Top 35 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Oceania in May 2026

Michael brings over 20 years experience in strategy, business development and general management of technology startups and other high growth companies. Michael founded BuildingIQ in 2009 and served as its CEO until 2013. Prior to founding the company, Michael was a General Partner at Technology Venture Partners (TVP), a leading Australian venturecapital firm. Prior to TVP, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Altos Ventures, and a senior executive at iOwn Holdings, a leading Internet mortgage company (sold to Citigroup in 2001). Previously, Michael worked with Bain & Company and Goldman Sachs. He holds a BA with Honors from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Birch — A credit card rewards app that helps you get the most out of your reward programs.
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.
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.

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Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Communities
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Edoome — The most friendly and easy to use social learning management system that connects teachers with their students for effective communication and collaboration and provides tools to help teachers save time in planning, assessing and keeping track of their students’ progress, unifying everything in just one platform.
Compono — Smart, easy-to-use HR management products for sourcing talent and helping them grow.
Creatively Squared — Digital content that brings consumers closer to brands. Create engaging photos, videos and digital ads at scale

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Marko retired as CEO of Morrison & Co in 2021 after 13 years of leading the business. He continues to provide guidance for investments in telecommunications and digital infrastructure. His 30 year career has been in the infrastructure and technology sectors in a variety of senior finance, operational and sales roles in the United States and NewZealand. Prior to joining Morrison & Co in 2008, Marko was CFO of Telecom NZ, responsible for corporate finance, M&A and group strategy. Marko is Chair of Vodafone New Zealand.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Funding Round
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Pictor — PictorDx offers a flexible multiplex proteomics platform that delivers multiple biomarker insights simultaneously and cost-effectively for multiple sample types

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William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Checkstep — Checkstep is the trusted AI content moderation software that helps global platforms detect harmful content, enforce policies, and stay compliant at scale. Combine powerful automation with human expertise to deliver safe, relevant, and compliant digital experiences.
LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
Unlikely AI — Controllable, auditable and hallucination-free AI solutions.

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Mathew Kuppe is a founding partner and managing director for 360T Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, a position he has held since December 2006 when he opened up the company´s regional headquarters in Singapore.Prior to this role Mathew held the position of chief technology officer at the company´s headquarters in Frankfurt, where he was responsible for thelong-term architecture, technical organization and overall technical strategy of the company.Mathew brings more than 15 years experience in Information Technology to his role at 360T including more than 7 years in the finance industry working for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in London and Singapore, and for CIT Group in Sydney developing and implementing financial software and systems.Prior to founding 360T, Mathew served as a senior manager in systems development for Newcourt Financial in Sydney.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Industrial, Information Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

HINDSITE Industries — HINDSITE powers the spread of know-how from subject matter experts to your frontline. Automate microcredentialing using Workflows and provide access to a global microskill library and remote mentoring.

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Sean Parker is the Founder and Chairman of Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. He previously worked at Spotify as a Board Member and Investor. Sean Parker attended Oakton High School.

Investment focus

Software, Music, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

nura — Nura designs wireless headphones that tune themselves to you. Experience music the way the artist intended with personalised sound.
ByHeart — ByHeart operates as a fully integrated infant nutrition company. It is dedicated to translating leading nutrition science and breastmilk research into evolved foods and formulas to support babies’ health and parents’ peace of mind. Its products strive to be next to nature made from hand-picked ingredients using small-batch blending and sit at theforefront of immune, microbiome, cognitive, and digestive health.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.

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Michael Gonski

Investment focus

Legal, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Calven — Make the future of work, work for everyone. Welcome to the workplace tech platform powering the future of work by fusing together employee experience and workplace operations.
LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.
Human Health — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.

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Didier previously co-founded technical academy award winning Rising Sun Research and is non-executive director at Tourism Australia, the Atlassian Foundation and Slingsby Theatre. If you want a short meeting, don't ask about philosophy (you were warned!).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Music
Series A, Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.
Dovetail — Make sense of all kinds of customer research in one intuitive, collaborative, and searchable research repository.

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Bill Tai is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Co-Founder of OneOf. Bill previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
Kickfurther — Inventory Financing & Ecommerce Financing - Kickfurther
Class Technologies — Class, the next generation virtual classroom. Trusted by 10M users from 1500 institutions in education and training. Make your virtual classroom feel like a real classroom.

