Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Australia in September 2025

Investor	Media (entertainment) Australia investments
Chris Sang	4
Chris Sang	3
Robert Phillpot	2
Thomas Rice	2
Andrew Barnes	2
Aayush Phumbhra	2
Leigh Jasper	2
Leigh Jasper	2
Thomas Rice	2
Stuart Fox	2
Chloe Steinberg	2
Chloe Steinberg	2
Jeremy Colless	2
Stuart Fox	2
Robert Phillpot	2
Jeremy Colless	2
Aayush Phumbhra	2
Chadd Ciccarelli	2
Chadd Ciccarelli	2
Andrew Barnes	2
Brendan Leonard	2
Brendan Leonard	2
Michael Sharkey	2
David Gyngell	1
Steve Sacks	1
Bill Tai	1
Owen Wilson	1
Kenneth Goldman	1
Grant Grosser	1
Laurence Escalante	1
Seth Young	1
Alex Zaccaria	1
rob kawalsky	1
Tim Doyle	1
Alexander Badran	1
Paris Smith	1
Tony Faure	1
Chris Anderson	1
Kenneth Goldman	1
Seth Young	1
Craig Piggott	1
Jeff Sagansky	1
Craig Piggott	1
Matt Miller	1
David Greatorex	1
Stephen Baxter	1
Emlyn Scott	1
Lars Rasmussen	1
Zach Klein	1
Rayn Ong	1

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

getcrux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
Magma — Magma platform partners with factories and raw materials suppliers to offer supply chain services from the supplier to the customer.
Tractorfactory — Tractor Factory is the most trusted way of buying and selling used tractors. Choose from over 40 fully inspected second hand tractor models A used tractor can be a valuable investment for farmers and landowners looking for reliable equipment at a lower cost. Buying a used tractor allows individuals to access high-quality machinery that has been tested in the field, often at a fraction of the price of a new one. Many used tractors are still in excellent condition, with routine maintenance ensuring they remain fully operational for years. Tractor Factory is the most trusted way of buying and selling used tractors. For more detail visit our website or contact us 8821986673

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
Propeller Aero — Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
Propeller Aero — Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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 — AI and social listening driven marketplace, backed by education to create #SmarterInfluence and drive ROI for brands in esports and gaming.

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.

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 — Learn.xyz operates a generative AI-powered learning community. The platform enables users to create a course about any topic, in any language, and get hooked on learning.
Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
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.

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

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Logic PD — Beacon EmbeddedWorks is a System-On-Module Manufacturer that delivers unwavering performance. Our custom System-On-Modules (SoMs) are compact, secure, and built to last.
Muso — Muso is a live-entertainment start-up born in Melbourne and now operating Australia-wide. We help venues create better live entertainment experiences and help artists find more gigs to create more revenue opportunities. We leverage technology to make things more efficient, fair and transparent to ultimately make live music more accessible to morepeople. Eventually we hope that every venue will be a live music venue but until then we’ll work on changing one at a time.
Surreal — Increase collaboration and ROI by booking, promoting and paying for all your live entertainment in one place. Trusted by over 900 venues across AUS, UK & NZ.

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.

Steve Sacks is Chairman at Sonnant. He attended Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Audio
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Sonnant — Sonnant is layering voice to text transcription with machine learning technology to extract useful metadata from your audio/audiovisual content
motiveOS — motiveOS automates compensation for businesses and their sales teams.
Spiceology — Join us on our mission to eliminate dull flavors from the kitchen. Experiment with flavor using our 300+ fresh ingredients and bold spices.

Bill Tai is the Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and Founding Investor of Treasure Data. He previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MicroTau — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
Fathom — Records, transcribes & highlights the top moments from your calls. Sends automatically generated call notes to your CRM.

Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor, voice-over artist, writer, producer and screenwriter.

Investment focus

Software, Publishing, Web Design
Series A
Australia, United States

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.
Abbot's Butcher — Premium plant-based proteins, crafted from wholesome ingredients. Soy-free, gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alex B. is a founder at Spriggy.

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.

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

Investment focus

News, Sports, Basketball
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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 — Drive B2B sales with clear data, automated follow-ups, and built-in insights. Manage accounts and act fast at every step of the customer journey.
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.

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.

Craig Piggott is the CEO and Founder of Halter. He previously worked at Rocket Lab USA as a Mechanical Engineer. Craig Piggott attended the University of Auckland.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Craig Piggott is the CEO and Founder of Halter. He previously worked at Rocket Lab USA as a Mechanical Engineer. Craig Piggott attended the University of Auckland.

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.

Matt Miller is the Co-Founder of Ustwo Games.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Software
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

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

David Greatorex - Founding Investor @ ResMed

Investment focus

Internet, Community/Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

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

Stephen Baxter - Founder @ River City Labs

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Go1 — Go1 offers training content from 250+ industry-leading providers, delivered seamlessly through any HR tech stack.
Travelshoot — Your holidays are really important to us to create good memories and we are offering Worldwide Photographer Services. Get the best vacation photographer NYC & across the globe. Visit us now!
Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.

Emlyn is a successful founder and investor with personal investments in fast growing tech companies like Kami, A.Kin, MealMe, Segna, and EnsuredIt. Managing Partner at CP Ventures and the founder of OpenMarkets Group, Australia's second-largest retail broker. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s secondlargest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Masters Business Administration (MBA), Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI), and Bachelor of Economics (BEc).

Investment focus

Software, Science/Engineering, AI
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

Google Maps Co-Founder / Defiance Capital Co-Founder / Angel Investor / Panathēnea Co-Founder / Kite Surfing Coffee Enthusiast

Investment focus

Software, Photo Editing, Web Design
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Protio — Protio is proptech startup reinventing the process of buying & selling real estate.
Neptyne — Neptyne is making spreadsheets programmable
Robyn — Robyn provides an AI-powered marketing mix modeling platform that helps brands optimize media spend and measure performance.

Zach Klein is the Founder and Partner of Founder Collective. He attended Wake Forest University.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Jupe — Jupes are off-grid dwellings built to be mobile, from deep nature retreats to concert festivals. Each Jupe is electrified with charging outlets, climate controls, and a temperature-moderated queen mattress.
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.
Hellosaurus — Ad-free interactive videos by award-winning creators. Built for kids, loved by parents.

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.