Top 20 Publishing Angel Investors in Australia in November 2024
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Publishing startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Publishing Angel Investors in Australia in November 2024
Investor | Publishing Australia investments |
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Aayush Phumbhra | 2 |
Chloe Steinberg | 2 |
Bill Tai | 1 |
Marc Andreessen | 1 |
Laurence Escalante | 1 |
Nikki Warburton | 1 |
Woody Harrelson | 1 |
Tony Faure | 1 |
Owen Wilson | 1 |
Jean Sini | 1 |
Kenneth Goldman | 1 |
Ash Fontana | 1 |
Zach Kitschke | 1 |
Lars Rasmussen | 1 |
Fredrik Wester | 1 |
Chris Anderson | 1 |
Shan Mehta | 1 |
Adrian MacKenzie | 1 |
David Gyngell | 1 |
Kevin Hale | 1 |
Aayush Phumbhra is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Nectar.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Education
- Seed, Debt Financing, Angel
- United States, India, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- TravClan — TravClan empowers travel agents and new age travel entrepreneurs to generate more business online by enabling businesses to build and grow their digital presence and earn more profit by booking flights, hotels, holidays with suppliers across the world at best B2B prices on its platform. TravClan’s vision is to empower SMBs in travel across theworld to grow their business. It aims to bring on board over 10 million SMBs and enable a GMV of over $10 billion by 2025 on its platform.
- Crux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
- Magma — Magma platform partners with factories and raw materials suppliers to offer supply chain services from the supplier to the customer.
Chloe Steinberg is a partner at Sapphire Sport, where she focuses on investing in early-stage companies shaping the future of consumption. Chloe has deep industry expertise in the health & wellness sector, stemming from her 5+ years as an operator and investor with the Equinox Group of Brands. During that time, Chloe launched and led EquinoxVentures, the group’s investment arm focused on high performance living. She also supported Business Development & new business incubation, including the launch of Equinox Media in 2020. Earlier in her career, Chloe cofounded Vayner Capital in partnership with Gary Vaynerchuk and was a member of the investment team at Insight Venture Partners, where she focused on consumer tech and enterprise software investments. Chloe is deeply passionate about people doing work they love so in her free time, she founded and runs ExclusiveJobs, a not-for-profit, bespoke talent placement network in the consumer sector.Chloe graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she played varsity lacrosse. She was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Venture Capital in 2020. A Baltimore native, Chloe now resides in Westport, CT with her husband and son.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
- Trust Software — The corporate card, made social. Trust is the only corporate card that helps startups grow smarter, together. Learn more at trust.co
- Market AI — Market increases sales for eCommerce businesses. Deploy custom AI models that increase traffic, develop new creative, and reach high-value customers.
Bill Tai is the Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and Founding Investor of Treasure Data. He previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MicroTau — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
- Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
- Fathom — Instantly summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.
Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Social Media
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- Phi — Phi is a social gaming platform that focuses on 'on-chain Identity' using ENS and wallet activity. It allows users to build their web3 cities based on their wallet activities. The platform also offers a variety of features such as Silver Gas Saver, Supersonic Bat, Gold Gas Saver, Hypersonic Bat, Iron Gas Guzzler, and Ethereum Wallpaper.Phi also provides a user guide for its users to understand how to play and access Phi Land, and how to create their Phi Land. The platform is designed to be immersive and interactive, providing a unique gaming experience for its users.
- Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials for our
Laurence Escalante is the Founder and CEO at Virtual Gaming Worlds.
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Investment focus
- Dairy, Retail, Automotive
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Bae Juice — 100% Korean pear juice
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Automotive, Publishing
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
Woody Harrelson - Advisory Board @ Surfrider Foundation
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Investment focus
- Software, Publishing, Web Design
- Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
- Abbot's Butcher — Premium plant-based proteins, crafted from wholesome ingredients. Soy-free, gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO.
Tony Faure is the Chair at oOh! Media. He attended University of Sussex.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Social Media
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor, voice-over artist, writer, producer and screenwriter.
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Investment focus
- Software, Publishing, Web Design
- Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
- Abbot's Butcher — Premium plant-based proteins, crafted from wholesome ingredients. Soy-free, gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO.
