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Top 50 Payments VC Funds in Oceania

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Payments startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments VC Funds in Oceania

Investor	Payments Oceania investments
Reinventure	6
Carthona Capital	5
Airtree Ventures	5
x15ventures	5
Framework Ventures	5
Square Peg Capital	4
Apex Capital Partners	4
Cultivation Capital	4
Blackbird Ventures	3
Nightingale Partners	3
Digital Asset Capital Management	3
Picus Capital	3
Global Founders Capital	3
Sydney Angels	3
Tidal Ventures	3
Rampersand	3
Blockchain Founders Fund	2
Greycroft	2
KuCoin	2
Gobi Partners	2
Solana Ventures	2
SkyVision Capital	2
Yolo Investments	2
Regal Funds Management	2
CrossFund	2
Circle Ventures	2
Artesian VC	2
Brisbane Angels	2
Ellerston Capital	2
Algorand Foundation	2
Folklore Ventures	2
Son Tech Investment	2
Alium Capital	2
Coinbase Ventures	2
Black Sheep Capital	2
Mastercard	2
Vectr	2
Sprint Ventures	2
Magnivia Ventures	2
Multicoin Capital	2
Addition	2
BitScale	2
Boson Ventures	2
The LAO	2
Maven 11 Capital	2
Bailador Technology Investments	1
Muhabbit Capital Ventures	1
Ice Angels	1
JAM FINTOP	1
Australian Ethical Investment	1

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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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more.
Kepler Analytics — Kepler uses retail in-store analytics to provide retail managers with unprecedented insight into shopper behaviour and create amazing customer experiences.

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CNaught — CNaught is an online platform that helps companies to purchase a diversified portfolio of carbon offsets.
NayaOne — Revolutionise your financial institution with NayaOne's Sandbox as a Service platform. Accelerate innovation, reduce risks, and partner with top-tier fintechs.
Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
TrueState — Accelerate your AI adoption with TrueState's library of high-impact AI solutions, infinitely customisable for your unique business context.
Zeta Markets — Trade crypto like never before. Zeta lets you trade all your favorite assets at lightning speed without compromising security.

x15ventures is a dynamic venture-building outfit, designed to bring to life the next generation of digital endeavors.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Truyu — Truyu is Australia's first digital identity protection tool that alerts you when your identity is being used or misused online. Keep what belongs to you, with Truyu.
Paytron — Power every business transaction from one platform. Accounts payables, international transfers & payroll made easy w/approval workflows. Signup now.
Pairtree Intelligence — Pairtree delivers a cutting-edge service to the Australian agriculture sector to help our clients make the most of the smart farm revolution.

A crypto venture firm that builds with our founders.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Irys — Irys is the first L1 programmable datachain, bringing together data storage and execution for a simpler and more efficient development process. Built for scalability, Irys supports both temporary and permanent data, ensuring reliable and flexible data management. With a clear pricing model and EVM compatibility, Irys offers a solid and affordable platform for creating dynamic, data-driven applications. Irys bridges the gap between temporary and permanent data, ensuring efficient and verifiable onchain interactions. Our mission is to lead the transition to a fully onchain, data-driven future, setting a new standard for web services and empowering innovation at every step.
Daylight Energy — Anode Labs is leveraging web3 infrastructure to build the world's largest virtual power plant.
Sentient — Community-built open AGI

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cuttable — Create high-quality ads quickly with Cuttable. Our tool uses automation and expert insights to produce and publish exceptional ads in under a minute. Perfect for marketers.
Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.
Mindverse — Discover the AI that transforms your life. MindOS boosts productivity, makes suggestions, and perfects your routines. Get an AI memory today.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Australia, China, Spain

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.

