Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Australia (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Rampersand
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $1M–$10M |
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.5M–$60M |
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SEEK
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Human Resources, Software, Recruiting | $4.6M–$70M |
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Investible
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $300k–$20M |
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Sydney Angels
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $120k–$1.5M |
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Carthona Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $404k–$50M |
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TEN13
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $877k–$46M |
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TSVC
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $500k–$55M |
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ALIAVIA Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Information Technology | $200k–$5.6M |
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SeedIL Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.7M–$21M |
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Capital Zed
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, India, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Food and Beverage, Travel, Content | $1.3M–$14M |
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Aleph
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Israel, China | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $2.5M–$51M |
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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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Jelix Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $653k–$20M |
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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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Hezi Leibovich
Angel
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2 | Australia, United Kingdom, Cyprus | Series A, Seed | Internet, FinTech, E-Commerce | $593k–$25M |
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Archangel Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$23M |
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AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $367k–$22M |
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John Poynton
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Payments, Software, Recruiting | |
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Dave O' Mahony
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Recruiting, Communities | |
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Square Peg Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $875k–$73M |
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Clifford Rosenberg
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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Ultraviolet Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Philippines | Seed | Software, Recruiting, Communities | $981k–$2.3M |
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Dave Shepherd
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Recruiting, Communities | |
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Alua Group
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | Laser, Energy, Payments | $1.5M–$2M |
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Jim Craig
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed, Private Equity | Software, Logistics, Recruiting | |
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Sam Rahmanian
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Recruiting, Communities | |
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Hudson
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | Software, Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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Partners for Growth
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $3M–$150M |
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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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1in100 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Cloud Data Services, Information Technology | $662k–$2M |
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David Shein
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Series C | SaaS, Internet, Software | $981k–$16M |
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Utiliti Group
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $646k–$43M |
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Brisbane Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $200k–$19M |
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Leigh Jasper
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Construction, Information Technology | $979k–$20M |
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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 | $500k–$32M |
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Sidecar Fund2
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed | SaaS, Recruiting, Health Care | $300k–$500k |
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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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Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $120k–$11M |
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W23
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Canada, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage | $3.5M–$35M |
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No Brand
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, AgTech | $698k–$2.4M |
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Macdoch Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $400k–$7.3M |
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Side Stage Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Canada, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Marketing, Health Care | $681k–$11M |
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Paul Robson
Angel
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1 | France, Australia, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Internet, Software, Recruiting | $14M–$33M |
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Capital Angels Australia
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | Recruiting, Information Technology, Small and Medium Businesses | |
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Skip Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | |
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Robert Kawalsky
Angel
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1 | Australia | Series A | Software, Analytics, Recruiting | |
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Skalata
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Marketplace | |
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Paspalis
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Aerospace, Manufacturing, Space Travel | |
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Common Sense Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, CleanTech, Sustainability | |
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Rampersand invest in the best Australian technology founders, teams and companies and are committed to helping them become global leaders.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.5M; Series A $3.1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
- Cuttable — The AI ad creative production system for high-growth DTC brands. Scale Meta ad volume and variation without scaling headcount. Built for performance teams.
- Parachute — Leverage for lean, ambitious law firms. AI-powered drafting, review and verification that gets you back to practicing law
We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves.We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 278
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $14M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
- Identiq — Identiq's network members fight fraud and improve user experience by validating new users and vouching for ones they already know without sharing any personal user data at all.
- IRP Systems — IRP Systems delivers high performance electric vehicle systems, EVVER e-powertrains and TrueDRIVE control software for fast integration.
