Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Australia in December 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) Australia investments
Chris Sang	3
Chris Sang	3
Brendan Leonard	2
Andrew Barnes	2
Leigh Jasper	2
Leigh Jasper	2
Brendan Leonard	2
Stuart Fox	2
Chadd Ciccarelli	2
Robert Phillpot	2
Robert Phillpot	2
Aayush Phumbhra	2
Andrew Barnes	2
Jeremy Colless	2
Thomas Rice	2
Chloe Steinberg	2
Chadd Ciccarelli	2
Thomas Rice	2
Chloe Steinberg	2
Jeremy Colless	2
Aayush Phumbhra	2
Stuart Fox	2
Brand Hoff	1
Matt Miller	1
Harry Stebbings	1
Michael Stoppelman	1
Sean Parker	1
Kevin Hale	1
Josh Hannah	1
Craig Barratt	1
Tim Haggett	1
Craig Roah	1
Marc Andreessen	1
Julien Codorniou	1
Grant Grosser	1
Amir Suissa	1
Allison Pickens	1
Michael Sharkey	1
Josh Rowe	1
Paris Smith	1
Damian Miles	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Su-Ming Wong	1
Nikki Warburton	1
Jeff Sagansky	1
Tony Faure	1
Zach Kitschke	1
Darren Patterson	1
Matt Berriman	1
Ron Gross	1

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.

Brendan Leonard

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Advertising
Angel, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Vloggi — Vloggi is a user-generated video submission platform that makes it it easy for you to collect, curate and compile UGC video for your business

Andrew Barnes is co-founder and CEO at GO1 and a board of directors at Libromat. Andrew has a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Business Management and completed an MSc in Education at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Information Technology
Seed
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Learn.xyz — Have fun learning about anything you can imaging, thanks to the power of AI. Download the free Learn.xyz app today and start every day with new knowledge!
Learn.xyz — Have fun learning about anything you can imaging, thanks to the power of AI. Download the free Learn.xyz app today and start every day with new knowledge!
Joyn — The end-to-end platform to manage your in-person, virtual and hybrid events. Create a beautiful and customisable experience for your next conference with Delegate Connect.

Leigh Jasper is the CEO of Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. Together with company co-founder Rob Phillpot, he raised A$86 million in private equity investment before listing Aconex on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December 2014. Prior toAconex, Leigh was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted for clients in the financial services, media and information technology sectors. He is a director of the Burnet Institute, a not-for-profit organization which aims to improve health in poor and vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally through research, education and public health. Leigh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Diploma of Modern Languages in French from the University of Melbourne.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Construction
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
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.

Leigh Jasper is the CEO of Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. Together with company co-founder Rob Phillpot, he raised A$86 million in private equity investment before listing Aconex on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December 2014. Prior toAconex, Leigh was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted for clients in the financial services, media and information technology sectors. He is a director of the Burnet Institute, a not-for-profit organization which aims to improve health in poor and vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally through research, education and public health. Leigh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Diploma of Modern Languages in French from the University of Melbourne.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Construction
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
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.

Brendan Leonard

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Advertising
Angel, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Vloggi — Vloggi is a user-generated video submission platform that makes it it easy for you to collect, curate and compile UGC video for your business

Stuart Fox is a Partner at Artesian Capital Management (Australia) Pty Ltd.

Investment focus

Video, Advertising, Content Discovery
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

NewsMaven — NewsMaven provides personalised recommendations on what to read next. Think of them like Google Adsense for news content. So, each time someone comes along to your content based site they provide a recommendation on other articles that might be of interest to that user.

Chadd Ciccarelli

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Co-founder Rob Phillpot is senior vice president of product and engineering, responsible for product vision, strategy and management. He has been instrumental in developing the company’s business on a global scale and ensuring that Aconex solutions deliver a superior customer experience to buyers and users. Before founding Aconex in 2000 with CEOand director Leigh Jasper, he managed document control, quality and trades on a site team at Brookfield Multiplex. Prior to Brookfield Multiplex, Mr. Phillpot was an auditor at Deloitte & Touche in Australia. He holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Planning and Design degrees with Honors and a Master of Building degree from the University of Melbourne.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Construction
Seed, Series A, Angel
Australia, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.