Cultivation Capital invests in young companies whose ideas have potential to transform the way we live and work.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SATIM — SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery.
Monitaur — Keeping AI honest is a full-time job. Ours. One platform to guide and govern the entire lifecycle of your AI. Complete risk management solution to record, monitor, govern, and audit your AI and achieve machine learning assurance.
OpsLab — Discover our solution. OpsLab uses innovative asset management software to improve operational readiness for warfighters. We enable flying squadrons to automatically build forward-looking flight schedules, optimize critical resources, and simplify logistics. Our smart assistants solve operational pl

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Redactive — Redactive removes the specialist Data engineering knowledge that application developers need to build scalable AI applications for internal use cases or providing new AI experiences to your customers.
Aquila — We're powering the future by building and operating an infinitely scalable energy network.
Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Bilby — Bilby turns regulations into alpha by using 60M+ data points to analyse and respond instantly.
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 — Get skilled drone pilots and seamless drone hire services at Aerologix. Precision, reliability, and aerial excellence are at your fingertips. Contact us today!

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Kelp DAO — Restake your ETH with Kelp, one of the largest Liquid Restaking Protocols built on EigenLayer, to maximize your staking and restaking rewards
Mitosis — Mitosis is an EOL L1 blockchain that redefines the DeFi LP experience. EOL implements economies of scale to asset management and empowers LPs with increased bargaining power.
Zeta Markets — Trade crypto like never before. Zeta lets you trade all your favorite assets at lightning speed without compromising security.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
Hive — Fulfillment with Hive means 100% peace of mind at up to 30% cost savings. Move your operations to Hive now.
Niva — Niva's business identity platform enables institutions across the globe to verify more businesses faster, safer, and smarter with AI. Scale your fraud and compliance teams with Niva.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Remi AI — A.I-Powered Demand Forecasting, Supply Chain AI, & Price Optimisation | Remi AI
Trendspek — Trendspek's 3D software lets you manage high-value built assets faster, safer and with more accuracy. With millimetre detail, interact with exact digital replicas of infrastructure from your desk and collaborate with global stakeholders. Book a call with us to get started.
Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.

We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Asseti — Intelligent asset management. Asseti identifies, quantifies & tracks your property assets.
Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.
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.

Rampersand is the first investor in founders with abnormal potential in Aus & NZ. We have invested 100M+ AUD in 34 companies & returned millions to investors.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Cuttable — Create high-quality ads quickly with Cuttable. Our tool uses automation and expert insights to produce and publish exceptional ads in under a minute. Perfect for marketers.
JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TDMM — TDMM is a financial company that specializes in trading, market making, and token management services.
Roundtable — Roundtable is an operator of a news publishing website that delivers truthful information and educates the readers. Its news platform provides insights, expertise, news, and information on various incidents and happenings around the world, helping readers to stay updated and well-versed about all the current affairs around them.The company wasfounded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
TradeDog Market Maker — We manage the entire crypto market making life cycle; We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sybill AI — Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Video Calls
Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
Contextual AI — Our contextual language models are built to be more customizable, scalable and trustable, while keeping your data safe.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

AutoLayer — All LRTfi. One Interface.
Obscuro Labs — Ten, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup protocol designed to hyper-scale, encrypt and prevent negative MEV on Ethereum
E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.

Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Malaysia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Vircle — Vircle is a fintech technology that enables users to build controlled cashless commerce communities with an emphasis on societal health and well-being. It has been initially developed as a cashless school and a peer-to-peer subsidy solution, where the provider provides beneficiaries consumption entitlements, such as cash value, specific items suchas healthy food, groceries, etc., based on digital entitlements, and the actual cashless payment occurs in the background when the actual consumption occurs, giving providers the visibility of consumption.
Bitsmedia — With a strong focus on digital entertainment and social media applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, Bitsmedia address the Internet, Telecom and Media industries and provides clients with state-of-the-art consulting and technology services. Its services range from the initial conceptualization and product design, the functional andtechnical specifications to the actual development, testing and distribution of custom applications for mobile devices.
ProCredit — Your Trusted Financing Partner Welcome to ProCredit THE PROCREDIT DIFFERENCE Our unique value proposition is built on the foundation of leveraging advanced technology and the deep domain expertise of the founders to offer rapid, accurate, and risk-adjusted financing solutions tailored to the nuanced needs of SMEs. With a commitment to filling the substantial credit gap...

