# Mark Livings

> Mark Livings is a seed investor at Lyre's Spirit Co (Sydney) backing Software and Education. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lyre's Spirit Co](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lyre-s-spirit-co)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jul 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marklivings/

Mark Livings is a seed investor at Lyre's Spirit Co in Sydney focused on Software and Education. Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $269k–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Education | 2 | 20% |
| Communities | 2 | 20% |
| Sporting Goods | 2 | 20% |
| Content Marketing | 2 | 20% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 60% |
| Angel | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 7 | 70% |
| Sweden | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Creatively Squared | Creatively Squared matches brands with talented creatives to produce high-quality visual content.Creatively Squared empowers and inspires creatives to do what they love.We know creating engaging, branded content is hard. We make this easy by matching each brand with the right creatives from our community. Our system carefully aligns visualaesthetics, capabilities and core values to find the perfect creative talent for your brand. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2019 |  |
| Edoome | The most friendly and easy to use social learning management system that connects teachers with their students for effective communication and collaboration and provides tools to help teachers save time in planning, assessing and keeping track of their students’ progress, unifying everything in just one platform. |  | Angel | Jul 01, 2019 |  |
| Compono | Compono is a software company that provides intelligent solutions to hire, develop and engage people, by uniquely harnessing the power of data, science and technology. | $5M | Seed | Mar 12, 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 | Seed | Sep 04, 2018 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Brandollo | Brandollo is a better way to plan and manage your marketingBrandollo helps small businesses build their brand and manage their marketing in one location. Get a customised marketing plan for your business, collaborate with team members, access powerful workflow tools and up-skill users with on-demand marketing tutorials. Brandollo delivers thefull suite of marketing support you need at a price you can afford. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2018 |  |
| Radinn | Radinn offers wakeboarders, kiteboarders, and surfers with water sport products. The company’s first product, Wakejet, is an electrically powered wakeboard built using lithium-ion battery technology. Its speed is controlled by a wireless and water proof remote.Radinn is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden with presence in Florida, United States andAdmiralty, Hong Kong. | $2.3M | Series A | Apr 13, 2018 |  |
| Hurricane Modular Commerce | HurricaneLCE is a fully compliant landed cost engine. It draws up on over 100 years combined experience in Logistics, Transport and IT, and brings together true specialists to deliver a flexible solution. We offer a flexible pricing structure that allows you to budget for your tax and import duty calculations. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2017 |  |
| DisruptSports.com | Disrupt is creating the words first fully customizable sport gear platform. Using 3D printing files to customize the size, shape, color, contours and materials of your surfboard and other sporting goods. You can download the 3D file, print at home so you have a copy whilst we’re making and shipping the real version to you. |  | Angel | Jul 01, 2017 |  |
| Temando | Temando was born down in Australia where fulfillment and delivery have always been very complex due to highly fragmented delivery infrastructure. It’s because of this challenging environment that Temando was launched in 2009 and to date serves many of APAC’s leading retailers including Toy’s R Us, Nike and ASOS. On the back of significant tractionin Australia, Temando has expanded into key global markets - United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Asia Pacific.Temando’s fulfillment platform solves the challenges of shipping in commerce by connecting with today’s leading business systems to give retailers the tools they need to optimize the multi-carrier fulfillment process. Temando’s technology unifies available inventory, carrier service selection, shipping costs and consumer locations to create efficiency savings that maintain product margin and provide total visibility for retailers. Temando enriches this intelligence to create powerful shipping experiences focused on delivery choice and simplicity to increase conversion rates at the point of sale - whether that be online or offline – retailers can provide the same brand experience at every touch point. |  | Seed | Jun 30, 2011 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Deepbridge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepbridge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [muru-D](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investment-advantaged-software-pty-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Larsen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larsen-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [RCL Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rcl-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Lyre's Spirit Co

VC Fund · Leichhardt, Australia

Many years in the making, Lyre’s exquisite range of lovingly crafted alcohol-free, classic spirits was borne from a quest to make the impossible possible. To provide an alternative to those who don’t wish to imbibe alcohol, but still wish to enjoy the mirth, merriment and social intercourse of an evening soiree or shindig. But this is not justany alternative. Every Lyre’s spirit looks, tastes and sashays around the palate just like the original. And yet, the absence of giggle juice enables revellers to remain clear-headed, of good cheer and in fine fettle to pursue whatever tickles their fancy the following day. Lyre’s – the finest range of non-alcoholic classic spirits the world has ever seen.

2 contacts available at Lyre's Spirit Co.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Livings | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-livings |
| Carl Hartmann | Co-Founder & Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-hartmann |

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Livings invest in?

Mark Livings invests primarily in Software, Education and Communities startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mark Livings's check size?

Mark Livings typically joins rounds of $269k–$5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mark Livings participates in.

### When did Mark Livings last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Livings closed in Jul 2019. Shizune tracks 10 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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