# James McKinnon

> James McKinnon is a seed investor at MIRIN CAPITAL (Sydney) backing Software and Cyber Security. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MIRIN CAPITAL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirin-capital)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesrmckinnon
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jrmck
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/james.mckinnon.587

James McKinnon is a seed investor at MIRIN CAPITAL in Sydney focused on Software and Cyber Security. James McKinnon - Managing Partner @ MIRIN CAPITAL

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $33k–$131k |
| Angel | $118k–$653k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 18% |
| Water | 1 | 9% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 55% |
| Angel | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Expert360 | Expert360 is APAC’s marketplace and management platform powering the freelance economy. The platform enables top freelance consultants, contractors and experts to easily connect with APAC’s largest businesses to perform high quality, project orientated work. Expert360’s platform allows enterprise to respond quickly to the resource demands of thebusiness while streamlining the source-to-pay freelance management life cycle at scale. | $2.7M | Series A | Jul 20, 2015 |  |
| StorReduce | StorReduce designs and develops deduplication software for its clients.The software features inline deduplication, backups, data replication, big data, and cloud-based support. The application assists its clients with migrating on-premises backups to cloud and backing up on-cloud data using deduplication.StorReduce was founded in 2014 and isbased in California. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2015 |  |
| Spacelli | Spacelli is a self-storage marketplace for individuals to store goods and items. The company do this by using non-traditional spaces that makes spaces accessible and affordable storage for everyone. It connects people looking for spaces with locals who rent out their unused space. The company through their insurance partners have policies in placeto protect their users and their goods for the entire storage period including in-transit. The platform offers its users with access to professional organizers that assists them with decluttering their space. The company is designed for renovators, business owners, leisure travelers, interior designers, and students. The technology partners of the company are amazon web services, zendesk, nexmo, and Trustwave.Spacelli is an Australia-based company that was founded in 2014 by Geoff Stooke. | $118K | Angel | May 01, 2015 |  |
| TokenOne | TokenOne is a cyber security software company that provides high security business solutions to both enterprise and mass-market consumers built on our patented identity authentication technology. TokenOne Authentication is both simple and convenient for users, as well as highly scalable, rapid to deploy and low maintenance for organizations. TheTokenOne advantage is you only need your phone and one PIN, not dozens of passwords or other security solutions, for multiple accounts and services. This is because you never actually enter your PIN or reveal it to anyone – not even to the various services you access. | $849K | Series C | Apr 02, 2015 |  |
| Sittr | Parents can search, book and pay for their sitters through sittr.com as well as apps for iOS and Android. | $131K | Seed | Apr 01, 2015 |  |
| HowAboutEat | HowAboutEat offers professionals with a food delivery service. It delivers lunch to their workplaces from a range of restaurants. HowAboutEat enables its customers to contact them through text messages and order food. HowAboutEat was founded by Serg Metelin and Giovanni Ravone in 2015. It is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. | $49K | Seed | Apr 01, 2015 |  |
| ResponSight | ResponSight offers enterprise risk and security profiling technology using behavioral analytics without collecting private information.ResponSight is an enterprise endpoint risk profiling approach designed to address these challenges. We capture behavioural metrics (ie the way users and applications use a machine/endpoint) to identifybaseline activity profiles - people use their hardware in a very consistent (even predictable) way over time. | $49K | Seed | Apr 01, 2015 |  |
| The Safety Compass | Around the globe a worker dies every fifteen seconds. In 2015 193 Australian workers in industries ranging from mining to health care got up in the morning, went to work, and did not return home to their families.The Safety Compass is a work health & safety risk management tool designed to help Australians assess, manage or avoiddangers in their workplace and bring Australian workers home.The Safety Compass uses intuitive augmented reality to communicate hazard information to users in the field. By accessing the worker's physical location, the app presents vital information on present dangers straight to the worker's phone, avoiding the necessity of bulky safety manuals to locate and manage risk. Using the phone's inbuilt camera and GPS system, the app displays real and present dangers to the viewer that adapt and compensate for the viewer's field of vision. | $33K | Seed | Apr 01, 2015 |  |
| Unscrabble Solutions | Unscrabble is a solution that companies use to connect with other companies, their suppliers, and customers. When connections are made, information can be shared between the companies easily, quickly and accurately.Unscrabble simplifies the engagement processes, reduces the time it takes to gather and evaluate company information and makes iteasier to keep information up to date.No more forms, emails spreadsheets and expensive portals. Unscrabble helps companies keep information up to date in a single location and streamline the access to it by your trusted connections. | $33K | Seed | Apr 01, 2015 |  |
| Expert360 | Expert360 is APAC’s marketplace and management platform powering the freelance economy. The platform enables top freelance consultants, contractors and experts to easily connect with APAC’s largest businesses to perform high quality, project orientated work. Expert360’s platform allows enterprise to respond quickly to the resource demands of thebusiness while streamlining the source-to-pay freelance management life cycle at scale. | $653K | Angel | Jan 13, 2014 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Black Sheep Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-sheep-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [MIRIN CAPITAL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirin-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Artesian VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artesian-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BlueChilli](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluechilli-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Singtel Innov8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/singtel-innov8) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Carthona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carthona-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About MIRIN CAPITAL

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

Mirin Capital invests in disruptive, technology led companies that focus on solutions to big problems. We are particularly interested in investing in technologies that: Significantly disrupt traditional business models Help enterprises solve big problems Make the world better or more interesting

4 contacts available at MIRIN CAPITAL.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| James McKinnon | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-mckinnon-2 |
| Bob McKinnon | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-mckinnon |
| Dickson Leung | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dickson-leung |
| Jonathan Woolley | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-woolley |

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## FAQ

### What does James McKinnon invest in?

James McKinnon invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is James McKinnon's check size?

James McKinnon typically joins rounds of $33k–$131k at Seed and $118k–$653k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds James McKinnon participates in.

### When did James McKinnon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for James McKinnon closed in Jul 2015. Shizune tracks 11 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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