Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Australia (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Reinventure
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $800k–$54M |
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Carthona Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $404k–$50M |
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Stani Kulechov
Angel
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5 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $250k–$27M |
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Sydney Angels
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $120k–$1.5M |
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x15ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, FinTech, Payments | $150k–$21M |
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Framework Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2M–$48M |
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
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4 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$40M |
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DCF GOD
Angel
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4 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | $1.3M–$7.5M |
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Square Peg Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $875k–$72M |
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Apex Capital Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, China, Spain | Series A, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Apps | $1.4M–$34M |
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Cultivation Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $500k–$15M |
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Digital Asset Capital Management
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $1.5M–$12M |
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Airtree Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $800k–$48M |
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KuCoin
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $2M–$20M |
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Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $34k–$35M |
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Mark Harbottle
Angel
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3 | Australia | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, B2B, FinTech | $250k–$11M |
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Nightingale Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $275k–$3.5M |
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Vitalik Buterin
Angel
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3 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Grant | Blockchain, Software, Ethereum | $2.5M–$15M |
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OIF Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $1.3M–$23M |
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ether.fi
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States | Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum | $3.2M–$10M |
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Finality Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Australia, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology | $1.5M–$40M |
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Scalare Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $242k–$5.4M |
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AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $367k–$21M |
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Rampersand
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1M–$10M |
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Tidal Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $508k–$15M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$32M |
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Picus Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $500k–$33M |
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Investible
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $250k–$20M |
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Algorand Foundation
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, India | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $20k–$5.8M |
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Ken Cheung Cheung
Angel
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2 | Australia, Singapore | Seed | Mobile, FinTech, Internet | |
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Scott Moore
Angel
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2 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet | |
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Evan Cheng
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology | |
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Ashwin Ramachandran
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Software, FinTech | |
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Radek Ostrowski
Angel
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2 | Australia, United Kingdom | Seed | FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | |
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Daniel Johnson
Angel
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2 | Australia | Seed | FinTech, Payments, Data Integration | |
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Bosco Tan
Angel
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2 | Australia | Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | |
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Circle Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, Canada | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Magnivia Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia | Seed | FinTech, Payments, Data Integration | |
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Multicoin Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $40k–$15M |
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Black Sheep Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $34k–$13M |
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Regal Funds Management
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Convertible Note, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1.7M–$26M |
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Transition Level Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Health Care | $60k–$2.4M |
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Mastercard
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Corporate Round | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $750k–$300M |
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Greycroft
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$79M |
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $1.5M–$40M |
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BitScale
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $1.3M–$30M |
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Guy Pearson
Angel
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2 | Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Payments | $1.3M–$20M |
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Rayn Ong
Angel
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2 | Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Marketing | $260k–$3.4M |
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Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally.With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner,Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4.7M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $8.1M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Kasada — Kasada stops automated threats and bot attacks from the very first request across web, mobile apps, and APIs. Real-time bot mitigation with no rules to manage.
- Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
- Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $404k–$4.7M; Series A $3.3M–$17M; Series B $9.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- PREVE — Supporting back-to-back physios with their daily caseload, simplifying admin whilst making the patient experience more enjoyable. Preve does the admin work for practitioners. One click clinical notes, treatment plans, home rehab and documents.
- Qlarifi — Consumer lending decisions transformed with real time, comprehensive data.
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $250k–$4.2M; Series A $6.7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
- Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
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, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $130k–$890k; Pre-Seed $337k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
x15ventures is a dynamic venture-building outfit, designed to bring to life the next generation of digital endeavors.
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- Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $150k–$1M; Series A $20M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gable — Bridge the communication gap between data producers and data consumers
- Credit Savvy —
- Paytron — Power every business transaction from one platform. Accounts payables, international transfers & payroll made easy w/approval workflows. Signup now.
A crypto venture firm that builds with our founders.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 186
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $6M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AlchemyNFT — AlchemyNFT is a non-fungible token (NFT) service.
- Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
- Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $8M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
- Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
- SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
DCF GOD
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
- Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.
Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Seed $875k–$14M; Series A $2.7M–$35M; Series B $10M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pluang — Investasi di Saham AS, Kripto, Emas & Reksa Dana mulai Rp5.000. Aman, teregulasi, dan mudah digunakan.
- Vi Labs — Productized AI for Health Enterprises. We turn data science into patient & operational ROI.
- Excelero Storage — Founded in 2014 by a team of storage veterans and inspired by the Tech Giants’ shared-nothing architectures for web-scale applications, the company has created a Software-Defined Block Storage solution that meets performance and scalability requirements of the largest web-scale and enterprise applications.With Excelero’s NVMesh, customers canbuild distributed, high-performance Server SAN for mixed application workloads. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage TCO. The solution has been deployed for hyper-scale Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and massive-scale simulation visualization.
