# Grant McCarthy

> Grant McCarthy is a seed investor at Asia Pacific Growth Management backing Software and SaaS. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Asia Pacific Growth Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asia-pacific-growth-management)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-mccarthy-027405/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GrantMcCarthy8

Grant McCarthy is a Founder and Managing Partner at Tidal Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |
| Delivery | 1 | 13% |
| Hardware | 1 | 13% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 3 | 38% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FrankieOne | FrankieOne is a compliance orchestration platform that connects 350+ identity verification and fraud detection data sources into a single API for KYC, KYB, AML, and fraud prevention. | $15.3M | Series A | Nov 28, 2022 |  |
| Shippit | Shippit makes multi-carrier connectivity and carrier allocation simple, so you can offer more delivery options and sustainable, cost-effective shipments. | $46.2M | Series B | May 03, 2022 |  |
| LIFELENZ | LIFELENZ is a workforce management platform. They offer AI-driven forecasting, automated scheduling and timekeeping, insights, reporting, and compliance, people management made simple, and configuration with ease. They leverage AI learning to generate new forecasts daily to keep up with changing labor demand. | $32M | Series B | Feb 04, 2022 |  |
| Renewtrak | Renewtrak is an automation platform that connects the global tech industry to power the renewals and subscription economy and simplify, generate, and automate recurring revenue. | $2.3M | Seed | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Shippit | Shippit makes multi-carrier connectivity and carrier allocation simple, so you can offer more delivery options and sustainable, cost-effective shipments. | $19.6M | Series B | Dec 07, 2020 |  |
| FrankieOne | FrankieOne is a compliance orchestration platform that connects 350+ identity verification and fraud detection data sources into a single API for KYC, KYB, AML, and fraud prevention. | $1.9M | Seed | Jan 15, 2020 |  |
| Shippit | Shippit makes multi-carrier connectivity and carrier allocation simple, so you can offer more delivery options and sustainable, cost-effective shipments. | $5.4M | Series A | Dec 02, 2019 |  |
| Shippit | Shippit makes multi-carrier connectivity and carrier allocation simple, so you can offer more delivery options and sustainable, cost-effective shipments. |  | Seed | May 16, 2017 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aura Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aura-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [EVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equityventure-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acof) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Apex Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apex-capital-partners-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [YZi Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/binance-labs-b05e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Asia Pacific Growth Management

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Asia Pacific Growth Management (APGM) is an independent consulting firm that focuses on helping companies grow. Companies achieve revenue, corporate and value growth through various operational and strategic methodologies, including building the firm’s capabilities, expanding into multiple markets and applying a strategic approach todiversification of products and geographies. We assist companies of all sizes to choose an approach that best aligns with their business goals, and then to implement that approach. Many companies, whether experiencing significant growth or trying to meet current revenue targets, focus purely on managing their existing business, and thus miss opportunities to align existing assets, expand into new territories or review opportunities to increase profitability from existing operations. Our expertise can help you choose the best options to maximize return from existing and potential opportunities while considering the need to optimize constrained resources. 
 
 Other companies face sterner challenges around their core business and, whether through maturity or market forces, ongoing decline at a revenue or margin level. APGM assists a firm’s management to assess their options for expanding into adjacent or vertical markets, and for moving into new geographical markets. Working with major clients across predominately TMT (Technology, Media, Telecommunications) industries, APGM works across the wider Asia Pacific region.APGM Investments is a wholly owned subsidiary of APGM. It invests in businesses and works with founders to achieve accelerated growth with a focus on digital platforms. Investments have included SocietyOne, Stackla, Commercialise TV and China Search International

3 contacts available at Asia Pacific Growth Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fionn Hyndman | Partner/Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fionn-hyndman |
| Grant McCarthy | Partner/Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grant-mccarthy |
| Grant McCarthy | Partner/Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grant-mccarthy-caff |

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## FAQ

### What does Grant McCarthy invest in?

Grant McCarthy invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Grant McCarthy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Grant McCarthy closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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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