Top 15 Oil and Gas Startup Investors in Australia in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Oil and gas startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Oil and gas companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Oil and Gas Startup Investors in Australia in January 2025

Investor	Oil and Gas Australia investments
Artesian VC	3
Jolimont Global Mining Systems	2
Sydney Angels	2
Kurt Alexander	2
James McKinnon	1
MIRIN CAPITAL	1
Archangel Ventures	1
Black Sheep Capital	1
BPH Energy	1
IAG Firemark Ventures	1
Jutech Pty Ltd	1
William Welty	1
Luke & Janelle Roberts	1
Taronga Ventures	1
Donald Kirk	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.

Resource Capital Funds is a mining-focused alternative investments firm that partners with companies to build strong, successful, and sustainable businesses.

Investment focus

Construction, Software, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
Australia, United States

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.
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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Okkular — Okkular is an AI based fashion tech startup.
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.

Kurt Alexander

Investment focus

Mining, Retail, Medical
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

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James McKinnon - Managing Partner @ MIRIN CAPITAL

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Spacelli —
Expert360 — Hire elite consultants, project managers, data analysts, designers, and developers for your most important local & remote work
StorReduce — StorReduce designs and develops deduplication software for its clients.The software features inline deduplication, backups, data replication, big data, and cloud-based support. The application assists its clients with migrating on-premises backups to cloud and backing up on-cloud data using deduplication.StorReduce was founded in 2014 and isbased in California.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Water
Seed, Series C
Australia

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.

Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
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.
Primary — Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways.

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

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.

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...

Investment focus

Energy, Oil and Gas
Corporate Round
Australia

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.

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.