# Danny Gilligan

> Danny Gilligan is a seed investor at Reinventure (Sydney) backing FinTech and Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Reinventure](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reinventure)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/pub/danny-gilligan/2/849/18a
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dannygilligan
- Website: https://x.com/dannygilligan

Danny Gilligan is a seed investor at Reinventure in Sydney focused on FinTech and Software. Danny Gilligan is based out of Sydney, New South Wales and is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Reinventure. Danny previously worked at Flare HR as a Director and Investor. Danny Gilligan attended the University of New South Wales.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$6M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$25M |
| Series C | $41M–$49M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 25% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Security | 2 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 17% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 5 | 42% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kasada | Kasada protects online, mobile, and API channels from system takeover, content scraping, DOS, and account takeover. Kasada challenges the economics of leveraging automation when abusing applications and APIs. | $20M |  | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Safewill | Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will | $11M | Series B | Nov 25, 2024 |  |
| Auror | Auror is the retail crime intelligence platform empowering enterprise retailers to stop crime, for good. They do this by making it easy to report actionable intel, connect the dots on repeat offenders, and distribute actionable intelligence to teams to prevent crime in real time. Auror has offices in Denver (Colorado), Auckland (New Zealand), andMelbourne (Australia) to support its growing retail base, which includes some of the largest retailers in the world. | $48.6M | Series C | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| InDebted | InDebted develops a cloud-based debt collection software designed to offer tailored debt management tools. Its cloud collections platform leverages machine learning to understand consumer preferences for servicing overdue accounts and provides application programming interfaces (APIs) to link to customer account systems, enabling small and mediumbusinesses to get flexible payment options.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in North Sydney, New South Wales. | $41.4M | Series C | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Safewill | Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will | $3.7M | Series A | May 04, 2023 |  |
| Slyp | Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps. | $25M | Series A | Feb 09, 2022 |  |
| Safewill | Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will | $2.2M | Series A | Oct 18, 2021 |  |
| Tracer DAO | Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world. | $4.5M |  | Jun 26, 2021 |  |
| Mycelium | Mycelium is a market-leading technology company leveraging blockchain technology to make financial markets more efficient. We build financial market infrastructure on public blockchains that is open, transparent, and accessible. We specialise in data provision and financial smart contracts. Mycelium has two core products leveraging financial smartcontracts: Perpetual Swaps and Perpetual Pools.We believe that the growing use of blockchains in financial technology will benefit everyone, and are committed to realising this vision. | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 26, 2021 |  |
| Slyp | Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps. | $4.4M | Seed | Apr 15, 2020 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1835i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anzi-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Carthona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carthona-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [NAB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nab-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Apollo Crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apollo-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Baires DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baires-dao) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Digital Asset Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-asset-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Reinventure

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally.With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner,Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.

5 contacts available at Reinventure.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Danny Gilligan | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-gilligan |
| Simon Cant | Co-founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-cant |
| Guy Wallace | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guy-wallace |
| Lauren Capelin | Head of Venture Community | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-capelin |
| Nell Hardie | Head of Talent | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nell-hardie |

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## FAQ

### What does Danny Gilligan invest in?

Danny Gilligan invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Security startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Danny Gilligan's check size?

Danny Gilligan typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$6M at Seed, $2.2M–$25M at Series A and $41M–$49M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Danny Gilligan participates in.

### When did Danny Gilligan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Danny Gilligan closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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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