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Top 35 Music Startup Investors in Australia in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Music startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Music Startup Investors in Australia in January 2026

Investor	Music Australia investments
Alberts Impact Ventures	3
Flying Fox Ventures	3
Black Sheep Capital	2
Michael Sharkey	2
Yuuwa Capital	2
Rampersand	2
Sydney Angels	2
Ellerston Capital	2
Qualgro VC	2
Blockchain Founders Fund	2
Amazon Alexa Fund	1
King River Capital	1
SOSV	1
Exto Partners	1
Untitled Ventures	1
Sandhill Investment Management	1
Blackbird Ventures	1
Sandy Kory	1
Didier Elzinga	1
Investible	1
Unified Music Group	1
Blackbird Ventures	1
Craig Barratt	1
Josh Hannah	1
Khosla Ventures	1
Chadd Ciccarelli	1
TEN13	1
Skalata	1
Airtree Ventures	1
Michael Stoppelman	1
BITKRAFT Ventures	1
Perkins Coie	1
Silicon Balls	1
San Francisco 49ers	1
Sean Parker	1

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.
Conserving Beauty — Acne Care Reimagined. Skincare formulated for for acne-prone and sensitive skin. Clinically tested and shown to cause no dermal irritation or sensitization. Australian and STEM Female Founded.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.
Factor House — We make Kpow for Apache Kafka, Flex for Apache Flink, and the Factor Platform for Streaming Data.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
Kleecks — Kleecks is an innovative SaaS platform that optimises performance marketing activities, improves website health and speed in real-time, and has a significant impact on businesses by increasing revenues, lowering costs, and accelerating time-to-market
Project Manda — Transform your workspace with Project Manda's AI-driven platform. Analyse company meetings, receive actionable recommendations, and boost staff productivity and ROI

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

We back ambitious ANZ tech founders from inception to seed, with proven support, no empty promises, and a track record of helping startups scale smarter.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
Cuttable — Turn your existing content and products into agency-grade Meta ads in minutes. Cuttable's AI advertising platform combines decades of advertising expertise with cutting-edge technology to help ecommerce brands create high-performing ads at scale - without the agency price tag.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Okkular — Okkular is an AI based fashion tech startup.
iiShield — iiShield aims to improve patient outcomes and surgeon training in transplant surgery by providing effective organ heat protection.
Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Data Zoo — Data Zoo is an online identity service verifying customers instantly and providing global data coverage. Keeping information protected and systems secure.
Aerologix — Free access to the largest qualified drone pilot network in the southern hemisphere via one platform.
EcoJoule Energy — EcoJoule Energy delivers intelligent, Australian-made power management systems that improve energy quality, reliability, and efficiency.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Convosight — World's #1 platform to monetize your Facebook group, engage members and get deep insights into what is working in your community.
Accredify — Build digital trust for your organisation with verifiable information. Issue instantly verifiable digital documents and simplify document management processes.
Supermom — Supermom is the digital platform designed by and for moms, providing recommendations on products and services through a community of moms. lt...

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
Renaissance — Renaissance allows artists to amplify their streaming traction and tap into a community of their super fans.
Virtualtech Frontier — Virtualtech Frontier develops business processes through virtual reality technology. It operates virtual event platforms, metaverse services, and virtual reality solutions. Virtualtech Frontier was founded in 2021 and is based in Selangor, Malaysia.

The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HelixAI — HelixAI is an artifically intellegent virtual assistant for scientific laboratories.
Hearvana — Hearvana is a IT consulting company.
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.

Venture capital for high growth software companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Payments
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
Stan — Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players.
Relevance AI — Developer-first vector platform for rapid experimentation. Build great vector-based applications with flexible developer tools for storing, querying and experimenting with vectors.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Secure compliance questionnaire management for Australian Financial Services Licence obligations.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Segwise — Segwise AI agents automatically tag and analyze creatives, catch early signs of creative fatigue, and auto generate winning creatives that boost ROAS. Free 14-day free trial with no code setup!
Induced AI — Induced is an AI-native browser RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with smart reasoning and memory, to automate enterprise workflows of all kinds.
The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

Sandhill Investment Management is a boutique investment management firm providing management and oversight of over $610 million in assets. Sandhill was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Buffalo, New York. Sandhill supports private clients, foundations, endowments, 401k plans and institutions.In many cases, Sandhill is the sole steward oftheir clients' capital. While it is important to earn a healthy return for their clients, they never lose sight of protecting their clients' capital.Sandhill is a long term investor. Good investments are hard to find and once they find them, they prefer to keep them. Central to this thesis is the fact that the companies in their portfolios have ample growth opportunities and are able to reinvest their free cash flow at a high rate of return.Sandhill has been conservative with their clients' capital while generating total returns for their clients that have outperformed the benchmark for many of therducts in the majority of years since their inception.

