Top 20 Recruiting Angel Investors in Australia (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Hezi Leibovich
Angel
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2 | Australia, United Kingdom, Cyprus | Series A, Seed, Angel | Internet, FinTech, E-Commerce | $593k–$25M |
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Gabby Leibovich
Angel
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2 | Australia, United Kingdom, Cyprus | Series A, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Internet, Apps | $593k–$25M |
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Matt Berriman
Angel
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2 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Internet, Advertising, Financial Services | $2M–$4M |
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Stevan Premutico
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Recruiting, Mobile Apps, Human Resources | |
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Jim Craig
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed, Private Equity | Software, Logistics, Recruiting | |
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Ruslan Kogan
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS | $593k–$64M |
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Ben Thompson
Angel
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1 | Australia | Series A | Software, Analytics, Recruiting | |
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Ahmed Fahour
Angel
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1 | Australia, South Africa | Grant, Seed | SaaS, AgTech, Mobile | $340k–$675k |
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Jay Simons
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Australia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics | $981k–$200M |
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Leigh Jasper
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Construction, Information Technology | $1.1M–$51M |
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Dion Hershan
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Software, Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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Dave Shepherd
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Recruiting, Communities | |
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Jesse Hertzberg
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | SaaS, Software, Recruiting | |
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Zachary Lewy
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | SaaS, Software, Recruiting | |
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David Shein
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Series C | SaaS, Software, Internet | $981k–$16M |
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Sam Rahmanian
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Recruiting, Communities | |
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Clifford Rosenberg
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Software, Agentic AI, Recruiting | |
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Dave O' Mahony
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Recruiting, Communities | |
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John Poynton
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Payments, Software, Recruiting | |
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Robert Kawalsky
Angel
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1 | Australia | Series A | Software, Analytics, Recruiting | |
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Serial entrepreneur and investor Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.
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- Industry: Internet, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Australia, United Kingdom, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $593k–$4M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Subble — Make smarter SaaS and AI decisions with detailed usage analytics to reduce waste, manage spend, and plan renewals with confidence.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.
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- Industry: FinTech, Internet, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Australia, United Kingdom, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $593k–$4M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia.
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- Industry: Internet, Advertising, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $2M–$4M; Series A $2.7M–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NUBURU — NUBURU is disrupting the world's battery manufacturing, cell phone manufacturing, and e-mobility markets by providing the best in class technology for welding copper, aluminum and dissimilar metals. The disruptive performance of NUBURU's lasers has been validated by customers worldwide. It has invested in automated manufacturing inanticipation of the large demand from these rapidly growing market segments. NUBURU is currently in fund raising mode, seeking mezzanine funding for expanding manufacturing, sales, and marketing and operation organizations. The company blue laser technology breaks new ground—available as either a standard AO laser or high-brightness MISAKI laser by enabling radical gains in speed and quality in existing metal processes, as well as also unlocking a path to new designs for both conventional laser-metal machining and additive manufacturing (3D printing).
- Tailwind Acquisition — Tailwind Acquisition is a purpose-built investment company that seeks to partner with a world-class founding and executive team. The company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. It also seeks tocapitalize on the multiple decades of combined investment experience of the company’s management team, the board of directors, and Advisors who are both technology entrepreneurs as well as technology-oriented investors with a shared vision of identifying and investing in technology companies.Tailwind Acquisition was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
- TRAVLR — TRAVLR is a revolutionary white label technology provider that consolidates the global travel industry into one seamless platform via its unique ‘Travel as a Service’ model.The company licences its full service travel platform to the world’s leading media companies, enabling their audiences to discover, plan and book curated, once-in-a-life-timetravel experiences.In turn, media companies are able to retain audiences within their ecosystem for longer, optimising for conversion by providing customers a seamless path from content through to real world experience.This unique ‘win-win-win model’ benefits all key stakeholders including consumers, media companies and the travel industry, who have traditionally experienced a fragmented travel booking journey across multiple platforms and providers.TRAVLR was founded in 2017 by Bali Bible founder Simon te Hennepe and has strategically located offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Denpasar. Its partners include Network 10, MTV, Bali Bible and Stuff.co.nz.
Founder @ me&u
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- Industry: Recruiting, Mobile Apps, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Found Careers — Found Careers connects job seekers with local jobs through two dedicated smartphone apps. Found is the first platform to entirely rethink how the next generation of talent and employers connect with each other. Found can revolutionise the way employers connect with their next generation of talent – from the sole trader running a café, to some ofAustralia’s largest companies.
