# William Deane

> William Deane is a venture - series unknown investor at Exto Partners backing Big Data. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Exto Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exto-partners)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdeane/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/WillDeaneExto

William Deane is a venture - series unknown investor at Exto Partners in Sydney focused on Big Data and Analytics. For more than 18 years, William has advised on, and been actively involved in financing and developing early-stage companies from both the company perspective and the investor perspective. He has assisted founders and investors to exit from private companies through trade sales, management buy-outs and public offerings.As a Co-Founder andPrincipal of Exto Partners, William assists clients with capital raising, corporate structuring, business development and strategic transaction negotiation.William is an experienced corporate lawyer, having worked in Australia with Blake Dawson Waldron’s corporate group and in the United States with Sidley & Austin’s corporate group and Skadden, Arp, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP’s investment management group. William is admitted to practice law in Victoria, Australia and New York, USA and has an L.L.B. (hons) from Bond University 1995 and a B.A (hons) from the University of Sydney 1992.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 100% |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Data Visualization | 1 | 100% |
| Information Services | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zetaris | Zetaris is an analytical data virtualization platform providing a single application programming interface for connecting data. It specializes in digital analytics, Hadoop analytical data platforms, pattern recognition, accumulative data analytics for data security, business intelligence, event-based interaction, and analytics practices. Theplatform also helps businesses to offer new software products and conceptual frameworks for the data-driven applications industry.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria. | $22.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 05, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IQT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/in-q-tel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Reach Markets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reach-markets) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SeventyTwo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seventytwo-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Vulpes Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vulpes-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Exto Partners

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

Exto Partners is a diversified private investment firm based in Australia.The Company Directors work with both emerging and established companies to help them achieve their business goals through capital investment, strategic planning, corporate advisory and exit planning and execution.Exto Partners build high performance globalbusinesses that embrace innovation, transform established industries and challenge existing market leaders to drive value for shareholders.

2 contacts available at Exto Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peter Hammond | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-hammond |
| William Deane | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-deane |

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## FAQ

### What does William Deane invest in?

William Deane invests primarily in Big Data, Analytics and Data Visualization startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown 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 William Deane last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for William Deane closed in Apr 2022. 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.

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