Investment focus

Music, Events, Health Care
Seed, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
BulldogIT Corporation — BulldogIT Corporation provides health information services. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Marloo — Marloo is an AI-assistant that empowers financial advisers to focus on building client relationships, instead of paperwork.
Syenta — Syenta is transforming the electronics manufacturing sector. Our patented fabrication method enables the 3D printing of multi-material electronics with fewer steps and less waste.
PsiQuantum — PsiQuantum is building the world's first useful quantum computer.

Prior to MVP, he was Vice President at Arbor Advisors, leading their highly successful entry into the digital media and interactive marketing industries. He advised clients in a number of industry-leading transactions, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale ofInvestopedia.com to Forbes Media, and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate.Sandy is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Ad-Tech and LeadsCon. He received his B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
Enable Us — Buyer & seller enablement with one single link. Enable's digital salesroom has everything B2B buyers and sellers need to close deals quickly

Didier previously co-founded technical academy award winning Rising Sun Research and is non-executive director at Tourism Australia, the Atlassian Foundation and Slingsby Theatre. If you want a short meeting, don't ask about philosophy (you were warned!).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Music
Series A, Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.
Dovetail — Make sense of all kinds of customer research in one intuitive, collaborative, and searchable research repository.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Good Heat — Good Heat delivers zero-carbon heat as a service to industrial heat users.
Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
Kite Magnetics — Electric motors enabling electric aircraft of all sizes to fly further, carry more and emit less. The future of aviation is electric.

UNIFIED is an independently owned music company that provides a varied range of services that include Artist Management, Recorded Music, Merchandise Services, Touring and Events.

Investment focus

Music, Events, Hospitality
Seed
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
CREATESAFE — CREATESAFE, automating the management, distribution, and marketing of music.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dgraph Labs — The only fault-tolerant, distributed graph database with native GraphQL that gives developers the tools to quickly build distributed applications at scale.
PsiQuantum — PsiQuantum is building the world's first useful quantum computer.
SafetyCulture — Digitize & improve elements of your operations. Give your teams the knowledge, tools & confidence to work safely & meet higher standards.

20 years in communications and networking: SVP Google, CEO Alphabet Access, President Qualcomm Atheros, CEO Atheros Communications.

Investment focus

Music, Computer, Database
Seed, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

nura — Nura designs wireless headphones that tune themselves to you. Experience music the way the artist intended with personalised sound.
Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) — Creators of TimescaleDB. Postgres Data Infrastructure Built for Developers, Devices, and Agents. Scale PostgreSQL effortlessly with replica sets, tiered storage, and high availability. Never pay for idle capacity. Trusted by Cloudflare, Linktree, and Polymarket.

Josh Hannah

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Singapore, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
1inch — Swap crypto & tokens at the best rates across 13+ chains. The 1inch swap aggregator is your gateway to secure and efficient DeFi.

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.
Vectra AI — Vectra is the world leader in AI threat detection and response. The Cognito platform uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive investigations.
Point One Navigation — Precise Positioning for the next generation of transportation. 10cm accuracy everywhere.

Chadd Ciccarelli

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Triggr — Own Triggr.ai today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
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.

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
Arintra — Arintra is an AI-powered autonomous coding technology that delivers significant efficiency and accelerates your revenue cycle business performance.
Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Pre-Seed, Seed
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TALY — TALY is a platform that is designed to find, manage and retain employees from both perfromance and personality for business development.
Viewa — Viewa is an augmented reality(AR) content publishing platform that brings print media such as magazines to life in 3D.
Termina — Termina operates as an energy tech startup.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
DroneDeploy — DroneDeploy is a provider of cloud-control software solutions for drones which include automated flight safety checks, workflows, and real-time mapping and data processing.The company has partnered with leading drone manufacturers like DJI to provide its software to end users in a variety of industries, including agriculture, real estate, mining,construction and many other commercial and consumer arenas. DroneDeploy is compatible with any drone.
SafetyCulture — Digitize & improve elements of your operations. Give your teams the knowledge, tools & confidence to work safely & meet higher standards.

