# Aura Group

> Aura Group is a VC fund in Singapore backing Internet and Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last fund: Nov 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aura-group-co
- Website: http://www.aura.co

Aura Group is a VC fund in Singapore focused on Internet and Software. Founded in Australia in 2009, our head office is in Singapore with a significant footprint across the Asia Pacific region including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Ho Chi Minh City.We take a client centric approach and was recently award Best Wealth and Fund Management Company – Asia Pacific and Client Service Excellence Award – South East Asia,at the 2019 International Finance Awards.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$1.7M |
| Series A | $1.6M–$9.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 20% |
| iOS | 1 | 10% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 40% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 30% |
| Seed | 2 | 20% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 4 | 40% |
| Finland | 2 | 20% |
| Singapore | 1 | 10% |
| Philippines | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Calvin Ng | Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calvin-ng-2 |
| Charles Wong | Director | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-wong-2 |
| Colin Mullins | CFO & COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colin-mullins |
| Eric Chan | Managing Director | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-chan-6 |
| John Kolenda | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-kolenda |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Betterx | Betterx is a technology company focused on infrastructure to support Web3.0 and Digital Assets. | $1.7M | Seed | Mar 17, 2025 |  |
| Lygon | Lygon operates as a blockchain banking start-up. The Lygon platform is an industry solution that streamlines the bank guarantee process for everyone. | $12.7M |  | Apr 18, 2022 |  |
| Lygon | Lygon operates as a blockchain banking start-up. The Lygon platform is an industry solution that streamlines the bank guarantee process for everyone. | $9.3M | Series A | Apr 18, 2022 |  |
| Shippit | Shippit makes multi-carrier connectivity and carrier allocation simple, so you can offer more delivery options and sustainable, cost-effective shipments. | $1.6M | Series A | Mar 05, 2019 |  |
| InStitchu | InStitchu is an online custom clothier specializing in tailor made menswear. Customers are able to design custom made garments online which are then made to their exact measurements.InStitchu provides tailor made, high quality menswear through a simple online ordering process. Once a customer has added measurements to their profile, a suit orshirt can be ordered in a few minutes and on its way in two weeks. There are multiple ways for a customer to get their measurements perfected and enjoy that “perfect fit” InStitchu customers keep coming back for - our measurement guide will take you on a journey from your living room to the hustle and bustle of our tailor’s studio. Customers can choose from a wide range of globally sourced high quality wool and cotton fabrics, and when you’ve chosen, we’ll deliver your design right to your door. This new approach to shopping is stress free and cuts out the middleman, allowing us to deliver customers luxury tailor made suits and shirts without the high price tag. | $2M |  | Oct 11, 2014 |  |
| Global Reviews | Global Reviews scientifically measures and evaluates the effectiveness of the experience that you deliver to your customers.Our analytics platform delivers unique customer and competitor insights to help you make decisions to improve marketing and sales performance.Only Global Reviews continuously mines user consideration data on the onlinepurchase cycle, across all key players in your industry. | $600K | Seed | Jul 10, 2012 |  |
| Confidex | Confidex is supplier of high-performing contactless ticketing and RFID tag solutions and services to make supply chains, transactions and authentication of goods and people more efficient and secure. Today, we are innovating and exploring with our customers how our solutions can help people and companies to address their problems and challenges byfusing strong combination of RFID tag design competence, RF engineering and customization to manufacturing experience. | $3.8M |  | Feb 01, 2010 |  |
| Confidex | Confidex is supplier of high-performing contactless ticketing and RFID tag solutions and services to make supply chains, transactions and authentication of goods and people more efficient and secure. Today, we are innovating and exploring with our customers how our solutions can help people and companies to address their problems and challenges byfusing strong combination of RFID tag design competence, RF engineering and customization to manufacturing experience. | $5.5M | Series A | Mar 12, 2007 |  |
| AW-Energy | The company develops and delivers technology for converting ocean waves to electricity. AW-Energy has developed WaveRoller - a fully submerged wave energy converter which utilizes wave surge phenomenon. This commonplace effect is observed in near-shore waters where the circular motion of water particles present in open sea waves changes intoelliptical circulation due to more shallow bottom. Before the waves break, typically at the depth of 8-20 metres this elliptical motion is so flat that it is essentially a horizontal back-and-forth movement of water. WaveRoller device is a Panel anchored at its base on the sea bed. The back and forth movement of the wave surge moves the Panel, transferring the kinetic energy to piston pumps. The pumps create a great deal of pressure which is fed into a combination of hydraulic motor/generator, which in turn produces electricity. The nominal capacity of a single commercial-scale Panel ranges between 500 – 1000 kW, depending on the wave resources available on the site. WaveRoller has the ability to generate energy on a wide spectrum of wave states and is also well suited for locations where wave periods are long and the swell is strong.A series of WaveRoller devices can be combined into an array, thus resulting in a wave farm. Since the plant construction is modular with a high degree of independence between individual units, there is no natural upper limit to the number of WaveRoller units that can be used, therefore offering a high level of scalability and reliability. The electricity output from an individual Panel is connected to a hub/substation, thus making it easy to plug-in new units in separate project development stages, as the new capacity is added to the farm. Also, any potential underperformance or service & maintenance breaks of individual units have no impact on the remaining units, thus ensuring uninterrupted power output from the overall farm.The first prototypes were designed and patent applications were filed as early as in 1999, when Rauno Koivusaari, the original inventor co-operated with Fortum Research Centre during the conceptual phase. Since then the technology has evolved following numerous laboratory and wave-tank test trials and ongoing mathematical simulations. Open sea trails started in 2004 and included the Gulf of Finland, marine tests conducted in the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Scotland, and an own testing site in Peniche, Portugal. The subsequent successes and encouraging test results led to continuous increase in the scale of the demonstration plant.The latest demonstration plant/farm consisting of three 100kW WaveRoller units (total nominal capacity of the farm 300kW) is to be deployed in Peniche, Portugal, during the second quarter of 2012. The final assembly is nearing completion in the first quarter of 2012 and will be awaiting suitable weather conditions for the deployment in the following months. The farm will be connected to national grid in Portugal. The company has already secured all the necessary permits and, additionally, holds a licence for 1MW grid connection. |  | Series A | Jan 01, 2004 |  |
| Giftaway | Giftaway is an eGift platform that makes it easy for businesses to reward and incentivize stakeholders such as employees and customers. | $18M | Private Equity |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Commonwealth Bank of Australia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commonwealth-bank-of-australia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ANZ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dion-global-solutions) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ANZ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-n-z) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aument Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aument-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [B7 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b7-capital-8ba2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fortum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fortum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Aura Group invest in?

Aura Group invests primarily in Internet, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Aura Group's check size?

Aura Group typically joins rounds of $600k–$1.7M at Seed and $1.6M–$9.3M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aura Group participates in.

### How do I contact Aura Group?

Public channels for Aura Group include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Aura Group?

The team at Aura Group includes Calvin Ng (Managing Director), Charles Wong (Director) and Colin Mullins (CFO & COO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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