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Michael Stoppelman is an active angel/seed investor in Los Angeles. He's the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Yelp. He started at Yelp as a software engineer working on the search engine. He took over as head engineering in 2012 after serving as a manager and Director of Engineering in the proceeding years. He scaled theengineering team from 30 to over 500 engineers. Prior to Yelp he was a software engineer at Google for 3.5 years and served as the tech lead for the AdSense Traffic Quality team. He received his BS in Computer Science from Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2003.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Tensor9 — Tensor9 is a data security company. Tensor9 helps software and AI vendors run their products inside their customer's cloud — so sensitive customer data stays private. For vendors, this unlocks customers that can't share sensitive data.
Hostie — Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations.
Integrated Biosciences — Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells.

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Karl is an authority on robotics and autonomous vehicles. His commentary has been published and broadcast worldwide on Bloomberg, The Economist, CNBC, and BBC, among others. As former director of the Robotic Mobility Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his research resulted in more than 150 technical publications, 50 issued orfiled patents, and numerous edited volumes, including books on the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle competitions.In 2017, Karl was named one of the “Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” by Goldman Sachs and designated a member of the “Recode 100” list of technology influencers. Karl holds MS and PhD degrees from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation fellow, and a BS from the University of Michigan, where he graduated first in his class.Iagnemma co-founded nuTonomy, Inc. in 2013 and saw the company through acquisition by Aptiv in late 2017. nuTonomy was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2018 and Iagnemma was selected as a 2017 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He is now president of Aptiv Autonomous Mobility, which is building the world’s safest and smartest driverless vehicle software.

Investment focus

3D Printing
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Foundry Lab — Foundry Lab is pioneering Digital Metal Casting. This new form of additive manufacturing allows users to cast metal parts - without pouring molten metal - in the safety of their own office. This fully automated system is incredibly fast - CAD file to 50+ metal parts in just 8 hours.

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Prior to MVP, he was Vice President at Arbor Advisors, leading their highly successful entry into the digital media and interactive marketing industries. He advised clients in a number of industry-leading transactions, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale ofInvestopedia.com to Forbes Media, and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate.Sandy is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Ad-Tech and LeadsCon. He received his B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
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.
Enable Us — Buyer & seller enablement with one single link. Enable's digital salesroom has everything B2B buyers and sellers need to close deals quickly

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Matt Fayle - CEO & Founder @ TheLoop

Investment focus

Retail, 3D Printing, Sporting Goods
Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.

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Wolfgang Leitner is CEO of Andritz.

Investment focus

Nutrition, Sustainability, Food Processing
Seed, Series B
Israel, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Innovopro — InnovoPro is committed to bringing unique plant-based protein ingredients to the global food market in order to create nutritious, tasty, safe, and sustainable food products. With an excellent nutritional profile, free from properties and wide usability in the food industry, InnovoPro’s chickpea protein is the best choice for the growingplant-based protein market.InnovoPro was founded on 2013 by Dr. Ascher Shmulewitz an experienced inventor and investor, and has made considerable progress in developing chickpea proteins and other chickpea ingredients.InnovoPro has been recognized as an innovator of disruptive technology in the food industry.
Zincovery — Zincovery is a decarbonizing zinc recycling plant.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

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20 years in communications and networking: SVP Google, CEO Alphabet Access, President Qualcomm Atheros, CEO Atheros Communications.

Investment focus

Music, Computer, Database
Seed, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

nura — Nura designs wireless headphones that tune themselves to you. Experience music the way the artist intended with personalised sound.
Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) — TimescaleDB is an open-source time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. TimescaleDB is engineered up from PostgreSQL (packaged as an extension) and yet scales to 100+ billion rows even on a single server. It natively supports standard SQL and the features you expect from a relational database. The company isheadquartered in New York City with a globally distributed team.

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From Silicon Valley to asia,Reza's vision has focused on the future of advertising- as Managing Director of Yahoo.southest asia of venture partner with venture technology fund idg ventures and now as fouder & ceo of Adzcentral.core values such as trust, openness, creativity,innovation & Quality underscore his approach.

Investment focus

Battery, Industrial, Sustainability
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.

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John Wood - Director @ NOAB Ventures

Investment focus

Battery, Industrial, Sustainability
Pre-Seed, Seed
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.

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Terry Hartan is a Managing Director at Assetsecure. He Attended University of Sydney.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Industrial, Information Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

HINDSITE Industries — HINDSITE powers the spread of know-how from subject matter experts to your frontline. Automate microcredentialing using Workflows and provide access to a global microskill library and remote mentoring.

