Top 10 Organic Food Startup Investors in Australia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Organic food startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Organic food companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Organic Food Startup Investors in Australia

Investor	Organic Food Australia investments
Cyan Ta'eed	2
Collis Ta'eed	2
Giant Leap Fund	1
Adam Milgrom	1
Kakao Investment	1
Bevan Clark	1
Tank Stream Ventures	1
Michael Rosenbaum	1
Guy King	1
Michael Doubinski	1

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Cyan Ta'eed was born in Sydney, Australia. She worked as a graphic designer before co-founding Envato in 2006 with her husband, Collis Ta'eed, and his best friend, Jun Rung. She now serves on Envato's Board of Directors. Cyan Ta'eed is also the co-creator of New Day Box, a charity focusing on women in crisis.

Investment focus

Consumer, CleanTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Refilled — Refilled is an eco-friendly company that offers smart drink dispenser vending machines to eliminate single-use plastic bottles.
Trace — trace helps individuals and businesses go carbon neutral - measure (for free), reduce & offset your carbon footprint. Track your impact across our handpicked project portfolio including biodiversity in Australia.
Bloom Impact Investing — Bloom Impact Investing provides an investment platform to investors wanting to make a difference to the environment. Join us to access clean energy and cleantech investment portfolios that your future self will thank you for.

Collis Ta'eed grew up in Papua New Guinea. He moved to Australia to attend university and later worked as a web designer, selling Flash stock on the side. His experience selling stock inspired him to co-found Envato with his wife, Cyan Ta'eed, and best friend, Jun Rung. Collis has served as Envato's CEO since the company'sfounding in 2006.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Email, Big Data
Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Refilled — Refilled is an eco-friendly company that offers smart drink dispenser vending machines to eliminate single-use plastic bottles.
YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne
Bloom Impact Investing — Bloom Impact Investing provides an investment platform to investors wanting to make a difference to the environment. Join us to access clean energy and cleantech investment portfolios that your future self will thank you for.

Giant Leap is Australia's first venture capital fund to be 100% dedicated to investing in exceptional, rapidly scalable impact businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fortanix — Fortanix is building a new security category with its Runtime Encryption(R) technology using Intel SGX. Just like encryption today protects data at rest and data during motion, Runtime Encryption(R) keeps keys, data, and applications completely protected even when infrastructure has been compromised and even root users are malicious.Fortanix's Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS) is a next-generation cloud native solution for your enterprise encryption needs. It offers key generation, management, distribution, encryption-as-a-service, HSM, KMIP, and tokenization all rolled-in as a single product the highest possible level of security and cloud scale. Available as both FIPS certified appliance and a globally available SaaS (with Equinix's strong SLA), SDKMS offers incredible simple central management, server-side load balancing, central tamper-proof logging, RESTful APIs, and Runtime Encryption(R) plugin to run custom code.Fortanix's Runtime Encryption(R) Platform allows customers to bring any docker container and run them securely inside Intel SGX without any modification. It allows customers to share data with each other without losing control of the data, run analytics on sensitive data, run applications securely in remote cloud, move PII-heavy sensitive data to public cloud, etc. Fortanix's Enclave Development Platform (EDP) allows customers to write Rust code to run natively as SGX enclaves. Supported by mainline Rust compiler, developers find EDP as the easiest and the most secure way of developing new applications.In the short time, Fortanix has developed strategic partnership with Equinix and IBM cloud and counts multiple F50 companies as its customers. Fortanix is a Gartner Cool Vendor and also was runner up in RSA Innovation Sandbox among 500+ security companies where judges called it "holy grail of security". Fortanix has more than ten patents pending for its innovation.
Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
More Good Days — More Good Days offers evidence-based pain management programes, education, and health services.

Adam is an active impact investor and has built a portfolio of investments across a wide range of industries and asset classes that align profit with purpose.Adam has a proven track record in consumer marketing, ecommerce and innovation. He has deep ties to philanthropy, social enterprise and impact investing.Adam is VP of Giant Leap Fundwhich has been established by IIG as the first Australian VC Fund 100% committed to making early-stage investments with positive impact.

Investment focus

EdTech, Medical, Hospital
Seed, Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne
More Good Days — More Good Days offers evidence-based pain management programes, education, and health services.
HEX — Innovation education for the gap year generation. Get ready to lead in an exponential world. Start with HEX. Then choose your future career.

Incorporated in 2015, Kakao Investment is a 100% subsidiary of Kakao which specializes in venture capital investments.Based on Kakao’s philosophy of “Connect Everything”, Kakao Investment seeks to invest and support innovative start-ups that can realize interpersonal connection and the connection of all of us to the things around us. Also KakaoInvestment strives to foster a virtuous circle with in the venture environment by facilitating M&As and IPOs.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

NPCx — NPCx provides video game developers, designers, data scientists and programmers.
Klleon — Revolutionizing AI-Human Interactions with Real-Time Digital AvatarsEstablished in 2019, Klleon pioneers a fresh dimension in AI-human relations through its real-time digital avatar video chat. Recognized by industry giants like NVIDIA, AWS, and Microsoft, Klleon's unique technologies facilitate emotionally resonant AI digital avatarinteractions. Features include rapid-response digital human animations and optimized GPT processing, ensuring efficiency in both time and cost. By creating lifelike digital avatars from just a facial snapshot and 30 seconds of voice, Klleon transcends physical, temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries. With Klleon, your digital twin can converse globally, anytime, in any language.
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Board Member at YourGrocer.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.

Tank Stream Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in strong teams solving core human problems!. We support founders with an almost obsessive vision to disrupt existing industries, create new ones and improve lives through technology.We like Founders with a problem solving vision as opposed to a solution driven one. We seetechnology as an enabler rather than an end in itself.We like to get involved as early as we can and are flexible in terms of geography – we’ve made investments from Hobart to Stockholm, with a strong concentration in Australia and the US.Through Tank Stream Labs, Australia's leading entrepreneurial community and co-working space, we are surrounded by entrepreneurs, thought leaders and ingenious opportunities every single day.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flare — Flare is a free HR software offering paperless onboarding, employee benefits, and employee management. Level up your operations and book a free demo today.
YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne
Wakie — Wakie Voice Chat is the best way to express your true emotions and talk to friendly people from all over the globe. Talk to strangers on the phone and have fun!

Michael Rosenbaum - CEO & Founder @ Spacer

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Delivery, Internet
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Zoom2u — Zoom2u is a Delivery platform that connects you with a community of couriers across Australia. Deliver from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and more.
YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne

Guy King is the Co-Founder of Stateless Systems Pty Ltd. Guy King wrote BugMeNot as a "slapped-together" weekend project in 2003 that went on to become a worldwide hit. After time working a Realestate.com.au, Guy King founded Stateless Systems in 2007 and launched RetailMeNot, a consumer coupon sites.