# Alan Jones

> Alan Jones is a seed investor at TEDxSydney (Sydney) backing Software and SaaS. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [TEDxSydney](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tedxsydney)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanjones
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bigyahu
- Website: https://x.com/bigyahu

Alan Jones is a mentor and entrepreneur-in-residence with many of Australia's tech startup accelerators, specialising in strategy for product development and marketing.Alan draws on hands-on experience founding and co-founding web and mobile startups, as well as senior management experience in larger companies including Yahoo!, News DigitalMedia and Microsoft. At Yahoo! he was Product Director, South Asia for Yahoo! Inc.Alan advises and invests in early-stage startups directly and through Startmate and Pollenizer Ventures. His investments include ChromaSun, BugHerd, Grabble (acquired by WalMart in 2011), ScriptRock, Flightfox, Spreets (acquired by Yahoo7 in 2011), OtherLevels and NinjaBlocks. Alan is a co-founder of digital agency The New Agency, Editor-in-Chief of FromLittleThings.co, is a mentor for Startmate, and is the Social Media and Web Director for TEDxSydney.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $740k–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| SaaS | 2 | 29% |
| Mobile | 2 | 29% |
| Health Care | 2 | 29% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 29% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 4 | 57% |
| United States | 3 | 43% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xylo Bio | Xylo Bio is a drug development company that focuses on next-generation psychedelics. With psychedelic molecules as the starting point, our goal is to develop medicines that are widely available as improved treatments to currently available SSRI medications. | $8M | Seed | Jun 02, 2024 |  |
| Hola Health | At Hola, we’re creating the future of healthcare. Connecting patients, practitioners and pharmacies to deliver more timely & convenient access to care that we call ‘on-demand healthcare’. | $2.9M | Seed | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Workyard | Workyard is a staffing platform that makes growing and managing the construction workforce easy. Workyard is a game-changing staffing solution that helps construction companies source and manages labor for any project. They're combining industry experience in construction, technology, and financial services to re-invent the hiring and payrollexperience for everyone involved — meaning more construction projects completed and more workers with great jobs.It was founded by Nic De Bonis and Alexandra De Bonis in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. | $1M | Seed | Jul 06, 2016 |  |
| Propeller Aero | Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally. | $740K | Seed | Oct 02, 2015 |  |
| Bugcrowd | Bugcrowd connects companies and their applications to a crowd of tens of thousands of security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. Powered by Bugcrowd’s platform, companies of all sizes can run both private and public bounty programs to efficiently test their applications and reward valid vulnerabilities.Based in SanFrancisco, Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 04, 2013 |  |
| UpGuard | UpGuard is a cybersecurity platform that helps organizations monitor, assess, and manage cybersecurity risk across internal systems and third-party vendors. Its platform evaluates digital assets to identify security gaps, misconfigurations, and exposure points that may impact data protection and operational integrity. The company offers tools forvendor risk management, enabling teams to review and track the security posture of external partners. Its solutions also include attack surface monitoring, which maps internet-facing assets to detect vulnerabilities and unauthorized changes. UpGuard supports security teams with reporting and workflow features that assist in risk assessment, remediation tracking, and compliance alignment. | $1.2M | Seed | Jun 01, 2012 |  |
| TYDE | Tyde is a platform that transforms the connection between patients and clinicians. Tyde is regulatory compliant, free, and patient centric: the platform connects to combined electronic health records and adds real time data, such as treatment adherence and patient reported outcomes. The mobile app is available for download on the App Store andGoogle Play. |  | Seed |  |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Square Peg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/square-peg-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Citrix Startup Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citrix-startup-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Empath Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/empath-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fund WA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fund-wa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About TEDxSydney

VC Fund



1 contacts available at TEDxSydney.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Jones | Web and Social Media Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-jones |

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## FAQ

### What does Alan Jones invest in?

Alan Jones invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alan Jones's check size?

Alan Jones typically joins rounds of $740k–$8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alan Jones participates in.

### When did Alan Jones last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alan Jones closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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