# Richard Shepherd

> Richard Shepherd is a seed investor at Sydney Angels backing SaaS, Energy and Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sydney Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sydney-angels)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Dec 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Richard Shepherd is a Sydney Angels’ investor representative.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Energy | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Industrial | 1 | 100% |
| Power Grid | 1 | 100% |

6 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aurtra | Aurtra delivers highly cost-effective asset management solutions for power distribution transformers through online condition monitoring and state of the art analysis.They provide the insight to significantly reduce capital costs through maximum asset utilisation. Aurtra is an Australian company, based in sunny Brisbane, Australia. Aurtra wasincorporated in 2016 and has built its IP upon a foundation of world’s best practice technology from The University of Queensland, following a decade of transformer research between academia and industry. Aurtra’s three founders, all with success commercialising hardware and software technology, recognised the potential of the technology and its beneficial impact for asset management in the power distribution industry. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 09, 2019 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Brisbane Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brisbane-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Melbourne Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melbourne-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Uniseed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uniseed-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sydney Angels

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.

5 contacts available at Sydney Angels.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adrian Bunter | management committee member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-bunter-05fc |
| Greg Bryan | Sydney Angels | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-bryan-53a1 |
| Hamish Hawthorn | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hamish-hawthorn |
| Philip Argy | Committee Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philip-argy |
| Richard Shepherd | Investor representative | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-shepherd-2dd0 |

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## FAQ

### What does Richard Shepherd invest in?

Richard Shepherd invests primarily in SaaS, Energy and Software startups, most often at Seed 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 Richard Shepherd last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Richard Shepherd closed in Dec 2019. 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?

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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