Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Australia (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Folklore Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $500k–$21M |
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Shasta Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, New Zealand | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $1.2M–$35M |
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $297k–$27M |
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Square Peg Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $875k–$72M |
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Shearwater Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, News | $171k–$25M |
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Matrix
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, India | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.5M–$50M |
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Atinum Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.8M–$44M |
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Chloe Steinberg
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, Australia | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Fitness, Wellness | $5.7M–$22M |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | |
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | |
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Matt Rockman
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed | Mobile, Apps, B2B | |
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Owen Wilson
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States | Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Publishing, Web Design | |
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David Gyngell
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | News, Publishing, Social Media | |
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Aayush Phumbhra
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing | Mobile, Software, Education | $105k–$4.3M |
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Ash Fontana
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Machine Learning, SaaS | $500k–$15M |
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Jean Sini
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Australia | Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $2.6M–$30M |
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Adrian MacKenzie
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States | Series A, Seed | Advertising, TV, Apps | $4.3M–$12M |
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Seven West Media
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series C | Internet, Software, Financial Services | $40k–$25M |
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Lars Rasmussen
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Apps, Video | $250k–$6.6M |
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Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $34k–$35M |
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Untitled Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, India, Latvia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Information Technology | $438k–$2.5M |
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Kenneth Goldman
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2B | $3.1M–$6.6M |
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InterWest Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $4.5M–$48M |
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Felicis
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.5M–$76M |
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David Kowalski
Angel
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1 | Seed | |||
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Bill Tai
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $500k–$105M |
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Investible
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $250k–$20M |
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UK Research and Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology | $62k–$13M |
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Laurence Escalante
Angel
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1 | Australia, Singapore | Seed, Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown | Dairy, Retail, CleanTech | |
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Paul Reining
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | EBooks, Internet, E-Commerce | |
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Total Sport and Entertainment
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | Video, Mobile, Social | |
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rob kawalsky
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | News, Publishing, Health Care | $1.2M–$7.1M |
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Nikki Warburton
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Retail, Automotive, Publishing | |
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Vayner/RSE
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Internet, Software, Mobile | $1.2M–$75M |
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Melbourne Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Angel, Seed | Biotechnology, Information Technology, Energy | $34k–$1.3M |
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Airtree Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $800k–$48M |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $40k–$15M |
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Breakthrough Lab
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Germany, United States | Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | |
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Marc Andreessen
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Internet | $1M–$80M |
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Kevin Hale
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $400k–$5.4M |
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Tony Faure
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States | Series A, Seed | Apps, Mobile, Social Media | $4M–$4.3M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$32M |
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Shan Mehta
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia | Seed, Angel, Debt Financing | Mobile, Software, Apps | $450k–$6.6M |
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Woody Harrelson
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia | Series A, Seed, Series B | Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Software | |
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Yolo Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Estonia | Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Sports | |
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PREPit Pty Ltd
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | Education, Publishing, Higher Education | |
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Three Kings Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Series A | Video, Mobile, Social | |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $25k–$8M |
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Chris Anderson
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Series B | Apps, Music, Content | |
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Founders Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.5M–$100M |
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $725k–$5M; Series A $500k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Arkeus — Arkeus is a leader in the fusion of optics and autonomy. Our wide area autonomous optical systems are deployed to conduct Search, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in a range of operating environments.
- Hullbot — Hullbot is a developer of a robotic in-water cleaning system designed to inspect, map, and clean the hull of a boat without a human operator present. They offer design, development, and deployment of autonomous drones, delivering solutions to stop the growth of marine organisms, improve performance, and extend the time between haul-outs. Theirembedded intelligence enables their robots to interact with the environment on-the-fly.
- Sphere — Live courses led by vetted experts for professionals who want to advance their careers
Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 357
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Series A $4M–$21M; Series B $8.3M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $325M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Akka — Akka is a platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. Industry titans and disruptors rely on Akka when application responsiveness must be guaranteed. Engineering teams use a simple SDK and powerful libraries to build transactional, durable, and real-time services that distribute logic and data together. Operations arefully automated in serverless and BYOC environments, and a self-hosted option is available.
- Akoonu — Game changing Pipeline Inspection and Reviews. Stop the guess work, stop the frustration, stop the spreadsheets and custom reporting. Win more deals.
- Threekit — Threekit's 3D product configurator enables you to visualize products in photorealistic 2D, 3D and augmented reality, all from a single platform.
