Top 50 Marketplace Angel Investors in Australia in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Marketplace startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Marketplace Angel Investors in Australia in November 2024
Investor | Marketplace Australia investments |
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Damian George | 6 |
Les Szekely | 4 |
Cyan Ta'eed | 4 |
Antonio Palanca | 4 |
Gabby Leibovich | 4 |
Mark Harbottle | 4 |
Adam Schwab | 4 |
Paul Greenberg | 3 |
Jeremy Same | 3 |
Collis Ta'eed | 3 |
Hezi Leibovich | 3 |
Bevan Clark | 2 |
Michael Doubinski | 2 |
Michael Rosenbaum | 2 |
Michael Gonski | 2 |
Campbell Taylor | 2 |
Justus Hammer | 2 |
Tony Gandel | 2 |
Trevor Folsom | 2 |
Douglas English | 2 |
James McKinnon | 2 |
Brendan Hill | 2 |
Darren Patterson | 2 |
Garry Visontay | 2 |
Mike Zimmerman | 2 |
Kurt Alexander | 2 |
Guy King | 2 |
Nathan Young | 2 |
Todd Forest | 2 |
Mark Livings | 2 |
Leigh Warren | 1 |
Arun Nair | 1 |
Roger Allen | 1 |
Maurice Ben-Mayor | 1 |
Jeff Yew | 1 |
Anthony Klein | 1 |
Andrew Coppin | 1 |
Prviate Private | 1 |
Paul Dwyer | 1 |
Hugh Robertson | 1 |
Christopher Mapp | 1 |
Tim Mannah | 1 |
Narith Phadungchai | 1 |
Laurence Escalante | 1 |
Luke Brooks | 1 |
Josh Childress | 1 |
Lucas London | 1 |
Brendan Brummer | 1 |
Paul Greenberg | 1 |
John Szangolies | 1 |
Damian George
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Investment focus
- B2B, AgTech, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- HiveXchange — Designed and built in Australia for the fresh produce industry. Find opportunities, create private offers, make product requests, get notified of deals in real time. Trade easy.
Les Szekely B.A. LL.M. FAICD, is an active business angel, mentor, and M&A consultant. He started GPC in 2010 after a career of almost 30 years as a tax consulting partner and director with Horwaths Chartered Accountants and then Deloitte. He is the author of over a dozen books on taxation law, has been an active angel investor since 1999 andis currently a director of several early stage and maturing companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Shippit — Shippit is the multi-carrier shipping software helping you become the store every customer loves. Powering delivery for thousands of Australian sellers, stop dreading fulfilment and knock it out in minutes. Try it free today.
- Oneflare — Oneflare is a new online startup that connects customers with home services providers.Oneflare challenges the traditional Yellow Pages model by creating a revolutionary online marketplace. This marketplace eliminates the need for customers to search for tradies and tradies to search for customers. With Oneflare, all it takes is one stop toget any job done. Entrepreneur and Co-founder Tommy Lim explains, ‘Our aim is to make hiring a service provider as easy as booking a flight on Expedia.’Oneflare tips the process of looking for a service provider on its head. Requesting a service is effortless and free. Customers complete a simple form detailing the job then sit back and relax while Oneflare does the finding. Oneflare’s unique matching technology alerts relevant businesses of each request, allowing them to submit competing price quotes for the job. Quotes are then pre-filtered and presented to the customer, ensuring that the only work the customer has to do is make the buying decision. Launched in January 2012, Oneflare’s innovative offering has driven drastic growth. Oneflare features 40,000 businesses spanning 40 categories throughout Australia. 90% of requests posted receive 3 or more competing quotes which leaves extra cash in happy customers’ pockets. With most quotes appearing within 15 minutes, Oneflare also puts free time back into busy customers’ schedules. Oneflare’s winning combination has generated over $5 million worth of jobs to date. While saving time and money is exciting, 69% of customers have stated that reputation comes before price when hiring tradies (Newspoll Survey sourced by Oneflare). Oneflare has implemented an assortment of trust and safety features to ensure that customers always find a quality service provider. Reviews and ratings by previous customers coupled with business profiles featuring photos, testimonials and verification create an open community on the platform. Oneflare’s Home Care Guarantee also covers customers up to $500 if something goes wrong, providing the ultimate peace of mind no matter the size of the job. Customers aren’t the only ones who Oneflare caters to. Oneflare has created a unique value proposition for businesses which only requires them to pay for successful connections. It’s free for service providers to register for the site and it’s free to receive leads, providing businesses