# Origin Energy

> Origin Energy is a VC fund in Sydney backing Energy and Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/origin-energy
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/originenergy
- Website: https://www.originenergy.com.au/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/originenergy

Origin Energy is an energy company that explores, generates, and delivers energy to over four million customer accounts. They provide electricity, natural gas, solar energy, and liquefied petroleum gas to communities, and work every day.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Origin Energy. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Origin Energy. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/origin-energy?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | $247M–$327M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Renewable Energy | 2 | 20% |
| B2B | 1 | 10% |
| SaaS | 1 | 10% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 20% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 2 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Lynch | Development Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-lynch-cced |
| Frank Calabria | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-calabria-3cc8 |
| Lawrie Tremaine | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lawrie-tremaine |
| Simon Camroux | BDM LPG Generation Solutions | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-camroux |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kraken | Kraken is a global customer and culture platform for energy, water, and broadband.Krake tech provides innovative Entech to accelerate and reduce the cost of the global switch to green energy. | $1B | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 29, 2025 |  |
| Allegro Energy | Allegro Energy is a developer of energy storage technology focus on sustainable solutions for a zero carbon economy. | $11.7M | Series A | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Climatech Zero | Climatech Zero is a provider of environmental services. The company accelerates the transition to net zero by offering customers cost-effective solutions that significantly reduce the carbon footprint of industry, transportation, and buildings. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Octopus Energy Group | Octopus Energy builds technology that reduces the cost of energy to improve the customer experience. | $790.8M | Private Equity | Dec 18, 2023 |  |
| Octopus Energy Group | Octopus Energy builds technology that reduces the cost of energy to improve the customer experience. | $790.8M | Private Equity | Dec 18, 2023 |  |
| Allegro Energy | Allegro Energy is a developer of energy storage technology focus on sustainable solutions for a zero carbon economy. |  | Seed | Jun 28, 2023 |  |
| Octopus Energy Group | Octopus Energy builds technology that reduces the cost of energy to improve the customer experience. | $550M | Private Equity | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Octopus Energy Group | Octopus Energy builds technology that reduces the cost of energy to improve the customer experience. | $247M | Corporate Round | Dec 23, 2020 |  |
| Octopus Energy Group | Octopus Energy builds technology that reduces the cost of energy to improve the customer experience. | $327M | Corporate Round | May 01, 2020 |  |
| Care Daily | Care Daily is a business-to-business and software-as-a-service company with an artificial intelligence and internet of things platform that brings real people together with AI assistants to care daily for people, places, and things. They are utilized by healthcare companies, aging-at-home service providers, senior housing providers, and connecteddevice manufacturers to deploy intelligent solutions that continually learn and grow. | $8M | Series B | May 17, 2017 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CPP Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canada-pension-plan-investment-board) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Generation Investment Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/generation-investment-management) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Tokyo Gas](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tokyo-gas) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CPP Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cpp-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [British Business Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/british-business-bank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [D1 Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d1-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Origin Energy invest in?

Origin Energy invests primarily in Energy, Software and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Corporate Round and Seed 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 Origin Energy's check size?

Origin Energy typically joins rounds of $247M–$327M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Origin Energy participates in.

### How do I contact Origin Energy?

Public channels for Origin Energy include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Origin Energy?

The team at Origin Energy includes Anthony Lynch (Development Manager), Frank Calabria (CEO) and Lawrie Tremaine (CFO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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