Jim Craig, Independent Director and Chairman - Investment Committee at AustralianSuper.
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- Industry: Software, Logistics, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sapia — Sapia is a team of data scientists, artificial intelligence experts, IO psychologists and recruitment industry veterans who’ve joined together on a mission to change the way candidate assessment is done, by leveraging the power of smart technology. We believe all people decisions should be based on data and analytics – not gut feeling. With thehelp of technology, we want to level the candidate playing field and help reduce unconscious biases in the hiring process. Offices in the US, UK and Australia.
- Direct Couriers — Direct Couriers, Direct Cold, Direct Home, Direct Road, Direct Exclusive all are services that Direct brand services in Australia & New Zealand.
Ruslan Kogan is a serial entrepreneur, having created and run many successful businesses. He is one of the pioneers of online retail in Australia, and his Internet ventures have expanded to include a global footprint. His companies have operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, with much more international expansion planned. Histremendous success made him Australia's wealthiest self-made person under the age of 30. The technology manufacturer and online retailer he created, Kogan.com, has gone on to become the biggest online retailer in Australia, valued at over $400 million.Ruslan Kogan is a regular guest contributor to TechCrunch, Forbes, Gizmodo, and other outlets.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $593k–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.
Ben Thompson is the founder and CEO of Employment Hero. Ben also currently serves Employment Innovations as director and the founder of Power2Motivate.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Recruiting
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Askable — Askable offers a comprehensive research platform that facilitates access to certified researchers and verified participants globally. The platform streamlines the research process from recruitment to analysis, enabling teams to gather insights efficiently.
Ahmed Fahour
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- Industry: SaaS, AgTech, Mobile
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: Australia, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Grant $340k–$675k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.
- Rocket Seeder — Rocket Seeder is an accelerator for early stage startups in the Food and Agriculture sector in Australia. We help innovators and founders take their startups to the next level by providing them with the tools and guidance they need to scale.
- Dimension Data — Future-proof your business with a leading AI and digital infrastructure provider offering AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and applications.
Jay Simons is the General Partner of Bond. Prior to that, he was the former president of Atlassian, an award-winning enterprise software company that helps teams collaborate, build software and serve their customers better. More than 43,000 large and small organizations – including some of the biggest names in media, manufacturing, and technologysuch as Citigroup, eBay, Coca-Cola, Gilt Group, Proctor & Gamble, BMW, and NASA – use Atlassian’s tracking, collaboration, communication, service management, and development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time.Jay joined the company in 2008 as vice president of sales and marketing to lead Atlassian's pioneering efforts to develop a high-velocity, low-touch sales model. He's overseen the company's global expansion, introduction of its Starter License program (a disruptive approach to "freemium" where the company donates all proceeds to a charitable cause), and its growing worldwide customer community and programs. In 2011 Atlassian introduced its cloud-based offering Atlassian OnDemand, an evolution of its fast-growing SaaS platform.Jay has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry. He began his career at Plumtree Software where he held a variety of senior marketing and sales roles. Significantly, Jay oversaw the company's expansion throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific. When Plumtree was acquired by BEA Systems in 2005, Jay became vice president of marketing for BEA Systems, which was later acquired by Oracle in 2008. Jay holds a bachelor's degree in political and environmental science from the University of Washington.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $981k–$65M; Series A $11M–$200M; Series B $20M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SimplyPut — Ditch the out-of-date dashboards and expensive in-house solutions and provide your customers with instant trustworthy answers to data questions with SimplyPut.
- Alloy — Introducing Alloy Planning - The next generation of Product Planning.
- Sycamore — The trusted agent operating system for the enterprise
Leigh Jasper is the CEO of Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. Together with company co-founder Rob Phillpot, he raised A$86 million in private equity investment before listing Aconex on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December 2014. Prior toAconex, Leigh was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted for clients in the financial services, media and information technology sectors. He is a director of the Burnet Institute, a not-for-profit organization which aims to improve health in poor and vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally through research, education and public health. Leigh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Diploma of Modern Languages in French from the University of Melbourne.
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- Industry: Software, Construction, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.5M; Series A $1.7M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
- Propeller Aero — Explore smart surveys for earthworks and enhance your project efficiency with unified mapping and innovative analytics tools.
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- Industry: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sapia — Sapia is a team of data scientists, artificial intelligence experts, IO psychologists and recruitment industry veterans who’ve joined together on a mission to change the way candidate assessment is done, by leveraging the power of smart technology. We believe all people decisions should be based on data and analytics – not gut feeling. With thehelp of technology, we want to level the candidate playing field and help reduce unconscious biases in the hiring process. Offices in the US, UK and Australia.