with an incredible incentive to join. Gone are the days of businesses submitting their advert to the Yellow Pages, hoping it will lead to sales. Instead, Oneflare brings the work to them.Oneflare is driven by clever technology that is hidden behind a user-friendly interface. Oneflare uses natural language processing to match every request to the right service provider. Real time SMS and email updates are sent to customers and businesses alike. Users on the go can enjoy the Oneflare mobile site which can be particularly useful for those pesky jobs that need to get done fast. With a patented iPhone App in the pipeline, Oneflare has utilised the latest technology to deliver superior customer service. In the future, Oneflare aims to take Australian households into the 21st century by becoming the go to source for hiring quality tradies.www.oneflare.com.au
- SiteMinder — SiteMinder is the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, ranked among technology pioneers for opening up every hotel’s access to online commerce. It’s this central role that has earned SiteMinder the trust of tens of thousands of hotels, across 150 countries, to sell, market, manage and grow their business. The global company, headquarteredin Sydney with offices in Bangkok, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila, generated more than 100 million reservations worth over US$35 billion in revenue for hotels in the last year prior to the start of the pandemic.
Cyan Ta'eed was born in Sydney, Australia. She worked as a graphic designer before co-founding Envato in 2006 with her husband, Collis Ta'eed, and his best friend, Jun Rung. She now serves on Envato's Board of Directors. Cyan Ta'eed is also the co-creator of New Day Box, a charity focusing on women in crisis.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Consumer, CleanTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Refilled — Refilled is an eco-friendly company that offers smart drink dispenser vending machines to eliminate single-use plastic bottles.
- Trace — trace helps individuals and businesses go carbon neutral - measure (for free), reduce & offset your carbon footprint. Track your impact across our handpicked project portfolio including biodiversity in Australia.
- 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.
Antonio has previously co-founded successful e-commerce and supply chain companies both here and in Asia with China Direct Partners. He is also an experienced commercial executive having held senior management roles in IBM, Sun, and Optus communications. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics and a degree in Psychology and is a member of ESA, APS& GKHS.
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Investment focus
- B2B, AgTech, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- HiveXchange — Designed and built in Australia for the fresh produce industry. Find opportunities, create private offers, make product requests, get notified of deals in real time. Trade easy.
Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Matt Harbottle co-founded Melbourne-based SitePoint.com 10 years ago with Matt Mickiewicz, and grew it into a profitable, multi-million dollar company without any venture capital or outside funding. The company has been profitable every single month since its inception and is actively involved in publishing & marketplaces for Web Professionals.In 2008, Mark spun off 99designs out of SitePoint as its own separate business. 99designs has become the market leader in crowdsourced graphic design and currently sees a new graphic uploaded to the site every 7 seconds and pays out over $1,000,000 to designers every month. In April 2011 99designs received $35m in a Round A led by Accel Partners.99designs has run crowdsourced design projects for tens of thousands of small business owners, as well as big brands like Adidas, TiVo, Dish Networks, and bestselling authors like Tim Ferriss and Rick Warren (author of “The Purpose Driven Lifeâ€).In June of 2009, Mark and Matt launched Flippa.com, a marketplace for buying and selling small websites via auction. Flippa currently sells over $2 million worth of website assets per month, with its biggest sale ever being ReTweet.com which sold for $250,000.In January of 2011, Learnable.com was launched, again as a spin off from SitePoint. Learnable is a peer to peer education platform where anyone can create an online course and sell access to it online.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, B2B, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
- Assembly Payments — Collect, refund, disburse & reconcile online payments with API automation to simplify complex payment flows. Pay & get paid instantly for operational efficiency.