Co-founder Rob Phillpot is senior vice president of product and engineering, responsible for product vision, strategy and management. He has been instrumental in developing the company’s business on a global scale and ensuring that Aconex solutions deliver a superior customer experience to buyers and users. Before founding Aconex in 2000 with CEOand director Leigh Jasper, he managed document control, quality and trades on a site team at Brookfield Multiplex. Prior to Brookfield Multiplex, Mr. Phillpot was an auditor at Deloitte & Touche in Australia. He holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Planning and Design degrees with Honors and a Master of Building degree from the University of Melbourne.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Construction
Seed, Series A, Angel
Australia, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tint Paint — Tint Paint manufactures decorative paints for a wide range of colors for commercial and residential uses.
Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
VERSATILE — VERSATILE uses machine learning and AI to optimize construction processes. It captures and analyzes data points to deliver real-time insights on job site performance and streamline decision-making. Mounted under the hook of any crane, this first-of-its-kind technology offers unparalleled production data on any job site including information onmaterials, redundancies, construction progress, and crane utilization.It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Aayush Phumbhra is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Nectar.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Education
Seed, Debt Financing, Angel
United States, India, Australia

Portfolio highlights

TravClan — TravClan empowers travel agents and new age travel entrepreneurs to generate more business online by enabling businesses to build and grow their digital presence and earn more profit by booking flights, hotels, holidays with suppliers across the world at best B2B prices on its platform. TravClan’s vision is to empower SMBs in travel across theworld to grow their business. It aims to bring on board over 10 million SMBs and enable a GMV of over $10 billion by 2025 on its platform.
getcrux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
Magma — Magma platform partners with factories and raw materials suppliers to offer supply chain services from the supplier to the customer.

Andrew Barnes is co-founder and CEO at GO1 and a board of directors at Libromat. Andrew has a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Business Management and completed an MSc in Education at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Information Technology
Seed
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Learn.xyz — Empower your team with learning they'll actually enjoy: Learn.xyz automatically turns your knowledge base into bite-sized learning modules that your employees will love
Learn.xyz — Empower your team with learning they'll actually enjoy: Learn.xyz automatically turns your knowledge base into bite-sized learning modules that your employees will love
Joyn — The end-to-end platform to manage your in-person, virtual and hybrid events. Create a beautiful and customisable experience for your next conference with Delegate Connect.

Jeremy Colless is managing partner of Artesian Capital Management an alternative investment fund manager spun out of ANZ in 2004. As well as being a principal investor in early stage ventures in Australia and China, Artesian partners with accelerators, incubators, angel groups and universities to create early stage venture capitalco-investment funds such as the $10M Sydney Angels Sidecar Fund and Newcastle-based Slingshot Venture Fund. Prior to founding Artesian in 2004, Jeremy spent 18 years trading global bond/credit markets for investment banks including SG Warburg and Lehman Brothers in New York and Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Video, Advertising, Content Discovery
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

NewsMaven — NewsMaven provides personalised recommendations on what to read next. Think of them like Google Adsense for news content. So, each time someone comes along to your content based site they provide a recommendation on other articles that might be of interest to that user.

Portfolio of the Global Innovation Share Fund at Perpetual (post-IPO). Angel investor in Australia. Mentor at Startmate, an Australian startup accelerator.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alta — Alta is a virtual reality company developing A Township Tale, a social VR multiplayer experience!
WORK180 — WORK180 is a global jobs network that operates at the forefront of a new workplace revolution. Our function is twofold.As an advocate for working women, we provide job applicants with a transparent directory of endorsed employers who support diversity, inclusion and equality.We share information around pay equity, flexible working, paidparental leave, equal opportunities and a range of other important criteria. Before an employer comes on board, we put them through a pre-screening process and on average, about 80% of companies who apply to work with us, pass our criteria.
Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.

Chloe Steinberg is a partner at Sapphire Sport, where she focuses on investing in early-stage companies shaping the future of consumption. Chloe has deep industry expertise in the health & wellness sector, stemming from her 5+ years as an operator and investor with the Equinox Group of Brands. During that time, Chloe launched and led EquinoxVentures, the group’s investment arm focused on high performance living. She also supported Business Development & new business incubation, including the launch of Equinox Media in 2020. Earlier in her career, Chloe cofounded Vayner Capital in partnership with Gary Vaynerchuk and was a member of the investment team at Insight Venture Partners, where she focused on consumer tech and enterprise software investments. Chloe is deeply passionate about people doing work they love so in her free time, she founded and runs ExclusiveJobs, a not-for-profit, bespoke talent placement network in the consumer sector.Chloe graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she played varsity lacrosse. She was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Venture Capital in 2020. A Baltimore native, Chloe now resides in Westport, CT with her husband and son.

