Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Oceania in September 2025
A list of 50 angel investors 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) Angel Investors in Oceania in September 2025
Investor | Media (entertainment) Oceania investments |
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Chris Sang | 4 |
Chris Sang | 3 |
Brendan Leonard | 2 |
Jonathan Hendriksen | 2 |
Chloe Steinberg | 2 |
Andrew Barnes | 2 |
Robert Phillpot | 2 |
Leigh Jasper | 2 |
Chadd Ciccarelli | 2 |
Stuart Fox | 2 |
Alex Rigopulos | 2 |
Brendan Leonard | 2 |
Alex Rigopulos | 2 |
Thomas Rice | 2 |
Thomas Rice | 2 |
Chloe Steinberg | 2 |
Robert Phillpot | 2 |
Aayush Phumbhra | 2 |
Jeremy Colless | 2 |
Andrew Barnes | 2 |
Chadd Ciccarelli | 2 |
Michael Sharkey | 2 |
Jeremy Colless | 2 |
Maurice Eng | 2 |
Aayush Phumbhra | 2 |
Maurice Eng | 2 |
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON | 2 |
Jonathan Hendriksen | 2 |
Stuart Fox | 2 |
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON | 2 |
Leigh Jasper | 2 |
Yoshihiro Kawamura | 1 |
Craig Roah | 1 |
Seth Young | 1 |
Tim Doyle | 1 |
Lars Rasmussen | 1 |
rob kawalsky | 1 |
Yoshihiro Kawamura | 1 |
Seth Young | 1 |
Tim Haggett | 1 |
Matt Miller | 1 |
Chris Anderson | 1 |
Paul Reeve | 1 |
Alexander Badran | 1 |
Kenneth Goldman | 1 |
Paul Bingham | 1 |
Larry Lopez | 1 |
Andrew Bogut | 1 |
Karl von Randow | 1 |
Raymond Spencer | 1 |
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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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
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, India
Brendan Leonard
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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
Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Chadd Ciccarelli
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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.
Stuart Fox is a Partner at Artesian Capital Management (Australia) Pty Ltd.
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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.
Alex Rigopulos is a Studio Director of Harmonix at Epic Games.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Mobile Apps, Communities
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Syng — Syng is an audio company transforming the human relationship with sound. their hardware and software platform gives creators and listeners the power to engage with, explore, and share sound in transformative new ways.
- GameClub — GameClub offers a large and growing catalog of the best games on mobile. Games can be played offline, with new games being released every week.
- Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
Brendan Leonard
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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
Alex Rigopulos Co-Founded Harmonix in 1995 with the mission of inventing new ways for non-musicians to experience the joy of making music. He was CEO until 2014. Now, as CCO, Alex is responsible for ensuring the creative excellence of all Harmonix products. Prior to co-founding Harmonix, Alex studied computer music at the MIT Media Laboratory andmusic composition at MIT.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Mobile Apps, Communities
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Syng — Syng is an audio company transforming the human relationship with sound. their hardware and software platform gives creators and listeners the power to engage with, explore, and share sound in transformative new ways.
- GameClub — GameClub offers a large and growing catalog of the best games on mobile. Games can be played offline, with new games being released every week.
- Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
Portfolio of the Global Innovation Share Fund at Perpetual (post-IPO).
Angel investor in Australia.
Mentor at Startmate, an Australian startup accelerator.
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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.
Portfolio of the Global Innovation Share Fund at Perpetual (post-IPO).
Angel investor in Australia.
Mentor at Startmate, an Australian startup accelerator.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
Chadd Ciccarelli
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Maurice Eng
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Aayush Phumbhra is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Nectar.
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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.
Maurice Eng
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Stuart Fox is a Partner at Artesian Capital Management (Australia) Pty Ltd.
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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.
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
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.
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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.
Yoshihiro Kawamura - Director @ TJK NZ LIMITED
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Founder at OCR Aviation
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Investment focus
- Dating, Social Media, Social Network
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Spring.me — Spring.me is the best way to meet people, express yourself and expand your life. Millions of people visit Spring.me every month.Meet PeopleThe world is full of people you don’t know yet. Meet people by starting a conversation with anyone, find people who are online now and follow people you find interesting.Express YourselfBeYourself, Be Anonymous, Be Anyone. Ask the questions that matter to you. Get honest answers and find out what people actually think. Make memes, post photos or animated GIFs and share them with everyone.Expand Your LifeMake a connection; watch what everyone else around the world is posting, real-time. See something amazing? Post a link or share a video from anywhere. Spring.me lets everyone share openly.
Seth Young - Chief Innovation Officer @ PointsBet
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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.
Tim Doyle is a founder of Eucalyptus
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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.
Google Maps Co-Founder / Defiance Capital Co-Founder / Angel Investor / Panathēnea Co-Founder / Kite Surfing Coffee Enthusiast
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Investment focus
- Software, Photo Editing, Web Design
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
rob kawalsky
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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.
Yoshihiro Kawamura - Director @ TJK NZ LIMITED
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Seth Young - Chief Innovation Officer @ PointsBet
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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.
Tim Haggett is a Non Executive Director at Centric Health.
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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.
Matt Miller is the Co-Founder of Ustwo Games.
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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.
Chris Anderson is a head of conference organisation TED.
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- Apps, Content, Journalism
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United Kingdom
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- 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
Paul Reeve
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- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Series A
- New Zealand
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- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Alex B. is a founder at Spriggy.
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- Apps, Video, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
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- 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.
Ken Goldman is the President at Hillspire, LLC. Ken Goldman attended Harvard Business School and Cornell University.
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- 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.
Paul Bingham - Chairman @ Shuttlerock
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
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.
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- Software, Virtual Reality, Content Creators
- Seed
- Australia
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- 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.
Andrew Bogut
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- 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.
Karl von Randow - Co-Founder @ Letterboxd
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- Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
- Seed
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Melodics — Melodics is an app that adapts to your abilities and musical tastes to help you get better at playing keyboards, pad controllers, and drums
Raymond Spencer is a entrepreneur - boldly shaping the future of South Australia and organisations around the world.
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- Advice, Retirement, Financial Services
- Seed
- Australia
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- Super Fierce — Super Fierce is a financial service company that provides financial advisory, superannuation, and financial wellness services.
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