# Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Oceania in June 2026

## Folklore Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

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.

## Square Peg Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Shasta Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

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

## Chloe Steinberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Westport, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness

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.

## Matrix
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## Kakao Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## InterWest Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

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.

## Melbourne Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Energy

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.

## Untitled Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps

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.

## Savannah Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software

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.

## Investible
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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

## Airtree Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## Woody Harrelson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Clemente, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Publishing, Web Design

Woody Harrelson - Advisory Board @ Surfrider Foundation

## Shan Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Apps

Shan Mehta is an angel investor and entrepreneur.

## Artesian VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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.

## Marc Andreessen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

## Atinum Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

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

## UK Research and Innovation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Education

Advancing knowledge, improving lives, driving growth.

## Kevin Hale
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

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

## Laurence Escalante
- Type: Angel
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Dairy, Retail, CleanTech

Laurence Escalante is the Founder & CEO at VGW

## Vayner/RSE
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, Mobile

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.

## rob kawalsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: News, Publishing, Health Care

rob kawalsky

## Tony Faure
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Social Media

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

## Adrian MacKenzie
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Advertising, TV, Apps

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.

## Zach Kitschke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: News, Publishing, Social Media

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.

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

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.

## Three Kings Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Video, Mobile, Social

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

## Paul Reining
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EBooks, Internet, E-Commerce

Paul Reining - Director & Advisor @ My Pet Warehouse

## Nikki Warburton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Automotive, Publishing

Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director.

## Total Sport and Entertainment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Crows Nest, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Mobile, Social

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

## Yolo Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallin, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Sports

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

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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

## Fredrik Wester
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Publishing, CRM, Travel

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.

## Chris Anderson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Content, Journalism

Chris Anderson is a head of conference organisation TED.

## Blackbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

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

## Breakthrough Lab
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Bill Tai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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.

## David Kowalski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed

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.

## David Gyngell
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: News, Publishing, Social Media

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.

## Owen Wilson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Publishing, Web Design

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

## Jean Sini
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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.

## Ash Fontana
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS

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”.

## Matt Rockman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Apps, B2B

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.

## Lars Rasmussen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, Video

Google Maps Co-Founder / Defiance Capital Co-Founder / Angel Investor / Panathēnea Co-Founder / Kite Surfing Coffee Enthusiast

## Felicis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

## Aayush Phumbhra
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Education

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

## PREPit Pty Ltd
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Publishing, Higher Education

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

## Seven West Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Services

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