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Top 50 Media (entertainment) VC Funds in Oceania

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Media (entertainment) VC Funds in Oceania

Investor	Media (entertainment) Oceania investments
Investible	10
Blackbird Ventures	8
Skalata	7
Sydney Angels	6
Airtree Ventures	5
EVP	5
Skip Capital	5
Flying Fox Ventures	5
Starfish Ventures	5
CP Ventures	5
TEN13	4
SEEK	4
Black Sheep Capital	4
Enterprise Angels	4
Archangel Ventures	4
Singtel Innov8	4
Rampersand	4
Common Sense Ventures	4
Hillfarrance Venture Capital	4
Yuuwa Capital	3
Macdoch Ventures	3
Carthona Capital	3
Artesian VC	3
Icehouse Ventures	3
Square Peg Capital	3
GD1	3
K1W1	3
HATCHER+	3
Blockchain Founders Fund	2
AfterWork Ventures	2
Saniel Ventures	2
Kakao Ventures	2
Shasta Ventures	2
Melbourne Angels	2
Seven West Media	2
Tank Stream Ventures	2
Thorney Investment	2
INP Capital	2
Alberts Impact Ventures	2
Untitled Ventures	2
Ellerston Capital	2
Brisbane Angels	2
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund	2
Gravel Road Ventures	2
Stage 2 Capital	2
Transition Level Investments	2
Blackbird Ventures	2
Qualgro VC	2
Folklore Ventures	2
Exto Partners	2

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Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

Investment focus

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

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!
Fugu Carbon — Fugu Carbon is a machinery manufacturing company that helps in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology from air.
Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.

Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Redactive — Redactive removes the specialist Data engineering knowledge that application developers need to build scalable AI applications for internal use cases or providing new AI experiences to your customers.
Aquila — We're powering the future by building and operating an infinitely scalable energy network.
Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.

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

Investment focus

Software, Education, Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

humii — Humii provides actionable insights to companies by tracing customer interactions.
SupplyScope — Revolutionise the way you manage your product development lifecycle with SupplyScope's all-in-one AI-driven platform.
Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.

Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Remi AI — A.I-Powered Demand Forecasting, Supply Chain AI, & Price Optimisation | Remi AI
Trendspek — Trendspek's 3D software lets you manage high-value built assets faster, safer and with more accuracy. With millimetre detail, interact with exact digital replicas of infrastructure from your desk and collaborate with global stakeholders. Book a call with us to get started.
Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
TrueState — Accelerate your AI adoption with TrueState's library of high-impact AI solutions, infinitely customisable for your unique business context.
Zeta Markets — Trade crypto like never before. Zeta lets you trade all your favorite assets at lightning speed without compromising security.

EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CorePlan — CorePlan is drilling management platform for mining, exploration and drilling companies to digitise their drill program operations. Move from pen, paper and spreadsheets to digital plods, drill planning, rig management, safety compliance and more using our cloud based software.
Nexl — Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential.
InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Atticus — Atticus makes fact-checking quick, collaborative and secure, so you can spend less time on process and more on the things that matter.
BurnBot — Burnbot is a tech forward provider of wildfire mitigation, vegetation management, and prescribed fire operations. We offer force-multiplying solutions that reduce the risk of wildfire damage for critical infrastructure, firefighting agencies, agriculture, private enterprise, public lands, conservati
Archistar.ai — Archistar's world-first artificial intelligence helps property professionals find profitable land development sites, assess for feasibility and generate dozens of architectural design strategies - all within a few minutes

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Starfish Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm focused on information technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Australia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Aktana — Build stronger relationships with HCPs using Aktana's artificial intelligence (AI) platform for life sciences to optimize omnichannel engagement.
DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,228,575 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
Marani — Marani helps maternity providers quickly identify and manage maternal and fetal risk as well as empowering moms to have healthier pregnancies.

CP Ventures is a VC fund that invests internationally in early stage, highly scalable, breakthrough technology companies driven by the 4IR

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Ahura AI — Ahura AI, an EdTech startup using artificial intelligence to create personalized learning tools that replicate a 1-to-1 learning experience
Ensuredit — ENSUREDIT enables and empowers end customers and Insurance Intermediaries with AI-based product platforms for transformational customer experience.