Apex Capital is an investment firm which provides venture capital to exceptional founders who are revolutionising the financial services landscape. They have a strong track record of successfully establishing, investing in and growing businesses that have sought to provide innovative products and services to the financial services sector. Theirentrepreneurial backgrounds give us a unique perspective on what it takes to start and scale a business in financial services.Apex Capital was established over a decade ago and is wholly owned by its principals, each of whom have a wealth of experience from having worked across multiple continents with leading global firms in financial services, as well as having developed and operated their own start-up businesses.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, China, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$10M; Series A $1.4M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zeller — Leading EFTPOS Terminal provider for thousands of Australian businesses. Zeller helps you accept card payments, manage your finances, cash flow & more.
- Immutable Systems — Zero gas fees, instant trades and scalability for games, applications, marketplaces, without compromise.
- FrankieOne — FrankieOne helps banks and fintechs make better decisions using a single API and dashboard to manage KYC/AML and fraud.
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Browse database — It's Free!Cultivation Capital invests in young companies whose ideas have potential to transform the way we live and work.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 251
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Series A $1.4M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $13M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cinch — Cinch helps multi-location B2C brands turn customer data into action. Automate personalized marketing to boost retention, frequency & growth.
- DemandJump — Combining your data with data beyond your four walls DemandJump provides a roadmap of the actions you should take to ensure your marketing drives revenue.
- Force Equals —
Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fundinvesting in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Initial Coin Offering $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
- Macropod —
- Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 189
- Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $3.4M–$35M; Series B $4M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $288M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- XMO — XMO is building a consumer finance product centered on agentic AI and predictive money management. The company’s approach moves away from static budgeting or backward-looking transaction summaries and toward systems that can interpret patterns, anticipate future needs, and take action on a user’s behalf. Its product direction is framed aroundeveryday spending management first, with broader automation and decision support as the model develops.
- LawVu — Our all-in-one connected platform enables your legal team to manage all legal matters, contracts, spend and legal operations. Book your free demo now.
- Kronus — Full-stack development infrastructure for safety-critical systems.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Initial Coin Offering $2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Utexo — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
- Domin Network — Domin Network is a decentralized business network that connects software and hardware in many business situations using the NFT middleware protocol and DePIN rollup technology.
- Balthazar NFT Gaming — Balthazar is on a mission to empower the biggest community of gamers to create a self-sustaining,
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 322
- Round size: Seed $34k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.7M; Series A $3.4M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
- Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
- Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com
Matt Harbottle co-founded Melbourne-based SitePoint.com 10 years ago with Matt Mickiewicz, and grew it into a profitable, multi-million dollar company without any venture capital or outside funding. The company has been profitable every single month since its inception and is actively involved in publishing & marketplaces for Web Professionals.In 2008, Mark spun off 99designs out of SitePoint as its own separate business. 99designs has become the market leader in crowdsourced graphic design and currently sees a new graphic uploaded to the site every 7 seconds and pays out over $1,000,000 to designers every month. In April 2011 99designs received $35m in a Round A led by Accel Partners.99designs has run crowdsourced design projects for tens of thousands of small business owners, as well as big brands like Adidas, TiVo, Dish Networks, and bestselling authors like Tim Ferriss and Rick Warren (author of “The Purpose Driven Lifeâ€).In June of 2009, Mark and Matt launched Flippa.com, a marketplace for buying and selling small websites via auction. Flippa currently sells over $2 million worth of website assets per month, with its biggest sale ever being ReTweet.com which sold for $250,000.In January of 2011, Learnable.com was launched, again as a spin off from SitePoint. Learnable is a peer to peer education platform where anyone can create an online course and sell access to it online.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, B2B, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2M; Series A $10M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Assembly Payments — Collect, refund, disburse & reconcile online payments with API automation to simplify complex payment flows. Pay & get paid instantly for operational efficiency.
First established in London in 1985, our private equity firm was founded on one word. Patience. Now headquartered in Australia and with offices in Sydney and Hong Kong, patience still is, and always will be, our guiding principle and how we achieve superior long-term returns for our stakeholders.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $337k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $275k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bilby — Artificial Intelligence RegTech Platform
- PayOK — PayOK's API driven solution delivers real-time dual account validation between Australian banks which can reduce mistaken or fraudulent payments, protecting and giving confidence to your customers.
