Top 15 Oil and Gas Startup Investors in Oceania in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Oil and gas startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Oil and gas companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Oil and Gas Startup Investors in Oceania in January 2026
| Investor | Oil and Gas Oceania investments |
|---|---|
| Artesian VC | 3 |
| Jolimont Global Mining Systems | 2 |
| Sydney Angels | 2 |
| Kurt Alexander | 2 |
| Donald Kirk | 1 |
| James McKinnon | 1 |
| IAG Firemark Ventures | 1 |
| MIRIN CAPITAL | 1 |
| Taronga Ventures | 1 |
| Black Sheep Capital | 1 |
| Archangel Ventures | 1 |
| BPH Energy | 1 |
| Luke & Janelle Roberts | 1 |
| Jutech Pty Ltd | 1 |
| William Welty | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
- SAMA Fertility — SAMA Fertility is a virtual fertility clinic that offers fertility care and treatments, including preservation and evaluation services.
- Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
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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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.
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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.
Kurt Alexander
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
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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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
James McKinnon - Managing Partner @ MIRIN CAPITAL
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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 — 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Insurance, Property Management
- Series A, Series B
- United States, Australia
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.
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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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.
Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business.
Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Construction, Clean Energy
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- WINT — Wint Water Intelligence mitigates water-related risks via AI & IoT-based leak detection including auto valve shut-off to protect your property
- Ampd Energy — Ampd Energy is driven by its vision for an emission-free future for construction. Ampd Energy pioneered the use of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in urban construction with its flagship product, the "Enertainer". The Enertainer electrifies construction sites and provides clean, quiet and fully automated energy delivery, allowingconstruction to transition away from fossil fuels.Compared to fossil fuel generators, the Enertainer: reduces carbon footprint by up to 85%; is 32x quieter; emits zero diesel fumes; eliminates diesel handling and usage risks; has zero maintenance and refuelling downtime; and is economically justified for operational cost savings. As an IoT enabled device, the Enertainer can be remotely monitored anytime and anywhere, providing a deep level of data-transparency for data-driven decision making.Website: www.ampd.energy LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ampd_energy
- 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.
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
- 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
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, Philippines
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.
- OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
- Termina — Termina operates as an energy tech startup.
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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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.
Luke & Janelle Roberts
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
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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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
William Welty
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
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