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 319
- Round size: Seed $297k–$4.2M; Series A $891k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- LifeLabs — LifeLabs is a Canadian-owned company that has been serving the healthcare needs of Canadians for more than 50 years. Today, LifeLabs performs more than 100 million laboratory tests every year, helping healthcare providers diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease in patients.LifeLabs is strongly committed to continual innovation in testingservices. For our patients and healthcare providers, this means we always strive to provide access to the latest specialized clinical tests—to detect cancer for example, to monitor heart disease, identify neurological disorders and pinpoint allergies.LifeLabs is well-positioned to deliver care at home, in the community and across Ontario and British Columbia. We have over 5,400 professionally trained staff members, over 360 conveniently located patient service centres and an extensive network of couriers and mobile phlebotomists on the job.
- MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
- Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Seed $875k–$14M; Series A $2.7M–$35M; Series B $10M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pluang — Investasi di Saham AS, Kripto, Emas & Reksa Dana mulai Rp5.000. Aman, teregulasi, dan mudah digunakan.
- Vi Labs — Productized AI for Health Enterprises. We turn data science into patient & operational ROI.
- Excelero Storage — Founded in 2014 by a team of storage veterans and inspired by the Tech Giants’ shared-nothing architectures for web-scale applications, the company has created a Software-Defined Block Storage solution that meets performance and scalability requirements of the largest web-scale and enterprise applications.With Excelero’s NVMesh, customers canbuild distributed, high-performance Server SAN for mixed application workloads. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage TCO. The solution has been deployed for hyper-scale Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and massive-scale simulation visualization.
Shearwater Capital is a $100m venture fund which has three founders as partners. We're investing our own capital. We invest in founders who we like and trust, and who are passionate about building generationally great companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, News
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $171k–$12M; Series A $4.2M–$18M; Series B $15M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
- Calcs.com — ClearCalcs makes structural engineering calculations easy with 100+ ready-to-use calculator library to US, CA, AU, NZ, and Eurocode standards.
- EvenBetter — EvenBetter is helping companies build a workforce where everyone thrives regardless of gender.Using AI, we provide powerful insights and recommend the right actions for closing the gender pay gap and building diverse, high-performance teams.
We're an early stage VC firm that leads pre-seed through Series A rounds and works with founders to help them win.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 506
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- CloudZero — CloudZero is the only cloud cost intelligence platform that puts engineering in control by connecting technical decisions to business results.
- Propel — Easily build in-product analytics powered by large-scale data. Propel's serverless GraphQL API makes building and running data products seamless.
- Digital Reef — Digital Reef, Inc. provides scalable and open platform for eDiscovery services and digital information governance applications. It helps meet the needs of corporate and law firm clients to significantly lower costs, mitigate risks, and reduce time associated with the handling and processing of high volumes of electronically stored information (ESI)in the wake of eDiscovery.
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Series A $2.8M–$24M; Series B $4.2M–$44M; Series C $11M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Byte Lab — Byte Lab prioritizes achieving long-term results by concentrating on *how* we grew rather than just growing quickly.
- Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
- De novo Biotherapeutics — De novo Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company developing mRNA-encoded antibodies and NK cell-engaging antibodies for cancer treatment.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Series A $5.7M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
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.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 743
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Secfi — Secfi is the leading provider of equity education and stock option financing. Get the expertise, planning, and cash to own your startup stock options with confidence.
- Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
- Transparency Analytics — Transparency Analytics is a new company dedicated to measuring risk and delivering transparent, technology-driven solutions for clients in the evolving world of private credit.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 220
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Blitz Electric Mobility — Blitz provides electric vehicles and fleet management software to food and beverage delivery, courier, and logistics companies.
- Paradigm — The AI-powered way to do spreadsheet work. Set up, edit, populate, and analyze sheets with assistant. Enrich empty cells with data from trusted sources.
- Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Mobile, Apps, B2B
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
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.
Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor, voice-over artist, writer, producer and screenwriter.
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- Industry: Software, Publishing, Web Design
- Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 — Tokenization as a Service for Modern Capital Markets
- Abbot's Butcher — Premium plant-based proteins, crafted from wholesome ingredients. Soy-free, gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO.
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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- Industry: News, Publishing, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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.
