Top 15 Oil and Gas Startup Investors in Australia (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $40k–$15M |
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Kurt Alexander
Angel
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2 | Australia | Seed | Mining, Retail, Medical | |
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Sydney Angels
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $120k–$4.8M |
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Jolimont Global Mining Systems
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States | Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Construction, SaaS | |
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IAG Firemark Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Norway, Australia | Series A, Series B | Software, Insurance, InsurTech | $4.2M–$25M |
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Archangel Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$22M |
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William Welty
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Mining, Retail, Medical | |
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Taronga Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Canada | Series A, Series B | Software, Construction, Energy | $4M–$27M |
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MIRIN CAPITAL
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Water | $33k–$34k |
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Black Sheep Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $34k–$13M |
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James McKinnon
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software | $33k–$653k |
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Luke & Janelle Roberts
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Mining, Retail, Medical | |
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Donald Kirk
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Mining, Retail, Medical | |
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Jutech Pty Ltd
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Mining, Retail, Medical | |
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BPH Energy
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Corporate Round | Energy, Oil and Gas | |
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Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 224
- Round size: Seed $120k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- CUZIN — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
- Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
- Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
Kurt Alexander
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- Industry: Mining, Retail, Medical
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $130k–$890k; Series A $250k–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Quizling — Quizling is an educational app that allows its users to make quick quizzes on their iPhone or iPad. Its users have the ability to plug their iPhone or iPad into their smart board or digital projector and challenge their class.Quizling is designed for teachers, students, and classrooms. Its aim is to make a teacher’s life easier, a student’slearning more interesting and challenging, and to help make the classroom a fun and engaging place. It can be used to preview a topic and check prior learning or before a test. Students also have the opportunity to make their own quizlings and challenge each other.Quizling was launched in 2012.
- ExtrasJar — Swap health insurance premiums for balanced investments and get access to your funds when using health services.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Resource Capital Funds is a mining-focused alternative investments firm that partners with companies to build strong, successful, and sustainable businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Construction, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SciAps — SciAps specializes in portable analytical instruments with the power to measure any element. Our industry-leading X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and laser-based (LIBS) analyzers are at work across every major industry.
- APE Mobile — APE Mobile develops a paperless site application for contractors in Australia. Its site application comprises features, such as operational forms, safety forms, project management, actions and defects, drawings and documents, and redline markup. David Hayward and Matthew Edwards founded APE Mobile in January 2, 2009. Its headquarters is inLeederville in Australia.
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IAG Firemark Ventures is a corporate venture capital and incubation firm of Insurance Australia Group that began operation in October 2016, with its headquarters in Sydney in Australia and offices in Surry Hills in Australia and Singapore. It seeks to make minority seed, early-stage, and late-stage investments. It prefers to invest in companiesfrom the insurance, financial technology, insurance technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, cybersecurity, and internet of things sectors in Australia and Singapore.
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- Industry: Software, Insurance, InsurTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Norway, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $4.2M–$8M; Series B $19M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UpGuard — UpGuard's proprietary technology tests an organization's IT infrastructure both internally and externally and calculates the potential risk for future intrusions and outages. Upon evaluating the ongoing configuration state of every server and network device, companies are given an easy-to-understand score called CSTAR — a single numberwhich indicates to IT staff as well as their executives their risk level for data breaches. An organization's CSTAR score can even be used by corporate insurers in creating a cybersecurity insurance policy.Thousands of companies, including ADP, E*TRADE, and Cisco Systems, use UpGuard to validate infrastructure, continuously detect risks, and procure cybersecurity insurance. UpGuard is headquartered in Mountain View, California with offices in Portland, Oregon.
- Trendspek — Trendspek is the drone data solution asset managers use to make empowered decisions and ensure absolute asset knowledge. Conduct complete visual inspections from any web browser. Extract detailed insights without a site visit. Use powerful tools to analyse the structure and build a complete picture of asset condition. Enhance predictive maintenanceby closely monitoring trends. View different models side by side to observe important differences. Refine your understanding of an ever-changing asset.
- Arturo — With Arturo property intelligence, policyholders can be insured faster.
Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.2M; Series A $3.3M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GXE — At GXE, our mission is to build the all-in-one platform for unlisted assets and funds management. We provide investors, fund managers, and family offices with the tools they need to succeed and enable them to focus on their portfolios and investors whilst GXE takes care of everything else. A licensed financial services company, GXE holdsAustralian Financial Services Licence 460870 issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. GXE welcomes clients across sectors including corporate, family offices, pension and superannuation fund managers, private equity, property, and venture capital.
- Keeyu — keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences.
- Flowing Bee — Revolutionise your customer interactions using AI, customer and behavioural insights. We create powerful marketing communications that drive behaviour change.
William Welty
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- Industry: Mining, Retail, Medical
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business. Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia.
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- Industry: Software, Construction, Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Series A $4M–$10M; Series B $8.7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Diraq — Diraq is building quantum computers using modified silicon transistors, the technology best suited to reaching utility scale, where value outweighs cost.
- Dash Living — Dash Living offers rental services and solutions for urban professionals. Dash offers panoramic all-inclusive rental options across over 1,000 units that they manage. Their mission is to create a global accommodation community through sharing economies and tech, empowering today's hyper-mobile, tech-savvy millennials to live in the expensivecities in the world.
- Enteligent — Enteligent is a solar product company focused on higher efficiency and harnessing more solar electricity. Enteligent's products reduce conversion losses and other inefficiencies that result in up to a 25% loss of solar rooftop electrical generation. Enteligent is on a mission to increase the effectiveness of solar electricity and providehomeowners with energy independence.
Mirin Capital invests in disruptive, technology led companies that focus on solutions to big problems. We are particularly interested in investing in technologies that: Significantly disrupt traditional business models Help enterprises solve big problems Make the world better or more interesting
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Water
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $33k–$34k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TokenOne — TokenOne is a Cyber Security software company that makes it easy to replace passwords, tokens and other forms of authentication with a more secure solution.
- The Safety Compass — Safety Compass provides the link between people at work and critical safety info through augmented reality and smart notifications.
- Unscrabble Solutions — Unscrabble is a solution that companies use to connect with other companies, their suppliers, and customers. When connections are made, information can be shared between the companies easily, quickly and accurately.Unscrabble simplifies the engagement processes, reduces the time it takes to gather and evaluate company information and makes iteasier to keep information up to date.No more forms, emails spreadsheets and expensive portals. Unscrabble helps companies keep information up to date in a single location and streamline the access to it by your trusted connections.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $34k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $539k–$1.5M; Series A $1.2M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
- TokenOne — TokenOne is a Cyber Security software company that makes it easy to replace passwords, tokens and other forms of authentication with a more secure solution.
- ProfitPeak — Unify marketing performance, margin clarity, and inventory risk for profitable growth.
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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $33k–$131k; Angel $118k–$653k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TokenOne — TokenOne is a Cyber Security software company that makes it easy to replace passwords, tokens and other forms of authentication with a more secure solution.
- Expert360 — Hire elite consultants, project managers, data analysts, designers, and developers for your most important local & remote work
- StorReduce — The Pure Storage Platform provides always-on data protection solutions for a scalable, resilient architecture for backup and recovery to ensure rapid disaster and ransomware recovery.
Luke & Janelle Roberts
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- Industry: Mining, Retail, Medical
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Donald Kirk
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- Industry: Mining, Retail, Medical
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Jutech Pty Ltd
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- Industry: Mining, Retail, Medical
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
About BPH Energy BPH is a diversified company holding investments in biotechnology and resources. BPH holds a significant interest (36%) in unlisted oil and gas exploration company Advent Energy Ltd. BPH is commercialising a portfolio of Australian biomedical technologies emerging from collaborative research by leading universities, medical institutes and hospitals across Australia. Hydrogen Production Technology...
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- Industry: Energy, Oil and Gas
- Stage:Corporate Round
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Advent Energy — Advent has assembled an attractive portfolio of assets both on and offshore Australia that have had an estimated $88 million spent on historic exploration.
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