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
Trust Software — The corporate card, made social. Trust is the only corporate card that helps startups grow smarter, together. Learn more at trust.co
Market AI — Market increases sales for eCommerce businesses. Deploy custom AI models that increase traffic, develop new creative, and reach high-value customers.

Chadd Ciccarelli

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Triggr — SaaS Platform, Real-Time Sales Notifications and Top Quality Contact Data to Help Your Sales Team Close More Deals.
Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.

Portfolio of the Global Innovation Share Fund at Perpetual (post-IPO). Angel investor in Australia. Mentor at Startmate, an Australian startup accelerator.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alta — Alta is a virtual reality company developing A Township Tale, a social VR multiplayer experience!
WORK180 — WORK180 is a global jobs network that operates at the forefront of a new workplace revolution. Our function is twofold.As an advocate for working women, we provide job applicants with a transparent directory of endorsed employers who support diversity, inclusion and equality.We share information around pay equity, flexible working, paidparental leave, equal opportunities and a range of other important criteria. Before an employer comes on board, we put them through a pre-screening process and on average, about 80% of companies who apply to work with us, pass our criteria.
Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.

Chloe Steinberg is a partner at Sapphire Sport, where she focuses on investing in early-stage companies shaping the future of consumption. Chloe has deep industry expertise in the health & wellness sector, stemming from her 5+ years as an operator and investor with the Equinox Group of Brands. During that time, Chloe launched and led EquinoxVentures, the group’s investment arm focused on high performance living. She also supported Business Development & new business incubation, including the launch of Equinox Media in 2020. Earlier in her career, Chloe cofounded Vayner Capital in partnership with Gary Vaynerchuk and was a member of the investment team at Insight Venture Partners, where she focused on consumer tech and enterprise software investments. Chloe is deeply passionate about people doing work they love so in her free time, she founded and runs ExclusiveJobs, a not-for-profit, bespoke talent placement network in the consumer sector.Chloe graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she played varsity lacrosse. She was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Venture Capital in 2020. A Baltimore native, Chloe now resides in Westport, CT with her husband and son.

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
Trust Software — The corporate card, made social. Trust is the only corporate card that helps startups grow smarter, together. Learn more at trust.co
Market AI — Market increases sales for eCommerce businesses. Deploy custom AI models that increase traffic, develop new creative, and reach high-value customers.

Jeremy Colless is managing partner of Artesian Capital Management an alternative investment fund manager spun out of ANZ in 2004. As well as being a principal investor in early stage ventures in Australia and China, Artesian partners with accelerators, incubators, angel groups and universities to create early stage venture capitalco-investment funds such as the $10M Sydney Angels Sidecar Fund and Newcastle-based Slingshot Venture Fund. Prior to founding Artesian in 2004, Jeremy spent 18 years trading global bond/credit markets for investment banks including SG Warburg and Lehman Brothers in New York and Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Video, Advertising, Content Discovery
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

NewsMaven — NewsMaven provides personalised recommendations on what to read next. Think of them like Google Adsense for news content. So, each time someone comes along to your content based site they provide a recommendation on other articles that might be of interest to that user.

Aayush Phumbhra is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Nectar.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Education
Seed, Debt Financing, Angel
United States, India, Australia

Portfolio highlights

TravClan — TravClan empowers travel agents and new age travel entrepreneurs to generate more business online by enabling businesses to build and grow their digital presence and earn more profit by booking flights, hotels, holidays with suppliers across the world at best B2B prices on its platform. TravClan’s vision is to empower SMBs in travel across theworld to grow their business. It aims to bring on board over 10 million SMBs and enable a GMV of over $10 billion by 2025 on its platform.
Crux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
Magma — Magma platform partners with factories and raw materials suppliers to offer supply chain services from the supplier to the customer.

Stuart Fox is a Partner at Artesian Capital Management (Australia) Pty Ltd.

