# Jerry Stesel

> Jerry Stesel is a seed investor at OIF Ventures (Sydney) backing Software and Financial Services. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [OIF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/our-innovation-fund)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 89%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-stesel-70467a2/?ppe=1

Jerry Stesel is a seed investor at OIF Ventures in Sydney focused on Software and Financial Services. Jerry is a founding partner of OIF and an Investment Committee member. He has extensive technology investing, investment banking and legal experience. Jerry founded and successfully exited a payment services company. Most recently, Jerry worked at Deutsche Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia advising the bank's leading high growthclients on company transforming transactions. Jerry holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce (both with Distinction) from the University of New South Wales and he completed the Executive Management Program at Columbia University, New York.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 33% |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| FinTech | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 4 | 44% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 7 | 78% |
| Brazil | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apate.AI | Apate.ai is an AI-powered fraud prevention and intelligence platform designed to fight scam operations proactively. It uses artificial intelligence bots to detect scam calls and messages at their source, engage scammers in real-time, and disrupt their fraudulent activities before they reach real victims. The platform not only protects individualsand businesses from financial loss but also extracts valuable intelligence from scammer interactions, including tactics, attack vectors, and sensitive data like bank account and cryptocurrency wallet details. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 25, 2025 |  |
| Bridgit | Bridgit is an Australian privately owned non-bank lender. At Bridgit, it is our mission to revolutionise property financing and offer Australians a solution that helps them progress in life, without any of the red tape. When it comes to buying property it can be very competitive and difficult to find the perfect home, a Bridgit loan is a greatoption for homeowners who want to buy on their terms by finding their next home without having to sell first. Through the use of technology we make it easy, with a 5 minute online application, same day approval and no monthly repayments you can focus on the important things.It is all about giving hard working Australians the opportunity to make progress in their lives, without the hold backs. | $9.6M | Series A | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Josef | Josef is a legal platform that empowers lawyers to automate, build, and launch their own legal chatbots or services. The platform works across the legal industry from top-tier commercial firms to government to community legal centres and across the United States, Europe, and ANZ.Josef mission is to make legal services more accessible and worksfor everyone. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 28, 2022 |  |
| eQ8 | Most organizations have a purpose, but are not sure what it is going to take to get there. That’s where we come in! eQ8 aligns (equates) your organizations purpose with your workforce, your execution vehicle, through Strategic Workforce Planning, creating value for all stakeholders. Whether it’s navigating change, understanding Future of Work,transforming, emerging through external shocks or just delighting your customers, eQ8 gives the foresight to ensure you will have the capability and capacity that you need, now and into the future.eQ8 is the only dedicated end-to-end SWP platform, integrating features such demand planning and scenario modelling into a scalable, dynamic and innovative SaaS technology. Backed by our extensive expertise and support, we enable total alignment of your workforce, your people, to get you where you need to go in a way that is proactive, sustainable and socially responsible.People. Purpose. Connect. | $3.7M | Series A | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Clear Dynamics | Clear Dynamics is a software company that develops an AI-enabled enterprise OS designed to eliminate business agility constraints. The company's product, aieos, modernizes legacy systems and develops custom software solutions that intelligently evolve in tandem with changing business conditions. It adapts to the pace of business change anddelivers innovation by assembling and reassembling application building blocks to harness the power of data and deliver desired results. | $24.6M | Series B | May 17, 2022 |  |
| Bridgit | Bridgit is an Australian privately owned non-bank lender. At Bridgit, it is our mission to revolutionise property financing and offer Australians a solution that helps them progress in life, without any of the red tape. When it comes to buying property it can be very competitive and difficult to find the perfect home, a Bridgit loan is a greatoption for homeowners who want to buy on their terms by finding their next home without having to sell first. Through the use of technology we make it easy, with a 5 minute online application, same day approval and no monthly repayments you can focus on the important things.It is all about giving hard working Australians the opportunity to make progress in their lives, without the hold backs. | $5.6M | Seed | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| LinkBy | LinkBy offers complete articles from news and lifestyle publishers. It assists advertisers in obtaining more editorial coverage by sending cost-per-click press releases to the world's most prestigious publishing houses. It makes brands famous by sending pay-per-click press releases to publishing companies. Their websites include an onlineinquiry form. | $3.6M | Seed | Feb 21, 2022 |  |
| Pagaleve | pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit. | $29.8M | Series A |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Banco do Brasil](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banco-do-brasil) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bb-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BridgeLane Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bridgelane-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carthona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carthona-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Colinton Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colinton-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eleanor Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eleanor-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About OIF Ventures

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

OIF is a venture capital firm focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs building businesses.

5 contacts available at OIF Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Shein | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-shein |
| Isabella Rich | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isabella-rich |
| Jerry Stesel | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerry-stesel |
| Laurence Schwartz | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurence-schwartz |
| Emily Pfeiffer | Head of Community & Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-pfeiffer-fdf6 |

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## FAQ

### What does Jerry Stesel invest in?

Jerry Stesel invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jerry Stesel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jerry Stesel closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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