SEEK is a diverse group of companies that have a unified purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organizations succeed. The Group encompasses a strong portfolio of employment, education, and volunteer businesses which span across Australia, New Zealand, China, South East Asia, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, andBangladesh. SEEK makes a positive impact on a truly global scale, operating in a total of 18 countries with market-leading positions in 14 countries. It creates world-class product technology solutions to address the needs of job seekers and hirers and facilitate the matching between job seekers and hirers across our online employment marketplaces. Online Education Services (‘OES’) offers leading online education and SEEK Learning offers trusted advice in relation to career-related education. SEEK’s commitment to having a positive impact on society is reflected through the diverse range of initiatives which its businesses across the globe partake in to support the communities they operate within. In Australia and New Zealand SEEK Volunteer is each country’s largest single source of volunteering opportunities offering not-for-profit organizations free access to post volunteer opportunities. This free marketplace is something SEEK is exceptionally proud of. Over its 20 years of operation, SEEK continues to innovate within the markets it operates in. It provides a culture of excellence and acceptance in our workplaces and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of the organization.
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- Industry: Human Resources, Software, Recruiting
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Series A $4.6M–$29M; Series B $5.4M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Go1 — Simplify employee training with one subscription that delivers essential learning from 250+ providers, integrated seamlessly into your HR tech stack.
- Employment Hero — Recruitment, HR, Payroll & Benefits in one place - designed for small & medium businesses to be efficient, compliant & cost-Effective. Book a demo today!
- Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment
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, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- VoiceByte — VoiceByte is an application platform that allows its users to record and share their voice either privately or on social networks.
- GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.
- Shore Trade — Buy Wholesale Seafood Directly from the Best Fisheries
Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.5M; Angel $130k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $337k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Keeyu — keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences.
- iiShield — iiShield aims to improve patient outcomes and surgeon training in transplant surgery by providing effective organ heat protection.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Round size: Seed $404k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$17M; Series B $10M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- PREVE — Supporting back-to-back physios with their daily caseload, simplifying admin whilst making the patient experience more enjoyable. Preve does the admin work for practitioners. One click clinical notes, treatment plans, home rehab and documents.
- Qlarifi — Consumer lending decisions transformed with real time, comprehensive data.
- LendUs — LendUs caters for all different types of home loan requirements for consumers. The platform is designed to provide a simple home loan experience, completing much of the application preparation.
TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $999k–$8M; Pre-Seed $877k–$2.2M; Series A $4M–$46M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vexev — Vexev is on a mission to introduce innovative imaging diagnostic tools.
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- Appetise — MenuAid is a cheaper, flexible and more sustainable alternative to meal-kit delivery providers. We provide Kiwis with a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes and a list of ingredients that can either be self-shopped or collected/delivered from your favourite supermarkets.
Founded in 2010, TSVC (formerly TEEC Angel Fund) is proud to be a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 293
- Round size: Seed $500k–$7M; Series A $2.7M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Dexmate — Dexmate is a robotics startup focused on developing general-purpose mobile robots. The company specializes in robots with manipulation capabilities. Their technology aims to enhance automation across various industries.
- EGI Battery — EGI Battery is an American advanced battery cell manufacturer headquartered with design and operations in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
- Expert Intelligence — Expert Intelligence develops AI systems to scale expert decision-making in regulated laboratory conditions where data is restricted, stakes are high, and validation is required.
Investing early in female-founded AI companies across the U.S. and Australia.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $750k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.3M; Series A $649k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Human Health — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.
- InsightWise — Win more proposals and grants, and drive growth faster than ever.
- GoFIGR — We are a talent insights and opportunity marketplace platform that helps you develop, engage and retain employees in the flow of work.
We invest in the best Israeli founders. Boutique seed-stage VC with personalized support and international connections.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$8M; Series A $2.2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BlinqIO — Autonomously develop and maintain flawless automation code, combining Generative AI's power with human oversight for scalable testing solutions
- Quack — Get your team the power to resolve user issues right away.
