# Nicholas Gruen

> Nicholas Gruen is a angel investor in Melbourne backing Software and Machine Learning. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2013
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicholas-gruen/a/354/783
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/NGruen1
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ngruen1

Nicholas Gruen is a prominent Australian economist and commentator on innovation and the CEO of Lateral Economics and Chairman of the Open Knowledge Foundation (Australia). He was formerly Chairman of the Australian Centre for Social Innovation, the Australian Government's Innovation Australia and founding chairman of Kaggle. Lindsay Tannerhas described him as "Australia's foremost public intellectual".

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 100% |
| Natural Language Processing | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OneTouch | (breezedocs has now changed its name to OneTouch)OneTouch is a cloud-based platform that automates document processing using OCR and natural language processing.Customers simply upload their business documents; our software will then identify the document and then run a variety of automated processes, such as document re-labelling,splitting, as well as extracting, redacting and repurposing relevant data. Our software incorporates a machine-learning algorithm which improves over time with increased adoption. | $150K | Angel | Mar 01, 2013 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Nicholas Gruen invest in?

Nicholas Gruen invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Angel stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Nicholas Gruen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nicholas Gruen closed in Mar 2013. Shizune tracks 1 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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