- Aerologix — Free access to the largest qualified drone pilot network in the southern hemisphere via one platform.
Vitalik Buterin is the Founder & Developer of TOKENEO. He previously worked at NextThought, LLC as a Developer Intern. Vitalik Buterin attended the University of Waterloo.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Ethereum
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$15M; Angel $2.5M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
- Truemarket — Onchain yield-bearing markets
- Rarimo Foundation — Rarimo Foundation, which aims to facilitate the development and growth of a new generation of social applications.
OIF is a venture capital firm focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs building businesses.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Series A $2.6M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- LinkBy — Linkby turns content into sales and connects high quality content creators with premium advertisers. Make your brand famous with cost-per-click press releases.
- Zitcha — Zitcha builds own-branded, high-performance, Retail Media Businesses by connecting Retailers and Brands to all marketing channels in one omnichannel platform, onsite, offsite and in-store.
- Rosterfy — Connect to your volunteers with a comprehensive & user-friendly platform where you can recruit, retain, reward and train your volunteers.
EtherFi is a non-custodial decentralized ETH staking method that distributes staking to node operators in exchange for rewards.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hyperbeat — Hyperbeat is a native protocol built specifically for the Hyperliquid ecosystem, designed to enhance scalability, efficiency, and overall performance across the network.
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
- Resolv Labs — Transparent dollar products backed by diversified crypto yield sources
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$7.1M; Series A $5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MNX — MNX is a company focused on decentralized futures exchanges in the AI economy.
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- HYFIX Spatial Intelligence — HYFIX Spatial Intelligence is a Machinery Manufacturing firm developing IoT-friendl software and hardware.
Scalare Partners is more than a technology investment fund. We provide critical funding and resourcing
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $242k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $472k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brauz — Brauz connects your customers now with Reserve In Store, Find in Store, Click + Collect, On Demand Delivery, Ship from Store, Appointment Booking, Video Commerce, Clienteling and more.
- Betterx — Betterx is a technology company focused on infrastructure to support Web3.0 and Digital Assets.
- Amelio Health — Amelio Health is a program integrating a set of pathways developing the capabilities of case managers to signpost claimants at risk of developing chronic pain
We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $367k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $410k–$2.2M; Series A $4.2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
- BarterAds Pty Ltd — BarterAds is a programmatic advertising exchange that enables businesses to acquire customers without cash spend by converting unused ad inventory into a tradable asset. Instead of paying in fiat, companies earn and spend a proprietary internal currency called Barter Dollars, which are issued when they display ads on their owned media propertiessuch as websites, apps, or platforms.The platform operates as an auction-based exchange, similar to traditional ad networks, where advertisers bid for impressions using Barter Dollars. Inventory is matched contextually and priced dynamically through real-time bidding, ensuring efficient allocation of supply and demand across the network. This allows both advertisers and publishers to maximize the value of otherwise underutilized inventory.BarterAds primarily targets startups, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, gaming companies, and content publishers that have traffic but are constrained by rising customer acquisition costs. By removing the need for upfront cash spend, the platform provides a capital-efficient growth channel, particularly for small and mid-sized businesses.The system includes controls for brand safety, fraud prevention, and inventory quality through business verification, campaign approvals, and continuous monitoring. Barter Dollars are non-transferable and expire periodically, preventing hoarding and ensuring continuous circulation within the ecosystem.BarterAds is designed as a hybrid between barter networks and modern ad exchanges, combining the scalability and automation of programmatic advertising with a closed-loop, cashless economy. The company is headquartered in Australia and is focused on building a global network of advertisers and publishers who both contribute inventory and run campaigns within the platform.
- Samphire Neuroscience — Samphire Neuroscience provides solutions that specialize in women's health. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.
We back ambitious ANZ tech founders from inception to seed, with proven support, no empty promises, and a track record of helping startups scale smarter.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.5M; Series A $2.9M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
- Cuttable — The AI ad creative production system for high-growth DTC brands. Scale Meta ad volume and variation without scaling headcount. Built for performance teams.
- Parachute —
We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $508k–$2.3M; Series A $1.7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- SecurePII — SecurePII provides a cloud-based platform that enables organisations to reduce exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) across voice, chat, and AI training channels. The service includes call-by-call redaction of credit-card and other sensitive data via its SecureCall component, enabling businesses to offload PCI-DSS complianceobligations while still retaining customer-facing interactions. SecurePII also empowers companies to process conversation data more safely, by filtering or anonymising PII in real time, to enable AI, analytics, and automation initiatives without compromising customer privacy. The platform integrates with existing payment gateway and communications infrastructure to support both contact centres and unified communications environments.