- Treetoscope — The first and only commercial device that senses the internal water flow of a plant and directly measures its water consumption and real-time irrigation needs. without extrapolations based on indirect sensing technologies.Treetoscope offers a SaaS irrigation management platform, based on direct plant sensing technology. We tackle one of the mostcrucial challenges farmers face today: water scarcity and irrigation optimization. Our groundbreaking ag-tech enables the unprecedented measurement of real-time actual water use of trees (based on our patented single probe Sap Flow sensor). Through the Treetoscope solution, growers gain great value as a result of the affordability, scalability, and ease of deployment of our technology.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Travel, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, India, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $5M–$14M; Series B $6.8M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MOBI — The digital partner of hospitality, MOBI helps businesses to stay connected with their customers
- TMRW — Transform your healthspan with TMRW. Comprehensive biomarker testing, a dedicated clinical team, and personalised longevity solutions.
- Fresho — The Order Management System for Fresh Food Wholesalers to save time and make customers happy.
Early-stage VC fund managing $850M+ and partnering with Israeli entrepreneurs to build impactful global brands, like Lemonade and Melio.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$33M; Series B $11M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Coralogix — Coralogix is a full-stack observability platform that enables businesses to monitor and manage data in real time, providing instant insights without the need for indexing. The platform supports Log Analytics, application performance monitoring (APM), security information and event management (SIEM), real user monitoring (RUM), and infrastructuremonitoring, offering complete visibility into AI performance, security, and governance in a single solution. Coralogix offers a simple pricing model based on data volume, along with world-class support that ensures rapid response times and swift resolutions.
- Voltify — Voltify is building the energy infrastructure for freight rail: battery locomotives, on-route charging, and grid-independent microgrids that replace diesel.
- Inevitable AI Group — In retrospect, it was inevitable https://t.co/5tEZPEGfxw
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.
Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $653k–$5.9M; Series A $1.9M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Syenta — Syenta is transforming the electronics manufacturing sector. Our patented fabrication method enables the 3D printing of multi-material electronics with fewer steps and less waste.
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- Bitwise Agronomy — Bitwise Agronomy uses AI to analyze crop video footage and provide growers with insights into crop health, growth, and yield potential.
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
- Bookwell — Book your haircut, waxing, nail and other appointments online. Browse venues, make a selection then book and pay online.
- 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.
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
- 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.
- Bookwell — Book your haircut, waxing, nail and other appointments online. Browse venues, make a selection then book and pay online.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.5M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
- Fluency — Experience real-time visibility into how work happens. Measure ROI on GenAI initiatives, tie execution directly to KPIs, and automatically discover and optimize workflows. All without heavy integrations.
- Hachiko — Hachiko is a software building platform that aims to help the battery portfolio owners, also the firm is for energy trading.
We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $367k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $410k–$2.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
- Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
- BarterAds Pty Ltd — BarterAds is a programmatic advertising exchange that enables businesses to acquire customers without cash spend by converting unused ad inventory into a tradable asset. Instead of paying in fiat, companies earn and spend a proprietary internal currency called Barter Dollars, which are issued when they display ads on their owned media propertiessuch as websites, apps, or platforms.The platform operates as an auction-based exchange, similar to traditional ad networks, where advertisers bid for impressions using Barter Dollars. Inventory is matched contextually and priced dynamically through real-time bidding, ensuring efficient allocation of supply and demand across the network. This allows both advertisers and publishers to maximize the value of otherwise underutilized inventory.BarterAds primarily targets startups, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, gaming companies, and content publishers that have traffic but are constrained by rising customer acquisition costs. By removing the need for upfront cash spend, the platform provides a capital-efficient growth channel, particularly for small and mid-sized businesses.The system includes controls for brand safety, fraud prevention, and inventory quality through business verification, campaign approvals, and continuous monitoring. Barter Dollars are non-transferable and expire periodically, preventing hoarding and ensuring continuous circulation within the ecosystem.BarterAds is designed as a hybrid between barter networks and modern ad exchanges, combining the scalability and automation of programmatic advertising with a closed-loop, cashless economy. The company is headquartered in Australia and is focused on building a global network of advertisers and publishers who both contribute inventory and run campaigns within the platform.
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
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- Outstaffer — Find & hire talent from around the world. We handle payroll, benefits, tax, compliance, HR & provide WorkFromAnywhere tech to safeguard your IP & productivity.
