Dean Dorrell
Partner @ Carthona Capital
Sydney, Australia
Dean Dorrell is a seed investor at Carthona Capital in Sydney focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Dean Dorrell has a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics and had a successful initial career as a bond trader, arbitrageur and proprietary trader. He was a coder from very early days and used those skills whilst trading to formulate some of the earliest proprietary models, quant trading systems and statistical arbitrage methods in the 1990’s that led to himbecoming Head of Bond Trading at Paribas in London and later joining Greenwich Capital and Greenwich Natwest. Dean made his first angel investment in 1998 and during the mid-2000’s transitioned into a VC/private equity/operating executive role with Redbus Group in London which had successful exits such as RFD to Lionsgate and Lovefilm (which was the merged entity that the Redbus founded Video Island became part of) to Amazon and was named winner of the Richard Branson sponsored Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100.Dean moved to Australia in 2010 and became the Managing Director and an Investment Committee Member of M.H. Carnegie & Co. in 2011, primarily leading the deal team in early stage venture investments and private equity deals (largely focused on distressed real assets such as marinas and pubs).Dean co-founded Carthona Capital in 2014 which has become one of Australia’s leading early stage venture capital companies with over $200m of FUM.
- Total investments:
- 38
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
Last updated:
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Industries Dean Dorrell invests in
Stages Dean Dorrell invests in
Countries Dean Dorrell invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $404k–$4.2M
- Series A
- $2.3M–$12M
- Series B
- $7M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 5 (13%)
- Financial Services 4 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (8%)
- Finance 2 (5%)
- Robotics 2 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (29%)
- Series A 7 (18%)
- Series B 5 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (5%)
- Funding Round 2 (5%)
Country
- Australia 11 (29%)
- United Kingdom 3 (8%)
- United States 2 (5%)
- Latvia 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Qlarifi
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Qlarifi is the first real-time BNPL consumer credit database. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Mar 20, 2025 | |
CoverRight
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CoverRight operates at the intersection of digital health and finance. The company provides a digital-first Medicare navigation experience where consumers can receive customized Medicare plan suggestions. CoverRight collaborates with experienced Insurance, Banking, Pharmacy and Healthcare Provider partners nationwide to create a digitally-drivenand personalized Medicare enrollment and health navigation experience. | $1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 01, 2024 | |
NayaOne
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NayaOne is a fintech platform developer focused on delivering financial goods and services through collaborative efforts. The company's software enables financial institutions to quickly design and securely analyze new proposals before scaling them to production, giving businesses the freedom to respond and adapt to changing financial markets. | $4.7M / Seed / Feb 28, 2024 | |
Lounge
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Lounge is a group and event management app that eliminates aimless scrolling. | $4M / Seed / Nov 06, 2023 | |
Pathzero
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Pathzero makes it easy for companies to start disclosing their carbon emissions information to stakeholders. The Pathzero online platform is easy to use and provides all the tools needed to measure emissions, put an emissions reduction plan in place, purchase carbon offsets and share progress with stakeholders. Pathzero's research teamconstantly updates our global database of emissions factors and models. Pathzero uniquely combines the SaaS product with virtual on-demand sessions with carbon experts to help our customers achieve their carbon goals. | $5.9M / Series A / Dec 12, 2022 | |
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CoverRight
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CoverRight operates at the intersection of digital health and finance. The company provides a digital-first Medicare navigation experience where consumers can receive customized Medicare plan suggestions. CoverRight collaborates with experienced Insurance, Banking, Pharmacy and Healthcare Provider partners nationwide to create a digitally-drivenand personalized Medicare enrollment and health navigation experience. | $2.2M / Dec 12, 2022 | |
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CoverRight
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CoverRight operates at the intersection of digital health and finance. The company provides a digital-first Medicare navigation experience where consumers can receive customized Medicare plan suggestions. CoverRight collaborates with experienced Insurance, Banking, Pharmacy and Healthcare Provider partners nationwide to create a digitally-drivenand personalized Medicare enrollment and health navigation experience. | $2.2M / Seed / Dec 12, 2022 | |
Josef
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Josef is a legal platform that empowers lawyers to automate, build, and launch their own legal chatbots or services. The platform works across the legal industry from top-tier commercial firms to government to community legal centres and across the United States, Europe, and ANZ.Josef mission is to make legal services more accessible and worksfor everyone. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. | $3.5M / Seed / Nov 28, 2022 | |
Reach Alternative Investments
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Reach Alts is an Australian-based Fintech with a mandate of partnering with the world's leading asset managers and their private market funds. We bring curated access at lower minimums to the leading and most difficult-to-access funds, from managers like Apollo, EQT, PGIM Real Estate, Blackrock, Temasek, Bain Capital and more. Our tech-enabledplatform provides seamless access and administration, including due diligence and reporting, allowing non-institutional investors to build curated portfolios that were out of reach until now. | $1.6M / Seed / Apr 14, 2022 | |
Particular Audience
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100% Anonymous PersonalizationPA provides eCommerce brands with market-defining search, merch and recommendation technologies automating a different website for every customer.Retail Media enables suppliers to promote items to in-market consumers on retailer properties, a lucrative channel for brands and a new high margin revenue stream forretailers.All on first-party data.PA’s consumer product ‘Similar’ aggregates every single item on the consumer web, with the ability to make any website shoppable. Laying the groundwork for Web3 Commerce at www.similarinc.comOne of Australia’s fastest growing startups, PA has launched from headquarters in Sydney and expanded to Europe with a London office in 2019 and America with a Vancouver office in 2021. Amsterdam and New York offices coming soon in early 2022. | $7.2M / Series A / Nov 30, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
Cthulhu Ventures
3 deals together
Hypothesis
3 deals together
43North
2 deals together
Alceon Group
2 deals together
Antler Australia
2 deals together
Carthona Capital
2 deals together
About Carthona Capital
Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.Carthona Capital was founded in 2014 when a group of like-minded venture investors came together to invest on a deal-by-deal basis. Since then, Carthona Capital has shifted to a more traditional venture capital fundstructure, and is now deploying its third fund with approximately $400m in funds under management from a mix of Institutional (Superannuation), Family Office and High Net-worth investors.Carthona Capital likes to invest very early - their initial investment into a business is usually at the Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A stages. Carthona then likes to follow-on strongly and continue to deploy larger amounts of capital as a business matures.
Carthona Capital Contacts
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Dean Dorrell
Partner
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Brad Shofer
Venture Partner
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Dave Gardiner
Venture Partner
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James Synge
Partner
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Jonathan Chow
Principal
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FAQ
What does Dean Dorrell invest in?
Dean Dorrell invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Dean Dorrell's check size?
Dean Dorrell typically joins rounds of $404k–$4.2M at Seed, $2.3M–$12M at Series A and $7M–$13M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dean Dorrell participates in.
When did Dean Dorrell last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Dean Dorrell closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 38 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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