hits the market. Buyers discover properties faster – before they’re advertised on other real estate websites. Agents utilise Listing Loop’s technology to win new listings and sell properties faster. Their sellers can market their property for sale immediately without paying any upfront advertising fees. Listing Loop’s unique no sale, no charge approach to advertising gets properties online quicker while property matching puts them directly in front of the right buyers.It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria.
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
- Gridsight — Gridsight helps electrical utilities transition to a decentralised grid by creating 90%-accurate, AI-powered load flow models. These models enable utilities to safely and efficiently support more residential solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Based on CEO Brendan Banfield's PhD research, Gridsight was founded in 2020 to accelerate the transition to renewables.
- Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.
Focused exclusively on venture capital opportunities in "technology for the built world," Brick & Mortar Ventures identifies, backs, and enables emerging companies developing innovative software and hardware solutions for the industries of real estate, hospitality, and construction. Its hyper-focused mandate allows Brick & Mortarto continuously develop industry expertise and relationships across these three large and growing verticals and build value to its portfolio by taking a hands-on, active role as an investor and partner to its companies.
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Investment focus
- Construction, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
- TrustUp — TrustUp is the home contractors platform, connects homeowners with verified quality home improvement.
- Buildpeer — Buildpeer is a project management software for construction fields. The company was founded by Mauricio Valdes in 2021 and is headquartered in Garza García, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
Raf Uy is the Global Chief Financial Officer at etika. He was a Non Executive Director at Challenger Pay Enterprises. Raf attended Macquarie University.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Nine Four Ventures is a multi-stage PropTech fund that invests in companies impacting the people, processes, and ecosystems that interact with the built world.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Construction
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Latii — Latii is a producer and supplier of building materials. They provide products that include windows and doors, structural steel, metal, casting, and fastening. They offer services for the construction industry.
- Steadily — Property and liability insurance for rental property owners and investors. Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars. Competitive prices nationwide. Quotes online in minutes.
- Mia Share — Connecting students and schools to the future of fair education payments through income-based payment plans, zero-interest payment plans, hybrids, and more innovative tuition solutions.
Australia's only truly global early stage VC, we believe in and back the most ambitious founders from the earliest stage.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Australia, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Skipped — Never miss a sale again. Enabling retailers to sell even when a product is out-of-stock.
- Geniepay — Geniepay offers embedded B2B payment terms to help enterprise sales teams improve performance.
- Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.
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Investment focus
- 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.
BetterLabs is an early-stage venture capital fund and venture studio based in Perth, Australia. Backed by RAC the fund invests in technology and opportunities that impact next-generation insurance, clean technology, mobility, work and money. The studio creates ventures to solve challenges in these domains and we also invest in them.
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Investment focus
- Education, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- Loopit — Loopit is the complete end-to-end software & professional services platform solution for car subscription to boost dealership & profitability.
Founded by Steve Baxter, Transition Level Investments provides equity capital and operational expertise across Seed and Series A rounds to Australian companies.
Our team focuses on a company-growth approach, adding value by assisting founders to build their expertise, expand their team, build product, scale locally and globally to position for asuccessful exit. We have a track record of identifying investment opportunities in the Australian market and helping enable global growth.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kapiche — Top-rated customer feedback analytics platform. Instant insights. No setup or coding. Kapiche ingests & analyzes feedback in minutes for real customer insights.
- FloodMapp — Enhance operational efficiency, lead time, situational awareness and decision making using FloodMapp rapid flood mapping software.
- Chipper Cash — Join over 5 million people securely sending and receiving money with Chipper Cash. Great app to send and receive money across a number of countries, highly recommended as a money transfer alternative.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Mombak — Mombak is a carbon removal company that focuses on the reforestation of the Amazon. The company's team combines experts in science, technology, forestry, and carbon markets
- Stash — Invest and build wealth with Stash, the investing app helping over 6M Americans invest and save for the future. Start investing in stocks, ETFs and more today.
- Doctronic — Doctronic is the first D2C AI doctor working with human doctors in all 50 states in the US (and moving into other countries quickly). Get immediate AI diagnosis and then ask a human doctor to verify / act on that diagnosis if needed.
Giant Leap is Australia's first venture capital fund to be 100% dedicated to investing in exceptional, rapidly scalable impact businesses.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Modo — Declutter your mind with our app to boost your mental wellbeing and productivity. modo helps you be present in the moment and focus on what matters most.
- Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
- More Good Days — More Good Days offers evidence-based pain management programes, education, and health services.
Counterview Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on investments in seed-stage technology companies
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- AgileRL — AgileRL is revolutionising machine learning with RLOps: MLOps for reinforcement learning. Develop faster and achieve greater performance with the best RL tools.
- Pliable — Pliable is an AI-powered SaaS platform that makes it simple for anyone to organize and leverage their data without a data team.
- Splash Sports — Splash Sports is the leading skill-based sports gaming platform built for friends to use their knowledge to compete for real money. Learn more and get started.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Fifty-Second Celebration is a private Australian company. Fifty-Second Celebration was incorporated on May 28, 1982 and as of March 11, 2017 is a registered Australian private company.
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Investment focus
- InsurTech, Insurance, Marketplace
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- handdii — handdii is an online marketplace that connects customers directly with contractors for insurance companies. handdii is a savvy tech that can save insurance companies significant claims costs, while producing happy customers at the same time. handdii can identify with the frustrations of making a property insurance claim. This is because thetraditional fulfilment process is both complicated and cumbersome. When the damage to your home or business is relatively small, this lengthy and inconvenient process makes no sense.handdii is on a mission to put the control back into the hands of the customer and help trades excel at the work they do. handdii's product is unique and focuses on a specific problem area in claim fulfilment and property repair. handdii doesn’t want to be all things to all people but it wants trades to be able to show up, fix the problem, be awesome, and free customers up to focus on their lives.
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