Adam Schwab, 36, studied Law/Commerce at Monash University before becoming a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers & acquisitions at Freehills (now HerbertSmithFreehills). At 25, Adam co-founded corporate accommodation and services group, Living Corporate Apartments. In 2010, Adam co-founded what would soon become the Lux Group. In2011, Adam co-founded of MyTable, which eventually formed part of Menulog (which was sold to JustEat in 2015). Adam is currently an investor and non-executive director of online art marketplace, BlueThumb.com.au.In 2015, Adam was named the Australian Young Executive of the Year by CEO Magazine, and Adam has been a director of the Myeloma Foundation of Australia since 2010.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Software, Art
- Seed, Angel, Series C
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bookwell — Book your haircut, waxing, nail and other appointments online. Browse venues, make a selection then book and pay online.
- Officely — Ensure your team are safe and productive when they get back to the office after COVID-19
- Healthengine — Find and book health appointments online, 24/7. View all available appointments in your local area and choose a time and place that suits you.
Paul Greenberg
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Waave — We are giving you back control. Security, visibility and freedom of choice over your money. | Pay by Bank | Wendi | Open Banking
- Refundid — Receive your refund in real-time as you decide to make a return. Refundid lets you shop online with confidence, guaranteeing an instant and effortless returns process.
- InStitchu — InStitchu is an online custom clothier specializing in tailor made menswear. Customers are able to design custom made garments online which are then made to their exact measurements.InStitchu provides tailor made, high quality menswear through a simple online ordering process. Once a customer has added measurements to their profile, a suit orshirt can be ordered in a few minutes and on its way in two weeks. There are multiple ways for a customer to get their measurements perfected and enjoy that “perfect fit” InStitchu customers keep coming back for - our measurement guide will take you on a journey from your living room to the hustle and bustle of our tailor’s studio. Customers can choose from a wide range of globally sourced high quality wool and cotton fabrics, and when you’ve chosen, we’ll deliver your design right to your door. This new approach to shopping is stress free and cuts out the middleman, allowing us to deliver customers luxury tailor made suits and shirts without the high price tag.
Jeremy Same co-founded AussieCommerce in 2010. Jeremy Same began his career as a credit trader at ANZ Investment Bank in 2002, then departed in late 2003. He co-founded Living Corporate Apartments and serves as its Director. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director of BigThanks.com.au and Sames.com.au. He was Founder and Managing Director ofMyTable, an online takeaway ordering platform, before exiting the business in 2012 in a sale to EatNow, to create Australia’s fastest growing food ordering website. He is also a dedicated amateur guitarist - much to the delight of his neighbours. He serves as Executive Director of AussieCommerce.
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Investment focus
- Art, Beauty, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Bookwell — Book your haircut, waxing, nail and other appointments online. Browse venues, make a selection then book and pay online.
- 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.
Collis Ta'eed grew up in Papua New Guinea. He moved to Australia to attend university and later worked as a web designer, selling Flash stock on the side. His experience selling stock inspired him to co-found Envato with his wife, Cyan Ta'eed, and best friend, Jun Rung. Collis has served as Envato's CEO since the company'sfounding in 2006.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Email
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Refilled — Refilled is an eco-friendly company that offers smart drink dispenser vending machines to eliminate single-use plastic bottles.
- YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne
- 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.
Serial entrepreneur and investor
Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Apps, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Board Member at YourGrocer.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
- Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.
Michael Doubinski - Founder @ HotelsCombined
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Investment focus
- Pet, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Mad Paws — Mad Paws is a Sydney-based start up that was created to fill in the ever growing need in the pet boarding market for affordable, and local pet accommodation while still maintaining the care, love, and attention pets received at high-end, expensive, pet boarding services.
- Sherpa — Sherpa is a last mile courier market place. Through SherpaFleet; a delivery and driver management software as a service platform (SaaS) we help businesses manage their fleets and access the inventory from other fleets and including sharing their own.This creates a more efficient and effective last mile solution for businesses overalldisrupting the principle of owning the driver.
- YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne
Michael Rosenbaum - CEO & Founder @ Spacer
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Delivery, Internet
- Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Zoom2u — Zoom2u is a Delivery platform that connects you with a community of couriers across Australia. Deliver from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and more.
- YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne
Michael Gonski
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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 — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.
Campbell Taylor is an investment advisor at Taylor Collison Ltd. Sharebrokers and has over 17 years experience in financial markets.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Booodl — Booodl is a mobile and web platform that helps people to find the right store. It provides retail businesses with a rich digital presence and coverage across the digital moments throughout these consumer journeys, maximizing the number of people that find and visit their physical retail stores. It aims to transform the way people discoveredphysical retail stores on digital devices and provide physical retail locations with a powerful way to influence people to visit them.Booodl was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
- Transhuman —
Justus is a seasoned entrepreneur who has been working in the technology space for over a decade. First as a founder of Spreets and later as an investor and advisor to other startups such as Airtasker. His latest venture is Sellable with which he plans to revolutionise the real estate landscape in Australia.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, FinTech
- Seed, Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Upstreet — 'NextGen Loyalty Solution', 'FinTech', 'Share Trading', 'Marketing Solution', 'B2B', 'B2C', 'DtC', "Share Rewards"
- Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
- Foodini — Discover personalised dining options for over 50 diets and allergens, ensuring a safe and enjoyable experience every time you eat out.
Tony is the founder of Gandel Invest and has over 25 years' experience in the Australian property industry.At Gandel Invest, Tony and the team are focussed on innovation and growth and believe strong relationships with our business partners are integral to successful investments.Before founding Gandel Invest, Tony held the position ofJoint Managing Director of Gandel Retail Management (GRM), a specialist property management group. GRM was established in 2002 when the retail assets of Colonial First State Property Trust were merged with the retail assets of Gandel Retail Trust.As Joint Managing Director of the Gandel Group’s retail assets, Tony was instrumental in this transaction, which consolidated Gandel Retail Trust’s position as the second largest retail trust on the Australian Stock Exchange.At Gandel Retail Management, Tony was responsible for acquisitions, leasing, centre management and operations, marketing and investor relations.During his time as Joint Managing Director, funds under management increased from approximately $2bn to $8bn through organic growth and conservatively financed acquisitions.Tony commenced his career in the Marketing Department at Cadbury, where he held the position of Marketing Product Manager. Tony left Cadbury to join the Gandel Group, where he held several roles across the Gandel Group before being appointed to Joint Managing Director in 1998.Tony’s experience in property has also seen him successfully partner with a number of property developers in residential and commercial developments.Tony holds a Bachelor of Business from Monash University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Internet, Logistics
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Whizz — Whizz makes managing your household easy! Book online or through the APP. Whizz has over 2,500 professional service providers ready. Book today.
- Zoom2u — Zoom2u is a Delivery platform that connects you with a community of couriers across Australia. Deliver from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and more.
Elevation Capital was formed by a group of successful entrepreneurs who have co-invested in order to pool together their capital and experience. We consider ourselves to be “venture accelerators” rather than venture capitalists. After starting my first fledgling business at the age of 17, I truly understand the unique challenges faced byentrepreneurs and I am aware that it takes more than just capital for a company to succeed.Recently, Blueprint Management and the various business's we developed (up to 10 companies over 13 years) has given me exposure to the difficult challenges that every entrepreneur will face. My experience has involved the creation of a company with only $10K start-up capital, which grew to over 950 staff. This business was then sold to a private equity group. The success of this venture has given me invaluable knowledge that I can now share with others to guide them in the future.Specialties:If there is one simple thing I have learnt in recent times about investing into growth companies, it is: "to not waste anyones time".Elevation Capital is a professional and committed organisation and is able to invest quickly when a good business opportunity presents itself. We appreciate the challenge that entrepreneurs face when trying to raise capital while also dealing with the daily time constraints of running their businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Australia, United States, Singapore
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.
- Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.
- Juggle Street — Juggle Street helps you find local babysitters, nannies, au pairs, tutors and before and after school care providers. We are a local neighbourhood network connecting people around Australia.
