# Global Investors

> Global Investors is a VC fund in Sydney backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/global-investors-pty-ltd/?originalSubdomain=au
- Website: https://www.globalinvestors.com.au/

Global Investors is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Global Investors provides venture capital, seed funding, and services for Family Investment Offices.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 57% |
| FinTech | 3 | 43% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 43% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 86% |
| Series D | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 4 | 57% |
| United States | 3 | 43% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Futurerent | Futurerent is a tool that offers solutions to residential property investors for investment capital and cashflow needs. | $6.1M | Series A | Jul 18, 2022 | https://futurerent.com.au |
| Academia.edu | Academia.edu is the largest and fastest-growing platform in the world for sharing academic research. Its mission is to accelerate and democratize academic research. Over 150 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Over 100,000 people join Academia.edu each day. Academia.edu attracts over 52 million uniquevisitors a month. 40% of the world's faculty log in to Academia.edu every month. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $23M | Series D | Feb 23, 2022 | https://www.academia.edu/ |
| 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 | https://safewill.com |
| Linqto | Linqto provides liquidity for private securities markets. Founders, VCs, and employees can realize early returns without waiting for an IPO or trade sale. Companies can stay private longer by providing liquidity on an ongoing basis, not just at the exit. Linqto’s technology-enabled platform democratizes the private market for accredited investorsin the same way Schwab and Fidelity made listed equities trading accessible to investors. Long the domain of institutional buyers, the secondary market is open now to all accredited investors with Linqto's accessible and affordable entry into the pre-IPO Unicorns market. | $710K | Series A | May 31, 2020 | https://www.linqto.com/ |
| Weel | Weel is an all-in-one virtual corporate card and expense management platform that enables finance teams to better manage, control and streamline spending across their organisation. Weel solves a common pain point for small and large businesses alike: issuing corporate cards to staff while staying in control of spending and collecting receipts andaccounting data. Weel enables businesses to instantly issue virtual corporate Mastercards to employees to make online and in-store purchases via Apple Pay and Google Pay. | $1.6M | Series A | Sep 30, 2019 | https://letsweel.com/ |
| FinClear | FinClear renders financial planning, stockbroking, wealth management, lending, securities borrowing, IPO and placement settlement services. |  | Series A | Mar 12, 2019 | https://www.finclear.com.au |
| Xpansiv | Xpansiv is the world’s first commodity exchange built for a new asset class: data. Xpansiv ingests data, sourced from each commodity’s lifecycle, and converts it into Intelligent Commodities™—digital assets that enable transactions based on comprehensive information. We bring transparency to the market by recording real-world characteristics in animmutable profile. As a result, commodities can be valued based on vital information that was invisible…until now.Xpansiv empowers informed decision-making and commodity differentiation. Our platform meets burgeoning demand for transparency and comprehensive information; everyone wins when markets are truly efficient in valuing financial, human, and natural capital. | $10.4M | Series A | Jan 16, 2019 | https://www.xpansiv.com |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ANZ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-n-z) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asia Pacific Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asia-pacific-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avista](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avista) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bp-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BridgeLane Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bridgelane-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Energy Innovation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-innovation-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Global Investors invest in?

Global Investors invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series D stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Global Investors last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Global Investors closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 7 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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