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Allan Moss acts an adviser to Anchorage’s Investment Committee. Currently Principal of Allan Moss Investments, a private investment company, Allan retired from the role of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Macquarie Group in May 2008. He was with Macquarie Group for 31 years and served as CEO from 1993 to his retirement in2008. He was also a non- executive director of CSR Ltd from 1996 to 2001.Allan graduated from Sydney University in Arts with a major in Economics and in Laws with Honours. He is also a graduate of Harvard University with a Masters Degree in Business Administration with High Distinction. Allan has received numerous industry awards and recognitions. He was twice named by Barron’s Magazine as one of the 30 most respected CEOs in the world (2006, 2007). He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2005.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Australia, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Skykraft — Skykraft is an Australian space services firm that specializes in smallsat constellation design, production, and operation.
Ferronova — Ferronova is a medical device company that offers imaging and surgery products.
Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.

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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.

Investment focus

Sports, Travel, Banking
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 — Compare real estate agents' fees, commissions, services and local experience across Australia. Find the best real estate agent for you, with our 100% free, no obligation service.

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Alan Jones is a mentor and entrepreneur-in-residence with many of Australia's tech startup accelerators, specialising in strategy for product development and marketing.Alan draws on hands-on experience founding and co-founding web and mobile startups, as well as senior management experience in larger companies including Yahoo!, News DigitalMedia and Microsoft. At Yahoo! he was Product Director, South Asia for Yahoo! Inc.Alan advises and invests in early-stage startups directly and through Startmate and Pollenizer Ventures. His investments include ChromaSun, BugHerd, Grabble (acquired by WalMart in 2011), ScriptRock, Flightfox, Spreets (acquired by Yahoo7 in 2011), OtherLevels and NinjaBlocks. Alan is a co-founder of digital agency The New Agency, Editor-in-Chief of FromLittleThings.co, is a mentor for Startmate, and is the Social Media and Web Director for TEDxSydney.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

TYDE — Tyde is a platform that transforms the connection between patients and clinicians. Tyde is regulatory compliant, free, and patient centric: the platform connects to combined electronic health records and adds real time data, such as treatment adherence and patient reported outcomes. The mobile app is available for download on the App Store andGoogle Play.
Workyard — Construction Workforce Management Software that helps you create more accurate payroll and improve project profitability by measuring and managing your crew through one easy-to-use app.
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.

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Duncan Alexander

Investment focus

E-Learning, Industrial, Information Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

HINDSITE Industries — HINDSITE powers the spread of know-how from subject matter experts to your frontline. Automate microcredentialing using Workflows and provide access to a global microskill library and remote mentoring.

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Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Serbia, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.

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Steven Vassiloudis is a CEO & Founder at Novalith Technologies. He attended University of Sydney.

Investment focus

Battery, Industrial, Sustainability
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.

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Leigh Oliver (Sydney) joined KKR in 2013 and is focused on investment opportunities in Australia and New Zealand. He is actively involved in KKR's investments in Bis Industries and Sundrop Farms and currently serves on the board of directors of both companies. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Oliver spent six years in the private equity team at TheCarlyle Group in Sydney. Prior to Carlyle, he worked in the investment banking division of J.P.Morgan in Sydney, and prior to that at Ernst & Young. Mr. Oliver is a CFA Charterholder, a Chartered Accountant and holds a B.A. of Commerce from the University of Queensland.

Investment focus

Beauty, Manufacturing
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Koala Eco — Eco-friendly, natural, plant-based cleaning products. Made with Australian essential oils. Australian Made.

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Bosco Tan

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
Hello Clever — Connect every rail and understand every payment. Unify your payment infrastructure with Clever AI to instantly turn transaction data into measurable growth.
Hello Clever — Connect every rail and understand every payment. Unify your payment infrastructure with Clever AI to instantly turn transaction data into measurable growth.

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Andrew Coppin - Advisor @ DisruptSports.com

Investment focus

Retail, Logistics, 3D Printing
Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
Freight Exchange Pty Ltd — Multi-Carrier Shipping Software | TMS | FMS | ERP