Doug developed and led key architecture projects for major financial and consulting organizations such as NAB, ANZ and EDS. His sneezes are so tectonic, we've come to consider them performance art.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Recycling
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Linktree — Linktree is a social media startup company that offers a platform that enhances internet presence for influencers and e-commerce stores across social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch.The platform allows big brands to individuals, celebrities to everyday content creators to build a microsite that houses their digitalecosystem, making it easier to connect with their audiences. It simplifies the internet economy for eCommerce and enables social media influencers, entrepreneurs, and businesses to share, sell, curate, and grow more. Linktree's notable users include Garnier, HBO, Shopify, Wix, YSL, and Zapier, and sports teams such as the Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Cubs, and Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as Selena Gomez and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2016 brothers Alex and Anthony Zaccaria and their business partner Nick Humphreys launched the company in Melbourne, Victoria.
- Who Gives a Crap — We make super-soft, 100% recycled toilet paper, and we donate 50% of profits to build toilets in the developing world. Good for your bum, Great for the world!
James McKinnon - Managing Partner @ MIRIN CAPITAL
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Investment focus
- Cyber Security, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Spacelli —
- Expert360 — Hire elite consultants, project managers, data analysts, designers, and developers for your most important local & remote work
- StorReduce —
I’m an entrepreneur, angel investor and growth marketer.I started angel investing after my ecommerce startup was acquired in 2016. I love investing because it’s one of the most intellectually stimulating things you can do. You’re constantly learning about new ideas, technologies and gaining a surface level education in many areas. I’ve investedin awesome startups from Fintech, Blockchain, Data, Sharing Economy, Renewable Energy, Health, Podcasting and Computer Vision.As an angel investor, I provide a combination of capital, time, network, and expertise to the startups I invest in.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Heidi Health — Heidi Health is modernizing primary care with AI-powered technologies to improve care's quality and accessibility. its creators and engineers is to completely eradicate missed and sluggish diagnoses worldwide. They are committed to bridging the gap between the level of care that patients desire and the level of care that doctors can delivergiven their budget constraints. To create a platform where patients can quickly and easily get the treatment they require and to give every clinician the resources they need to deliver care that is secure, efficient,
- Tiliter — Tiliter's tech increases supermarket efficiency reduces loss and gives your shoppers a more convenient checkout experience.
- 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.
Mr Patterson has more than 20 years’ experience working with both start-up and blue-chip technology companies spanning Australia, Europe, US and Asia. As a leading senior executive, his experience includes telecoms, IT, digital media and venture capital. Mr Patterson is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alchemy Ventures, an ESVCLP venturecapital fund established to invest in teams and ideas which changes lives and industries, whilst having a positive impact on human and environmental wellness.Mr Patterson's international experience has seen him hold senior business development roles with Yahoo, ECI Telecom, Energis Communications / Cable and Wireless PLC and Cisco Systems. He has been an investor in technology ventures Abyss Solutions, Persollo, Republic Capital Management, Firstwave Cloud Technology, Lumific and Datasift where he secured investment from US venture funds.Most recently he was the CEO and Co-Founder of Australia’s only regulated property investment platform, BrickX, and was CEO and executive director of Property Connect Holdings (ASX:PCH).Mr Patterson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Directors.
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Investment focus
- Sports, 3D Technology, Commercial Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Clearmatch — Alternative funding, fixed income marketplace
- Persollo — Analyse any Instagram, TikTok, YouTube account, sell on social media in just 1 click and discover influencers with the audiences you need. AI powered. Designed for mobile. The results are magical.
- LocalAgentFinder — LocalAgentFinder provides homeowners with the ability to compare and connect with the most suitable real estate agents. Their unique service changed the game and set the standard in one. Choice. LocalAgentFinder allows anyone to compare a wide range of local agents to learn how they’re different, without the ring-around or upfront appraisals. MostAustralian agencies have provided them their information, including their fees.The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Victoria, Australia.
