# Ben McCallum

> Ben McCallum is a Series B investor at Regal Funds Management backing Software and Mobile. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Regal Funds Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/regal-funds-management)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Oct 2018
- Lead investor: 54%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-mccallum-a7386718

Ben McCallum is a Series B investor at Regal Funds Management in Sydney focused on Software and Mobile. Ben McCallum - Portfolio Manager @ Regal Funds Management

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Mobile | 3 | 23% |
| Apps | 2 | 15% |
| SaaS | 2 | 15% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 15% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 31% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 31% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 46% |
| Australia | 5 | 38% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Life360 | Life360 is a platform for today’s busy families, bringing them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate with, and protect the people they care about most. Their mobile app provides millions of families in over 140 countries with services such as private location sharing, location history, drive details, crash detection, roadsideassistance and help alerts through our free and paid membership subscription. Life360 has raised +$100M from Bessemer Venture Partners, DCM, Fontinalis Partners, BMW iVentures, Allstate, Bullpen Capital, Founders Fund (FF Angel), Launch Capital, Kapor Capital, and 500 startups. Founded in 2008, Life360 is based in San Francisco with offices in San Diego, Las Vegas, and Ft. Lauderdale. | $28M | Series D | Oct 16, 2018 |  |
| Avoka | Avoka offers a range of digital sales experiences for customers in financial services, government, and a diverse range of other industries. Its primary offerings include Avoka Transact, a platform enabling users to create, deploy, and manage customer-facing business transactions; Avoka Transaction Manager, which manages multi-channel digitaltransactions; and Avoka Transact Composer, an authoring tool that creates multi-channel digital transactions and data capture applications for iOS, Android, and Windows. Avoka also offers deployment and integration services, along with training resources. Founded in 2002, the company is based in the U.S. | $16M |  | Dec 11, 2017 |  |
| GetSwift | GetSwift is a smart delivery platform that allows you to manage drivers, dispatch tasks, and track goods delivery all in real-time. | $15.7M | Post-IPO Equity | Jun 23, 2017 |  |
| 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. |  | Series C | Apr 04, 2017 |  |
| Credible | As a multi-lender marketplace that allows borrowers to receive competitive loan offers from its vetted lenders, Credible empowers consumers to take control of their finances. After answering a few questions about themselves, consumers can receive rates without affecting their credit score or sharing their personal information with lenders untilthey're ready to proceed with an offer.Credible is fiercely independent and committed to delivering fair and unbiased financial solutions for millennials. | $10M | Series B | Jan 18, 2017 |  |
| GetSwift | GetSwift is a smart delivery platform that allows you to manage drivers, dispatch tasks, and track goods delivery all in real-time. | $5M | Private Equity | Dec 07, 2016 |  |
| Zero Latency | Zero Latency is a virtual reality startup that uses an inversion virtual reality system to provide its users with an integrated studio experience. The startup features state-of-the-art wireless technology and motion tracking. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Melbourne, Australia. | $7M | Series B | Dec 05, 2016 |  |
| MSL Solutions | Community Organisations (CO) face unique challenges to keep their patrons engaged whilst marketing and growing their member base. MPower has built a range of clever solutions that can work together in an open platform environment to connect every facet of the operations of a CO.They've helped hundreds of venues power up their business withsolutions that integrate every department of their business, from point of sale to financials, inventory, membership, catering, rostering and marketing. | $16M |  | Nov 14, 2016 |  |
| Bigtincan | Bigtincan (ASX:BTH) helps sales and service teams increase win rates and customer satisfaction. The company’s mobile, AI-powered sales enablement automation platform features the industry’s premier user experience that empowers reps to more effectively engage with customers and prospects and encourages team-wide adoption. Leading brandsincluding AT&T, ThermoFisher, Merck, ANZ Bank and others rely on Bigtincan to enhance sales productivity at every customer interaction. With global sales and marketing headquartered in Boston, Bigtincan also has offices across EMEA, Australia and Asia. | $3.9M | Series B | Aug 10, 2016 |  |
| Visioneering | Visioneering Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, is an innovative new company that is dedicated to redefining vision. With a portfolio of technologies to address eye care issues such as presbyopia in adults and myopia correction in children, the company uses creative and differentiated design approaches to develop productsthat will ultimately enhance practitioner and patient experiences. VTI was founded by Dr. Richard A. Griffin, an optometrist, optical engineer and aerospace engineer who has spent 20 years developing VTI’s optical solutions. From Dr. Griffin's design, VTI holds fourteen issued patents worldwide that address the need for a treatment for presbyopia in the underdeveloped on-eye/in-eye categories. VTI brings together clinical, marketing, engineering, manufacturing and regulatory leaders from today's top vision care businesses. Together, these industry veterans bring the best thinking in eye care to design and bring to market new solutions for presbyopia, myopia and astigmatism. | $7.8M | Series B | Aug 01, 2016 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Carthona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carthona-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Thorney Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thorney-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alium Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alium-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IFM Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imf-investors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MA Growth Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ma-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Regal Funds Management

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

Regal Funds Management aims to provide investors with absolute returns over the medium to long term, through a suite of investment products in both listed and unlisted equities. The Regal Emerging Companies Fund focuses on Pre-IPO, later stage VC, expansion capital and listed micro-cap opportunities.

4 contacts available at Regal Funds Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben McCallum | Portfolio Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-mccallum |
| Brendan O'Connor | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brendan-o-connor |
| Julian Babarczy | Portfolio Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julian-babarczy |
| Philip King | Chief Investment Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philip-king-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ben McCallum invest in?

Ben McCallum invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Apps startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round 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.

### When did Ben McCallum last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ben McCallum closed in Oct 2018. 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?

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