Michael Stoppelman is an active angel/seed investor in Los Angeles. He's the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Yelp. He started at Yelp as a software engineer working on the search engine. He took over as head engineering in 2012 after serving as a manager and Director of Engineering in the proceeding years. He scaled theengineering team from 30 to over 500 engineers. Prior to Yelp he was a software engineer at Google for 3.5 years and served as the tech lead for the AdSense Traffic Quality team. He received his BS in Computer Science from Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2003.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Tensor9 — Tensor9 is a data security company. Tensor9 helps software and AI vendors run their products inside their customer's cloud — so sensitive customer data stays private. For vendors, this unlocks customers that can't share sensitive data.
Hostie — Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations.
Integrated Biosciences — Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells.

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Airoclip — Airoclip is a gaming studio that uses AI to create highly personalized casual puzzle game experiences. Enjoy our flagship game, Hexa Dreams.
Studio 369 — METALCORE is a free-to-play, first-person/third-person multiplayer mechanized combat game powered by towering War Machines fighting for dominance in large-scale battles.
Yield Guild Games — Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.

With 19 offices and more than 1,000 lawyers across the United States and Asia, Perkins Coie has provided legal service to great companies ranging from startups toindustry giants in a variety of fast‐moving industry sectors for more than 100 years. **What We Do**With one of the nation’s largest and most active technology‐oriented businesspractices, Perkins Coie’s years and with significant experience dealing with a variety of private debt and equity financing transactions for both emerging company and venture capital fund clients, we provide practical, strategic advice to help our clients overcome difficult challenges throughout various stages of their growth. Our work goes beyond just financings. We are well‐versed in all VC related matters, so our clients regularly look to us for strategic, mission‐critical guidance related to corporate governance for newly formed startups, IP protection and enforcement for cutting‐edge technologies, strategic partnering transactions, crisis management and government relations and policy, to name a few. **For more information, contact****Co-Chair, Emerging Companies & Venture CapitalBArnheim@perkinscoie.com**Co-Chair, Emerging Companies & Venture CapitalMRubocki@perkinscoie.com**[Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Team]**(http://www.perkinscoie.com/emerging_companies/?op=professionals)

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, CRM
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Ledgible — Verady provides accounting and audit products and infrastructure networks through the Ledgible platform, where financial institutions, corporations, and regulators can audit, account, and verify blockchain assets. Verady believes traditional accounting systems, firms, and standards are currently lacking functionality around blockchain assets.Verady's Ledgible platform will be the bridge between these new assets and traditional financial verification and accounting which is needed to further their acceptance and growth.
Weavix — Modernize your frontline workforce. Walt Smart Radio System is a unified communication platform for frontline workers.
SingleFile Technologies — SingleFile Technologies automates secretary of state filings with our cloud based, filing platform using AI technology. From business formations to foreign qualifications, and many other filing documents, the SingleFile platform saves time, eliminates confusion, and reduces cost.

Seed VC

Investment focus

Art, Music, Brewing
Seed
Australia, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Preezie — Bridge the gap between in-store and online shopping through individualised journeys. Create guided selling experiences and omnichannel strategies for customer engagement.
FleetOps — We power a network of load boards embedded inside leading ELD solutions. When you work with FleetOps, you can access 126K drivers, and automate your coverage in the spot market.
Tribe Theory — A global business hub for startups & entrepreneurs. Visit our worldwide hostels. Explore coworking, events and access to venture capital.

San Francisco 49ers Home: The official source of the latest 49ers headlines, news, videos, photos, tickets, rosters, and gameday information

Investment focus

Music, Analytics, Point of Sale
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Squire — Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers nationwide. Squire provides barbers and shop owners with the ability to operate their businesses with cashless and contactless pay transactions, thereby streamlining service interaction and helping them earn and retain loyal clients as a result.
GreenPark Sports — GreenPark Sports creates digital experiences and games for the new generation of sports and esports fans. Our flagship product is a native, free-to-play mobile game played over the top of sporting events; where fans battle to become the undisputed "Best Fans" of their league and season.
Squire — Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers nationwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments andbetter market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry nationwide.For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.

Sean Parker is the Founder and Chairman of Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. He previously worked at Spotify as a Board Member and Investor. Sean Parker attended Oakton High School.

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

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IgGenix — IgGenix is a biotechnology company, directly address food and other severe allergies by re-engineering key antibodies involved in the allergic cascade. IgGenix isolates and transforms allergen-specific IgE antibodies into IgG antibodies that are designed to alleviate and possibly prevent the allergic cascade.
ByHeart — ByHeart operates as a fully integrated infant nutrition company. It is dedicated to translating leading nutrition science and breastmilk research into evolved foods and formulas to support babies’ health and parents’ peace of mind. Its products strive to be next to nature made from hand-picked ingredients using small-batch blending and sit at theforefront of immune, microbiome, cognitive, and digestive health.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.

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