# Guy King

> Guy King is a seed investor at Stateless Systems (Melbourne) backing Internet and E-Commerce. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stateless Systems](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stateless-systems)
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/guyking
- Website: http://www.statelesssystems.com

Guy King is a seed investor at Stateless Systems in Melbourne focused on Internet and E-Commerce. Guy King is the Co-Founder of Stateless Systems Pty Ltd. Guy King wrote BugMeNot as a "slapped-together" weekend project in 2003 that went on to become a worldwide hit. After time working a Realestate.com.au, Guy King founded Stateless Systems in 2007 and launched RetailMeNot, a consumer coupon sites.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$783k |
| Angel | $100k–$500k |
| Series A | $11M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |
| Travel | 1 | 13% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 13% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Angel | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 6 | 75% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flippa | Selling a business is hard. It’s easy with Flippa.Founded in 2009, Flippa exists to support the small business ecosystem so that any business owner or buyer can sell or acquire a business.Flippa is the leading platform and network connecting online business owners with buyers all over the world. Flippa leverages more than 120,000 buyersrepresenting $1.2bn in purchasing intent. Each month, over $41m worth of business value is listed for sale on Flippa and nearly 500,000 business owners and buyers visit Flippa to sell or buy businesses between the prices of $5,000 and $5,000,000. Owners of eCommerce, SaaS, Marketplace, Fulfilled by Amazon, Content, Advertising and other online businesses choose Flippa because it’s the easiest place to list and showcase, best place to connect and negotiate and the safest place to transact. Co-Founded by the Founders of 99Designs and SitePoint, Flippa aims to help small business owners find their exit, in an easy to use and safe environment. | $11M | Series A | Sep 20, 2021 |  |
| Influx | Influx offers support operations on demand, providing the people, training, management and data, to empower 24/7 customer support at scale. Clients include SAAS, eCommerce, Startups and WordPress. | $500K | Angel | Feb 01, 2015 |  |
| YourGrocer | YourGrocer operates an online fresh food market for busy people. It offers fresh produce, bakery, meat, seafood, deli and grocery, organic, and coffee products. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Brunswick East, Australia. | $500K | Seed | Dec 08, 2014 |  |
| LIFX | LIFX (pronounced LIFE-X) pioneered the smart light in 2012 with the first Wi Fi-enabled, multi-colored LED that’s controllable via a smart device. Designed to last over 22 years, LIFX offers the brightest, most flexible smart light for your home or office.LIFX works with Nest and other smart home devices to give consumers an easy way toexperience the connected home, without needing additional hardware.The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California. | $15M | Series A | Jun 23, 2014 |  |
| CoinJar | CoinJar is an Australian bitcoin platform that enables the buying and selling of bitcoins and allows merchants to accept bitcoin payments. It allows online businesses to accept bitcoins in various categories such as bitcoin tools, brick and mortar, charities and non-profits, electronics and computers, fashion and apparel, gifts, health and beauty,and many others. The platform uses multi-factor authentication to ensure its users’ bitcoins are safe. CoinJar was launched in 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. | $326K |  | Dec 01, 2013 |  |
| Rome2rio | Rome2rio has developed multi-modal travel search technology to deliver door-to-door travel itineraries.The Rome2rio technology offers a novel approach to travel search that can accept any address, landmark, town, national park or other feature as the input origin and destination. Rome2rio searches a purpose-built repository of air, train,ferry, mass transit and bus routes, walking directions and driving directions to present several alternative travel plans between the origin and destination. Each itinerary may involve travelling on a combination of different transport modes.Multi-modal travel search solutions are scarce: the technology is challenging, and from a content perspective global surface transport data is highly fragmented. Rome2rio’s solution is elegant, stable, and fast, with search results typically delivered in half a second or less. | $783K | Seed | Sep 20, 2013 |  |
| Rome2rio | Rome2rio has developed multi-modal travel search technology to deliver door-to-door travel itineraries.The Rome2rio technology offers a novel approach to travel search that can accept any address, landmark, town, national park or other feature as the input origin and destination. Rome2rio searches a purpose-built repository of air, train,ferry, mass transit and bus routes, walking directions and driving directions to present several alternative travel plans between the origin and destination. Each itinerary may involve travelling on a combination of different transport modes.Multi-modal travel search solutions are scarce: the technology is challenging, and from a content perspective global surface transport data is highly fragmented. Rome2rio’s solution is elegant, stable, and fast, with search results typically delivered in half a second or less. | $294K | Pre-Seed | May 28, 2012 |  |
| Lexim | Lexim is an online learning environment that lets educators teach online either to supplement, or replace, their face-to-face classroom activities. Lexim is a learning environment for every teacher. Individuals can get started in minutes, for free, without having to wait for their institution to catch up. | $100K | Angel | Mar 22, 2012 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Melbourne Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melbourne-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [OneVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/one-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Startive Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startive-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Stateless Systems

VC Fund · Melbourne, Australia

Stateless Systems is a bootstrapped Melbourne, Australia based startup building web properties with an emphasis on user outcomes. The company is best known for the site BugMeNot, a service that provides log in details for websites (mostly media sites) that require registration to be viewed. Stateless Systems' RetailMeNot offers a deepdirectory of shopping coupons that is predominently user submitted. As of February 2008 RetailMeNot was pushing through $10m US in sales a month to third party sites.

1 contacts available at Stateless Systems.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Guy King | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guy-king |

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## FAQ

### What does Guy King invest in?

Guy King invests primarily in Internet, E-Commerce and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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.

### What is Guy King's check size?

Guy King typically joins rounds of $500k–$783k at Seed, $100k–$500k at Angel and $11M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Guy King participates in.

### When did Guy King last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Guy King closed in Sep 2021. 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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