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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Australia in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Australia in May 2025

Investor	Publishing Australia investments
Folklore Ventures	3
Aayush Phumbhra	2
Matrix	2
Kakao Ventures	2
Square Peg Capital	2
Chloe Steinberg	2
Shasta Ventures	2
Artesian VC	1
Paul Reining	1
Savannah Fund	1
Chris Anderson	1
Total Sport and Entertainment	1
Marc Andreessen	1
Kevin Hale	1
Felicis	1
Owen Wilson	1
Lars Rasmussen	1
Blackbird Ventures	1
Zach Kitschke	1
Yolo Investments	1
Three Kings Capital	1
Matt Rockman	1
Vayner/RSE	1
UK Research and Innovation	1
Breakthrough Lab	1
Fredrik Wester	1
Melbourne Angels	1
Atinum Partners	1
Investible	1
Shan Mehta	1
Atinum Partners	1
Untitled Ventures	1
InterWest Partners	1
Founders Fund	1
Bill Tai	1
Kenneth Goldman	1
Global Founders Capital	1
FJ Labs	1
Nikki Warburton	1
Woody Harrelson	1
Untitled Ventures	1
Laurence Escalante	1
PREPit Pty Ltd	1
Tony Faure	1
rob kawalsky	1
Airtree Ventures	1
Ash Fontana	1
Jean Sini	1
Adrian MacKenzie	1
Blackbird Ventures	1

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Folklore is a team of investors, founders, and builders committed to supporting Australian and New Zealand tech founders. We are a first cheque to forever investment firm, and we believe in the power of founder vision and the potential of teams, right from the start.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.
Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.

Aayush Phumbhra is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Nectar.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Education
Seed, Debt Financing, Angel
United States, India, Australia

Portfolio highlights

getcrux — 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.
Tractorfactory — Tractor Factory is the most trusted way of buying and selling used tractors. Choose from over 40 fully inspected second hand tractor models A used tractor can be a valuable investment for farmers and landowners looking for reliable equipment at a lower cost. Buying a used tractor allows individuals to access high-quality machinery that has been tested in the field, often at a fraction of the price of a new one. Many used tractors are still in excellent condition, with routine maintenance ensuring they remain fully operational for years. Tractor Factory is the most trusted way of buying and selling used tractors. For more detail visit our website or contact us 8821986673

We're an early stage VC firm that leads pre-seed through Series A rounds and works with founders to help them win.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Meadow — Meadow's financial aid software is the fastest way for higher education to boost enrollment. Deliver affordability with our modern Net Price Calculator.
Baya Systems — Baya Systems is a pioneer in chipset-based semiconductor technology for high-performance, modular systems, improving intelligent computing across varied applications.
Flock Safety — From creating safer neighborhoods to protecting employees and property, we help you deter and solve crime with tools customized and scaled to your needs.

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

OQT — Our OQT research is at the interface of atomic qubits and coherent imaging for quantum information processing. Our research aims high to push the frontiers of today's computing, sensing, and imaging. Our research is funded by KAIST, NRF, IITP, and POSCO. We are in the Department of Physics and
Taming Lab — Taming Lab is the operator of the used luxury watchs.
Contoro Robotics — Autonomous Trailer & Container Unloading - Contoro: Reliable Unloading of Non-Palletized Boxes from Trucks with No Upfront Capital Expense

Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform
GoodWork.ai — The most powerful analytics AI ever created for the retail sector_

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.

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.

Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Overland AI — Overland AI is a manufacturer and developer of autonomous navigation for off-road autonomous vehicles.
Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.

Paul Reining - Director & Advisor @ My Pet Warehouse

Investment focus

EBooks, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Tablo Publishing — Tablo is a new generation of publishing company that lets authors publish an eBook, Paperback and Hardcover book to every bookshop in the world with the click of a button. Publishing a book with Tablo is as easy as publishing a blog post, with gorgeous book templates and a one-click publishing experience, with on-demand print and distribution toover 40,000 retailers, live sales an insights, and the fairest royalties and terms available to authors.

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Chris Anderson is a head of conference organisation TED.

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

We are Australia's leading, full service sports and entertainment agency specialising in marketing, events, sponsorship and creative.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Social
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, 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 — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
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

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Stilt — The number one place for financial resources and immigration guidance for students and immigrants in the U.S.
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.

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Supabase — The Open Source Alternative to Firebase.
Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
Operand — AI-Enabled Consulting for Consumer Retail

Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor, voice-over artist, writer, producer and screenwriter.

Investment focus

Software, Publishing, Web Design
Series A, Pre-Seed
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.
Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Abbot's Butcher — Premium plant-based proteins, crafted from wholesome ingredients. Soy-free, gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO.

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

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.
Marlee (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.

Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Ravio — Ravio allows you to understand compensation in your market in real-time. Make smarter salary, equity and benefits decisions without touching a spreadsheet.
Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
Wonder Studios — Producing world-class original content

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.

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.

Yolo Investments is focusing on late seed & series A stage investments in igaming, fintech and crypto.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Sports
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Bitblox Games — Offer innovative and engaging blockchain-based games on your platform and attract a new wave of players with Bitblox.
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

Three Kings Capital is a private equity platform that protects national assets, corporate assets and personal assets from cyber threats.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Social
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.