- Orkestra — Orkestra is a renewable energy software platform that provides tools to assist energy companies in the planning, selling, and optimization of new energy deployments.
- Checkbox — Checkbox is an award-winning no code platform which allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 842
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Finbits — Fintech company formed by co-founders with digital product background. The startup is solving major financial problems faced by entrepreneurs in LatAm: time wasted with non-core activities and difficult access to financial products. Finbits is developing an all-in-one finance solution for LatAm SMB. This new solution saves 80% of back-office costsand allows users access to financial products. This new financial OS integrates bank accounts, payment means, third-party ERP, and accounting software already available in the ecosystem. The new platform leverages modern technology and a data driven architecture to provide intelligent insights and financial products.
- Musa — Musa is a smart city solution providing a platform that efficiently connects waste generators, haulers, and recyclers. Our mission is to guarantee that all waste becomes raw material directed to a productive chain of reuse. This is what connects us, a world without waste where everything can be reused. We want to transform the waste managementindustry by leveraging technology and developing new business models ensuring economic, social, and environmental impact.
- Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 353
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4.4M; Series A $3.7M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Nefta — One platform to build, launch and operate web3 games
- Everstores — Everstores makes use of your store data to speed up the sales process and give you a reasonable and transparent offer.
- Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- fileAI — Automate and analyze any file with AI. fileAI builds proprietary AI components for complex agentic workflow automation.
- VoiceByte — VoiceByte is an application platform that allows its users to record and share their voice either privately or on social networks.
- GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.
Fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software for an inclusive ecosystem.
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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Grant $20k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $35k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FlexID — BMW4D adalah situs terpercaya yang menawarkan link resmi untuk bermain slot gacor dengan permainan Slot88 yang populer.
- ALGOFAME — FAME (Food Autonomy and Mutual Empowerment) is a Web3 Marketplace aiming to revolutionize the agricultural sector by promoting true food transparency, financial inclusion, and decentralized governance on a global scale.
- HesabPay — Experience a revolutionary shift in digital payments with HesabPay, enabling effortless money transfers, bill payments, and gift cards.
Mr Ken Cheung is a CEO of MCC International.
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- Industry: Mobile, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
- Gushcloud International — Gushcloud International is a top influencer marketing agency based in several locations around Asia - Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Korea, Japan, Greater China and in the West - USA, Australia.
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
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Browse database — It's Free!Scott Moore is the Founder of Public Works. He previously worked at Ethereum as an Ecosystem Grants. Scott Moore attended the University of Toronto.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- HackQuest — HackQuest is a Multichain Web3 developer and founder platform, with education, community events, hackathons, and accelerators at its core. HackQuest helps over 20 leading ecosystems such as Mantle, Solana, Arbitrum, and Linea onboard quality developers and supports developers to jumpstart their careers in Web3.
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
- Plastic Labs — Radically Decentralizing Alignment
Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Jarsy — Jarsy Inc offers a platform for global investment opportunities using stablecoins.
- PIN AI — PIN AI democratizes personal on-device intelligence for everyone; transform your digital footprints into your Personal Executive Assistant.
- Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.
Ashwin Ramachandran is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. He was a Research Engineer at ThunderCore. He attended Duke University.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Total investments: 16
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
- Liquid — Liquid is a decentralized trading platform that offers non-custodial crypto trading options.
- INIT Capital — Lend, Borrow, and Access Yield Strategies with Liquidity Hook
A talented developer and an architect able to hit the ground running. With his broad skill set, he has contributed to the success of many small local and big international projects. Effective in taking applications from inception to completion and in improving the existing solutions. Motivated by challenges and driven by ambition agileproblem-solver.
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- Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- prePO — Trade the top pre-IPO companies.
- Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
- Mycelium — Mycelium is a market-leading technology company leveraging blockchain technology to make financial markets more efficient. We build financial market infrastructure on public blockchains that is open, transparent, and accessible. We specialise in data provision and financial smart contracts. Mycelium has two core products leveraging financial smartcontracts: Perpetual Swaps and Perpetual Pools.We believe that the growing use of blockchains in financial technology will benefit everyone, and are committed to realising this vision.
Daniel Johnson is the Founding Partner at We Scale Startups. He attended New Entrepreneurs Foundation.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Data Integration
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
Bosco Tan
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
- Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
Circle Ventures invests in projects that accelerate global crypto innovation and adoption in service. They foster crypto innovation by assisting founders and teams that are committed to open access, financial inclusivity, and programmable commerce, all of which may contribute to global economic success.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Playtron — The Operating System for Gaming
- Anzen — USDz is a stablecoin backed by a diversified RWA portfolio, allowing holders to mitigate volatility and earn rewards through all market cycles
- Centrifuge — Centrifuge is the platform for tokenized real-world assets, providing the infrastructure and ecosystem to tokenize, manage, and invest into RWAs.