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

iion — iion the only unified game advertising platform that unites brands and game publishers. Engage gamers, monetize effectively, and unlock infinite opportunities across gaming environments.
Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.

SEEK is a diverse group of companies that have a unified purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organizations succeed. The Group encompasses a strong portfolio of employment, education, and volunteer businesses which span across Australia, New Zealand, China, South East Asia, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, andBangladesh. SEEK makes a positive impact on a truly global scale, operating in a total of 18 countries with market-leading positions in 14 countries. It creates world-class product technology solutions to address the needs of job seekers and hirers and facilitate the matching between job seekers and hirers across our online employment marketplaces. Online Education Services (‘OES’) offers leading online education and SEEK Learning offers trusted advice in relation to career-related education. SEEK’s commitment to having a positive impact on society is reflected through the diverse range of initiatives which its businesses across the globe partake in to support the communities they operate within. In Australia and New Zealand SEEK Volunteer is each country’s largest single source of volunteering opportunities offering not-for-profit organizations free access to post volunteer opportunities. This free marketplace is something SEEK is exceptionally proud of. Over its 20 years of operation, SEEK continues to innovate within the markets it operates in. It provides a culture of excellence and acceptance in our workplaces and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of the organization.

Investment focus

Human Resources, Recruiting, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Go1 — GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.
Employment Hero — Employment Hero is Australia's top cloud-based HR, payroll and benefits platform for employers & employees. FREE trial for...
Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment

Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series C
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Beamible — Get the most for and from your workforce. Deconstruct work down to its individual components so it can be reconstructed to better meet the needs of the business and the employees. Reduce turnover and burnout, enable flex and drive efficiency with Beamible.
Aerotruth — Aerotruth is a B2B SaaS solution which automates the document on-boarding process for banks, financial institutions and fintechs
Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.

Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

iion — iion the only unified game advertising platform that unites brands and game publishers. Engage gamers, monetize effectively, and unlock infinite opportunities across gaming environments.
Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.
InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.

Singtel Innov8, the venture capital arm of the Singtel Group, invests in and partners with innovative tech start-ups worldwide. It has a fund size of US$250 million and its own set of decision making, approval and funding processes. Beyond funding, Singtel Innov8 is a gateway for start-ups to tap on the resources and expertise of the Singtel Group,while enabling the Group to gain access to emerging technologies. Singtel Innov8 focuses its investments on technologies and solutions that can lead to quantum changes in network capabilities, next generation devices, digital services and enablers to enhance customer experience. Headquartered in Singapore, Singtel Innov8 also has offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Cyber Security
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

AI-LINK — AI-LINK is a digital infrastructure provider focused on industrial sites.
StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
Synadia Communications — Synadia | Secure, decentralized, secure global utility, powered by NATS for IoT, microservices and all digital systems.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cuttable — Create high-quality ads quickly with Cuttable. Our tool uses automation and expert insights to produce and publish exceptional ads in under a minute. Perfect for marketers.
JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.

Common Sense Ventures is an Australian family office backing early-stage, fast-growing businesses. We partner with ambitious managers looking to solve problems that will help the world.

Investment focus

FinTech, CleanTech, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sherlok — Automated client retention for mortgage brokers, helping them grow their loan book by proactively keeping their existing clients happy and with them forever.
Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.
Clayful — Clayful partners with K-12 schools and districts to support student mental wellness through on-demand coaching, responsive curriculum, & actionable data trends.

We exist to serve great entrepreneurs with honest advice and education, investment capital that is fair, and an open door to our international network and connections.

Investment focus

Animation, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
Space Rock Games — Space Rock Games is the developer behind Criminals Within - a cooperative-only action game set in a medieval fantasy kingdom. Sign up to receive exclusive development updates!
Floating Rock Studio — Floating Rock Studio

Yuuwa Capital is a $40M early-stage venture capital firm based in Perth, Western Australia. They are actively seeking outstanding investment opportunities where Yuuwa can provide both capital and expertise to help founders, management and early investors to turn good ideas into great companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Analytics, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Nexgen Plants Pty Limited — Healthy plants, healthy people, living planet. Nexgen develop's plants for future generations that will improve the environment and health of future generations.
icetana — icetana Motion Intelligence dramatically improves the active monitoring of security surveillance networks, with AI video anomaly detection and video analytics.
Agworld Pty Ltd — Agworld Farm Management software allows you to collect data at all levels and enables you to extract maximum value from this data; optimising profitability. The Agworld ecosystem is utilised by growers, agronomists and service providers on farms across the world.

