# Carl Hartmann

> Carl Hartmann is a pre-seed investor at Compono backing FinTech and Payments. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Compono
- Location: Noosa, Australia
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Oct 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlhartmann
- Website: https://x.com/carlhartmann

Carl Hartmann is a prominent, multi-award winning Australian serial entrepreneur, who is best known for his work in co-founding Temando, Compono and Lyre’s Non-Alcoholic Spirit Co, and his involvement as an investor & board member/advisor to a range of leading technology companies around the world.Carl Co-Founded his first start upTemando in response to the disconnect between the delivery experience consumers were receiving and the fulfillment capability of today’s merchants. Carl took Temando from an idea to a global business, raised over $56M in funding, established 5 major global offices and established many global strategic partnerships with both carriers and technology partners, and was successfully acquired in a trade sale by Neopost S.A. ($1.5B Revenue French Listed Company) in 2017.Having experience firsthand the challenges of recruitment in a fast-growing technology company, after exiting Temando, Carl co-founded Compono and launched its first product Shortlyster, an intelligent recruitment platform that solves the problem of matching candidates to job roles with specific skill sets, and helps ensure candidates are the right fit for organisational cultures. Compono has raised $5M in funding to date, and is now going through tremendous growth.Most recently, Carl also co-founded Lyre’s Spirit Co – an innovative beverage company using cutting edge food science, that has recreated all the major alcoholic spirits in non-alcoholic format. Lyre’s has quickly become one of the fastest growing new consumer products in the world, with distribution in Australia, NZ, USA, UK, Singapore and more.Carl is also the adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Queensland (the leading Australian University and a top 50 global university); Serves as a Non-Executive Director on a several boards, and has won a number of awards including the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year Australia, Asia Pacific and global runner up, amongst others.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $287k–$324k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Payments | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Training | 1 | 50% |
| Tutoring | 1 | 50% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Detected | Detected was created to help significant business partnerships advance more quickly and confidently in the direction of greater results. Love Ventures, a prestigious angel investment group, and Thomson Reuters Ventures support the startup. | $323.7K | Pre-Seed | Oct 19, 2020 |  |
| Vygo | The Vygo platform gives every learner a social education community. For learners, the Vygo platform organises their institution's ecosystem of mentors, advisors, tutors and other social support services at their fingertips. It gives learners the right tools to find and engage with the people they need, whenever they need them, wherever theyare in the world. With Vygo, education institutions are able to reinvent their social support ecosystem online and ultimately improve their student outcomes and scale their impact. Vygo is working universities around the globe who are pushing social education experiences into the future. | $287.4K | Pre-Seed | Sep 04, 2018 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [muru-D](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investment-advantaged-software-pty-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Larsen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larsen-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [RCL Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rcl-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Compono

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

Compono is a software company that provides intelligent solutions to hire, develop and engage people, by uniquely harnessing the power of data, science and technology.

3 contacts available at Compono.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Carl Hartmann | Chairman & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-hartmann |
| Rudy Crous | Co-Founder | — |
| Viggy Chaowei Tao | Lead UI/UX Designer | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Carl Hartmann invest in?

Carl Hartmann invests primarily in FinTech, Payments and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Carl Hartmann's check size?

Carl Hartmann typically joins rounds of $287k–$324k 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 Carl Hartmann participates in.

### How do I contact Carl Hartmann?

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### When did Carl Hartmann last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Carl Hartmann closed in Oct 2020. Shizune tracks 2 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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