Aayush Phumbhra is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Nectar.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: United States, India, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.3M; Debt Financing $105k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- NPrep — NPrep is an AI-powered skilling and placement platform specifically designed for nursing students and professionals.
- 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
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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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.7M; Series A $5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$17M; Series B $24M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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 — Stop paying for idle pods. Architect hibernates your Kubernetes workloads when they're not needed and wakes them instantly (<50ms) when traffic arrives. No cold starts. No code changes. Just 30-50% lower compute costs.
- 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.
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- Industry: Advertising, TV, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $4.3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rokt Calendar — CalReply is a Calendaring platform that enables TV networks, pro-sporting leagues and businesses to enable fans and viewers to subscribe to event schedules via their mobile calendars.
- 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.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $40k–$3.5M; Series C $1.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mad Paws — Mad Paws is a Sydney-based start up that was created to fill in the ever growing need in the pet boarding market for affordable, and local pet accommodation while still maintaining the care, love, and attention pets received at high-end, expensive, pet boarding services.
- InStitchu — InStitchu is an online custom clothier specializing in tailor made menswear. Customers are able to design custom made garments online which are then made to their exact measurements.InStitchu provides tailor made, high quality menswear through a simple online ordering process. Once a customer has added measurements to their profile, a suit orshirt can be ordered in a few minutes and on its way in two weeks. There are multiple ways for a customer to get their measurements perfected and enjoy that “perfect fit” InStitchu customers keep coming back for - our measurement guide will take you on a journey from your living room to the hustle and bustle of our tailor’s studio. Customers can choose from a wide range of globally sourced high quality wool and cotton fabrics, and when you’ve chosen, we’ll deliver your design right to your door. This new approach to shopping is stress free and cuts out the middleman, allowing us to deliver customers luxury tailor made suits and shirts without the high price tag.
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
Google Maps Co-Founder / Defiance Capital Co-Founder / Angel Investor / Panathēnea Co-Founder / Kite Surfing Coffee Enthusiast
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Video
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $326k–$6.6M; Angel $250k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Protio — Protio is proptech startup reinventing the process of buying & selling real estate.
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- Terraton — Terraton is a biochar platform that provides equipment, design, and financing to agribusiness operators.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 322
- Round size: Seed $34k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.7M; Series A $3.4M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
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.
- Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
- Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia, India, Latvia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $979k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $438k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Segwise — Automatically tag and analyze creatives across 15+ networks, catch early signs of creative fatigue, and auto generate winning creatives that boost ROAS. Free 14-day free trial with no code setup!
- Opennote — The AI tutor that lives in your notes
- Naco Technologies — A website that specializes in technology and innovation advancements in the world as well as delivering the same to all people. It also has an interest in giving people the most current news in the tech world. Visit the blog today for more insights.
Ken Goldman is the President at Hillspire, LLC. Ken Goldman attended Harvard Business School and Cornell University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Node — Drive B2B sales with clear data, automated follow-ups, and built-in insights. Manage accounts and act fast at every step of the customer journey.
- RentCheck — RentCheck saves property managers time by allowing tenants to do their own inspections. 90% of customers save over 1 hour per inspection. Recommended by hundreds of property managers.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 297
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $7M–$38M; Series C $10M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $650M in 2008
Portfolio highlights
- Gynesonics — Gynesonics is a women’s healthcare company focused on the development of advanced incision-free solutions for the treatment of uterine conditions. Gynesonics serves customers worldwide. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
- ReVision Optics — ReVision Optics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and delivers implantable products for the treatment of presbyopia. It offers PRESBYLENS Corneal Inlay, a refractive surgery solution to correct vision lost by the natural aging process called presbyopia. The company serves the ophthalmology professionals. ReVision Optics, Inc. was formerly known asIntraLens Vision, Inc. and changed its name to ReVision Optics, Inc. in 2005. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Lake Forest, California.
- Elitra Pharmaceuticals — Pharmaceutical Company
Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 571
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $4M–$46M; Series B $10M–$76M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
- RAPIDFORT — Reduce vulnerability and patch management backlog By 80% in minutes. RAPIDFORT profiles your containerized workloads, auto-remediates your vulnerabilities, and identifies which packages are in use by your workload. All before your workload is deployed in production! You can optionally optimize your workloads and remove known and unknown vulnerabilities by minimizing your software attack surface by 80% thus mitigating Zero-Day exploits and Software Supply Chain attacks.