Garry Visontay is an entrepreneur and investor who has started and grown five businesses in a variety of industries. He is a General Partner at Right Click Capital, an investment firm that specialises in identifying and investing in high-growth, early-stage Internet-based businesses; cofounder and Chairman of RecruitLoop; Chairman of Oneflare;Chairman of Generation Entrepreneur and past Chairman of DesignCrowd.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Small and Medium Businesses
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, United States
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.
- Oneflare — Oneflare is a new online startup that connects customers with home services providers.Oneflare challenges the traditional Yellow Pages model by creating a revolutionary online marketplace. This marketplace eliminates the need for customers to search for tradies and tradies to search for customers. With Oneflare, all it takes is one stop toget any job done. Entrepreneur and Co-founder Tommy Lim explains, ‘Our aim is to make hiring a service provider as easy as booking a flight on Expedia.’Oneflare tips the process of looking for a service provider on its head. Requesting a service is effortless and free. Customers complete a simple form detailing the job then sit back and relax while Oneflare does the finding. Oneflare’s unique matching technology alerts relevant businesses of each request, allowing them to submit competing price quotes for the job. Quotes are then pre-filtered and presented to the customer, ensuring that the only work the customer has to do is make the buying decision. Launched in January 2012, Oneflare’s innovative offering has driven drastic growth. Oneflare features 40,000 businesses spanning 40 categories throughout Australia. 90% of requests posted receive 3 or more competing quotes which leaves extra cash in happy customers’ pockets. With most quotes appearing within 15 minutes, Oneflare also puts free time back into busy customers’ schedules. Oneflare’s winning combination has generated over $5 million worth of jobs to date. While saving time and money is exciting, 69% of customers have stated that reputation comes before price when hiring tradies (Newspoll Survey sourced by Oneflare). Oneflare has implemented an assortment of trust and safety features to ensure that customers always find a quality service provider. Reviews and ratings by previous customers coupled with business profiles featuring photos, testimonials and verification create an open community on the platform. Oneflare’s Home Care Guarantee also covers customers up to $500 if something goes wrong, providing the ultimate peace of mind no matter the size of the job. Customers aren’t the only ones who Oneflare caters to. Oneflare has created a unique value proposition for businesses which only requires them to pay for successful connections. It’s free for service providers to register for the site and it’s free to receive leads, providing businesses with an incredible incentive to join. Gone are the days of businesses submitting their advert to the Yellow Pages, hoping it will lead to sales. Instead, Oneflare brings the work to them.Oneflare is driven by clever technology that is hidden behind a user-friendly interface. Oneflare uses natural language processing to match every request to the right service provider. Real time SMS and email updates are sent to customers and businesses alike. Users on the go can enjoy the Oneflare mobile site which can be particularly useful for those pesky jobs that need to get done fast. With a patented iPhone App in the pipeline, Oneflare has utilised the latest technology to deliver superior customer service. In the future, Oneflare aims to take Australian households into the 21st century by becoming the go to source for hiring quality tradies.www.oneflare.com.au
- DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,248,642 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
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.
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- 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.
Kurt Alexander
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- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
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- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Guy King is the Co-Founder of Stateless Systems Pty Ltd. Guy King wrote BugMeNot as a "slapped-together" weekend project in 2003 that went on to become a worldwide hit.
After time working a Realestate.com.au, Guy King founded Stateless Systems in 2007 and launched RetailMeNot, a consumer coupon sites.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
- YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne
Nathan is an investment consultant & fund manager. Nathan is a director at Bora Bora Resources Ltd & Ability Living
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- Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Australia
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- Booodl — Booodl is a mobile and web platform that helps people to find the right store. It provides retail businesses with a rich digital presence and coverage across the digital moments throughout these consumer journeys, maximizing the number of people that find and visit their physical retail stores. It aims to transform the way people discoveredphysical retail stores on digital devices and provide physical retail locations with a powerful way to influence people to visit them.Booodl was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
- Transhuman —
Todd Forest - Managing Director @ NAB Ventures
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- Real Estate, Apps, Marketplace
- 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. 1,248,642 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
- RecruitLoop — Zippia analyzed thousands of resumes and developed an AI algorithm to help you find the best candidates to fill your job posting.
