# Tony Grist

> Tony Grist is a seed investor in Perth backing Internet of Things and B2B. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Perth, Australia
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Sep 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-grist-30681631

Tony Grist is a seed investor in Perth focused on Internet of Things and B2B. Tony Grist - Principal @ Albion Capital Partners

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $236k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet of Things | 2 | 50% |
| B2B | 1 | 25% |
| ISP | 1 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| VoIP | 1 | 25% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Swoop | Swoop Holdings offers fixed wireless and wholesale network infrastructure carriers with national and international networks. The company provides its services to the carriers for delivering services in Australia. It provides Internet services over its own fixed wireless network across its national footprint under Swoop Wholesale and Swoop Business,with residential services in key regional towns under Swoop Broadband. It provides wholesale transit and other services to smaller international ship and port facility securities (ISPs) across its national and international point of presence (POP) locations, through Swoop Wholesale. It also provides services over the National Broadband Network (NBN) fixed-line and fixed wireless networks nationally to residential and small and mid-size enterprises (SME) customers who cannot connect to the fixed wireless network. | $7M | Private Equity | Sep 01, 2019 | https://www.swoop.com.au/ |
| GeoMoby | GeoMoby has gained unprecedented capabilities to turn data into real-time value providing indoor, and outdoor geofencing with higher accuracy than industry standards along with a negligible battery consumption (patented solution). GeoMoby takes great pride in its hard-working team, a priceless and unprecedented asset for any business, and its yearsof investment in R&D before going to market, ensuring a quality, tested and proven, cost-effective outcome-based offering could be delivered to the market. GeoMoby’s feature-rich technology also enables users to trigger alerts and actions based on predefined sets of conditions (dwell-time, body temperature, weather, real-time traffic, user profile, and more) and complex geofences (virtual geographic boundaries), that can be configured to trigger custom actions when crossed. The technology offers a cloud-based SAAS platform ensuring its high availability, adaptability, redundancy, and potential to scale, all of that made accessible through a dedicated GeoMoby environment. GeoMoby acts as the bridge that generates powerful data and converts it into meaningful information from which priceless analysis and critical business decisions can be made for health, security, efficiency, and productivity. GeoMoby is unique its ability to offer an all-in-one complete platform solution enabling asset monitoring in real-time, with considerably better accuracy than industry standards, in any environment, on surface, indoors, outdoors, and, in a world-first, underground. GeoMoby is dedicated to helping its clients improve the health and safety of their workforce, gain world-first visibility of their underground mining operations, and increase their productivity through enhanced asset monitoring and management. All products and solutions are easy to deploy, cost-effective and work effectively in complex environments, online and offline, and is carrier agnostic. The GeoMoby all-in-one platform provides clients with the ability to access various features such as self-configurable geofencing, 3D indoor, outdoor, 3D underground mapping, and automation based on customised analytics, enhancing business decisions, ensuring they are, not only faster, but based on accurate data not previously accessible. Our technology is solving key technical problems in the mobile geolocation industry including: o Super Power Efficient Solution (1%per hour) - 10x better battery management than industry standards o Accurate Indoor/Outdoor Geolocation (with iBeacon support) - 20x times better accuracy than industry standards o New geospatial layer to already existing business analytics (Accurate customer data profile based on real-time behaviour) | $236K | Seed | Dec 15, 2016 | https://x.com/GeoMoby |
| Atomation | Atomation, founded in Tel Aviv and now with headquarters in Saint Louis, Missouri, is a business-to-business solutions company that uses an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) platform to connect existing, in-field, legacy objects and assets to the internet. Focused on making the data gathered by sensors into useful and actionable information,Atomation solves problems differently with affordable and simple solutions that allow businesses to transform operations and optimize their bottom line. | $1M | Seed | Feb 02, 2016 | http://www.atomation.net |
| GeoMoby | GeoMoby has gained unprecedented capabilities to turn data into real-time value providing indoor, and outdoor geofencing with higher accuracy than industry standards along with a negligible battery consumption (patented solution). GeoMoby takes great pride in its hard-working team, a priceless and unprecedented asset for any business, and its yearsof investment in R&D before going to market, ensuring a quality, tested and proven, cost-effective outcome-based offering could be delivered to the market. GeoMoby’s feature-rich technology also enables users to trigger alerts and actions based on predefined sets of conditions (dwell-time, body temperature, weather, real-time traffic, user profile, and more) and complex geofences (virtual geographic boundaries), that can be configured to trigger custom actions when crossed. The technology offers a cloud-based SAAS platform ensuring its high availability, adaptability, redundancy, and potential to scale, all of that made accessible through a dedicated GeoMoby environment. GeoMoby acts as the bridge that generates powerful data and converts it into meaningful information from which priceless analysis and critical business decisions can be made for health, security, efficiency, and productivity. GeoMoby is unique its ability to offer an all-in-one complete platform solution enabling asset monitoring in real-time, with considerably better accuracy than industry standards, in any environment, on surface, indoors, outdoors, and, in a world-first, underground. GeoMoby is dedicated to helping its clients improve the health and safety of their workforce, gain world-first visibility of their underground mining operations, and increase their productivity through enhanced asset monitoring and management. All products and solutions are easy to deploy, cost-effective and work effectively in complex environments, online and offline, and is carrier agnostic. The GeoMoby all-in-one platform provides clients with the ability to access various features such as self-configurable geofencing, 3D indoor, outdoor, 3D underground mapping, and automation based on customised analytics, enhancing business decisions, ensuring they are, not only faster, but based on accurate data not previously accessible. Our technology is solving key technical problems in the mobile geolocation industry including: o Super Power Efficient Solution (1%per hour) - 10x better battery management than industry standards o Accurate Indoor/Outdoor Geolocation (with iBeacon support) - 20x times better accuracy than industry standards o New geospatial layer to already existing business analytics (Accurate customer data profile based on real-time behaviour) |  | Pre-Seed |  | https://x.com/GeoMoby |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Joule Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janvest-technologies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Singulariteam](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/singulariteam-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Tony Grist invest in?

Tony Grist invests primarily in Internet of Things, B2B and ISP startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.

### What is Tony Grist's check size?

Tony Grist typically joins rounds of $236k–$1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tony Grist participates in.

### How do I contact Tony Grist?

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### When did Tony Grist last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tony Grist closed in Sep 2019. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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