Our mission is to support Australia & New Zealand’s late seed stage founders. Since 2011, we have partnered with extraordinary founders building companies using technology to build a better future.We are looking for late seed stage founders who have a product and paying customers, in businesses across Australia & New Zealand. Our currentthesis surrounds networked businesses (like platforms and marketplaces) and select SaaS, but we do engage more broadly.We have been active seed investors since 2011. We invested in Cliff, Mel and Cameron when Canva was just starting to offer paid subscription plans. We partnered with Dylan and Mark at Qwilr based on their first public beta. Peter and Tony at Mable had 350 carers on their Sydney-based marketplace when we first partnered with them.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cecil — From nature-based offset projects to biodiversity inventories, we simplify natural asset management for project developers, intermediaries, asset managers and investors.
Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CNaught — CNaught is an online platform that helps companies to purchase a diversified portfolio of carbon offsets.
NayaOne — Revolutionise your financial institution with NayaOne's Sandbox as a Service platform. Accelerate innovation, reduce risks, and partner with top-tier fintechs.
Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.

Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aquila — We're powering the future by building and operating an infinitely scalable energy network.
NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.

Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cuttable — Create high-quality ads quickly with Cuttable. Our tool uses automation and expert insights to produce and publish exceptional ads in under a minute. Perfect for marketers.
Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.
Mindverse — Discover the AI that transforms your life. MindOS boosts productivity, makes suggestions, and perfects your routines. Get an AI memory today.

GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
New Zealand, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
Caruso — We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between.
NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!

K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Akahu — Akahu provides open banking and open finance infrastructure. We make it simple for people to connect their financial accounts to trusted third parties.
Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Hatcher+ is a data-driven venture capital firm that uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading accelerators and investors, worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Italy, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Jenesys AI — Jack is an AI financial co-pilot that employees use inside Slack or Teams to make purchase and approval requests for spending or managing company money. Jack issues one-time use payment card details for supplier purchases, automates reconciliation and reduces invoice fraud by enforcing budgets, regulations, and internal policies at the point ofspend. Jack ensures compliance by acting as an internal auditor on every purchase transaction. Additionally, Jack helps finance leaders manage cash flow and cuts the time to report numbers by 63% each month.
Odne — Curing with light
Kybele's Garden — Algae Biotechnology for Agrifood & Cosmetics Solutions

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Scallop — Scallop is the pioneering Next Generation peer-to-peer Web3 Decentralized Finance lending Money Market.
Squared Labs — Reimagining leverage without liquidation
Validation Cloud — Validation Cloud is a Web3 data streaming and infrastructure company that connects organizations into Web3 through a fast, scalable, and intelligent platform. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Validation Cloud offers highly performant and customizable products in staking, node, and data-as-a-service. Its team brings extensive experience acrossWeb2 and Web3 from the likes of Coinbase, Kraken, Workday, Accenture, Crypto.com, Voyager, and more. Learn more at Validationcloud.io

We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Avarni — Smart carbon emissions management tool designed for complex supply chains. Turn your raw data into meaningful emissions insights and bolster your carbon strategy.
Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.

Helping passionate founders build the future Saniel Ventures is a private investment group supporting high growth technology companies. Get in touch We invest in people first Smart, passionate, resilient founders building the future We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect that you are humble enough to know

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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,
Nexl — Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential.
ProcurePro — Unlock procurement, Enable performance.

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

GPUN — GPUN is a platform that enables individuals to build games.
Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
Sandy Floor — Sandy Floor is a multiplayer games platform. It develops of casual fun games.

Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Voxel51 — We build software that enables ML engineers to build better models, more quickly. Try FiftyOne, our powerful platform for dataset curation, analysis, and model development.
LeakSignal — Sensitive data and attack observability/mitigation across service mesh architecture. WAF, Data Exfiltration, Data protection, Real time mitigation.
Overland AI — Overland AI is a manufacturer and developer of autonomous navigation for off-road autonomous vehicles.

Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
Apop Imaging — Apop Imaging develops and commercialises novel imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic tools to improve patient outcomes based on our proprietary calcitonin receptor antibody technology.
Alkira Software — Deliver interactive content and answer customer queries at scale using conversational AI. TalkVia offers quick and easy NO CODE voice and chat solutions for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri and web based chatbots.

Seven West Media is the leading, listed national multi-platform media business based in Australia. We comprise Seven Television, the leading free to air capital city television network; Pacific Magazines, the country's second largest magazine group by readership; Yahoo!7 one of the nation’s most successful internet platforms, as well asWestern Australia's leading newspaper, The West Australian and associated WA regional newspapers and radio stations. Seven West Media was created through the acquisition of Seven Media Group by West Australian Newspapers Holdings Limited (WAN) as approved by WAN shareholders on 11 April 2011.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series C
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Carbar — Carbar is Australia's first and leading vehicle subscription service. Carbar started off as a virtual car dealership that streamlines the process of selling and buying cars. It also offers a car subscription service, an alternative to car ownership where a customer can get to use a car for a recurring fee. Their car subscription serviceincludes no fixed term-contracts, fully inclusive of insurance, registration, maintenance, roadside assistance and the ability to switch cars depending on your needs.Carbar was founded in 2016.
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.
CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

Tank Stream Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in strong teams solving core human problems!. We support founders with an almost obsessive vision to disrupt existing industries, create new ones and improve lives through technology.We like Founders with a problem solving vision as opposed to a solution driven one. We seetechnology as an enabler rather than an end in itself.We like to get involved as early as we can and are flexible in terms of geography – we’ve made investments from Hobart to Stockholm, with a strong concentration in Australia and the US.Through Tank Stream Labs, Australia's leading entrepreneurial community and co-working space, we are surrounded by entrepreneurs, thought leaders and ingenious opportunities every single day.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Biteable — Make on-brand videos with the leading online video maker. Biteable is the leading solution for creating concise, engaging, on-brand video content.
Flare — Flare is a free HR software offering paperless onboarding, employee benefits, and employee management. Level up your operations and book a free demo today.
YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne

Thorney Opportunities Ltd is an investment company. The Company's principal activity is making investments in listed securities. The Company is focused on producing absolute returns for shareholders over the medium to long-term. Its primary focus is on the selection of investments, which enable it to be a catalyst towards unlocking the valuein the companies that it identifies. The Company's investment manager is Thorney Management Services Pty Ltd.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Australia, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Willed — Willed is an Australian online estate planning platform.
Earnity — Your new favorite crypto community. Build a portfolio in minutes, copy and share collections, and discuss the latest tokens and research. Create your profile now.
Buildxact — Buildxact is an easy to use construction management and estimating software designed for small builders and contractors. Sign up for your 14-day free trial.

INP Capital is a global private-market investor with international offices in Canada, Australia, China, UK and Germany. We back and invest in entrepreneurs looking to change the world. We are committed to building long-term relationships with our investors, investment partners and colleagues.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
Eden Brew — Eden Brew is a ground-breaking new way to enjoy dairy products sustainably and nutritiously.
Revery AI — Revery AI helps create online virtual dressing rooms, where shoppers can mix and match any outfit and visualize it on a model that looks like them (Live Demo: https://demo.revery.ai). Within 8 months from launch, we are already integrated with the largest fashion retailer in South East Asia and is partnering with worlds’ largest fashionretailers and brands to rebuild the online shopping fashion experiences. Studies show that shoppers are 25% more likely to convert after using our virtual dressing room.You might have heard about virtual dressing rooms applications for decades but wonder why they are still not widely adopted nowadays when everything is moving digital. The truth is: many start-ups tried, but none of them created a solution that can scale economically while maintaining the quality standards to be appealing. Revery’s co-founders have unlocked such technology through Ph.D. research and are bringing it to the market! Our core algorithm can instantly produce high-fidelity images of people wearing selected outfits only using existing catalog images.Revery’s vision is to digitize all fashion products and help people imagine themselves in their best-looking outfits. We believe that the future of fashion should be diverse, inclusive, and sustainable.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Segwise — Segwise helps you root cause metrics and jump on LiveOps opportunities faster
Induced AI — Induced is an AI-native browser RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with smart reasoning and memory, to automate enterprise workflows of all kinds.
The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Australia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Data Zoo — Data Zoo is an online identity service verifying customers instantly and providing global data coverage. Keeping information protected and systems secure.
Aerologix — Get skilled drone pilots and seamless drone hire services at Aerologix. Precision, reliability, and aerial excellence are at your fingertips. Contact us today!
BiomeBank — BiomeBank is a clinical stage biotechnology company with a mission to treat our microbiome and prevent disease by restoring gut microbial ecology.

Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

ReciMe — ReciMe is the ultimate cooking app that helps you save, share, and discover new recipes. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
PropCode — PropCode is a online platform, that helps in researching for town planning queries. the rules can be complex, and make it easy to get the right answers.
Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.

Your guide to finding and using government services.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
New Zealand, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure

= Don't forget where you came from. The road is not smooth. Detours are inevitable. Who you travel with matters. Enjoy the ride.

Investment focus

SaaS, Timber, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

CLT Toolbox — CLT Tool Box: CLT Design Software and Structural design software for CLT to simplify mass timber calculations for Europe, Australia, & New Zealand
Style Sourcebook — Style Sourcebook provides digital platform that allows users to create mood boards for interior design ideas using images of items that are available for purchase from independent retailers .Style Sourcebook brings together all the tools, people and ideas to help you create your perfect space.

Stage 2 Capital home page, team, strategy, method, approach, and blog

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Metaplane — Metaplane is a data observability platform that helps data teams know when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it.
Tofu — Tofu offers a single platform for generating hyper-personalized, multichannel campaigns at scale that deliver opportunities for B2B marketing teams.
Stockpress — The easiest way for teams to find, use, and share files.

Founded by Steve Baxter, Transition Level Investments provides equity capital and operational expertise across Seed and Series A rounds to Australian companies. Our team focuses on a company-growth approach, adding value by assisting founders to build their expertise, expand their team, build product, scale locally and globally to position for asuccessful exit. We have a track record of identifying investment opportunities in the Australian market and helping enable global growth.

Investment focus

SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kapiche — Top-rated customer feedback analytics platform. Instant insights. No setup or coding. Kapiche ingests & analyzes feedback in minutes for real customer insights.
FloodMapp — Enhance operational efficiency, lead time, situational awareness and decision making using FloodMapp rapid flood mapping software.
Chipper Cash — Join over 5 million people securely sending and receiving money with Chipper Cash. Great app to send and receive money across a number of countries, highly recommended as a money transfer alternative.

Blackbird Ventures is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in diverse businesses including emerging technology companies and real estate development. Blackbird Ventures is based in La Jolla, California.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Hardware
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Dgraph Labs — The only fault-tolerant, distributed graph database with native GraphQL that gives developers the tools to quickly build distributed applications at scale.
PsiQuantum — PsiQuantum is building the world's first useful quantum computer.
SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.

Qualgro is a venture capital (VC) fund based in Singapore that provides funding to tech startups across Southeast Asia, in areas like Data, Software, and AI.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
Singapore, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Convosight — World's #1 platform to monetize your Facebook group, engage members and get deep insights into what is working in your community.
Accredify — Build digital trust for your organisation with verifiable information. Issue instantly verifiable digital documents and simplify document management processes.
Supermom — Supermom helps parents make the right decisions on what to buy and where to buy at the lowest prices. Best prices guaranteed for millions of mom, baby & kids products.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Exto Partners is a leading Australian venture capital firm that has backed the next growth phase of many of Australia's fast growing tech companies.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hey You — Formerly Known as Beat The Q and Posse. Hey You is evolving the way that people order and pay at cafes, restaurants and bars. They connect customers with businesses through their app, so that you can order ahead and pay through your mobile. Hey You understand that humanity is at the core of all hospitality and we bring this to our users throughour app. It also focuses on building connections between customers and businesses every day from helping venues grow and run their businesses to transforming the way customers order at their favorite venues.Hey You was founded in 2011and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Zetaris — Zetaris is the Australia's Analytical Data Virtualization platform for self-service BI, AI and SQL Data Analytics and Big Data Visualization. Contact Us Today!
Airtasker — Access thousands of skilled people for your home & office tasks. From furniture assembly to data entry - hire a skilled Airtasker today.

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