Southern Cross Austereo
VC Fund
Sydney, Australia
Southern Cross Austereo is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Audio and Podcast. Southern Cross Austereo supplies broadcast media services across radio, television, and digital platforms. It owns and operates the Hit Network and Triple M brands, managing many AM, FM, and DAB+ stations. SCA offers free-to-air television signals in regional Australia, affiliating with major metropolitan networks for program content and handlingadvertising representation in those markets. It runs LiSTNR, a digital audio platform that includes podcasts, radio streaming, music, and news, and gives sales representation for global audio platforms like SoundCloud and Sonos Radio. The company produces both national and local entertainment and news content, supporting advertisers through cross-platform campaigns involving live events, radio, television, and online/digital media.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Southern Cross Austereo invests in
Stages Southern Cross Austereo invests in
Countries Southern Cross Austereo invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Audio 2 (50%)
- Podcast 2 (50%)
- Machine Learning 2 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (50%)
- Media and Entertainment 2 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (50%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
- Corporate Round 1 (25%)
Country
- Australia 3 (75%)
- United States 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Brian Gallagher
chief sales officer
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chief sales officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Clive Dickens
Director of Digital & Innovation
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Director of Digital & Innovation | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Grant Blackley
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
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Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
John Kelly
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
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Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rohan Lund
CEO and Managing Director
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CEO and Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| SourseAI is an AI innovator that has combined applied AI, management consulting and SaaS into a decision augmentation platform - Sourse. Leading telcos, utilities, media and ecommerce brands use Sourse to drive the adoption of data informed decision making. Sourse boosts KPI improvement using AI decision support tools for forecasting, causalinsights and scenario planning, as well as machine learning models to address common industry problems, such as, customer retention, churn and yield. Sourse integrates with systems such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Zuora and Genesys to enable every customer interaction to be personalised using accurate predictions about customer behaviour, intent and possible treatments, using both client data and our competitive market insights built per industry. | $1.1M / Seed / Jul 07, 2021 | ||
| Sonnant is layering voice to text transcription with machine learning technology to extract useful metadata from your audio/audiovisual content | Seed / Sep 01, 2020 | ||
| SpokenLayer provides digital audio has become ubiquitous, spokenlayer is one of their first calls to make when a client has a desire to be in the medium. They are super creative, and really understand how listeners today engage with digital audio. Creating compelling audio isn't always easy, and Camelot's clients have really benefitedfrom their expertise. | $4.8M / Series A / Mar 01, 2019 | ||
| OVO we love sport and we love being entertained. We're big fans of sport - motorsport, tennis, gymnastics, footie, rugby, volley ball....it's a long list.Like the fans out there we've watched matches on our mobile, listened to commentary while we're in the car, met mates at the pub to watch the grand final, paid through thenose to subscribe to sports TV channels and grudgingly paid extra for the 'pop up' (we prefer to call them 'pay up') channels that show up when there's a really awesome sports event playing. | $3.4M / Corporate Round / Jan 17, 2018 |
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FAQ
What does Southern Cross Austereo invest in?
Southern Cross Austereo invests primarily in Audio, Podcast and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Southern Cross Austereo?
The team at Southern Cross Austereo includes Brian Gallagher (chief sales officer), Clive Dickens (Director of Digital & Innovation) and Grant Blackley (Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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