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
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- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 185
- Round size: Seed $875k–$16M; Series A $2.7M–$38M; Series B $13M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
- LimitlessCNC — Limitless CNC is an AI-powered technology intended to improve CNC machining operations. It offers an AI CAM agent that works with NX-CAM to give industry-specific strategies 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.
Clifford Rosenberg
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- Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- MyInterview — Hire the right candidates with myInterview with Video for Free. Create Your Account Today. The Video Tool Recruiters Love.
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- Industry: Software, Recruiting, Communities
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $981k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
- Sauce — AI customer insights for product teams
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.
Alua Group is an Australian investment firm focused on public and private companies.
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- Industry: Laser, Energy, Payments
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aquila — We're powering the future by building and operating an infinitely scalable energy network.
- Outstaffer — Find & hire talent from around the world. We handle payroll, benefits, tax, compliance, HR & provide WorkFromAnywhere tech to safeguard your IP & productivity.
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.
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
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- 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.
Discover comprehensive recruitment services and talent consulting to elevate your business
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- Industry: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% 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.
We partner with companies at an inflection point in their business, who are seeking flexible and customized financing, matched to their trajectory and needs.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $3M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Kredivo Group — FinAccel is a financial technology company creating disruptive and meaningful products in retail credit for Southeast Asia, the 7th largest economy in the world and home to nearly 10% of the world's population. With an all star team of investors, founders and employees, FinAccel is currently focused on disruption in the unsecured lendingspace.
- Comfi.ai — Unlock B2B Growth in MENA: Streamline Payments & Offer Credit with Comfi BNPL
- Damstra Technology — Damstra Technology is a longstanding leader in workforce management, compliance, and safety management. Through our unique web-based Total Workforce Management System (TWMS), we deliver powerful solutions that radically transform the ease with which you manage, track and protect your entire workforce. We have extensive experience in designing anddeploying workforce systems across a vast array of industries, using advanced, collective technologies which are completely configured to each client’s requirements.At a time where information and technology were advancing at an extraordinary rate, Damstra Technology identified the opportunity to introduce a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) product to the market that was agile, highly functional and interfacing. Damstra Technology has been providing real-time, web-based workforce management solutions to Clients to ensure a safe and compliant workforce for over 10 years.Today, these real-time, dynamic, fully-customizable software and hardware solutions service a vast array of industries with both Australian and global footprints. With advanced technology and an expert development and deployment team at the helm, Damstra Technology doesn’t limit you to “best-fit, off the shelf” solutions - we offer progressive insight and develop complete configured solutions from beginning to end.
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
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Browse database — It's Free!1in100 Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Software, Cloud Data Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $662k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Quantflo — Options market intelligence and structured trade planning for Indian markets.
- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
- Factory.app — Quote, schedule, run the floor, and get paid in one system built by fabricators. 300+ shops run on Factory. Book a 15-minute look.
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, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $981k–$16M; Series A $2.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% 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.
At Utiliti Group, we've built a dynamic ecosystem of startups, investors, and tech visionaries. With our roots in innovation, investment, and international expansion, we fuel tech-driven transformations. Dive into our expansive network and redefine what's possible.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $662k–$1.5M; Series A $646k–$43M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Five Faces — Five Faces helps hospitals deliver unified patient experiences with healthcare digital experience solutions. Streamline care journeys and connect healthcare systems.
- Fluid — Fluid simplifies infrastructure deployment with automated compute, networking, and container orchestration for cloud, hybrid, and edge environments. Get started in minutes.
- Packaged — Packaged is a eco-friendly packaging service provider that also offers sustainable recyclable goods.
Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.4M; Series A $2M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Giftbee — Giftbee reshapes gifting for businesses and consumers. Send gifts with flexibility to accept, swap, or give forward. Manage gifting programs, reduce waste, and create meaningful impact.
- Indi — Indi supports parents’ mental well-being and helps them advocate for their children’s health.
- Ovum — Meet Ovum, the intelligent health journal mobile app designed for womankind.
