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

Investor	Media (entertainment) Australia investments
Chris Sang	3
Chris Sang	3
Leigh Jasper	2
Brendan Leonard	2
Stuart Fox	2
Andrew Barnes	2
Jeremy Colless	2
Chadd Ciccarelli	2
Robert Phillpot	2
Aayush Phumbhra	2
Thomas Rice	2
Chloe Steinberg	2
Chadd Ciccarelli	2
Thomas Rice	2
Chloe Steinberg	2
Jeremy Colless	2
Brendan Leonard	2
Robert Phillpot	2
Stuart Fox	2
Aayush Phumbhra	2
Andrew Barnes	2
Leigh Jasper	2
Jason Calacanis	1
Andrew Hamilton	1
Seth Young	1
Oji Udezue	1
David Gyngell	1
Allison Pickens	1
rob kawalsky	1
Rayn Ong	1
Oji Udezue	1
Zach Kitschke	1
Kenneth Goldman	1
Andrew Bogut	1
Lars Rasmussen	1
Nikki Warburton	1
Damian Miles	1
Amir Suissa	1
Andrew Hamilton	1
Raymond Spencer	1
Grant Grosser	1
Larry Lopez	1
Chris Wheeler	1
Tim Doyle	1
Laurence Escalante	1
Chris Anderson	1
Alex Zaccaria	1
Benjie Cherniak	1
Chris Grove	1
David Sargeant	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

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
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.

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.

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.

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 documents into bite-sized learning modules to enjoy on the phone.
Learn.xyz — Empower your team with learning they'll actually enjoy: Learn.xyz automatically turns your documents into bite-sized learning modules to enjoy on the phone.
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.

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

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.
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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
CyberFilm — Bring your story to life!

Andrew Hamilton is a managing Director of Hamilton & Associates.

Investment focus

Advice, Retirement, Financial Services
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Super Fierce — Super Fierce is a financial service company that provides financial advisory, superannuation, and financial wellness services.

Seth Young - Chief Innovation Officer @ PointsBet

Investment focus

Sports, News, Gaming
Seed, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ultimate Odds — Ultimate Odds is a next generation gaming product that combines sports betting and fantasy into one highly engaging experience. Ultimate Odds is at the forefront of the US sports gaming industry with a modern product that educates new bettors and creates a competitive space for sports fans.
Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.

Oji Udezue is the current Chief Product Officer of Typeform. He previously worked atParsable as a Chief Product Officer/Consult. Oji Udezue attended Columbia Business School.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
Seed
Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

ZenHub — ZenHub helps your teams get more done faster with time-saving agile automations, fewer meetings, and more visibility in GitHub.
Vouch — Vouch allows you to collect, edit & share authentic videos with a single link. Capture customer video testimonials, employee feedback, win-loss reports & more.

David Gyngell was the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from November 2010 until November 2015, having previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Nine Network from September 2007. David Gyngell became a Non-Executive Director of the company in November 2015. He has almost 20 years’ of experience at Nine and over 25 years’ overallmedia sector experience.Previously, David Gyngell was Chief Executive Officer of Granada Television and also Director of International Management Group and Transworld Media International. He has also worked as Executive Director, Group Marketing and Communications for Publishing & Broadcasting Limited.

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.

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.

rob kawalsky

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Health Care
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Human — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.
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.

Rayn Ong - Partner @ Archangel Ventures

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Marketplace
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Minke — Send, save and invest crypto with zero fees and an experience as intutive as your bank.
Pushas — Buy & Sell Authentic, Brand-New Sneakers From Australia's Favourite Sneaker Store. Widest selection of hype, exclusive sneakers: Air Jordans, Yeezys, Nike, Adidas, Off-Whites & more. AfterPay, Klarna, ZipPay & Laybuy available. 'Authenticity' guarantee on every sneaker purchase or your money back.
Vouch — Vouch allows you to collect, edit & share authentic videos with a single link. Capture customer video testimonials, employee feedback, win-loss reports & more.

Oji Udezue is the current Chief Product Officer of Typeform. He previously worked atParsable as a Chief Product Officer/Consult. Oji Udezue attended Columbia Business School.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
Seed
Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

ZenHub — ZenHub helps your teams get more done faster with time-saving agile automations, fewer meetings, and more visibility in GitHub.
Vouch — Vouch allows you to collect, edit & share authentic videos with a single link. Capture customer video testimonials, employee feedback, win-loss reports & more.

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.

Ken Goldman is the President at Hillspire, LLC. Ken Goldman attended Harvard Business School and Cornell University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Node — Sugar helps business create customers for life with the world's most intelligent CRM platform. With SugarCRM, you let the platform do the work. Get a demo today!
BlockCypher — BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale. BlockCypher's web services are blockchain agnostic and greatly reduce the complexity of building applications that run on multiple blockchains. Easily build, run and future proof blockchain applications on BlockCypher's infrastructure.
BoxMedia — Box Media are a creative media-on-demand production company. Redefining Normal. Reinventing Learning.

Andrew Bogut

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Series D
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

SportsIcon — Venture Studio and Sports Agency harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.
Bare — Bare provides a quality cremation service and a dedicated care team that helps you each step of the way. Arrange online or via phone. Call us on 1800 071 176
Live Graphic Systems — Live Sports Graphics - "Next-gen" live graphics for a new era of sports broadcast. No hardware, no designers, no graphics operators, up and running in minutes.

Lars Rasmussen is a co-founder and 'Chief Espresso Officer' at Weav Music, Inc in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly, he was a director of engineer at Facebook London where he headed up the Facebook Workplace team. Formerly, he was a member of Google's technical staff, based in the Sydney office, and with his brother the

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Video
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Neptyne — Neptyne is making spreadsheets programmable
OneRoof — OneRoof is an app that helps meet people with similar interests living in your building and build new friendships. Communication should go further than a nod in the elevator.
Fingerprint For Success — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.