- ConductorOne — C1 equips security and IT teams with a powerful autonomous identity security platform. Secure access with complete visibility, just-in-time provisioning, automated access reviews, and more.
David co-founded CountryCars.com.au with his best mate, Alex Sparkes, and following a capital raising in 2006 sold the business to Fairfax Media in 2007. In 2008 he co-founded Green Lane and currently spends his time working closely with several of the start-ups he has investments in and looking at a variety of start-ups in Australia and the UnitedStates.David loves working directly with Founders to empower them to be the best entrepreneurs they can be. David has a passion for building Products and Brands and focuses on investing in consumer facing businesses. Currently David is working closely with Duck.Space, BuySomewhere, GeoSnapShot, mPort and Zova.Prior to CountryCars David put together and sold options in real estate developments. David loves to support entrepreneurs on www.kiva.org and is a keen tennis player.
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- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QMCODES — QMCODES is a mobile focused CMS/CRM platfrom. The QMCODES Link.Me platform is an end-to-end mobile publishing solution, enabling you to, CREATE compelling mobile content, PUBLISH engaging multimedia, generate detailed REPORTS and CONNECT with readers on their mobile devices, on their terms and preferences, whenever and wherever they are.
Bill Tai is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Co-Founder of OneOf. Bill previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $500k–$31M; Series B $2M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perle AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.
- Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
- Robyn — Robyn provides an AI-powered marketing mix modeling platform that helps brands optimize media spend and measure performance.
Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- fileAI — Automate and analyze any file with AI. fileAI builds proprietary AI components for complex agentic workflow automation.
- VoiceByte — VoiceByte is an application platform that allows its users to record and share their voice either privately or on social networks.
- GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.
Advancing knowledge, improving lives, driving growth.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $655k–$4.1M; Grant $338k–$13M; Pre-Seed $62k–$921k
- Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Entos Pharmaceuticals — Entos Pharmaceuticals: Innovating genetic medicines with Fusogenix technology to improve patient lives.
- 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.
- University of Manchester — The University of Manchester is known for research excellence and a diverse student community.
Laurence Escalante is the Founder & CEO at VGW
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- Industry: Dairy, Retail, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bae Juice — 100% Korean pear juice
- Green Li-ion — Green Li-ion is a deep clean technology that solves the existential risk to the precious metals industry and the environment. Its patented deep technology is Cleaner, Faster, and 4x more profitable than current Lithium-Ion Battery recycling and the only technology to fully Rejuvenate the battery cathode. It was founded in 2020 and is based inSingapore.
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
Paul Reining - Director & Advisor @ My Pet Warehouse
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- Industry: EBooks, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!We are Australia's leading, full service sports and entertainment agency specialising in marketing, events, sponsorship and creative.
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- Industry: Video, Mobile, Social
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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- Industry: News, Publishing, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Human Health — 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.
Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director.
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- Industry: Retail, Automotive, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
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.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.6M; Series A $4M–$15M; Series B $8.6M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2014
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.
- ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is the leading startup news publication covering the Nordics and Baltics delivering the latest insights on the hottest startups in the region
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.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Energy
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $34k–$1.3M; Angel $219k–$918k
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Emanda — Emanda App helps business advisory firms and companies determine business value, auto-generate data rooms, set goals, and track progress daily via AI-driven tools.
- Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.
- Bitwise Agronomy — Bitwise Agronomy uses AI to analyze crop video footage and provide growers with insights into crop health, growth, and yield potential.
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 189
- Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $3.4M–$35M; Series B $4M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $288M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- XMO — XMO is building a consumer finance product centered on agentic AI and predictive money management. The company’s approach moves away from static budgeting or backward-looking transaction summaries and toward systems that can interpret patterns, anticipate future needs, and take action on a user’s behalf. Its product direction is framed aroundeveryday spending management first, with broader automation and decision support as the model develops.
- LawVu — Our all-in-one connected platform enables your legal team to manage all legal matters, contracts, spend and legal operations. Book your free demo now.
- Kronus — Full-stack development infrastructure for safety-critical systems.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 246
- Round size: Seed $135k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Vaulta — Discover Vaulta's high-performance batteries for sustainable energy solutions. Revolutionising power with easy installation, maintenance, and recycling. Join the Australian-made energy revolution today!
- Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
- Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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.
- 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
- Flamingo AI — Flamingo AI is an enterprise SaaS company in the field of Conversational Commerce providing Cognitive Virtual Assistants and Knowledge Engines that analyse unstructured data that automate online customer sales and service experiences.
Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3.1M–$36M; Series B $3M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
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
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $400k–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Tony Faure is the Chair at oOh! Media. He attended University of Sussex.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Social Media
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $4M–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Datafree — Connecting enterprises to their mobile audiences #datafree.
- LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.
- Stackla — Stackla is a social content marketing platform that puts user-generated content at the heart of brand marketing. With an AI-powered user-generated content (UGC) platform and asset manager, Stackla sits at the core of the marketing stack, actively discovering and recommending the best visual content from across the social web, as well as internaland external resources, to fuel personalized content experiences at scale.More than 500 global brands, agencies, media companies, and nonprofits use Stackla to curate and publish the best content from across the social web. Founded in 2012, Stackla has offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, and London.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 842
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Finbits — Fintech company formed by co-founders with digital product background. The startup is solving major financial problems faced by entrepreneurs in LatAm: time wasted with non-core activities and difficult access to financial products. Finbits is developing an all-in-one finance solution for LatAm SMB. This new solution saves 80% of back-office costsand allows users access to financial products. This new financial OS integrates bank accounts, payment means, third-party ERP, and accounting software already available in the ecosystem. The new platform leverages modern technology and a data driven architecture to provide intelligent insights and financial products.
- Musa — Musa is a smart city solution providing a platform that efficiently connects waste generators, haulers, and recyclers. Our mission is to guarantee that all waste becomes raw material directed to a productive chain of reuse. This is what connects us, a world without waste where everything can be reused. We want to transform the waste managementindustry by leveraging technology and developing new business models ensuring economic, social, and environmental impact.
- Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
Shan Mehta is an angel investor and entrepreneur.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Geography: United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $450k–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 — 500,000+ brands use Airtable to enable real-time collaboration, automate repetitive tasks & manual work, and streamline business processes in minutes. Join them.
- 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!
Woody Harrelson - Advisory Board @ Surfrider Foundation
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- Industry: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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 — Explore the world of Origen Specialty Vodka and Harmony Gin, the pioneers among Herbal Liqueur Brands. Embrace a lifestyle of harmony with nature, curated by Amy Holmwood and Woody Harrelson. With every sip, step into a realm where exquisite taste meets sustainability. Choose to #DrinkHolistic. Shop now!
Yolo Investments is focusing on late seed & series A stage investments in igaming, fintech and crypto.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
- Coverd, Inc. — Finances made easy
- Bitblox Games — Offer innovative and engaging blockchain-based games on your platform and attract a new wave of players with Bitblox.
Prepit is the parent of Composeright Software and Composeright: developing and commercializing a cloud-based writing platform for higher education.
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- Industry: Education, Publishing, Higher Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Three Kings Capital is a private equity platform that protects national assets, corporate assets and personal assets from cyber threats.
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- Industry: Video, Mobile, Social
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
- Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
Chris Anderson currently works as a Curator for TED Conferences. Chris Anderson attended the University of Oxford.
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- Industry: Apps, Music, Content
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Listen — Listen.com is an on-demand and radio streamed and online music subscription service in the United States.It develops and distributes RHAPSODY, a digital music subscription service which gives consumers access to a library of music on their personal computer. RHAPSODY combines collections of on-demand music, professionally programmed Internetradio, and music information and editorial recommendations in one application.Listen.com was founded in 1998 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of RealNetworks Inc.
- 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
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 818
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$16M; Series A $5.6M–$45M; Series B $15M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Zivity — Zivity, a San Francisco startup which launched at TechCrunch40 in 2007, is a premium subscription and fan interaction platform. Zivity celebrates artists through crowdsourced curation and editorial moderation of photography that highlights unique beauty. Fans freely interact with artists and support their favorite artists through microdonations andrecurring monthly support. In July 2009
- Modumetal — Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and partsModumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence materialproperties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials.Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.
- Workstream — Workstream is an automated hiring platform that helps companies employing hourly workers. The platform helped Jamba, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Dunkin', Applebee's, Auntie Anne's, Cinnabon to increase their bottom line and cost savings.Workstream was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, UnitedStates.
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