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

BAXUS — The secure way to trade wine and spirits. Harnessing the power of blockchain technology to give users proof of ownership, authentication, and a safe storage solution, ensuring complete peace of mind for every transaction.
Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
Ambient — Ambient is a decentralized environmental monitoring startup that uses its extensive sensor network to provide real-time, actionable environmental data.

SkyVision Capital (SVC) promotes new, open decentralized technology and its development. We are a Crypto Fund that is dedicated to incubating and investing in founders of tomorrow, today.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
Gudchain — Gudchain operates a game creation firm that specializes in web-3 games. The company's platform incorporates blockchain technology into its games, allowing gamers to play and earn simultaneously.
Creator.Bid — Hub for the AI Creator Economy

Yolo Investments is a venture capital, focused on seed- and A-stage investment opportunities across gaming and fintech. Based in Estonia, Yolo’s mission is to invest in outstanding people with bright ideas, who are focused on innovating and disrupting the norm in all manner of tech startups. Founded in 2017 by Tim Heath as Vereeni Investments,Yolo has created a thriving ecosystem with ventures across a variety of industries, including fintech, gambling, media, software development, crypto and blockchain-related companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Sports, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Estonia, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Series B, Convertible Note
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nykaa — Nykaa is an e-Commerce platform for different beauty and wellness products for men and women. They also offer comprehensive content including product reviews, beauty how-to videos, articles by experts, and an e-beauty magazine. Their helpline helps to choose products and services best suited for customer's needs. Nykaa's products areauthentic sourced directly from brands and provide a delivery experience.Nykaa was founded in 2012 by Falguni Nayar and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Send Payments — SendFX provides cross-border payment and remittance services to individuals and SMEs.
Send Payments — Send is a fast-growing fintech delivering embedded finance solutions to well-known brands.

For Angels, By Angels

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, B2B
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Vietnam, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Syarpa — Syarpa is a Fintech company building the future of payments by leveraging digital assets solutions in Africa and around the world. It provides world-class and customer-centric products such as international remittance, crypto exchange, and crypto payment solutions to its diverse customer base.
Hello Clever — Powering PayID and PayTo real-time payments for e-commerce, billers, and businesses, with instant cashback rewards for their customers
Hello Clever — Powering PayID and PayTo real-time payments for e-commerce, billers, and businesses, with instant cashback rewards for their customers

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Playtron — Playtron provideslightweight gaming OS optimized for a new generation of powerful handheld gaming PCs.
Anzen — USDz - stablecoin backed by real world assets
Centrifuge — Centrifuge is an open, decentralized operating system to connect the global financial supply chain. It allows participants to transact on a global network while maintaining ownership of their data, including their validated company details, their reputation, business relationships, and subsequent transactions. The company's team built multiplecompanies together over the last 18 years and they still enjoy working as a group. Together, they created software that transacts billions of dollars each day and is used by 97 out of the Fortune 100. With the help of their world-class investors, advisors, partners, and team they started Centrifuge to go on building real software, solving real business problems.

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.

Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

ReciMe — ReciMe is the ultimate cooking app that helps you save, share, and discover new recipes. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
PropCode — PropCode is a online platform, that helps in researching for town planning queries. the rules can be complex, and make it easy to get the right answers.
Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.

Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Australia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Data Zoo — Data Zoo is an online identity service verifying customers instantly and providing global data coverage. Keeping information protected and systems secure.
Aerologix — Get skilled drone pilots and seamless drone hire services at Aerologix. Precision, reliability, and aerial excellence are at your fingertips. Contact us today!
BiomeBank — BiomeBank is a clinical stage biotechnology company with a mission to treat our microbiome and prevent disease by restoring gut microbial ecology.

Fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software for an inclusive ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Parcision — Parcision revolutionizes the hiring process on Wall Street by introducing a crucial element: quantifiable skill. The current Wall Street hiring practice puts too much emphasis on alma mater and network connection, which deters many candidates. We aim to establish a quantitative approach that enables individuals from all backgrounds to assess theirskills and demonstrate their accuracy in analyzing critical market events, such as company earnings and economic announcements. We firmly believe that regardless of identity, sex, race, location, or educational background, everyone deserves an equal opportunity to pursue a rewarding career in the financial industry. Through our blind hiring and skills-first approach, we hope to change the DNA of Wall Street.To achieve this, we harness the power of Web 3 technology, specifically smart contracts, to facilitate and oversee tamper-proof tests that quantify candidates' analytical capabilities. By leveraging this advanced technology, we ensure a transparent, auditable, and provable performance metric for participants. The most accomplished participants are duly acknowledged financially and reputationally based on their exceptional proficiency. This recognition is facilitated through participants' undeniable track records on Parcision.Parcision is chess for financial analysts.
PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
Kilde — Hands-off regular income with up to 11.5% returns per year. Invest in consumer and SME loans with the leading lending firms.

Folklore is a team of investors, founders, and builders committed to supporting Australian and New Zealand tech founders. We are a first cheque to forever investment firm, and we believe in the power of founder vision and the potential of teams, right from the start.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
HealthMatch — HealthMatch is a medical technology company that applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to clinical data to save lives.We aim to dramatically accelerate patient recruitment to clinical trials, and progress life-saving cures onto the market faster than existing practices allow.For clinicians and patients, there is a real struggleto identify and find appropriate trials, particularly where the criteria relating to each trial is inconsistently articulated. HealthMatch encodes qualifying questions relating to each patients condition. The platform matches responses to its trial dataset, and confirms only the correct-match trials for that patient — thereby streamlining the identification of suitable trials and facilitating a patient’s application to those trials.With Ai and software at the core, HealthMatch delivers a radically simple product to match patients with drug trials, backed by an execution approach to data that is deceptively complex to achieve and replicate. In doing so, HealthMatch is dramatically changing an industry that has essentially not moved beyond telephones and excel spreadsheets.
SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.

Son-Tech Investment is a USD25 million Vietnam-focused VC with a mission to invest in pioneers and build world-class technology companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Data Integration
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Hello Clever — Powering PayID and PayTo real-time payments for e-commerce, billers, and businesses, with instant cashback rewards for their customers
Startup Oi — Connecting engineers around the world. Engineers stay current on the latest open positions. Recruiters search the best matching talent from the most active community.
Hello Clever — Powering PayID and PayTo real-time payments for e-commerce, billers, and businesses, with instant cashback rewards for their customers

Alium Capital focuses on listed and unlisted technology investments to generate out-sized returns. The company invests in technology, innovation, and early-stage businesses, all the way through to publicly listed assets. It specializes in the fields of finance, investing, innovation, and capital.Alium Capital was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Beforepay — Beforepay understands that traditional pay cycles are a form of financial stress. So we set out to find a better way, giving Australians the control and confidence that comes with managing your own money, on your terms.That’s why we created Pay On Demand™ - a service that allows you to access the money you have earned at work, when you choose todo so. After all, it is yours!The app also automatically predicts when your bills are due, shows you how much is OK for you to spend, and automatically creates budgets for you, effortlessly.
Academy Xi — At Academy Xi, we help APAC's largest and most sophisticated organisations optimise performance with concise, actionable training solutions.
DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,228,575 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Neynar — Developer Platform for Web3 Social
SPOT — SPOT is a stable store of value that features responsible protocol design choices. Holders of the SPOT token can use it as a refuge from inflation. See the FAQ to learn more about the SPOT token and protocol.
Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams

Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series C
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Beamible — Get the most for and from your workforce. Deconstruct work down to its individual components so it can be reconstructed to better meet the needs of the business and the employees. Reduce turnover and burnout, enable flex and drive efficiency with Beamible.
Aerotruth — Aerotruth is a B2B SaaS solution which automates the document on-boarding process for banks, financial institutions and fintechs
Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Series A, Corporate Round, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Fabrick — Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs
MTN Group Fintech — MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with a host of innovative digital financial services...
Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.