Jean Sini (born July 20, 1973) is a New York- and San Francisco-based investor. Jean is General Partner at Partech Partners. Previously, Jean was Chief Technology Officer at real estate startup Cadre. Before that, he was cofounder and Chief Technology Officer of Fountain, started in 2013 with Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer, and sold to Porch.com in2015. He is also an investor in and advisor to early stage startups, including Boxbee, Canva, Treasure Data, FieldWire, People.ai, ProdPerfect. He was previously CTO at One Kings Lane, and earlier Vice President of Data Aggregation Engineering at Mint.com, acquired by Intuit for $170m in November 2009. In 2005 he co-founded and was CTO at Activeweave, sold to TwelveFold Media in April 2008.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Israel, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
- Architect.io — Democratize your dev, staging, and prod deployments and environment creation with our dependency-aware continuous delivery platform.
- Product Science — Product Science increases product metrics for mobile applications and helps apps work faster by providing insights into key performance issues that impact user experience.
Ken Goldman is the President at Hillspire, LLC. Ken Goldman attended Harvard Business School and Cornell University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Node — Sugar helps business create customers for life with the world's most intelligent CRM platform. With SugarCRM, you let the platform do the work. Get a demo today!
- BlockCypher — BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale. BlockCypher's web services are blockchain agnostic and greatly reduce the complexity of building applications that run on multiple blockchains. Easily build, run and future proof blockchain applications on BlockCypher's infrastructure.
- BoxMedia — Box Media are a creative media-on-demand production company. Redefining Normal. Reinventing Learning.
Ash advises and invests in AI-First companies. He helps companies from inception onwards by advising on their data + ML, pricing and fundraising strategy. He invests anything from $20K to $20MM in a company.
He also currently acts as a Special Advisor to Zetta Venture Partners, where he was a Managing Director from 2015 to 2021. Before Zetta, Ashlaunched AngelList’s fundraising platform that now manages over $7B. Prior to AngelList, he co-founded Topguest (acquired), a loyalty software platform that counted United Airlines, Hilton Worldwide, and Virgin America as clients. He started his career in growth investing at Macquarie Capital in New York after studying law at the University of Sydney. Penguin Random House has published his book, “The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence”.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tactiq — Tactiq is a browser extension that automatically transcribes Zoom and Google Meet meetings to your Google Drive, Quip, Notion or other platforms. Live transcribe Google Meet and Zoom to your Google Drive. Create meeting minutes in Google Meet and Zoom meetings with the transcript.
- QuantPi — QuantPi creates automated and scalable solutions for AI model explainability and robustness auditing.
- HardwareAI — AI PreCAD companion tool for Electrical Engineers
Canva now has, after only two years more than 10 million users across 179 countries, and is used daily by many social media marketers, bloggers and small businesses to create things like posters, business cards and presentations. More than 100 million designs have now been created using the platform.The company is also made famous for theappointed Apple’s Chief Evangelist, Guy Kawasaki as it’s ambassador.
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Investment focus
- News, Publishing, Social Media
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.
Lars Rasmussen is a co-founder and 'Chief Espresso Officer' at Weav Music, Inc in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly, he was a director of engineer at Facebook London where he headed up the Facebook Workplace team. Formerly, he was a member of Google's technical staff, based in the Sydney office, and with his brother the
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Neptyne — Neptyne is making spreadsheets programmable
- OneRoof — OneRoof is an app that helps meet people with similar interests living in your building and build new friendships. Communication should go further than a nod in the elevator.
- Fingerprint For Success — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.
CEO and President of Paradox Interactive. Since 2003 we have built Paradox from a 7 man studio to an international Publisher with over 175 employees and another 10 partner companies (200 people) making games for us. Driver of organizational improvements and implementation of best practices across departments over the past 10 years.Capable ofresolving multiple and complex (sales, legal, financial, operational) issues as well as leading teams of highly skilled professionals.
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Investment focus
- Publishing, CRM, Brand Marketing
- Funding Round, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- DanAds — Streamline ad sales and operations with our self-serve ad platform. Automate management of sales, ops, and creative, maximizing your income. Try it now!
- Mindler — Most people suffer at some point during the life of mental illness. Whether it comes to periods of stress, drowsiness or worry that does not disappear by itself, a professional contact can be an effective way back and prevent negative development. They started Mindler with the vision that everyone should have the opportunity to meet a psychologiston equal terms, no matter where you live or what conditions you have. Digital technology and leading psychological skills are our model for increasing access to effective treatment of mental health and for people in our country to get the best help they need.
- Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials for our
Chris Anderson is a head of conference organisation TED.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Content, Journalism
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Curio — Be one of the first to access Rio, the leading AI for fact-checked news. Free for early users.
- Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials for our
Shan Mehta is an angel investor and entrepreneur.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
- Airtable — Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.It brings the database out of the realm of power users and into the mainstream, creating a new type of flexible but sophisticated productivity tool that anyone can use. Airtable gives end-users the ability to createand share their own workflows for everything from managing an editorial calendar to planning a major event. The platform helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.The company was founded by Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas, and Howie Liu in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
Adrian MacKenzie is a Director on the Board of Ascender, and founder of 5V Capital, where he has made several successful investments in both established and venture capital businesses. His recent success includes the acquisition of Ascender, becoming the major shareholder in Madman Film & Entertainment, and the successful exit of his investmentin Mysale, where he remains a director. His venture capital investments include Canva, Standard Media Index, ImageBrief and Parcelpoint.Prior to 5VC, Adrian was Managing Partner and board member at private equity firm CVC Capital Partners (London), where he worked on numerous transactions before moving to Hong Kong to help establish the Asia Pacific business, and then to Sydney to open the Australian office. During this time, he completed many significant transactions including Pacific Brands, Tech Pacific, Affinity Healthcare and Nine Entertainment. Having become a Managing Partner and board member, Adrian left CVC after 17 years in 2012. Adrian’s career began in corporate finance with J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co Ltd, in the London and New York offices.Adrian holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in engineering and economics.
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Investment focus
- Advertising, TV, Real Estate
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CalReply — Drive results and measure impact with personalized outreach to each customer, sent when subscribers are most likely to engage with Rokt Calendar.
- ImageBrief — ImageBrief is an online marketplace that connects image buyers with a global network of professional photographers. Buyers can post a brief for an immediate image requirement and photographers submit images that are tailored to the buyer's request.Targeted at advertising agencies, marketing departments, magazines and graphic designers,ImageBrief provides an alternative solution for image buyers who no longer wish to spend hours trawling through image stock libraries. ImageBrief is not a stock library but is a crowd sourced buyer-driven marketplace connecting image buyers and photographers. By letting buyers outline their needs within a brief and allowing photographers to respond, it turns the traditional image buying process on its head. ImageBrief provides a new way for buyers to source rights-managed images that perfectly match their usage and exclusivity requirements. Photographers ensure that their image meets the requirements before submitting, which means buyers only see images they can actually use.ImageBrief also allows buyers and photographers to interact and collaborate directly while working on the brief. Both buyers and photographers can ask questions, provide each other with feedback, or clarify requirements. Perhaps the greatest difference however is that buyers establish their usage requirements and budget up-front. This allows photographers to understand the terms of the brief and to decide whether to respond.
- ParcelPoint — Our vision is a world where people are more connected to their community. Parcelpoint has over 1400 locations to pickup or drop off your online orders.
David Gyngell was the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from November 2010 until November 2015, having previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Nine Network from September 2007. David Gyngell became a Non-Executive Director of the company in November 2015. He has almost 20 years’ of experience at Nine and over 25 years’ overallmedia sector experience.Previously, David Gyngell was Chief Executive Officer of Granada Television and also Director of International Management Group and Transworld Media International. He has also worked as Executive Director, Group Marketing and Communications for Publishing & Broadcasting Limited.
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Investment focus
- News, Publishing, Social Media
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.
Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Stilt — Financial Services for International Students and Immigrants
- Postscript — Engage with customers wherever they are. Postscript helps you build strong customer relationships across the entire buying experience. Start your free trial today.
- Taali Foods — Taali is a 'better for you' food company. We have a simple vision, we want our products to be a delicious and guilt-free snack that is loaded with the good stuff.Our anchor brand Taali Taali is a guilt-free snack made from popped water lily seeds. Our products are made of Non-GMO, whole, and natural ingredients that you can pronounceand spell to create a difference you can taste. We have on average 20% fewer calories and 67% less fat per serving (28g) than the leading popcorn brand. Roasted never tasted this good.
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