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
- Geography: Australia, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $979k–$7.5M; Series A $1.6M–$20M
- 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 sarthworks and enhance your project efficiency with unified mapping and innovative analytics tools.
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: 971
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $5M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
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- 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.
Sidecar Fund2
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- Industry: SaaS, Recruiting, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $300k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FLAYR — Get Hair And Makeup Done At Home For Less Than The Price Of At A Salon
- Cognoptix — Cognoptix is creating and developing an innovative, non-invasive eye test to assist in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. Cognoptix's goal is to provide clinicians with a quick, predictive, reliable, inexpensive, and widely available test, enabling early diagnosis and treatment.The company was founded in 2001 and headquarteredin Marlborough, Massachusetts.
- Sourcr — The leading brand and reputation platform for recruiters across Asia-Pacific. SEEK Recruiter Profile amplifies your reputation through automated review collection and promotion. Learn More.
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.
Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $662k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $649k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Operata — Continuously measure performance to deliver the best possible customer experience.
- SPEC Toolbox — Structural timber design software for Australian engineers. Design CLT, GLT, and connections to AS1720 standards. Start your free trial and automate today.
- Teacher’s Buddy — Create lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, and more in minutes. AI-powered tools designed for educators.
W23 invest in game-changing startups led by visionary founders, and actively help them achieve their ambitious plans faster.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$6M; Series A $5.4M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $125M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Topsort — Topsort helps ambitious marketplaces accelerate their growth by providing access to auction-based advertising for their vendors.
- Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers
- Moment Energy — Moment Energy empowers commercial and industrial clients across North America to reduce operational costs, increase energy resilience for business, and achieve sustainability goals.
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Browse database — It's Free!No Brand is a private investment company that focuses on opportunities empowered by technology. As a partnership-driven firm, have a flexible approach to direct investments, and can actively work with founders to help them close their rounds.Also, it assists with growth plans and related initiatives through collective relationships. From time totime, No Brand invests in GP fundraisings for established and emerging managers, as well as co-investing alongside leading managers.
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- Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $698k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Octopusbot — Empowering agribusinesses with 97% accurate AI forecasts, 7 months ahead of the market to mitigate weather risk and price volatility.
- InsightWise — Win more proposals and grants, and drive growth faster than ever.
- Primary — The orchestration layer on top of your existing finance stack. Every bank, entity & currency. Trusted by leading growth companies. Built for the ones going global.
Our mission is to support Australia & New Zealand’s late seed stage founders. Since 2011, we have partnered with extraordinary founders building companies using technology to build a better future.We are looking for late seed stage founders who have a product and paying customers, in businesses across Australia & New Zealand. Our currentthesis surrounds networked businesses (like platforms and marketplaces) and select SaaS, but we do engage more broadly.We have been active seed investors since 2011. We invested in Cliff, Mel and Cameron when Canva was just starting to offer paid subscription plans. We partnered with Dylan and Mark at Qwilr based on their first public beta. Peter and Tony at Mable had 350 carers on their Sydney-based marketplace when we first partnered with them.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $400k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.2M; Series A $1.4M–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
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.
- Vinex — Global B2B Wine Marketplace
- Scala Med — ScalaMed has created the most transformative piece of real-estate in healthcare that embeds into any health App (B2B/SaaS), utilizing prescription fulfillment as the gateway of patient access & engagement.
Side Stage Ventures is a founder-led seed fund backing outlier founders in Australia. We write the first cheque into the best early stage companies. Then we lean in to help the founders build & scale.
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- Industry: Software, Marketing, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Canada, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Pre-Seed $681k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Puralink — Discover Puralink's innovative robotics and data solutions for efficient pipe inspection, maintenance, and repair. Our autonomous, modular robots navigate complex pipe networks, reducing costs and environmental impact. With integrated data analytics, we help industries make smarter decisions to protect critical infrastructure. Explore the future of pipe management with Puralink.
- Fabra — Fabra is a 3D product design platform that gives real-time experience to create their own products.