Investment focus

Video, Advertising, Content Discovery
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

NewsMaven — NewsMaven provides personalised recommendations on what to read next. Think of them like Google Adsense for news content. So, each time someone comes along to your content based site they provide a recommendation on other articles that might be of interest to that user.

Brand has had a long and successful career in ICT both in Government and Private Industry. Brand is a successful entrepreneur, company director and investor. He founded TOWER Software which was acquired by HP in May of 2008. Brand has a degree in Computer Studies from the University of Canberra, has served as a Councillor of the University ofCanberra and is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra. Brand has served as a Director of NICTA, the Australian ICT Centre of Excellence, Taggle Systems, SNAPeWallet and MyTaggles Pty Ltds. Brand also served as Chairman of Canberra Business Council and a Councilor of the NSW Business Chamber. He has served as Chairman Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) Canberra Division and as a Director on the National Board of AICD. He was awarded the 2011 National Pearcey Medal, for a lifetime contribution to Australian ICT and in 2012 he was inducted as a Member into the Order of Australia.

Investment focus

Internet, Community/Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Tapestry — Tapestry combines a simple, beautiful and private social network with a suite of mobile and tablet apps to help family members and aged care service providers look after the seniors in their care. For families, Tapestry is a simple and private social network that lets family members connect with each other and care for the seniors in theirlives. For aged care providers the Tapestry web site provides a way to create and manage the communities in their care.And for seniors, Tapestry provides the Tapestry Simplicity tablet app, which delivers all the services they need in way that’s simple, safe and easy to use. No matter how their family wants to connect with them, whether it’s Facebook, Google+, Email or something else, Tapestry handles everything for them, so they stay connected without needing to sign up for one service after another as technology keeps on changing.

Matt Miller is the Co-Founder of Ustwo Games.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Software
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

MagicBrief — Save Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok ads in a creative library that enables you to rework them in your own storyboards, which you can share with your team.

Harry is the Founder of The Twenty Minute VC, the world's largest independent venture capital podcast with over 100,000 listeners, partnerships with Mattermark and ProductHunt and guests from over 200VCs including the likes of Accel, Kleiner, Y Combinator, Benchmark and Index. He is also a contributor for TechCrunch covering all thingsstartups and VC funding and has recently joined Jason Lemkin at Saastr to build out the platform and expand into new verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.
Contextual AI — Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace.

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

Portfolio highlights

T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Morty — Morty is an app for discovering, booking, and tracking escape rooms. Find legendary escape games, coordinate with friends, and record your wins.
ParadeDB — ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres.

Sean Parker is the Founder and Chairman of Airtime. He previously worked at Brigade as a Co-Founder & Executive Chairman. Sean Parker attended Oakton High School.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Music
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

IgGenix — IgGenix is a biotechnology company, directly address food and other severe allergies by re-engineering key antibodies involved in the allergic cascade. IgGenix isolates and transforms allergen-specific IgE antibodies into IgG antibodies that are designed to alleviate and possibly prevent the allergic cascade.
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.
RevUp Software — RevUp Software is bringing leading-edge, easy to use analytics to Non-Profits, Academic Institutions and Political Organizations. We help fundraisers, while working with existing software, create new ways to identify, target, and engage their networks.

Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Stilt — Financial Services for International Students and Immigrants
Postscript — Engage with customers wherever they are. Postscript helps you build strong customer relationships across the entire buying experience. Start your free trial today.
Taali Foods — Taali is a 'better for you' food company. We have a simple vision, we want our products to be a delicious and guilt-free snack that is loaded with the good stuff.Our anchor brand Taali Taali is a guilt-free snack made from popped water lily seeds. Our products are made of Non-GMO, whole, and natural ingredients that you can pronounceand spell to create a difference you can taste. We have on average 20% fewer calories and 67% less fat per serving (28g) than the leading popcorn brand. Roasted never tasted this good.

