Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Australia (September 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 | $698k–$18M |
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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, SaaS | $875k–$80M |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $65k–$15M |
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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 | $3M–$40M |
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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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Shearwater Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, News | $278k–$25M |
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Chloe Steinberg
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, Australia | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Wellness, Fitness | $5.7M–$22M |
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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 | $1.3M–$42M |
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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 | $280k–$27M |
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Seven West Media
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series C, Post-IPO Equity | Internet, Software, Financial Services | $40k–$25M |
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David Gyngell
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed, Angel | News, Publishing, Social Media | |
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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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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $575k–$30M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $25k–$12M |
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Untitled Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | News, Publishing, Social Media | |
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Ash Fontana
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $440k–$15M |
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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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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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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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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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PREPit Pty Ltd
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | Education, Publishing, Higher Education | |
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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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Nikki Warburton
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Retail, Automotive, Publishing | |
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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–$75M |
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UK Research and Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Education | $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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Vayner/RSE
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Mobile | $1.2M–$75M |
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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–$60M |
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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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Founders Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.7M–$100M |
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $347k–$18M |
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Ieva Zubavičiūtė
Angel
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1 | Australia, Lithuania, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note, Equity Crowdfunding | Fashion, B2B, Beauty | |
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Adrian MacKenzie
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States | Series A, Seed | Internet, E-Commerce, Advertising | $4.3M–$52M |
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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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Lars Rasmussen
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $250k–$6.6M |
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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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $300k–$20M |
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Zach Kitschke
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | News, Software, Publishing | $1.1M–$1.2M |
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Melbourne Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology | $34k–$1.5M |
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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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Fredrik Wester
Angel
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1 | Sweden, Australia | Angel, Pre-Seed | Publishing, CRM, Travel | |
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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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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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Three Kings Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Series A | Video, Mobile, Social | |
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Christian Faes
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $355k–$27M |
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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: 52
- Round size: Seed $698k–$5.5M; Series A $1.2M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M 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.
- Sphere — Live courses led by vetted experts for professionals who want to advance their careers
- Octopusbot — Empowering agribusinesses with 97% accurate AI forecasts, 7 months ahead of the market to mitigate weather risk and price volatility.
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, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 193
- Round size: Seed $875k–$16M; Series A $3.5M–$35M; Series B $10M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $550M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Alloy — Alloy enables robotics teams to organise, explore, and evaluate various sorts of multimodal robot data in one platform using natural language, without the need for labels.
- Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.
- 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.
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: 619
- Round size: Seed $65k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $70k–$553k; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- CUZIN — CUZIN is your global shopping family. A community marketplace enabling members to purchase any product worldwide by leveraging other members’ buying access or advantages.Members post requests for any product they want from anywhere in the world. Online or offline, specialist boutiques/clearance outlets and sales. This request is pushed to'cuzins' best placed (geographically or commercially) to purchase the item on their behalf. Cuzins earn a tip for helping out!In addition to accepting a shopping request, any cuzin can instantly monetise being in the right place at the right time posting a purchase opportunity, which is pushed to interested members worldwide. Shopping, shipping, social. Sorted. CUZIN provides the social and logistics platform to facilitate the matching, communication, payment and shipping of the items we love worldwide.
- Vaulta — Vaulta is a battery casing technology company based in Brisbane, Australia. Using advanced composite materials and smart, streamlined design, Vaulta has developed a lighter and smaller battery case with fewer parts, creating scalable efficiencies and opportunities for manufacturers. Vaulta founder and director Dominic Spooner has over 12 yearsexperience as a design engineer, and has worked in a range of industries, including renewables and batteries, defence and aerospace, consumer products, commercial products and startups. While working in battery design, Dominic saw firsthand that opportunities for growth were being overlooked in favour of continuing with the status quo – and that’s when the idea for Vaulta was born.Vaulta’s world-first no-weld design means modules can be easily assembled and disassembled, cells reused and recycled, and new cells added as battery technology continues to evolve.From stationary storage and electric vehicles to defence, aerospace and beyond, Vaulta’s battery case technology works wherever batteries do.
- Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
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: 189
- Round size: Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $5.8M–$30M; Series C $12M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $596M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
- Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
- 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.
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: 549
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $800M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cyphort — Cyphort has developed Next Generation Distributed Software Platform to provide the broadest enterprise visibility and accurate detection of advanced threats & evasion techniques, and zero-day attacks by utilizing behavioral analytics, machine learning, and Long-Data Security-Analytics.Cyphort's innovative approach detects the mostadvanced threats through a highly accurate platform combined with validation and prioritization of threats in context of the organizations eco-system. Through this process Cyphort produces highly customized Actionable Intelligence to users.The Cyphort Distributed Platform has been build with flexibility allowing for seamless integration and detection not only at the edge and network layers but also in virtual infrastructures, cloud environments, and mobile platforms.
- Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.
- 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.
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: 29
- Round size: Seed $278k–$12M; Series A $4.4M–$18M; Series B $3.6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EvenBetter — Even Is Better. We help companies address their gender pay gap.
- Ideally — Remarkably affordable, fast, robust and accessible research to inform and develop your ideas, concepts and products. Join us on our mission to make consumer testing a place ideas go to grow.
- Parallel — Parallel focus on video environments and platforms uses digital twins, proprietary AI, and massive data sets to bring the customer's perspective into the bidstream. Digital twins, artificial customer clones.
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, Wellness, Fitness
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- 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.
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: 418
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Series A $4.5M–$21M; Series B $9M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2021
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.
- Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
- Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
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: 393
- Round size: Seed $280k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- A33 Studio — A-33 Studio team is led by the chief executive officer ‘Kim Dong Sun’ who was in charge of the development, launch and operation of ‘Counter Strike Online’ which is one of the top 3 online FPS games in Korea. The team consists of developers who have worked together for ‘CS Online’ and ‘Combat Arms’ at Nexon, one of the top online game makers in theworld.
- Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
- Sume — Sume provides agent-native video generation APIs and tools for creating avatar-based and UGC-style videos. The company offers Sume Avatar 1.0, a multi-model orchestration system that behaves like a single avatar endpoint for generating talking-head and product-focused clips. Developers use the Sume Developer API and CLI to create reusable avatars,submit structured video generation jobs, track status, and retrieve production-ready media. The platform supports workflows where agents or applications coordinate creative inputs such as avatars, scripts, and product images. Sume for Brands provides an AI creative application that turns product URLs, product assets, and creative direction into ad-ready UGC-style videos. Its services are used for advertising, branded content, and other video-based communication scenarios.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series C, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $40k–$3.5M; Series C $1.6M–$25M; Post-IPO Equity $5.3M–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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 — Custom, tailored suits, tuxedos, shirts & chinos made to your exact measurements. Book a free fitting at an InStitchu showroom or design your own online.
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
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Browse database — It's Free!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, Angel
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rampart — Investigative commentary on Australian business and finance, led by Joe Aston. Subscribe now.
- 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.
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.
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: 1090
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
- Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
- Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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.
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: News, Publishing, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
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, Artificial Intelligence, 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 $440k–$2.4M; 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
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
- EBY — EBY is a membership-based company driving profits with purpose. EBY repositions underwear as a tool for empowerment rather than one of seduction. In fact, 10% of net sales go to the Seven Bar Foundation to empower women out of poverty and into business via microfinance with a small loan, what we call a first break, that can be as little as $80or as large as $7,000. This loan enables an underprivileged woman to start or grow her business. As she becomes self-sufficient the cycle of poverty is broken. Loans are repaid and passed to another woman, creating a multiplier effect. EBY consistently fuels this loop so that it never ends, creating more first breaks and more bionic women. We’re not about token donations, but rather long-term solutions.
- 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.
- Robyn — Robyn provides an AI-powered marketing mix modeling platform that helps brands optimize media spend and measure performance.