Magnivia invests at the end of the accelerator curve in late seed to growth stages in emerging themes where innovative product adoption is rapid. The firm invests across a wide variety of sectors, including fintech, enterprise, aerospace, artificial intelligence, proptech, and consumer Internet.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Data Integration
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Hello Clever — Connect every rail and understand every payment. Unify your payment infrastructure with Clever AI to instantly turn transaction data into measurable growth.
- Hello Clever — Connect every rail and understand every payment. Unify your payment infrastructure with Clever AI to instantly turn transaction data into measurable growth.
Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- GTE — GTE is a decentralized trading platform that offers end-to-end trading services.
- Accrue — Send money across Africa in less time than it takes you to count your loose change. This is as easy, cheap, and fast as cross-border payments get
- Accountable — Verifiable Yield Opportunities
Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
- Tableland — A 3k generative NFT built from 1,074 handcrafted works of art for the builders and creatives of cyberspace.
- Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 246
- Round size: Seed $135k–$4.6M; 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
- Vaulta — Discover Vaulta's high-performance batteries for sustainable energy solutions. Revolutionising power with easy installation, maintenance, and recycling. Join the Australian-made energy revolution today!
- 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.
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, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- 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.
- Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
- 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.
Regal Funds Management was founded in 2004 by Andrew and Philip King. Regal utilises a long/short investment strategy and performs investment management and investment advisory services to a number of Australian Unit Trusts and Cayman Island Companies.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Convertible Note, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Series B $7M–$26M; Convertible Note $1.7M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $54M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Send Payments — Seamless cross-border payments for people, businesses and enterprises. Make fast, secure and reliable payments in 100+ currencies to over 170 countries.
- Firmus Technologies —
- Iondrive — Iondrive is an exploration company that provides metals. They offer products that include gold, silver, copper, and other metals. They provide services for industrial use.
Founded by Steve Baxter, Transition Level Investments provides equity capital and operational expertise across Seed and Series A rounds to Australian companies. Our team focuses on a company-growth approach, adding value by assisting founders to build their expertise, expand their team, build product, scale locally and globally to position for asuccessful exit. We have a track record of identifying investment opportunities in the Australian market and helping enable global growth.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $875k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Go1 — Simplify employee training with one subscription that delivers essential learning from 250+ providers, integrated seamlessly into your HR tech stack.
- Kapiche — Customer intelligence for CX, support and product teams who need to understand their customers accross more than just surveys. Analyze 100% of customer conversations to prevent churn and accelerate growth.
- Clipchamp — Create videos with royalty-free music and stock footage, use video templates, and export in up to 4K video resolution. Get started in-browser or download the Windows app.
Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments. They provide data services and marketing center. Their marketing materials help card portfolios and businesses. They also provide fraud prevention solutions and payment ecosystem security.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Series A $7.7M–$35M; Corporate Round $750k–$300M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Astrada — Astrada is a software company that provides financial infrastructure, payments, and automation services.
- Smile ID — Smile ID provides the best onboarding, identity verification, and user authentication service for fast growing businesses and startups in Africa.
- Oxford Quantum Circuits — Oxford Quantum Circuits developing technology using the power of quantum to do things which have never been achieved before, from enabling life-changing drug discoveries to developing new battery technologies.
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 720
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.2M–$25M; Series B $6.2M–$79M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Danvas — Danvas is advancing screens that will possess a fully dimensional interactive design that brings NFT art to life and will reinforce the authentic ownership of the artwork. Its premium, luxury digital art canvas aims to accelerate the world’s appreciation of digital artists and their artwork, and introduce art collectors to the value, andpossibilities of the next wave of digital art.
- Instantly — Buy Instagram followers from Techcrunch50 for as little as $1. Fast delivery, real active followers and friendly 24/7 customer support. Try us today.
- Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 432
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GameFi.org —
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
- AI Pay with Crypto — AI Pay with Crypto is an AI-native financial infrastructure built for the emerging agent economy.APC enables autonomous AI agents to execute payments, settle transactions using programmable stablecoins, and connect directly to real-world merchant networks through QR codes, POS terminals, and other payment channels
BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2M; Series A $20M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $570k–$3.4M; Angel $260k–$270k; Pre-Seed $650k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
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