# Martin Dalgleish

> Martin Dalgleish is a seed investor at Morpheus Ventures backing Education and Real Estate. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Morpheus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morpheus-ventures)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalgleishmartin
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/martindalgleish
- Website: https://x.com/martindalgleish

Martin Dalgleish is a seed investor at Morpheus Ventures in Sydney focused on Education and Real Estate. Martin Dalgleish is the Partner at Asia Principal Capital.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 2 | 40% |
| Real Estate | 2 | 40% |
| EdTech | 1 | 20% |
| Travel | 1 | 20% |
| Finance | 1 | 20% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Series D | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 3 | 60% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crimson Education | Crimson supports students from around the world to become world-class leaders. What started 10 years ago as an admissions consultancy helping Kiwi students get into the world’s top colleges has turned into an ecosystem of online education products that allow students around the world to accelerate their studies from pre-primary to postgraduate.Through rapid innovations in product and tech, we have scaled our impact and supercharged the education careers of over 100,000 students from more than 60 countries.Services include in-depth US, UK, EU and Australian university admissions support, Australia and New Zealand medical school admissions support, local curriculum tutoring, and extracurricular mentoring.Visit the Crimson Education website to learn more about our network, our edtech platforms and free resources for families. | $39.9M | Series D | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Edstart | Edstart helps people pay for education fees using an innovative lending platform. | $10M | Series B | Nov 08, 2021 |  |
| Crimson Education | Crimson supports students from around the world to become world-class leaders. What started 10 years ago as an admissions consultancy helping Kiwi students get into the world’s top colleges has turned into an ecosystem of online education products that allow students around the world to accelerate their studies from pre-primary to postgraduate.Through rapid innovations in product and tech, we have scaled our impact and supercharged the education careers of over 100,000 students from more than 60 countries.Services include in-depth US, UK, EU and Australian university admissions support, Australia and New Zealand medical school admissions support, local curriculum tutoring, and extracurricular mentoring.Visit the Crimson Education website to learn more about our network, our edtech platforms and free resources for families. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| ActivePipe | Providing a unique combination of live property displays targeted to client preferences, ActivePipe delivers the benefits of marketing automation and predictive data sets to the real estate and mortgage origination industries. | $1.2M | Seed | Aug 23, 2017 |  |
| Hometime | Hometime is the largest and fastest-growing management platform for short term rental operators in the APAC regionGlobally there are over 100,000 small scale professional managers, however they typically lack any infrastructure to scaleWe partner with and empower these local operators with best-in-class tools, technology as well as dedicatedsupport teams to help them accelerate their growth and increase revenues, whilst improving service deliveryOur unique business model means that we've been able to successfully scale our offering across 17 markets and counting, all whilst deliver substantial value across our 3 key stakeholders, namely:The thousands of homeowners whose properties we've managed allowing them to earn greater rental yields on their property, plus have increased flexibilityThe hundreds of thousands of diverse guests (In the last 3 years alone we've hosted over 200,000+ guests) that have benefited from a consistent and ultra-local, home meets hotel guest experience (our overall guest review score ranks amongst the top % of of Pro-hosts globally according to Airbnb)Our Partner network, who've been able to successfully grow their businesses whilst upholding exceptional quality standards, and do sustainably and efficiently, with around the clock support, all whilst being part of a community of like-minded entrepreneurs. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 10, 2017 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [U.S. News & World Report](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/u-s-news) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Five Sigma](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/five-sigma-4664) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HighSage Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/highsage-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [K1W1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k1w1) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Larsen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larsen-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Morpheus Ventures

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

Morpheus is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer to enterprise technologies including data analytics, machine learning, robotics, transportation, and SaaS. The firm was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Angeles.

5 contacts available at Morpheus Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Evan Markiles | Investment Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evan-markiles |
| Howard Ko | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-ko-2 |
| Joseph Miller | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joseph-miller |
| Kristian Blaszczynski | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kristian-blaszczynski-2 |
| Martin Dalgleish | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-dalgleish |

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## FAQ

### What does Martin Dalgleish invest in?

Martin Dalgleish invests primarily in Education, Real Estate and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Martin Dalgleish last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Martin Dalgleish closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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?

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