Josh Hannah is a general partner with Matrix Partners. His entrepreneurial career began in 1999 when he cofounded Flutter.com in London and later led a merger with his biggest competitor, Betfair.com. The combined entity revolutionized the gaming industry by building the world’s first online marketplace for sports betting. Josh returned to theStates in 2004. Soon after, he and a partner purchased eHow, an ailing, Web 1.0, how-to directory. Josh and his partner outsourced content creation to the community and employed then-new advertising and search engine optimization techniques. They increased revenue and traffic 30-fold before selling the company to Demand Media in 2006 for a 400-X return. As a partner at Matrix, Josh has invested in Huddle, Inflection and Taulia. Prior to joining Matrix, Josh invested in successful startups such as Aardvark (acquired by Google), Blingo (acquired by Publishers Clearing House), Designer Apparel (acquired by Sugar Media), Friendster (acquired by MOL Global), Minted, uShip and Wetpaint.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
Meson Network — meson network provides fast,stable,cheap content delivery globally

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.
Timescale — Engineered to handle demanding workloads, like time series, vector, events, and analytics data. Built on PostgreSQL, with expert support at no extra charge.

Tim Haggett is a Non Executive Director at Centric Health.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Content Creators
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

SpaceDraft — SpaceDraft helps you visualise and collaborate for time, space & action, so you can spend less time explaining.

Founder at OCR Aviation

Investment focus

Dating, Social Media, Social Network
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Spring.me — Spring.me is the best way to meet people, express yourself and expand your life. Millions of people visit Spring.me every month.Meet PeopleThe world is full of people you don’t know yet. Meet people by starting a conversation with anyone, find people who are online now and follow people you find interesting.Express YourselfBeYourself, Be Anonymous, Be Anyone. Ask the questions that matter to you. Get honest answers and find out what people actually think. Make memes, post photos or animated GIFs and share them with everyone.Expand Your LifeMake a connection; watch what everyone else around the world is posting, real-time. See something amazing? Post a link or share a video from anywhere. Spring.me lets everyone share openly.

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Social Media
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials for our
Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.

Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Sharpist — We offer personalized learning that will help people-centric organizations and teams grow throughout the challenges of today and tomorrow. Learn more!
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

Grant Grosser - CEO/Founder @ SEQTA

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Content Creators
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

SpaceDraft — SpaceDraft helps you visualise and collaborate for time, space & action, so you can spend less time explaining.

Amir Suissa - President of the Board @ wefox

Investment focus

Credit, Dating, Banking
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
Lua — Lua is a swipe-free dating app focused on depth and intimacy. With our smart & unique matching model, users receive hand-picked matches that consider their interests, personal sharings, and engagement holistically.Once matched, users are guided through a series of intimacy-building questions during a mystery meeting, before being given theoption to reveal their personal profile, and continue the journey with that special someone in the light.
Black Label — Jasper, formerly CreditStacks, is a financial service company that offers a credit card designed for professionals. Jasper uses technology to assess applicants holistically, so applicants may qualify for a premium Jasper Mastercard, issued by WebBank, even if they are just starting their credit journey.The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in New York City, New York.

Allison Pickens is an internationally known thought leader on Customer Success and scaling teams during hyper-growth. As former Gainsight's Chief Operating Officer, Allison manages corporate strategic planning, corporate development, and operational responsibilities that are critical to the company and its customers’ success.Allison wasnamed one of the top women leaders in SaaS, one of the 50 people in the sales and business development industry, and named a Customer Service Influencer. She is an international speaker and blogger, and the host of The Customer Success Podcast. She also serves as a Board Director at SaaS companies RainforestQA and eCompliance and is a Growth Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. She has a passion for helping companies create exceptional Customer Success initiatives across their company.Allison built and scaled Gainsight’s post-sales functions, including a global team of more than 150 team members across Customer Success Management, Professional Services, Support, Business Operations, Customer Marketing, Value Consulting, and Customer Engineering. Before that, she built Gainsight's Sales Development and Business Operations, teams.Allison started her career in management consulting for Fortune 500 companies while at Boston Consulting Group and later worked in private equity investing at Bain Capital. At both companies, she helped organizations drive change and scale teams. Allison has a BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University, as well as an MBA from Stanford University. On weekends you can find Allison geeking out about blockchain or hiking in the Marin Headlands.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce
PipeDreams — PipeDreams invests in trusted plumbing and HVAC businesses. We buy businesses with amazing teams and use technology to grow them into industry-leading organizations.
Unstructured Technologies — Unstructured helps you get your data ready for AI by transforming it into a format that large language models can understand. Easily connect your data to LLMs.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Logic PD — Beacon EmbeddedWorks System On Modules (SOMs) deliver unwavering performance. Our SOMs are compact, secure, fully customizable and built to last.
Muso — Find local talent. Organise all your venue's entertainment bookings in one place. We'll handle the payment and the boring admin.