Vectr is a venture firm based in Hong Kong. They combine investment, creation and growth to deliver game-changing impact to teams ready to tackle global issues, transform industries and improve the lives of millions.That combines capital, creation and partnership to deliver game-changing impact. We strive to be the ideal partner for founders thatare building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses into asia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.

Early stage Venture Capital firm based in Brisbane that's investing in next generational Australian companies that are building a better future.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Avarni — Smart carbon emissions management tool designed for complex supply chains. Turn your raw data into meaningful emissions insights and bolster your carbon strategy.
Paypa Plane — Future-focused payment systems that deliver benefits to banks, enterprises and payers. Working with existing systems to elevate legacy payment structures - Paypa Plane is ready to move the payment ecosystem forward.
Clipboard — Clipboard is a purpose-built, single platform designed for schools in managing everything to do with extracurricular activities. Streamline your processes today, and book a demo with us!

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Data Integration
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Hello Clever — Powering PayID and PayTo real-time payments for e-commerce, billers, and businesses, with instant cashback rewards for their customers
Hello Clever — Powering PayID and PayTo real-time payments for e-commerce, billers, and businesses, with instant cashback rewards for their customers

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BAXUS — The secure way to trade wine and spirits. Harnessing the power of blockchain technology to give users proof of ownership, authentication, and a safe storage solution, ensuring complete peace of mind for every transaction.
Arch — Arch is a Blockchain Infrastructure Premier Bitcoin-Native Application Platform
El Dorado — El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services.

We invest in early & growth stage technology companies. We were founded with a mission to support visionaries in building impactful & enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lekko — Dynamically configure your software without redeployments. With Lekko, engineers can focus on executing and safely hand off daily reconfigurations.
Chapter — Chapter provides consultation on the appropriate medical services to get. It offers advise on recommended medical card programs and benefits for every person. Chapter is based in New York.
Onehouse — Open storage, continuous pipelines, and automatic optimizations across table formats, engines, clouds. Automated data platform across Hudi, Delta, and Iceberg.

BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
Fluidity Money — Fluidity Money is the blockchain incentive platform that rewards with yields to people for using their crypto.
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

Investor for disruptors and force carrier for impact! We are an Australian Venture Capital that backs visionary founders of all backgrounds and grows exceptional deep tech or business model innovation companies to become truly transformative!

Investment focus

FinTech, Hardware, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

AI-NC — Platform to connect engineers and manufacturers, and provide them with the right tools to streamline the process.
Hello Clever — Powering PayID and PayTo real-time payments for e-commerce, billers, and businesses, with instant cashback rewards for their customers
Kite Magnetics — Nanocrystalline electric motors that enable zero-emission aircraft of all sizes to fly further, carry more and emit less.

The LAO is a global group of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts supporting the work of Ethereum builders.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hook — The perps DEX for the fastest moving onchain assets
Keyp — Improve onboarding and payments in your games & apps effortlessly with OAuth logins and debit card transactions. Use simple API calls to verify users, create, transfer & airdrop assets.
Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

onaji — Onaji is a Machine Learning Platform for Smart Contract Blockchains.It develops and deploys intelligent algorithms that interface with blockchain applications.
Dora — Dora is building the cross chain search engine
Astria — Astria is the Shared Sequencer Network: the easiest way to deploy decentralized rollups.

Bailador is a growth capital fund that focuses on the IT and media sectors, managed by an experienced team with demonstrated sector expertise. The company supports its portfolio companies in subsequent rounds of funding through their own participation and with introductions to larger international growth expansion funds. It assists in thepreparation and management of fundraising, M&A activity, and pre-IPO processes. The portfolio businesses of the company are DocsCorp, Click Loans Group, Rezdy, Stackla, iPRO Solutions, and SiteMinder.Bailador is an Australia-based company that was founded in 2010 by Paul Wilson and David Kirk.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Rosterfy — Connect to your volunteers with a comprehensive & user-friendly platform where you can recruit, retain, reward and train your volunteers.
InstantScripts — InstantScripts (instantscripts.com.au) is Australia’s leading online prescription service. Launched in 2018, the fast-growing platform allows Australians to access prescriptions online for more than 300 common medicines, delivered to their door or their local pharmacy. InstantScripts’ partnerships with more than 2500 pharmacies across Australia hashelped more than 300,000 Australians access their everyday medicines online. The InstantScripts Telehealth service connects Australians to a team of GPs seven days a week for health advice, online medical certificates and pathology requests. Visit instantscripts.com.au.
Access Telehealth — Connecting people. Improving health outcomes. At Access Telehealth, we connect patients, GPs, specialists and Therapists through our secure, easy-to-use software. Access Telehealth - Connecting People, Improving Health Outcomes

