Top 40 Music Startup Investors in Oceania in November 2024
A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Music startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.Top 40 Music Startup Investors in Oceania in November 2024
Investor | Music Oceania investments |
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Blockchain Founders Fund | 2 |
Black Sheep Capital | 2 |
Ellerston Capital | 2 |
Flying Fox Ventures | 2 |
K1W1 | 2 |
Alex Rigopulos | 2 |
Qualgro VC | 2 |
Tuhua Fund | 2 |
Yuuwa Capital | 2 |
Alberts Impact Ventures | 2 |
Michael Sharkey | 1 |
Eric Ries | 1 |
Rowan Simpson | 1 |
Icehouse Ventures | 1 |
Didier Elzinga | 1 |
Sydney Angels | 1 |
Blackbird Ventures | 1 |
Investible | 1 |
BITKRAFT Ventures | 1 |
Blackbird Ventures | 1 |
Chadd Ciccarelli | 1 |
San Francisco 49ers | 1 |
Michael Stoppelman | 1 |
Sean Parker | 1 |
Skalata | 1 |
Rich Chetwynd | 1 |
Perkins Coie | 1 |
Khosla Ventures | 1 |
Sandhill Investment Management | 1 |
SOSV | 1 |
Exto Partners | 1 |
Rampersand | 1 |
King River Capital | 1 |
Craig Barratt | 1 |
Amazon Alexa Fund | 1 |
Unified Music Group | 1 |
Ableton | 1 |
Airtree Ventures | 1 |
Silicon Balls | 1 |
Josh Hannah | 1 |
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- KRNL Labs — KRNL Labs is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that makes smart contracts and develops an open, multichain software registry for the Web3 ecosystem. That allows developers to build dApps that can leverage multiple blockchains simultaneously.
- Persist Ventures — We bring visions to life with a full suite of agencies to help our companies start and scale.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kleecks — Kleecks | Next-generation Enterprise Optimisation Platform
- Beamible — Get the most for and from your workforce. Deconstruct work down to its individual components so it can be reconstructed to better meet the needs of the business and the employees. Reduce turnover and burnout, enable flex and drive efficiency with Beamible.
- Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Australia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Data Zoo — Data Zoo is an online identity service verifying customers instantly and providing global data coverage. Keeping information protected and systems secure.
- Aerologix — Get skilled drone pilots and seamless drone hire services at Aerologix. Precision, reliability, and aerial excellence are at your fingertips. Contact us today!
- BiomeBank — BiomeBank is a clinical stage biotechnology company with a mission to treat our microbiome and prevent disease by restoring gut microbial ecology.
Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
- Mayday — Streamline your finance team's multi-entity accounting adjustments with Mayday
- EverYoung AI — Everyoung AI is a pioneering organization in the field of Aged Care, utilizing advanced AI technology to enhance the quality of life for seniors. They are committed to building evolutionary AI solutions and have a vision to revolutionize Aged Care with new technology. Everyoung AI is inviting interns to join their team and contribute to theirmission of redefining Aged Care through innovative AI solutions. Their goal is to make Aged Care more personalized, efficient, and accessible, and they are dedicated to nurturing fresh talent in pursuit of this meaningful cause.
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
- Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative
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
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Singapore, Australia, India
Portfolio highlights
- Convosight — World's #1 platform to monetize your Facebook group, engage members and get deep insights into what is working in your community.
- Accredify — Build digital trust for your organisation with verifiable information. Issue instantly verifiable digital documents and simplify document management processes.
- Supermom — Supermom helps parents make the right decisions on what to buy and where to buy at the lowest prices. Best prices guaranteed for millions of mom, baby & kids products.
Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- New Zealand, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
- Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
- Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
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.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Analytics, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Nexgen Plants Pty Limited — Healthy plants, healthy people, living planet. Nexgen develop's plants for future generations that will improve the environment and health of future generations.
- Icetana — icetana Motion Intelligence dramatically improves the active monitoring of security surveillance networks, with AI video anomaly detection and video analytics.
- Agworld — 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.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Music
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
- Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
- Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.
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.
Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Serbia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
- Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
- Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Music, Parking
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, Australia
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
- Parkable — Parkable is award winning software for managing employee and tenant parking, finding short-term or monthly public parking and sharing space to earn money.
- ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
- Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
- Ideally — Remarkably affordable, fast, robust and accessible research to inform and develop your ideas, concepts and products. Join us on our mission to make consumer testing a place ideas go to grow.
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!).
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Trendspek — Make confident decisions on high-value infrastructure with speed, safety, and precision. Use Trendspek's intuitive 3D environment to interactively report asset conditions, streamline the O&M phase with advanced workflow tools, and securely share insights with global teams for informed decision-making. Empowering teams in 20+ countries.
- Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Hardware
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Dgraph Labs — The only fault-tolerant, distributed graph database with native GraphQL that gives developers the tools to quickly build distributed applications at scale.
- PsiQuantum — PsiQuantum is building the world's first useful quantum computer.
- SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.
Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Decarice — Explore DeCarice's hydrogen retrofit technology to significantly reduce carbon emissions from your existing diesel fleet. Decarbonize with innovative solutions for a sustainable future.
- Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
- FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Loot Labs — Loot Labs builds ways to acquire digital collectibles.
- Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
- Darkbright Studios — Darkbright Studios is the developer of Smolbound, a Web3 life sim RPG.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Redactive — Redactive.ai is an Enterprise AI enablement platform that accelerates regulated organisations to secure & remediate their operational (unstructured) data, preparing it to be used by AI applications (eg: Co-pilots), along with providing engineering teams inside the enterprise the tools to build their own AI use cases securely with any LLM.