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Saar Gillai is an Independent board director at Xilinx, Semtech, and Liquid Instruments as well as a CEO advisor to multiple companies. Saar is also an executive mentor at Merryck. Previously, Saar was the CEO of Teridion, a SaaS startup focused on cloud networking, where he grew recurring revenue 50% YoY, and expanded the product line to go afterthe SD-WAN market.Before Teridion, Saar was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HPE’s Communications Solutions Business (CSB), a global billion-dollar division with over 4000 employees. In this role, Saar integrated multiple units and acquisitions into one cohesive division focused on the Telco space. He established HPE as a key player in the software-defined next-generation service provider market and grew network virtualization revenue by over 10x within two years.Before running CSB, Saar spent two years as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HP Cloud where he played a vital role in aggressively driving and consolidating HP's disparate cloud efforts into a full business unit with the number one market position in private cloud while working closely with F50 enterprises on their cloud adoption and digital transformation journey.Prior to HPE, Saar was SVP of Products and Solutions at 3com, where he played a key role in rebuilding 3coms enterprise offerings, driving the collaboration with H3C, a Chinese subsidiary, and ultimate sale to HP for ~$3B, achieving a 350% valuation increase in 18 months. In addition, Saar has held C level positions at Tropos Networks and Enfora; two startups focused on Wireless Mesh and M2M / IoT, and spent seven years at Cisco Systems in a variety of leadership positions, including VP of Engineering for the Wireless Networking business undevelopment and operations with Enfora, Inc., a wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) company. In addition, Mr. Gillai served for seven years in a variety of leadership positions with Cisco Systems, Inc., including as Vice President of Engineering for Cisco’s Wireless Networking business unit.

Investment focus

Electronics, Manufacturing
Convertible Note
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms

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Josh Hannah

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Singapore, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
1inch — Swap crypto & tokens at the best rates across 13+ chains. The 1inch swap aggregator is your gateway to secure and efficient DeFi.

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Futurist • Crypto • Founder @ The Automation Fund

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Robomart — Hail a store on wheels and get snacks, or pharmacy goods in minutes, and shop right at home. Now available in West Hollywood. Download the Robomart iOS app now.
Fr8 Network — We’re building the efficiency layer to solve today’s challenges and power the future of freight - from AI and automation to self driving trucks.
Ocean Protocol — Monetize AI models & data while preserving privacy

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Alice has extensive experience in private equity and corporate advisory services including business sales, acquisitions, capital raising, and recapitalisations with exposure to Asia, North American, and European corporate finance markets. She has a strong track record in identifying, assessing, and executing a range of transactions across fashion,healthcare, FMCG agriculture, and technology / software sectors. Alice has expertise in business valuation, due diligence, negotiation, deal structuring, and deal execution.

Investment focus

Beauty, Manufacturing
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Koala Eco — Eco-friendly, natural, plant-based cleaning products. Made with Australian essential oils. Australian Made.

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Todd Forest - Managing Director @ NAB Ventures

Investment focus

Apps, Real Estate, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Angel
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,328,201 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
RecruitLoop — RecruitLoop is a curated marketplace of independent recruiters, available on-demand at hourly rates. They save employers 80-90% cost versus recruitment agencies.Employers connect with a expert recruiter through their online platform; outsource any part of the hiring process, and screen candidates with their automated video interview product.They founded RecruitLoop after years of frustration with traditional recruitment. Agencies are expensive. But DIY recruitment can be extremely time-consuming. For employers, they're both painful options.RecruitLoop launched in Australia in 2011, and setup headquarters in San Francisco in 2013.

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Carl Bass was president and CEO of Autodesk from 2006-2017. He spent 24 years at Autodesk where he held a series of executive positions including chief technology officer and chief operations officer. Carl co-founded Ithaca Software, which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993. Bass serves on the boards of directors of Autodesk, Zendesk Inc., Formlabs,Built Robotics, Zoox, Planet Labs, and Autolabs AI; on the board of trustees of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Art Center College of Design, and California College of the Arts; and on the advisory boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science, UC Berkeley School of Information, and UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University.Bass serves on the boards of directors of Autodesk and HP Inc.; on the board of trustees of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Art Center College of Design, and California College of the Arts; and on the advisory boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science, UC Berkeley School of Information, and UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University. Bass is a maker and spends his spare time building things—from chairs and tables to boats, and most recently, an electric go-kart.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Computer
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pirros — Pirros is a first real Detail Management System for Architects and Engineers. Store all your details easily. Manage your team's library and continuously improve your details from project to project. Directly integrated with Autodesk Revit
Toolpath — Toolpath accelerates the production of precision CNC machined components with AI-powered part analysis, machining strategies, and CAM automation.
Foundry Lab — Foundry Lab is pioneering Digital Metal Casting. This new form of additive manufacturing allows users to cast metal parts - without pouring molten metal - in the safety of their own office. This fully automated system is incredibly fast - CAD file to 50+ metal parts in just 8 hours.

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Simon Yencken is the CEO & Founder at Fanplayr Inc.

Investment focus

Coupons, Big Data, Software
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Fanplayr — Making Behavioral Data Actionable
Matrak Industries — Matrak is automating global construction - combining AI takeoff with agentic supply-chain, manufacturing, logistics, quality and more.

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