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: 309
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $7M–$38M; Series C $6.1M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $650M in 2008
Portfolio highlights
- Pivot3 — Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the data center by unifying storage, compute and network resources into a powerful, easy to deploy a solution that would reduce cost, risk, and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their IT operational andoverall business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of, technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined data center of the future.Today, Pivot3 has broadened its offerings and now provides Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays that provide maximum resource utilization, deliver high availability even during degraded conditions, and guarantee mission-critical applications perform as needed. Key customer business outcomes with Pivot3 solutions include the lower total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted revenue generation, improving customer satisfaction and retention, and maximizing employee productivity. With a best-in-class portfolio of products optimized for server virtualization, virtual desktop, data center consolidation, video surveillance, business continuity, and disaster recovery, remote and branch office, and more, Pivot3 is transforming IT one deployment at a time.Pivot3 has deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays in 53 countries from mid-sized companies to some of the world’s biggest public companies, including leaders in energy, aerospace and defense, logistics, telecommunications, retail, consumer electronics, and more.
- Indi Molecular — Indi Molecular is an emerging life sciences company that is developing a synthetic class of diagnostic and therapeutic agents with antibody-like properties: protein-catalyzed capture agents. PCCs were created in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology using “click chemistry,” a synthetic process that allows scientists topermanently join (“click”) together molecular components with remarkable precision and stability. PCCs offer the promise of improved selectivity, superior binding affinity, fully synthetic composition and a vastly low molecular weight compared to monoclonal antibodies, the current standard for identifying biomarkers in most diagnostics platforms – and in many therapeutic uses.The company launched as a spinout from its parent company Integrated Diagnostics (Indi) in 2013 with a $1.5 million seed round led by InterWest Partners together with several angel investors.
- Elitra Pharmaceuticals — Pharmaceutical Company
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: 383
- Round size: Seed $34k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $54k–$2.7M; Series A $3.8M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $812M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
- Vow — Vow is crafting a new category of food
- 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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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: 672
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$42M; Series B $10M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $900M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
- Petasense — Founded with a vision of making industrial machines smarter, Petasense is an Industrial IoT startup based in Silicon Valley. The company offers an end-to-end solution – comprised of a patent-pending wireless vibration sensor, cloud software and machine learning analytics – that helps with asset reliability and predictive maintenance. Customersare able to monitor, assess and predict the health of their critical machines in real-time. This helps them reduce unplanned downtime and lower repair costs. Petasense's clients include industry leaders like JLL, C&W Services, Silicon Valley Power and Stanford University. Petasense is backed by True Ventures, Felicis Ventures and top angel investors. The company is founded by serial entrepreneurs, Abhinav Khushraj and Arun Santhebennur, who have 25 years of combined experience in building enterprise companies, with degrees from MIT and IIT.To learn more about Petasense, visit www.petasense.com.
- ConductorOne — Govern workforce access, deploy AI agents, and get work done with C1.
Advancing knowledge, improving lives, driving growth.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Education
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $655k–$4.1M; Grant $145k–$13M; Pre-Seed $62k–$921k
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- 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 — Developer of an Internet of Things-powered digital art platform intended to help digital artists gain exposure to a larger audience through collaborations with some of the world's top galleries, auction houses, and digital artists. The company offers a digital art management system, a patent-pending micro-LED display with iconic design andfeatures, a custom algorithm that optimizes any type of art or video, including generative, for high-quality rendering, and a mobile app, enabling collectors and artists to seamlessly play their collections on a device.
- 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.
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: 221
- Round size: Seed $800k–$10M; Series A $3.5M–$35M; Series B $4M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $320M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Alloy — Alloy enables robotics teams to organise, explore, and evaluate various sorts of multimodal robot data in one platform using natural language, without the need for labels.
- Levercon AI — Levercon AI builds and deploys customized AI operating systems directly inside the existing data infrastructure of financial credit funds. The platform automates enterprise-level workflows, streamlines repetitive administrative processes, and enhances data-driven investment and risk-assessment decisions while ensuring strict enterprise ITcompliance.
- Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.
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 is a pioneering, chef-driven range of delicious plant-based foods that unleash the power of vegetables.
- 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!