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.
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- Content Marketing, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom
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- 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
Leigh Warren
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- E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Preezie — Bridge the gap between in-store and online shopping through individualised journeys. Create guided selling experiences and omnichannel strategies for customer engagement.
Arun Nair
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- Consumer, Marketplace, Customer Service
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- UrbanYou — It's quick and easy to book trusted house cleaning and garden maintenance services anytime with UrbanYou. Call today on 1300 048 566 or instantly book online.
Roger Allen, director and co-founder of A&B, has practical credentials directly relevant to the Fund based upon over thirty years as a chief executive of a major Australian IT services company with worldwide operations, then 13 years as an active investor in private companies in the ICT industries.Roger grew shareholder value in ComputerPower from $250k in 1978 to $170m in 1995 (at the time of his retirement) and also grew the annual revenue to over $300m and staff to more than 3,000. Roger obtained private equity from News Corporation, through the direct involvement of Rupert Murdoch, prior to taking Computer Power public on the ASX in 1987. He has direct personal experience in selling Australian information technology products and services in the USA, Europe, Asia, as well as Australia.He served for six years until 1997 as deputy chairman of Austrade and is very well known throughout the information technology industry in Australia and internationally. He was the first chief executive from an Australian company to be elected chairman of the Australian Information Industries Association, has represented Australia at the World Computer Services Forum and was vice-president of the Asia-Pacific industry organisation. He has also served on two advisory councils to the Prime Minister and has chaired state advisory boards in both NSW and Victoria. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Entrepreneur-ship of Swinburne University and regularly lectures at INSEAD in the School of Entrepreneurship. Roger was recently awarded the 2007 Pearcey Medal for Lifetime Achievement in recognition for his outstanding contribution to the ICT industry.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, Hong Kong, United States
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- Unleash live — Unleash live is a secure cloud-based software platform which uses A.I. algorithms to track and monitor objects from live video streams from a number of sources including cameras, drones, satellites and IoT sensors. Real-time, live camera feeds can be streamed by multiple users allowing for faster decision making and real-time collaboration.Solutions are provided across multiple industries including infrastructure, pipelines and resources, construction and emergency services.Unique extensions are able to added onto the account, such as: - 2D, 3D modelling and VR immersion - Remote drone and robot operations in real time - IoT sensor integration - Broadcastingand Media Production - Data Analytics and Visualisation / GraphingUnleash live are enabling new experiences and business models through a scalable software platform for the collection, storage and distribution of data from connected intelligent machines. The connected cloud platform is changing the way people interact with networked devices in the field, providing an innovative solution for small and medium sized businesses as well as larger enterprises.
- August Robotics — We automate dirty, dangerous and dull tasks all over the world.
- Fingerprint For Success — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.
Maurice Ben-Mayor is the president of Stryker South Pacific.
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- Retail, Retail Technology
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.
Jeff Yew is a Founder & CEO of Monochrome.
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- Marketing, Electronics, Marketplace
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Mercari — Mercari is a high-quality and regulated electronic marketplace for OTC products.
Anthony Klein
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- E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Preezie — Bridge the gap between in-store and online shopping through individualised journeys. Create guided selling experiences and omnichannel strategies for customer engagement.
Andrew Coppin - Advisor @ DisruptSports.com
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- Retail, Logistics, 3D Printing
- Angel
- Australia
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- 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
Prviate Private
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- Marketplace, Architecture
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
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- CO-architecture — Discover design professionals with CO-architecture. Explore interior designers, architects, and building designers in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and across Australia. Find the best design professionals for your project.
Paul Dwyer
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- Internet, Commerce/Shopping, Professional Services
- Series A
- Australia
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- Willed — Willed is an Australian online estate planning platform.
Hugh Robertson - Principal @ Bell Potter
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- FinTech, Consumer, Loyalty Programs
- Seed
- Australia
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- Upstreet — 'NextGen Loyalty Solution', 'FinTech', 'Share Trading', 'Marketing Solution', 'B2B', 'B2C', 'DtC', "Share Rewards"
Christopher Mapp
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- FinTech, Consumer, Loyalty Programs
- Seed
- Australia
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- Upstreet — 'NextGen Loyalty Solution', 'FinTech', 'Share Trading', 'Marketing Solution', 'B2B', 'B2C', 'DtC', "Share Rewards"
Tim Mannah is an Individual investor.