Matt is an investor in venture businesses and will soon be basing himself in the United States working with Square Peg Capital. He invests across a wide sector of industries and geographies. Matt and his wife have a foundation where they focus on community projects, which have the ability to enhance the social sector.Prior to working as aninvestor in his own right, Matt was one of the three original founders of SEEK LTD. Along With Paul and Andrew Bassat, Matt took SEEK from business plan to become one of Australia’s most successful online businesses. SEEK is now an ASX Top 100 Listed company with a market capitalisation of $4 Billion, and with businesses in the UK, China, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.Matt also is an accomplished speaker and helps many organisations realise their full potential through his business insights. Matt holds a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from Monash University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, B2B
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vend — Vend is web-based point-of-sale and retail management software. Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores.Vend runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Even though Vend is web-based it works offline, so users can keep making salesif the internet drops out.Vend integrates seamlessly with other web applications used to run retail stores, like accounting, eCommerce, appointment scheduling, and others.The Vend platform is subscription-based, never requires backups or upgrades and lets retailers get on with running their retail enterprise instead of worrying about their IT infrastructure.
Magnet Capital — Launched in 2017, Magnet Capital is an Australian investment fund focused solely on crypto and digital assets
Ordermentum — Ordermentum is a wholesale online order management system for the food and beverage industry. Book a free demo to learn how mobile ordering and payments can help you.

Founded in 2014, Vayner/RSE is a marriage of builders: Gary Vaynerchuk, VaynerMedia and RSE Ventures. VRSE invests in teams building tomorrow's companies through unique consumer insight and relentless drive.Our sweet spot is in the first round of institutional financing, funding either as lead investors or as part of a syndicate.Beyond capital, we support our community with access and insights derived across both our investment portfolio and the operating companies we oversee on a daily basis.Our team has a diverse background of starting, growing and operating companies across a variety of industries and life stages and we leverage this mental elasticity to help our entrepreneurs through the gamut of challenges that accompany building companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Danvas — Danvas is advancing screens that will possess a fully dimensional interactive design that brings NFT art to life and will reinforce the authentic ownership of the artwork. Its premium, luxury digital art canvas aims to accelerate the world’s appreciation of digital artists and their artwork, and introduce art collectors to the value, andpossibilities of the next wave of digital art.
Lockchain.ai — AI-powered risk management for digital assets.
nameless — Nameless is a non-fungible token (NFT) platform as a service software company that empowers businesses, individuals, and digital creators to create, mint, and capitalize on their own custom NFT projects through easy-to-use scalable API solutions.

UKRI convenes, catalyses and invests in close collaboration with others to build a thriving, inclusive research and innovation system.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Education
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Diaceutics — Diaceutics is a global group of experts from the laboratory, diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries. Their goal is to help pharmaceutical companies integrate diagnostic testing into their treatment pathways.
Northumbria University — Northumbria University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, is a UK Top 25 university for Research Power, with an expanding multicultural learning community, and excellent links with further and higher education, industry and commerce throughout the UK, Europe and beyond.
University of Liverpool — The University of Liverpool is one of the great centres of research, knowledge and innovation. Our pioneering reputation attracts students, experts and partners from around the world. Through our research, teaching and collaborations we seek to be life changing and world shaping.Exceptional minds1,300 leading researchers36,000 students177,000 alumni in 192 countries4,700 staffCountless partners worldwideLiverpool has been home to explorers and revolutionaries for over 800 years. Their pioneering spirit is alive in the city and inspires our university.Our university is everywhere, from our Chinese joint venture University to our Arctic research stations, American exchanges to the Internet home of our online programmes.

Breakthrough Lab are successful start-up founders who have operated businesses from pitch deck to exit.Breakthrough Lab manages Australian technology focused venture capital investments.We are a team of successful start-up founders who have operated businesses from pitch deck to exit. As venture capital fund managers we are dedicated toachieving market-beating returns for both our investors and the founders we back.

Investment focus

SaaS, Real Estate, Information Technology
Seed, Series B
Australia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Talon.One — The all-in-one promotion software designed for enterprises. Manage all your marketing promotions in one scalable system without stressing developer resources.
Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.
OpenAgent.com.au — In Australia we are completely obsessed with property. Yet, even in Australia, real estate is an industry that still often fails to delight the consumer. A couple of years ago we set out to transform the way property is transacted.OpenAgent.com.au is a platform where sellers can compare and hire real estate agents to:- Find an agent who sellsat the price they promise- Engage an agent on terms that make sense- Monitor the transaction progress end-to-end

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.

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

Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

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.
Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
Seitec — Seitec is a security company that manufactures seismic security applications and instruments for civilian and military markets.

Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
MOVIN — Moovin offers real-time markerless motion capture technology that does not require any additional hardware such as markers or trackers.
Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Grw AI — Grw AI offers scalable 1:1 coaching solutions that leverage AI to assist B2B sales teams complete deals.
Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.

Shan Mehta is an angel investor and entrepreneur.

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!

Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
MOVIN — Moovin offers real-time markerless motion capture technology that does not require any additional hardware such as markers or trackers.
Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.

Untitled Group is the collective responsible for a variety of unique festivals, events, venues, tours and good times enjoyed by our artists and patrons from all around the globe.The Melbourne based collective produce over 100+ events annually within Australia and abroad, bringing hundreds of thousands of music lovers together each year.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Hospitality
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Segwise — Maximize your UA performance with Segwise's AI-powered tools that optimize ad creatives with data-driven insights, monitor and alert on campaign data across networks, and forecast return on ad spend confidently. Try for free without SDK integration!
Induced AI — Induced is an AI-native browser RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with smart reasoning and memory, to automate enterprise workflows of all kinds.
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.

InterWest invests an average of about $7 - 15 million over the span of their involvement with each company in their portfolio. They invest in companies through the full range of venture investment stages, and investments may be staged over several rounds of financing. Although they generally begin their involvement in the early stages of acompany's development, they pursue attractive opportunities based on their individual merits rather than their investment stage.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

GoCheck — GoCheck Kids helps primary care networks implement cost-effective and bidirectionally integrated pediatric vision screening.
Welcome — Welcome brings teams together on a single platform to share plans, collaborate on assets and flawlessly execute campaigns.
PMV Pharmaceuticals — PMV Pharma is developing first-in-class p53 and p53 pathway modulators for the treatment of cancer. Bringing together leaders in the field to utilize over three decades of p53 biology, PMV Pharma combines unique biological understanding with pharmaceutical development focus.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stord — Stord offers fulfillment, warehousing, and transportation for DTC and B2B, plus the integrated software you need to provide your end consumers with the best pre-purchase and post-delivery consumer experience. No matter your product, Stord is ready to power your commerce.
NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.

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.

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.

Ken Goldman is the President at Hillspire, LLC. Ken Goldman attended Harvard Business School and Cornell University.

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.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
Scribe Health AI — The #1 Free AI Medical Scribe & Progress Note Taker. Integrated to your EMR. HIPAA Compliant AI Scribe. Save 2 hours everyday. Reduce Burnout by 80%. No credit card signup.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fleequid — Buy or sell buses and commercial vehicles through auctions: Join Fleequid and effortlessly participate in top-notch B2B auctions for industrial vehicles
Powerhouse91 — Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations.
Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.

Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director.

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

Investment focus

Software, Publishing, Web Design
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Wicked Foods — Wicked Kitchen hits the shelves with a range of chef-crafted, game-changing products inspiring plant-based diets & green eating worldwide.
Abbot's Butcher — Premium plant-based proteins, crafted from wholesome ingredients. Soy-free, gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO.
Holistic Spirits Company — Holistic Spirits develops a superfood plant-powered holistic gin and cocktails.Holistic Spirits offers Origen Holistic Spirits speciality vodka and Harmony Gin which is patent-pending, plant-powered, holistic spirits that elevates the experience of wellness with every cocktail, while caring for the earth.The company was founded in 2018 and isbased in Park City, Utah.

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.

Laurence Escalante is the Founder and CEO at Virtual Gaming Worlds.

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.

Prepit is the parent of Composeright Software and Composeright: developing and commercializing a cloud-based writing platform for higher education.

Investment focus

Education, Publishing, Higher Education
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Composeright — Composeright is developing a fully-featured, cloud-based, writing app for writers of structured documents, especially academics and students in Higher Education under the name ComWriter.ComWriter is a writing platform designed specifically for the cloud; enabling students and researchers to write to academic standards in a structured way.ComWriter is a modern tool that treats writing as a project: search our library, organize your writing, smart reminders, citation management built in, and formatting of output (references and body) made simple to academic standards using pre-defined styles. Collaborate with others, invite people to review your work, all available wherever you go.

Tony Faure is the Chair at oOh! Media. He attended University of Sussex.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Social Media
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Datafree — What could you achieve?
LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.
Stackla — Manage, request rights, and publish user generated content (UGC) across various digital touch-points in your customer journey to create authentic and relevant content experiences that drive discovery, boost sales, and grow customer loyalty.

rob kawalsky

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Health Care
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Human — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.
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.

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
Gridsight — Gridsight helps electrical utilities transition to a decentralised grid by creating 90%-accurate, AI-powered load flow models. These models enable utilities to safely and efficiently support more residential solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Based on CEO Brendan Banfield's PhD research, Gridsight was founded in 2020 to accelerate the transition to renewables.
Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.

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”.

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.
Zenode — AI PreCAD companion tool for Electrical Engineers

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
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.

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.

Investment focus

Advertising, TV, Real Estate
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rokt Calendar — Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce technology & software solutions, driving more value per transaction with personalized experiences. Request a demo today.
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.

Blackbird Ventures is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in diverse businesses including emerging technology companies and real estate development. Blackbird Ventures is based in La Jolla, California.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Hardware
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Dgraph Labs — The only fault-tolerant, distributed graph database with native GraphQL that gives developers the tools to quickly build distributed applications at scale.
PsiQuantum — PsiQuantum is building the world's first useful quantum computer.
SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.

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