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.

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.

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.

Andrew Hamilton is a managing Director of Hamilton & Associates.

Investment focus

Advice, Retirement, Financial Services
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Super Fierce — Super Fierce is a financial service company that provides financial advisory, superannuation, and financial wellness services.

Raymond Spencer is a entrepreneur - boldly shaping the future of South Australia and organisations around the world.

Investment focus

Advice, Retirement, Financial Services
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Super Fierce — Super Fierce is a financial service company that provides financial advisory, superannuation, and financial wellness services.

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.

In 2006, Larry Lopez moved from Silicon Valley to Perth, bringing with him his wisdom of technology investment, global venture capital, entrepreneurship and financing for start-up companies.For eighteen years, Larry held senior and executive positions at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), playing a key role in the growth of the SVB Financial Groupfrom a community bank to a global financial leader. In his role at SVB he sponsored the Bank’s investment in numerous European, Israeli and Australian venture capital funds. Over the years, Larry worked with hundreds of offshore companies launching products in Silicon Valley, and served on boards in Stockholm, London and Australia.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Content Creators
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

SpaceDraft — SpaceDraft helps you visualise and collaborate for time, space & action, so you can spend less time explaining.
SWAN Systems — A revolutionary all-in-one water and nutrient irrigation management software to manage outputs for better yields at lower costs; discover how.

Chris Wheeler - Board member @ Diagnose Early

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Software
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Vouch — Vouch allows you to collect, edit & share authentic videos with a single link. Capture customer video testimonials, employee feedback, win-loss reports & more.

Tim Doyle is a founder of Eucalyptus

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.

Laurence Escalante is the Founder and CEO at Virtual Gaming Worlds.

Investment focus

Dairy, Retail, Automotive
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Bae Juice — 100% Korean pear juice
CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

Chris Anderson is a head of conference organisation TED.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, Journalism
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Curio — Be one of the first to access Rio, the leading AI for fact-checked news. Free for early users.
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

Alex Zaccaria is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Linktree. He previously worked at Bolster Music as a Director. Alex Zaccaria attended RMIT University.

Investment focus

Events, Event Management, Professional Services
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Arinex — Arinex specializes in event and exhibition management, conference, marketing and social programs.
WhyHive — WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses.

Benjie Cherniak

Investment focus

Sports, Gaming, Apps
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Future Anthem — Future Anthem's all-in-one product, Amplifier AI, is built to personalise the player experience for everyone.
Ultimate Odds — Ultimate Odds is a next generation gaming product that combines sports betting and fantasy into one highly engaging experience. Ultimate Odds is at the forefront of the US sports gaming industry with a modern product that educates new bettors and creates a competitive space for sports fans.
Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.

Chris Grove is a partner at Eilers & Krejcik Gaming.

Investment focus

Casino, Gaming, Sports
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

FSG Digital — FSG Digital aims to support the interactive sports wagering and iGaming ecosystem through the introduction of product lines focused on engaging and communicating authentically with the LatinX audience in the USA and beyond. FSG Digital, co-founded by CEO Seth Schorr and his partner Jeffrey Fine, traces its roots in interactive gaming back twentyyears when Schorr developed Wynn Resort’s first interactive casino in 2000. Schorr and Fine are joined by experienced iGaming entrepreneur & FSG Digital CSO Seth Young.
Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.
Pro League Network — Pro League Network specializes in creating and broadcasting exclusive niche sports content, tailored for sports wagering operators. With a focus on fun and engaging sports brands, the company offers live broadcasts and events, including the World Putting League, accessible for free to its community. Pro League Network positions itself at theintersection of sports entertainment and betting, aiming to enhance the sports wagering experience with uniquely produced content. The company's offerings cater to a diverse audience, providing a platform for live sports events that are both enjoyable to watch and bet on.

David is a consultant, advisor, investor and dealmaker in the sports betting, iGaming and gambling industry, specializing in the U.S. market.Over nearly 20 years, he has worked with the biggest names in sports and sports betting globally, focusing on the USA since the repeal of PASPA in 2018.He has worked with teams, leagues, casinos, tribes,racetracks and media companies, and is responsible for over 40 deals across 16 U.S. states since 2018 including deals involving The Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA), New York Jets (NFL), the Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL), the Arizona Diamondbacks (MLB), The Texas Rangers (MLB), The Dallas Stars (NHL), The Calgary Flames (NHL), NASCAR, the PGA Tour, CBS Sports, Madison Square Gardens, Meadowlands Race Track and the Football Hall of Fame Village. He has worked on the biggest sports betting partnerships state-by-state including those in Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia and Texas.Additionally, he works as an investor and an advisor with startups entering the multi-billion dollar U.S. sports betting and iGaming industry, and engineered the first-ever U.S. sports betting deal (between two software companies). He has led several high profile startup exits including the recent sale of marketing automation platform Fresh Eight and the sale of AI and data platform VAIX, both sold to Sportradar.Outside the USA, He has worked extensively on sports betting projects worldwide, including in the UK, Ireland, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Singapore, Chile, Tanzania, Nigeria, and South Africa.He is a speaker, moderator, and chairperson at gambling conferences and events all over the world, including ICE Totally Gaming in London, Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas, SXSW in Austin Texas, European and World Lotteries Seminars across the world, SBC in London and New York, WGES in Barcelona, iGaming Asia in Macau, and iGB Live in Amsterdam.

Investment focus

News, Sports, Basketball
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.