Dave Shepherd founded Shepherd Insurance in 1977 to provide personal insurance and top-notch service to friends and neighbors. Almost four decades later, his agency has grown to include employee benefits and financial products.Dave still oversees company operations, but gives credit for the agency’s continued success to the amazing team that hasbeen built at Shepherd. Because of them, the company was recognized in 2013-2015 as Top 100 U.S. Agency by Insurance Journal, 2014 Agency of the Year by IIAI (Big "I"), 2014-2015 Top 5000 Fastest Growing Companies by Inc. Magazine, and 2014 Top Ten Independent Agencies in Indiana by Indianapolis Business Journal.Dave is a native Hoosier and a proud Carmel High School alumni. He graduated as an Academic All-American basketball player from the University of Mississippi. Together with his wife, Sally, he lives in Carmel. When they are not working or playing golf at Crooked Stick, they enjoy hanging out with their seven kids and ten grandkids.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Communities
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
I help founders, CEOs, and exec teams scale from product-market fit to real growth engines. Along the way, I try to help them become the leaders they want to be while building organizations that actually hold up under pressure.I've been in the seat. I led through hypergrowth at Etsy and Squarespace, then moved to Great Hill Partners where Iworked with portfolio companies like Bombas, TodayTix, and Storyblocks. Now I'm President of Lineage, building a vertically integrated real estate platform from scratch.The thread through all of it: I'm at my best when things are moving fast, the playbook doesn't exist yet, and the team needs to figure it out together.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vervoe — Vervoe's mission is to make hiring about merit, not background.We help employers make hiring decisions based on how well candidates can actually do the job instead of how good they look on paper. Vervoe replaces the traditional hiring process with skills assessments and gives every candidate an opportunity to showcase their talent by doingjob-related tasks. Then, machine learning models to automatically rank candidates based on how well they perform.Over 8,000 companies have used Vervoe to hire top performers in 10% of the time. Our customers don't spend time doing résumé or phone screening. Instead, they deploy skills assessments at the top of the hiring funnel and only meet the most suitable candidates after their skills have already been validated.
Founder and Executive Director @ Arrow Global
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vervoe — Vervoe's mission is to make hiring about merit, not background.We help employers make hiring decisions based on how well candidates can actually do the job instead of how good they look on paper. Vervoe replaces the traditional hiring process with skills assessments and gives every candidate an opportunity to showcase their talent by doingjob-related tasks. Then, machine learning models to automatically rank candidates based on how well they perform.Over 8,000 companies have used Vervoe to hire top performers in 10% of the time. Our customers don't spend time doing résumé or phone screening. Instead, they deploy skills assessments at the top of the hiring funnel and only meet the most suitable candidates after their skills have already been validated.
David has been involved in investing in and managing a number of start-up and early stage technology companies, many of which have been successfully exited. David was the founder and Managing Director of Dimension Data Australia Pty Ltd. and established Dimension Data Australia (formerly Com Tech Communications) in July 1987 as a SpecialistSupplier of networking and communications products. At the time of sale, Dimension data employed over 1400 people, had revenues of $700mil with no external debt. The company was sold for an enterprise value of over $1bil on 2000. David actively mentors management teams. David recently served as the Chairman of Centric Wealth Advisers Ltd. and was Chairman of Holly Connects, Inc. David was also Executive Chairman and Founding Investor of Macromatix . David is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Montech Holdings Limited. David holds a B.Comm and B. Acc from the University of Witwatersrand.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $981k–$16M; Series A $2.3M–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
- Human Health — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.
- All G — All G is on a mission to harmonize the perfection of nature with science to deliver ethical and sustainable cultured dairy and plant-based meat alternatives to the world.
CRO at Eftsure
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- Industry: Recruiting, Communities
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
Clifford Rosenberg
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- Industry: Software, Agentic AI, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MyInterview — Hire the right candidates with myInterview with Video for Free. Create Your Account Today. The Video Tool Recruiters Love.
Dave O' Mahony
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- Industry: Recruiting, Communities
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
John Poynton is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Payments, Software, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Outstaffer — Find & hire talent from around the world. We handle payroll, benefits, tax, compliance, HR & provide WorkFromAnywhere tech to safeguard your IP & productivity.
Rob Kawalsky is Head of Product at Canva.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Recruiting
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Askable — Askable offers a comprehensive research platform that facilitates access to certified researchers and verified participants globally. The platform streamlines the research process from recruitment to analysis, enabling teams to gather insights efficiently.
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