- Build Club — Build Club is a home for big dreams and top builders where the world's top AI builders gather. The company is a team of a global network of engineers, researchers, and founders building at the frontier of AI.
- SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.
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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 — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tldraw — A tiny little drawing app.
- Kumo.AI — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
- T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Music
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- RevUp Software — RevUp Software is bringing leading-edge, easy to use analytics to Non-Profits, Academic Institutions and Political Organizations. We help fundraisers, while working with existing software, create new ways to identify, target, and engage their networks.
Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
- WhyHive — WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses.
- LoveHeart — LoveHeart is an AI educator-aide that streamlines child development documentation. Write learning stories, journals, plans, and reflections in seconds. Trusted by leading educators. Get your team plan today.
Founder/CEO of ThisData, a login intelligence and contextual authentication platform.
Founder/CEO of Litmos.com, a leading SaaS Learning Management System that was acquired by CallidusCloud (NASDAQ: CALD) in 2011.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel
- 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
- ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
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)
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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 — Weavix is a software company that develops an IoW platform with smart radio, workforce management, and communication services.
- 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.
Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- LuxWall — LuxWall is accelerating the global transition to net zero by upgrading windows and glass into transparent insulation for buildings.
- RedoxBlox — RedoxBlox offers thermochemical energy storage technology for natural gas power plant operators. It helps power plant operators drastically reduce carbon and nitrogen oxides emissions, its solution integrates with the existing natural gas power plant infrastructure, minimizes impact on plant total capital costs, increases grid resiliency andsafety, and is recyclable, non-toxic, and non-combustible, enabling industries with renewables grid through the deployment of large-scale long-duration energy storage.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in East Lansing, Michigan.
- Mooncake Labs — Mooncake Labs is building the modern lakehouse for every developer and application. We are an open source studio based in SF.
Sandhill is a nationally-recognized investment firm overseeing more than $2.18 billion in assets under management and advisement.
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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.
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.
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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.
Exto Partners is a leading Australian venture capital firm that has backed the next growth phase of many of Australia's fast growing tech companies.
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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.
Rampersand is the first investor in founders with abnormal potential in Aus & NZ. We have invested 100M+ AUD in 34 companies & returned millions to investors.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, Sweden
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- Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
- Cuttable — Cuttable operates as an automated content agency.
- JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
Venture capital for high growth software companies.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Payments
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Australia, Canada
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- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
- Cover Genius — Cover Genius provides an insurance distribution platform designed to protect the customers of e-commerce companies. Its products feature integrated end-to-end insurance and warranty capabilities and offer dynamic product recommendations and pricing optimization, while also undertaking the payment of a customer's claim in real-time, enablingcustomers to access increased protection against any uncertainty.The company was founded in 2014.
- Darkbright Studios — Darkbright Studios is the developer of Smolbound, a Web3 life sim RPG.
20 years in communications and networking: SVP Google, CEO Alphabet Access, President Qualcomm Atheros, CEO Atheros Communications.
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- Music, Computer, Database
- Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States
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- nura — Nura designs wireless headphones that tune themselves to you. Experience music the way the artist intended with personalised sound.
- Timescale — Engineered to handle demanding workloads, like time series, vector, events, and analytics data. Built on PostgreSQL, with expert support at no extra charge.
Free shipping on millions of items. Get the best of Shopping and Entertainment with Prime. Enjoy low prices and great deals on the largest selection of everyday essentials and other products, including fashion, home, beauty, electronics, Alexa Devices, sporting goods, toys, automotive, pets, baby, books, video games, musical instruments, office supplies, and more.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Heeyo — Talking AIs that helps kids learn and play!
- Sunrise — Sunrise aims to bring simple answers to millions of people suffering from sleep disorders.We have developed a 3-gram sensor to diagnose sleep with gold standard quality. The technology offers a revolutionary new way to measure brain commands at night, with published clinical results never seen before. Studies demonstrate Sunrise is as accurate asin-lab sleep studies, at a fraction of the cost.Affecting one in three people, sleep disorders are extremely common. Sleep apnea is the most prevalent disease with almost 1 billion persons concerned. This condition leads to great body damage over time and yet remains undiagnosed in 80% of the cases.Patients, caregiver and insurers stand to benefit greatly from a solution to current highly cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming diagnostics systems.
- Imbue — We want machines that learn the way humans do.Our mission is to build human-like general intelligence and make it safely accessible in order to foster a more abundant, equitable, and unconstrained society.We take a first-principles approach, starting from simple self-supervised architectures and evolving them to tackle human developmentalmilestones of increasing complexity.
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.
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- Music, Events, Hospitality
- Seed
- Australia, United States
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- 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.
Ableton makes software and hardware for creating, producing, and performing music.
Ableton's flagship product, Live, has introduced a new approach to making music with computers on stage and in the studio that has attracted several hundred thousand Live worldwide.
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- Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
- Seed
- New Zealand
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- 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
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, Singapore
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- InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
- Build Club — Build Club is a home for big dreams and top builders where the world's top AI builders gather. The company is a team of a global network of engineers, researchers, and founders building at the frontier of AI.
- SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.
Seed VC
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- Art, Music, Brewing
- Seed
- Australia, Canada, Singapore
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- 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.
Josh Hannah
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- Software, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
- Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
- Meson Network — meson network provides fast,stable,cheap content delivery globally
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