# Anthony Glenning

> Anthony Glenning is a Series A investor at Starfish Ventures backing Software and Analytics. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Starfish Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/starfish-ventures)
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2015
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/anthony-glenning/0/8/9a1
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/aglenning

Anthony Glenning is a Series A investor at Starfish Ventures in Melbourne focused on Software and Analytics. Anthony Glenning joined Starfish Ventures in January 2010 focusing on information technology investments. His responsibilities include evaluating investment opportunities, performing due diligence, negotiating terms, execution of new portfolio investments and managing portfolio companies. From 1999 to 2009, Anthony was an entrepreneur involvedin a number of companies. Anthony was founder and CEO of Tonic Systems, a company that developed software for creating and managing presentations online. Tonic Systems was acquired by Google in 2007, where Anthony worked for the next 2 years within the Google Docs team. Anthony was also a founding, non-executive director of Cameron Systems, a company providing FIX protocol, software solutions to financial businesses, until it was acquired by Orc Software in 2006.Prior to 1999, Anthony worked at Strategic Decisions Group as a management consultant specializing in high-risk, high reward decision analysis. Before that, Anthony was a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, working on a range of projects including Energy Star power management compliance and the Java workstation. Overall, Anthony has spent a total of 14 years living in Silicon Valley and breathing entrepreneurship.Anthony holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) (Hons) and a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) from the University of Melbourne, and a Master's of Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.Anthony is currently a director for Aktana, BugHerd, DesignCrowd, MetaCDN, NitroPDF, Ourcast and Scalify.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Analytics | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| Mobile | 1 | 13% |
| Database | 1 | 13% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 50% |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 3 | 38% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DesignCrowd | DesignCrowd is an online marketplace for logo, website, print, and graphic design services providing access to freelance graphic designers and design studios around the world.Through crowdsourcing 2.0, DesignCrowd provides its users with access to a virtual team of over 430,896 designers from around the world allowing its users to tap intointernational design talents. It allows its users to post projects and receive more than 50 designs through the platform.DesignCrowd was launched in January 2007 and is based in Sydney, Australia. | $4M | Series B | Feb 04, 2015 |  |
| Nitro | Nitro is a document productivity company that helps organizations of all sizes eliminate paper, accelerate business processes, and drive digital transformation by providing PDF productivity and eSigning for all in a single, affordable solution. Its products include Nitro Pro consisting of PDF creator, PDF editor, PDF converter, Merge PDF, PDFannotator, Protect PDF, among others, Nitro Cloud consisting of electronic signatures, collaboration, and Nitro Analytics. | $3.1M | Series A | Oct 09, 2013 |  |
| Ourcast | Ourcast Inc. has a mobile app that it says can accurately predict precipitation during the next two hours. | $200K | Seed | Sep 01, 2013 |  |
| MetaCDN | MetaCDN provides global cloud-based content delivery, video encoding and streaming services. Whether you need basic content delivery or sophisticated media encoding and streaming, MetaCDN has you covered. | $2.3M | Series A | Oct 17, 2012 |  |
| Ourcast | Ourcast Inc. has a mobile app that it says can accurately predict precipitation during the next two hours. | $500K |  | Oct 02, 2012 |  |
| Nitro | Nitro is a document productivity company that helps organizations of all sizes eliminate paper, accelerate business processes, and drive digital transformation by providing PDF productivity and eSigning for all in a single, affordable solution. Its products include Nitro Pro consisting of PDF creator, PDF editor, PDF converter, Merge PDF, PDFannotator, Protect PDF, among others, Nitro Cloud consisting of electronic signatures, collaboration, and Nitro Analytics. | $3.5M | Series A | Apr 03, 2012 |  |
| DesignCrowd | DesignCrowd is an online marketplace for logo, website, print, and graphic design services providing access to freelance graphic designers and design studios around the world.Through crowdsourcing 2.0, DesignCrowd provides its users with access to a virtual team of over 430,896 designers from around the world allowing its users to tap intointernational design talents. It allows its users to post projects and receive more than 50 designs through the platform.DesignCrowd was launched in January 2007 and is based in Sydney, Australia. | $3M | Series A | Nov 02, 2011 |  |
| Ourcast | Ourcast Inc. has a mobile app that it says can accurately predict precipitation during the next two hours. | $1.3M | Seed | May 02, 2011 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Starfish Ventures

VC Fund · Melbourne, Australia

Starfish Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm focused on information technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies.

5 contacts available at Starfish Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Glenning | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-glenning |
| Eve Burgess | Financial Accountant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eve-burgess |
| Felicity Donnelly | Office Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicity-donnelly |
| John Dyson | Co-Founder & Investment Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-dyson |
| Justin Roberts | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-roberts |

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## FAQ

### What does Anthony Glenning invest in?

Anthony Glenning invests primarily in Software, Analytics and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Anthony Glenning last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anthony Glenning closed in Feb 2015. Shizune tracks 8 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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