Muhabbit Capital Ventures is a research-driven early-stage private venture capital incubating and investing in diverse cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Software
Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Dexalot — A revolutionary decentralized exchange aiming at bringing the traditional centralized exchange look and feel through a decentralized on-chain application
Vee Finance — Bridge the gap between traditional banking and crypto Defi Earn fixed/flexible return on deposited assets
Time Shuffle — Crazy RPG historical battles twisting the future and past.

iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
New Zealand, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
beany.biz — Online Accountants for Small Businesses. Online, fast, connected and clever, meet Beany accountants.
Spoke Phone — Break free. Configure the exact customer experience you want with VoIP business phone calls, SMS, and WhatsApp conversations that integrate anywhere.

Advancing the Mission of Community Banking Through Technology

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Anonybit — Revolutionizing identity management platform with strong authentication across the user lifecycle without compromising on user privacy or data securityKeywords: identity management, strong authentication
Infinant — Launch new deposit channels with Infinant Interlace, the composable banking platform for direct-BaaS and embedded finance.
Trice — Trice is a payment solution that provides intelligent, secure, and cost-effective money movement. The company offers a real-time money movement software platform designed and certified to make receiving and sending money happen in seconds rather than days.

Australian Ethical Investment Limited is engaged in acting as the responsible entity for a range of ethically managed investment schemes. The Company also acts as the Trustee of the Australian Ethical Retail Superannuation Fund. It operates through fund management segment. The Company's products include Super, Managed Funds and Pensions. TheCompany invests in clean energy solutions, such as solar and wind; energy efficiency, such as light emitting diode (LED) lighting, motors and smart energy management technologies; Other products and activities, such as recycling, insulation and battery storage; healthcare; medical research; communication; education; information technology; Responsible Banking; Aged Care, and sustainable products.

Investment focus

Advertising, Home Services, Home Renovation
Series A, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Ansarada — Always achieve the best outcome with Ansarada's advanced Virtual Data Room solutions. Leave legacy data rooms behind & join the world's top dealmakers now.
hipages — hipages group (formerly Viteknologies) is a tech company that serves as a digital lead generation partner for three distinct sectors. It operates websites in the home improvement (hipages.com.au), natural therapies (Natural Therapy Pages) and pet services (Pet Pages) sectors.hipages Group has garnered a number of accolades since inception,for company growth, employee satisfaction and product innovation. These include:• BRW 30 Most Innovative Companies (2012)• Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia (2013)• BRW’s Best Places to Work (2010, 2011)• BRW's Fast 100 (2010)• Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia (2009, 2010)• BRW Fast Starters (2008)hipages.com.auThis is the most visited site in the Australian home improvement and building sector, with web traffic in excess of 1 million visitors per month. An innovative ‘Get Quote’ function allows consumers to post a job, after which businesses contact them directly. The system takes a lot of the frustration out of sourcing local trade contractors and home services for consumers. Businesses that list on the site range from architects to builders, electricians, handymen, painters and home services such as cleaners.Natural Therapy PagesThe Natural Therapy Pages is a directory listing that serves the burgeoning alternative health sector. It gives businesses that list on the site online exposure and allows them to directly target users who are searching for a specific modality or service. These range from aromatherapists to chiropractors, nutritionists, massage therapists, reiki practitioners and yoga schools. Pet PagesThis site serves animal breeders and related service providers in the pet sector, allowing businesses and individuals to list in a classified section. hipages Group is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

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