# Barry Winata

> Barry Winata is a seed investor at Metagrove Ventures backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Metagrove Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steamworks-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrywinata/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/barry_winata
- Website: https://barrywinata.com

Barry Winata is a seed investor at Metagrove Ventures in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Barry Winata is the Founder and Managing Partner of Steamworks Ventures. With 10+ years of experience across Silicon Valley and Australia, he has been actively involved in all aspects of the business and product lifecycle from technology leadership, engineering, and design, to product management, strategy, growth, and operations. Some of hisnotable gigs include the CSIRO (leading research institute of Australia), BAE Systems, Cochlear, Sensity Systems (acquired by Verizon), and Skylo Technologies (Softbank invested). Barry is highly connected with the startup and investment community across both the US and Australia. On the side, he is also an active angel investor and startup advisor with investments across Australia, the US, and Europe. Barry graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with a BEng in Electrical Engineering (Honors) and a BBus in Finance and Economics (Distinction).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $190k–$548k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 23% |
| SaaS | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Wealth Management | 2 | 15% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 31% |
| Australia | 3 | 23% |
| India | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LUMOS | LUMOS is a MarTech platform with the mission to empower businesses to connect with customers in the right place at the right time | $548.4K | Pre-Seed | Aug 30, 2022 |  |
| BusinessOnBot | BusinessOnBot is an automated sales and user acquisition platform that provides voice and text-based multilingual chat solutions. |  | Seed | Sep 17, 2021 |  |
| StoryTiling | StoryTiling helps companies bring authenticity and connectedness into the workspace by creating meaningful, personalised videos for employee milestones, such as onboarding, work anniversaries, achievements, and more. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2021 |  |
| BusinessOnBot | BusinessOnBot is an automated sales and user acquisition platform that provides voice and text-based multilingual chat solutions. |  | Seed | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| Thryft | We simplify the fragmented, 5-6 step process of selling on Instagram into a single checkout link that sellers can generate from Instagram posts. We also help Instagram sellers ship easier and at the lowest rates, and manage their revenues and orders through a simple dashboard. |  | Seed | Jun 14, 2021 |  |
| StoryTiling | StoryTiling helps companies bring authenticity and connectedness into the workspace by creating meaningful, personalised videos for employee milestones, such as onboarding, work anniversaries, achievements, and more. | $190K | Pre-Seed | Jun 08, 2021 |  |
| Unhedged | A super simple app-based experience that allows everyday investors to assign their money to advanced AI trading algorithms to access higher performance. |  | Seed | May 15, 2021 |  |
| BusinessOnBot | BusinessOnBot is an automated sales and user acquisition platform that provides voice and text-based multilingual chat solutions. |  | Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Wefunder | Wefunder is a crowd investing platform that offers capital raising services. The company's online platform offers investment services to startups through its investors' userbase and disruptive companies can receive amount as small as hundred dollars, enabling companies to grow and develop their businesses. |  | Seed | Mar 16, 2021 |  |
| Vampr | Vampr is a social-professional network that helps creatives find people to collaborate with, create new music, and monetize their work. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada. | $788.8K | Equity Crowdfunding | Feb 12, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bay Wharf Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bay-wharf-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Claremont Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claremont-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dholakia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dholakia-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dorcas Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dorcas-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global Millennial Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-millennial-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Metagrove Ventures

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

We are a pre-seed/seed fund focused on backing founders across Australia & New Zealand (for now) supported by a world-class team of founders, mentors, and advisors from Australia, Silicon Valley, and beyond

1 contacts available at Metagrove Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Barry Winata | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barry-winata |

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## FAQ

### What does Barry Winata invest in?

Barry Winata invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Barry Winata's check size?

Barry Winata typically joins rounds of $190k–$548k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Barry Winata participates in.

### When did Barry Winata last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Barry Winata closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 13 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?

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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