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- Retail, Retail Technology
- Seed
- Australia
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- Flagship — Flagship is a retail technology platform to bring new technology to the brick-and-mortar retail world. Flagship is introducing innovative visual merchandising technology to the world of brick-and-mortar retail.
Narith Phadungchai - Partner @ Lighthouse Capital Partners
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- FinTech, Marketplace, Financial Services
- Seed
- Australia
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- Bigstone Finance — Bigstone Capital is an Australian Fintech Company which is developing a marketplace to connect small business borrowers and investors. Bigstone aims to provide loans on the basis of real business performance, rather than on strict eligibility criteria. They give investors the opportunity to invest directly in small businesses while diversifyingtheir risk.
Laurence Escalante is the Founder and CEO at Virtual Gaming Worlds.
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- Retail, Automotive, Publishing
- Seed
- Australia
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- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
Luke Brooks is an NRL player.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Retail Technology
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.
Joshua Malik Childress is a former professional basketball player who last played for the San-en NeoPhoenix of the Japanese B.League.
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- SaaS, Analytics, Communities
- Seed, Series B
- Australia, United States
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- Sportility — Sportility is democratising grassroots sports sponsorship globally by connecting brands to teams, granting access to affordable and professional gear. We’re connecting household brands to an untapped grassroots sports community, allowing brands to increase their exposure and engagement through branded placement on sports uniforms. Sportility ishas provided grassroots teams and clubs the ability to access affordable and professional gear and has now grown to support over 30,000 sports people across Australia and the USA.
- Nightfall AI — Nightfall is one trusted DLP platform to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across SaaS and cloud apps with machine learning.
Lucas London is the Chief Executive Officer & co-founder at Lick Home. Lucas London attended Reforge.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Ad Network, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United Kingdom
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- Togather — Create your event on Togather, the UK's most trusted events booking platform, choose from our roster of over 1,500 of the best and most passionate creators...
- Particular Audience — Harness the power of AI to automate incremental revenue with context-aware targeting and hyper-personalization.
Brendan Brummer - Chief Operating Officer @ Kapiche
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Shipping, Software
- Angel
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Shippit — Shippit is the multi-carrier shipping software helping you become the store every customer loves. Powering delivery for thousands of Australian sellers, stop dreading fulfilment and knock it out in minutes. Try it free today.
Paul Greenberg is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Retail Technology
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Flagship — Flagship is a retail technology platform to bring new technology to the brick-and-mortar retail world. Flagship is introducing innovative visual merchandising technology to the world of brick-and-mortar retail.
Founder and CEO of Urban Purveyor Group, John Szangolies is one of the leading forces in Australian hospitality. With 18 restaurants and bars across NSW, Victoria and QLD, as well as a bespoke beverage import business and commissary kitchen, Urban Purveyor Group comprises some of the country’s most notable venues. Originating in 1976 with thelegendary Löwenbräu Keller, the group also includes The Argyle and Bavarian Bier Cafés across Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Further, Urban Purveyor Group’s dining venues have proven to be formidable additions to the Australian restaurant scene. In 2013, Ananas Bar & Brasserie was named Best New Restaurant at Savour Australia Restaurant & Catering Awards, and received its first Chef’s Hat from the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide. Saké Restaurant & Bar has also held a coveted Chef’s Hat each year since opening, while The Cut Bar & Grill brings a taste of New York’s famous steakhouses to The Rocks.Employing over 1500 people, Urban Purveyor Group continues to expand, helping to shape the future of hospitality in Australia.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Wholesale, Trading Platform
- Seed
- Australia
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- Kaddy — Deal directly with your favourite alcohol and beverage suppliers online through our free-to-use platform. All your supplier, order and invoice information in the one place so pubs, bars and restaurants can get back to business providing amazing customer experiences. Find out more.
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