# muru-D

> muru-D is a VC fund in Sydney backing Software and Information Technology. See 91 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 91
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/muru-d
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/murudau
- Website: https://muru-d.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/murudau

Muru-D is an accelerator that helps tech founders scale their businesses smarter and faster.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 27 | 30% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 12% |
| Education | 10 | 11% |
| Mobile Apps | 9 | 10% |
| SaaS | 8 | 9% |

166 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 62 | 68% |
| Angel | 10 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 10% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 2% |
| Series A | 1 | 1% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 56 | 62% |
| Singapore | 12 | 13% |
| United States | 5 | 5% |
| Thailand | 2 | 2% |
| Indonesia | 2 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amra Naidoo | Community & Operations | 57 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amra-naidoo |
| Brendan Yell | Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brendan-yell |
| David Kenney | Business Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-kenney-2 |
| Filip Eldic | Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/filip-eldic |
| Julie Trell | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-trell |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Smart Paddock | Smart Paddock is an Australian-based company developing smart ear tags for the livestock industry that provide real-time information to producers about the health status, behaviour, and accurate geo-location of all the animals in their herd. Utilizing IoT data straight from the paddock, the system will analyze the large amounts of informationgathered and give feedback to the producer on three key factors: animal health and well-being, pedigree management, and pasture land utilization. To gather the data, Smart Paddock has created the Bluebell tag which attaches securely onto the ear of each animal and monitors the temperature, mobility, and geo-location, which the producer can easily access from a web dashboard or mobile phone application. | $708K | Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| Alta | We build vibrant communities that bring incredible experiences to our players as we innovate with new technology to find new ways to play. | $12.4M | Seed | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| Monarc Global | Monarc Global is real-time, accurate, pricing software for charter aircraft operators and providers. Monarc Global provides operators with the tools needed to automate their adhoc prices, and the tools to externalise on their own website.Operators can also partner or align themselves with other operators, aircraft brokers, or third partyaggregators by using our multipoint API giving operators a global reach. | $500K | Seed | Nov 17, 2021 |  |
| Zetifi | Zetifi has developed wireless network technology that provides mobile broadband coverage extension for farms, vehicles and machinery. | $669.4K | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 01, 2020 |  |
| Kapiche | Kapiche is a B2B SaaS company that has built an experience intelligence platform to help customer-centric organisations understand and optimize the experiences they deliver. The platform is built around their Natural Language Processing technology which can take 10s of 1,000s of pieces of unseen customer/employee feedback data (both structuredand unstructured) and, in minutes, with no prior setup and no pre-trained models, identify the salient themes being discussed, how the respondents feel about those themes, and what impact it has on your business. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 03, 2019 |  |
| Regrow Ag | Regrow is the first digital platform to unlock the power and profitability of resilient agriculture through a single, measurable, and verifiable system. Regrow offers the Resilient Agriculture Platform, enabling stakeholders across the agricultural supply chain to measure, report, and reduce on-farm greenhouse gas emissions. ​The platform leveragesadvanced technologies such as satellite data, machine learning, and the Denitrification Decomposition (DNDC) model to provide accurate and scalable soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions assessments. This scientific approach allows companies to quantify soil carbon and GHG emissions baselines and reductions in their farm supply chains. | $3M | Seed | Jul 23, 2019 |  |
| Monarc Global | Monarc Global is real-time, accurate, pricing software for charter aircraft operators and providers. Monarc Global provides operators with the tools needed to automate their adhoc prices, and the tools to externalise on their own website.Operators can also partner or align themselves with other operators, aircraft brokers, or third partyaggregators by using our multipoint API giving operators a global reach. | $500K | Seed | Jul 10, 2019 |  |
| Vygo | The Vygo platform gives every learner a social education community. For learners, the Vygo platform organises their institution's ecosystem of mentors, advisors, tutors and other social support services at their fingertips. It gives learners the right tools to find and engage with the people they need, whenever they need them, wherever theyare in the world. With Vygo, education institutions are able to reinvent their social support ecosystem online and ultimately improve their student outcomes and scale their impact. Vygo is working universities around the globe who are pushing social education experiences into the future. | $269K | Pre-Seed | Sep 04, 2018 |  |
| Open Learning | OpenLearning is the #1 lifelong learning platform in Australia and Malaysia that enables education providers to prepare learners for the future of work. With a consumer-oriented operating model (B2B2C and B2C), strong network effects, novel implementation of social constructivist educational theory and an integrated data-driven AI-powerededucation to employability pathway, OpenLearning is at the forefront of a new wave of education delivery.Founded in 2012 in Sydney Australia, OpenLearning now supports 260,000 monthly active learners, 7,300 active educators and 30 education providers in Australia, Malaysia and around the world. | $8.5M | Series A | Jun 11, 2018 |  |
| Cookitoo | Cookitoo is an online marketplace where food professionals can list, search and book unused kitchen space in their area. We want to help local food businesses expand their business and create flexible work for foodies everywhere!Originally called Sprout and founded in 2016, in the Simplot Ignite accelerator program by Slingshot. Through a12-week practical crash course on building a product and getting traction, the co-founders James and Caroline truly built something beautiful. Every day we are making our way towards creating the platform that will facilitate the next wave of food tech innovation. | $50K | Seed | Jan 02, 2018 |  |

10 of 91 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [RCL Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rcl-accelerator) — VC Fund, 56 deals together
- [River City Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rivercity-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Seven West Media](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seven-west-media) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SYD Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/syd-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Artesian VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artesian-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Brisbane Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brisbane-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does muru-D invest in?

muru-D invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Education startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 91 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact muru-D?

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### Who are the partners at muru-D?

The team at muru-D includes Amra Naidoo (Community & Operations), Brendan Yell (Mentor) and David Kenney (Business Mentor), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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