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: 1021
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$14M; Series A $5.6M–$50M; Series B $15M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $6B in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- SwishX — Indias First Employee Savings Platform
- Numeric — Hundreds of teams streamline reconciliations, organize their close, and leverage AI for flux analysis and reporting with Numeric.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc. Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 193
- Round size: Seed $347k–$4M; Series A $2.1M–$13M; Series B $3.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
- Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
- KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
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- Industry: Fashion, B2B, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Australia, Lithuania, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Good On You — Thousands of brand ratings, articles and expertise on ethical and sustainable fashion. Know the impact of brands on people and planet, and discover better fashion.
- The Knotty Ones — The Knotty Ones manufacture wool sweater products. Their products include cotton sweaters, cardigans, crocheted bottoms, kids' cotton sweaters, and accessories. They also provide online shopping and delivery services. The female-founded factories of The Knotty Ones use 100% biodegradable yarns that are not only good for wardrobes but also goodfor the environment. The Knotty Ones helps independent female artisans and female-founded factories in rural Lithuania make knitwear, giving them financial independence and a voice in their homes and communities.
- Common Objective (CO) — Join the community committed to best practice, access training and sourcing solutions. .
Adrian MacKenzie is Sydney, New South Wales and is the Founder and Partner of Five V Capital. Adrian previously worked at CVC Capital Partners as a Managing partner and Board member. Adrian MacKenzie attended the University of Strathclyde.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Advertising
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $4.3M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% 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.
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 — Architect live-migrates running Kubernetes workloads before spot instances disappear. Stateful apps on spot: up to 90% cheaper than on-demand, with zero downtime and no code changes.
- 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.
Google Maps Co-Founder / Defiance Capital Co-Founder / Angel Investor / Panathēnea Co-Founder / Kite Surfing Coffee Enthusiast
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $326k–$6.6M; Angel $250k–$444k; 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.
- FlexThis — FlexThis is an online marketplace that rents bikes for any duration to minimize transportation pollution.
- Terraton — Terraton is a biochar platform that provides equipment, design, and financing to agribusiness operators.
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
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- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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–$8M; Series A $500k–$31M; Series B $2M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 239
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Apate.AI — Is the next generation of scam prevention and intelligence. We deploy advanced conversational AI bots combined with real-time insights to protect businesses, governments and communities globally.2
- Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
- GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.
Canva now has, after only two years more than 10 million users across 179 countries, and is used daily by many social media marketers, bloggers and small businesses to create things like posters, business cards and presentations. More than 100 million designs have now been created using the platform.The company is also made famous for theappointed Apple’s Chief Evangelist, Guy Kawasaki as it’s ambassador.
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- Industry: News, Software, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
- 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.
Melbourne Angels is the most active startup investor in Victoria, one of the most active in Australia. Investing in start-ups since 2007, Melbourne Angels is committed to helping innovative founders build the next generation of our economy.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $34k–$1.5M; Angel $200k–$918k
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Emanda — Thinking about selling your business in Australia? Emanda guides you through every step: business valuation, health check, corporate compliance, and sale process. Start with a business valuation.
- 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.
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
CEO and President of Paradox Interactive. Since 2003 we have built Paradox from a 7 man studio to an international Publisher with over 175 employees and another 10 partner companies (200 people) making games for us. Driver of organizational improvements and implementation of best practices across departments over the past 10 years.Capable ofresolving multiple and complex (sales, legal, financial, operational) issues as well as leading teams of highly skilled professionals.
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- Industry: Publishing, CRM, Travel
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
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.
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
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.
Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK. Now building Faes & Co.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $355k–$20M; Series A $4.5M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Knoma — Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning. The business is tackling the digital skills gap as the global economy shifts into the fourth industrial revolution. We help people looking to future proof their career or move into new areas of work by reducing the barrier of payment and removing the pain point of sourcingtechnical courses.The business is built upon the firm belief in the importance of lifelong education to drive improvements in our customers’ future prosperity. We believe education should be accessed in a short, but frequent manner; at a lower price point and a focus on gaining technical, digital and data skill-sets. All users can gain access up to £10,000, where the cost of a course can be spread over 12 months with flexible repayments. The product is completely free to all end users with no interest or fees applicable. Knoma works with leading coding and tech schools. We are a fun and driven team, ready to make an impact!
- Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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