- Outlier Space — Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits.
Paul Robson believes the Asia Pacific region is the most exciting and dynamic place in the world to do business.As the leader of Adobe Asia Pacific, Paul advises brands on digital transformation, and how they can put customer experience at the centre of everything they do to drive business growth. Paul is passionate about the role technology canplay in delivering amazing experiences, especially in emerging markets where mobile is almost ubiquitous.Prior to joining Adobe, Paul was Vice President and General Manager for HP’s Networking Division across Asia Pacific and Japan. Paul was also the founding director of a successful online start up, Wedding Gifts Direct.Paul is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is on the boards of the Association for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising (ADMA), Tresillian, the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies, and the Investment Advisory Board of Alchemy Ventures. He is also an active member of the Australian Surf Life Saving Association.Paul holds a Diploma in Market Research, a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing, a Graduate Diploma in International Business and has attended a variety of general management and executive courses at institutions including the Haas School of Business at UC Berkley, INSEAD and the Australian Graduate School of Management.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Recruiting
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $14M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Omi — Omi turns products into pixel-perfect 3D Digital Twins that global teams use to power visuals across commerce, marketing, retail, and AI. No technical skills required.
- 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.
- Gravity Sketch — Gravity Sketch is an intuitive 3D design platform for cross-disciplinary teams to create, collaborate, and review in an entirely new way.
The Capital Angels seek investment opportunities that reflect the knowledge powerhouse that is the ACT Region. Opportunities that are associated with the Capital's research institutions and that have a deep IP base are particularly welcome. However, any company that views Canberra as its stepping stone to the global marketplace is encouragedto consider taking a Capital Angel along for the journey.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Information Technology, Small and Medium Businesses
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enabled Employment — Enabled Employment offers opportunities for people with disabilities to work from home in their area of professional expertise.All of the jobs advertised on Enabled Employment are completely virtual, meaning many barriers previously faced about getting to the office or needing workspace adjustments are erased.Enabled Employment also takescare of everything for employers, making it easier and less expensive for them to fill positions.
Skip Capital is a private investment fund investing in technology and infrastructure
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
- GROWL — Discover GROWL: the smart boxing bag blending cardio, strength, and gaming. Experience an immersive home boxing coach and step up your performance.
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: no public data
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.
Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TALY — TALY is a platform that is designed to find, manage and retain employees from both perfromance and personality for business development.
- Viewa — Viewa is an augmented reality(AR) content publishing platform that brings print media such as magazines to life in 3D.
- Termina — Termina operates as an energy tech startup.
Paspalis is a leading venture capital investor in Northern Australia. We invest in innovative companies, both locally and globally, looking to do business in the Northern Territory.
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- Industry: Aerospace, Manufacturing, Space Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Atomionics — Atomionics is building atomic sensors for navigation and resource exploration. Sensing technology is severely inadequate for a lot of applications navigation and positioning, pinpointing oil and gas reserves, tunnel detection etc. Atomionics builds atomic sensors harnessing quantum mechanical properties of the atoms. This enables measurement ofparameters like gravity, acceleration and rotation with 1000x higher precision and accuracy than the current state of the art, leading to a completely new way of global positioning, and resource exploration.
- Esper Satellite Imagery — Esper is building and launching the world's most versatile satellite imagery network for mineral exploration, agronomy, and national security. Order imagery now.
- Transcelestial Technologies — Secure, last mile connectivity with fiber-like speeds using next gen Wireless Fiber Optics or Lasercomms, at a fraction of the deployment time and cost of fiber.
Common Sense Ventures is an Australian family office backing early-stage, fast-growing businesses. We partner with ambitious managers looking to solve problems that will help the world.
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- Industry: FinTech, CleanTech, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sherlok — Automated client retention for mortgage brokers, helping them grow their loan book by proactively keeping their existing clients happy and with them forever.
- 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.
- Clayful — Clayful partners with K-12 schools and districts to support student mental wellness through on-demand coaching, responsive curriculum, & actionable data trends.
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