CEO at realAs

Investment focus

Education, Marketing, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
REALas — REALas provides Australia's most accurate price predictions on properties listed for sale. This includes auctions and private sales. Nationally, on average we've predicted within 5% of the sale price over the past 12 months.Visit https://REALas.comREALas started with a conversation between friends who were determined to givebuyers more realistic price predictions to guide their bids at auctions or offers at private sales.In 2011, we set out to develop the smartest property price prediction service in Australia. An international search led us to some incredibly talented data scientists, right here in Australia, at RMIT University.Using the latest research in data science, lots of property data, local market knowledge from property experts, and input from buyers - we developed our proprietary algorithm.And so, REALas was born.Fast forward to today, REALas has been rigorously tested across the Australian market. Nationally, on average we’ve predicted within 5% of the sale price over the 12 month period beginning Sep 16 to Aug 17. And we have not stopped there. Our algorithm continues to adapt as the market changes.In 2016, ANZ acquired REALas so we can continue in our pursuit to provide the most accurate predictions in the Australian property market, and supports us in the work we do from afar.REALas will continue to keep it real for property buyers so they don’t waste their time out there.
GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.

Paris Smith started her gaming career in 1995 by taking bets at WWTS, an offshore sports betting company that was later sold to Betcorp Ltd. Having worked her way up the business to become COO, she joined Curacao-based Pinnacle in the same role from 2006. Pinnacle soon recognised Smith’s efforts in shifting the focus away from North America towardsgrowth markets in Asia and Europe, by promoting her to CEO in 2008. Almost a decade on, Pinnacle continues to flourish under her leadership. The operator emphasised its desire for data driven innovation by launching a revamped eSports portal in 2017.

Investment focus

News, Sports, Basketball
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.

Damian Miles is a Co-Founder and CTO at Ritestream. He attended the TAFE Queensland Brisbane.

Investment focus

Video, Broadcasting, Video on Demand
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

VDYO — Launch your video-on-demand and OTT experiences fast with VDYO.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
Fal.ai — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds

Su-Ming Wong is an investment professional with over 30 years’ direct investment, international corporate advisory and merchant banking experience.He is a director of several portfolio companies including Lorna Jane and Scentia. Prior portfolio directorships include SG Fleet, H-E Parts, TSmarine, Retail Apparel Group, Dexion, Amdel, Mulford andIntercast & Forge.Su-Ming Wong was a member of the Council of University of Technology, Sydney (2010 – 2014). He was a founding director of National ICT Australia (a centre of excellence in ICT research & development), a member of the Industry Research and Development Board and a director of Unisearch. He was a council member of the Australian Venture Capital Association and was a member of the South Australian Government’s Venture Capital Board.He holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Social Media, Private Social Networking
Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Booktopia —
Tapestry — Discover Tapestry's Online Learning Journal from The Foundation Stage Forum and how it supports Early Years settings. Sign up to a free two-week trial today

Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director.

Investment focus

Retail, Automotive, Publishing
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

Jeff Sagansky - Chief Executive Officer and President @ Double Eagle Acquisition

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Advertising
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Picklebet — Puntaa is a social daily fantasy sports (DFS) app.
Oddin.gg — Oddin.gg - Esports live odds provider with industry-leading uptime and multiple live markets. B2B Esports data API. Boost volume and profit. Try our demo.
SiBS — Social Bartering System is a platform for community connection and the trade of goods and services. Social Bartering System was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in New York, United States.

Tony Faure is the Chair at oOh! Media. He attended University of Sussex.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Social Media
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

biNu — What could you achieve?
LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.
Stackla — Explore Nosto's User Generated Content (UGC) tools for more authentic online experiences

Canva now has, after only two years more than 10 million users across 179 countries, and is used daily by many social media marketers, bloggers and small businesses to create things like posters, business cards and presentations. More than 100 million designs have now been created using the platform.The company is also made famous for theappointed Apple’s Chief Evangelist, Guy Kawasaki as it’s ambassador.

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

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, 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.

Chairman @ Mental Health Australia

Investment focus

Financial, Software, Professional Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series A

Co-Founder & CEO @ ReverseFunder

Investment focus

Software, Other, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed