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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Australia (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Australia Recruiting startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Australia Recruiting startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Entrée Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.4M–$55M
SEEK
VC Fund
3 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Human Resources, Recruiting, Software $4.6M–$70M
Sydney Angels
VC Fund
3 Australia, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Health Care $120k–$1.5M
Carthona Capital
VC Fund
3 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $404k–$50M
Rampersand
VC Fund
3 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$10M
Aleph
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, China Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $2.5M–$100M
Capital Zed
VC Fund
2 Australia, New Zealand, United States Seed, Series B, Series A Content, Software, Marketing $1.3M–$12M
TEN13
VC Fund
2 Australia, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Financial Services $808k–$46M
Jelix Ventures
VC Fund
2 Australia, New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $616k–$26M
SeedIL Ventures
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data $1.7M–$21M
TSVC
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $500k–$27M
Gabby Leibovich
Angel
2 Australia, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Apps, FinTech, Internet $539k–$25M
Hezi Leibovich
Angel
2 Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Internet, Apps, FinTech $539k–$25M
Matt Berriman
Angel
2 Australia, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Advertising, Financial Services $2.7M–$4M
Archangel Ventures
VC Fund
2 Australia, United States, Philippines Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$22M
Aura Ventures
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS
John Poynton
Angel
1 Australia Seed Payments, Software, Recruiting
Sidecar Fund2
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States Seed SaaS, Recruiting, Health Care $300k–$500k
Dave O' Mahony
Angel
1 Australia Seed Recruiting, Communities
Ultraviolet Ventures
VC Fund
1 Australia, Philippines Seed Software, Recruiting, Communities $1M–$2.3M
Square Peg Capital
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $653k–$72M
Hudson
VC Fund
1 Australia Seed Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
Sam Rahmanian
Angel
1 Australia Seed Recruiting, Communities
Spring Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Australia Seed, Angel Software, Advertising, Marketing
Ruslan Kogan
Angel
1 Australia, New Zealand Seed, Series A Apps, SaaS, FinTech $539k–$60M
Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $120k–$5.7M
ALIAVIA Ventures
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, TV, Art $200k–$5.6M
W23
VC Fund
1 Australia, Canada, United States Series A, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage $3.5M–$36M
No Brand
VC Fund
1 Australia Seed, Pre-Seed Payments, Software, Recruiting $1M–$2.4M
Macdoch Ventures
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, SaaS $400k–$7.3M
Jay Simons
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Australia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$200M
Utiliti Group
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $646k–$43M
Brisbane Angels
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Biotechnology, Machine Learning $120k–$1.3M
Follow[the]Seed
VC Fund
1 Australia, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming $300k–$6.5M
Side Stage Ventures
VC Fund
1 Australia, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $681k–$3.5M
Partners for Growth
VC Fund
1 United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1.1M–$50M
1in100 Ventures
VC Fund
1 Australia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SEO, Internet $661k–$1.5M
Accel-KKR
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Private Equity, Debt Financing Software, SaaS, Information Technology $11M–$84M
Paul Robson
Angel
1 Australia, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Recruiting, 3D Printing
Capital Angels Australia
VC Fund
1 Australia Seed Recruiting, Information Technology, Small and Medium Businesses
Beachhead Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Software, FinTech, Finance $740k–$1.8M
Dave Shepherd
Angel
1 Australia Seed Recruiting, Communities
Clifford Rosenberg
Angel
1 Australia Seed Recruiting, Human Resources
Alua Group
VC Fund
1 Australia Seed Payments, Software, Recruiting $1.5M–$2M
David Shein
Angel
1 Australia, United States Seed, Series A, Series C Software, SaaS, Internet $1M–$16M
Leigh Jasper
Angel
1 Australia, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Construction $500k–$20M
Macquarie Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Australia, United Kingdom Series B, Private Equity Software, Information Technology, FinTech $12M–$320M
Robert Kawalsky
Angel
1 Australia Series A Software, Analytics, Recruiting
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $637k–$33M
Airtree Ventures
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 256
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$13M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $14M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Toka — Toka develops cutting-edge and lawful digital forensics, intelligence and force protection capabilities to empower government agencies strengthen homeland security.
  • Imagindairy — It's dairy, done differently. Our animal-free dairy products are lactose-free, growth hormone-free and cholesterol-free.
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SEEK
VC Fund · North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Human Resources, Recruiting, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Series A $4.6M–$27M; 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
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Sydney Angels
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $130k–$890k; Pre-Seed $337k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Quizling — Quizling is an educational app that allows its users to make quick quizzes on their iPhone or iPad. Its users have the ability to plug their iPhone or iPad into their smart board or digital projector and challenge their class.Quizling is designed for teachers, students, and classrooms. Its aim is to make a teacher’s life easier, a student’slearning more interesting and challenging, and to help make the classroom a fun and engaging place. It can be used to preview a topic and check prior learning or before a test. Students also have the opportunity to make their own quizlings and challenge each other.Quizling was launched in 2012.
  • ExtrasJar — Swap health insurance premiums for balanced investments and get access to your funds when using health services.
  • Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
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Carthona Capital
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $404k–$4.2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M; Series B $9.8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
  • CoverRight — Use CoverRight's tools to find a personalized Medicare plan and get the best coverage for your situation! Compare and enroll in Medicare Advantage, Medigap, and Prescription Drug Plans, all in one place.
  • Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.
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Rampersand
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 3 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

We back ambitious ANZ tech founders from inception to seed, with proven support, no empty promises, and a track record of helping startups scale smarter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.5M; Series A $2.9M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
  • 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
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Aleph
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Early-stage VC fund managing $850M+ and partnering with Israeli entrepreneurs to build impactful global brands, like Lemonade and Melio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$33M; Series B $10M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Svix — Svix is the enterprise-ready webhook platform delivering billions of webhooks every month for fast-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies including Brex, Benchling, and Drata. Send and receive webhooks at scale with retries, signature verification, and a managed dashboard.
  • Finaloop — Hands-off, real-time accounting tailored-fit for your ecommerce.
  • RiseUp — RiseUp offers a platform that helps users make good financial decisions. It aims to translate the complexities of the financial world into a simple and actionable WhatsApp messages, empowering users to make calm, informed decisions, and save for their future.
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Capital Zed
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 2 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

an Australia-based disruptive technology investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series B $5.8M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOBI — The digital partner of hospitality, MOBI helps businesses to stay connected with their customers
  • TMRW — TMRW is a personalized functional medicine and longevity care platform.
  • Influential — A Global Leader in Influencer Marketing
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TEN13
VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 2 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.2M; Series A $3.7M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Drawboard — Remarkable markup tools for WIndows 10, iOS and your web browser. Download for free today.
  • Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
  • Clipchamp — Create videos with royalty-free music and stock footage, use video templates, and export in up to 4K video resolution. Get started in-browser or download the Windows app.
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Jelix Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $616k–$5.7M; Series A $1.9M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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.
  • PropHero — Invest wisely in real estate There is an easier way to invest in real estate. Whether you are just getting started or already on your investment journey, at Pro
  • Bitwise Agronomy — Bitwise Agronomy uses AI to analyze crop video footage and provide growers with insights into crop health, growth, and yield potential.
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SeedIL Ventures
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

We invest in the best Israeli founders. Boutique seed-stage VC with personalized support and international connections.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7M; 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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TSVC
VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 2 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 247
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7M; Series A $2M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Angle Health — Digital-First Health Plans For The Modern Employee
  • BloomTech — BloomTech provides online technical coding courses including data science, full-stack web and backend development, and free coding courses.
  • GiftedMom — GiftedMom - using mobile-based solutions to increase maternal engagement.
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Gabby Leibovich
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 2 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $539k–$1.7M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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.
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Hezi Leibovich
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 2 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Apps, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $539k–$1.7M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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.
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Matt Berriman
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 2 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Advertising, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $3.1M–$4M; Series A $2.7M–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ratio — Asia focused investment firm
  • 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.
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Archangel Ventures
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 2 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.5M; Series A $3.3M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mutinex — Discover how Mutinex helps businesses optimize marketing decisions with data-driven insights and AI-powered solutions.
  • Modo — Declutter your mind with our app to boost your mental wellbeing and productivity. modo helps you be present in the moment and focus on what matters most.
  • Vouch — Vouch allows you to collect, edit & share authentic videos with a single link. Capture customer video testimonials, employee feedback, win-loss reports & more.
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Aura Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies

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  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
  • Scannable — Scannable helps Arborists, Rope Access Technicians, Riggers, and Rescuers easily manage PPE and safety equipment.
  • SynergyXR — SynergyXR is a no-code, cloud platform that lets companies design, onboard, sell, and support across all XR devices without writing a single line of code
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John Poynton
Angel · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

John Poynton is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sidecar Fund2
VC Fund · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Sidecar Fund2

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Investment focus

  • 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 — Sourcr is a recruitment marketplace that connects employers to expert recruiters to find the best talent. Employers can post a job, set their own placement fee and have freelance and agency recruiters apply to them to work on a role. There is a built in candidate tracker so all applications can be managed in one place. There are one set ofuniversal terms that govern all transactions on the site and all placements are subject to a 60-day replacement guarantee. Our vision is to solve the challenges of employment by perfectly blending technology and human interaction.
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Dave O' Mahony
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Dave O' Mahony

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Ultraviolet Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Recruiting, Communities
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Australia, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.3M
  • 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.
  • Sauce — AI customer insights for product teams
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Square Peg Capital
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 175
  • Round size: Seed $653k–$12M; Series A $2.7M–$34M; Series B $10M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Neara — Beyond visualization. A geometrically precise, 3D model that reveals how assets behave and react in the real world
  • Pluang — Investasi di Saham AS, Kripto, Emas & Reksa Dana mulai Rp5.000. Aman, teregulasi, dan mudah digunakan.
  • 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.
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Hudson
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Discover comprehensive recruitment services and talent consulting to elevate your business

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sapia — PredictiveHire 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 the help 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
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Sam Rahmanian
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Sam Rahmanian is a managing director at Monsido.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Spring Capital Partners
VC Fund · Baltimore, Maryland, United States · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Based in Maryland, U.S., Spring Capital Partners provides mezzanine capital to growing small and medium businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • V12 Data — As an omnichannel data powerhouse, V12 Data combines rich data assets with robust technology to provide brands with a seamless and connected customer view. Their solutions bridge the right data across channels to power right time omnichannel engagement when, where, and how a brands’ customers prefer. Their data and technology platform linkscustomer records with their proprietary blend of online, offline and digital marketing data for highly personalized, one-to-one consumer marketing, regardless of device or channel.
  • SocialClimb — SocialClimb's healthcare marketing platform offers you a comprehensive set of features tailored to promoting your practice in a contemporary, HIPAA-compliant way.
  • Outstaffer — Find & hire talent from around the world. We handle payroll, benefits, tax, compliance, HR & provide WorkFromAnywhere tech to safeguard your IP & productivity.
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Ruslan Kogan
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $539k–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
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Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $992k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $649k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Predelo — Streamline workflows and optimize operations with Predelo's AI-driven automation. Discover the benefits of our solutions and stay ahead!
  • Mayday — Streamline your finance team's multi-entity accounting adjustments with Mayday
  • Mass Dynamics — Mass Dynamics exists to enable more life scientists to accelerate their studies using Mass Spectrometry (MS). It's our contribution towards enriching lives and freeing humanity and society from the burden of disease. Mass Dynamics includes Enrichment Analysis based on GSEA algorithms and utilises Gene Ontology (GO) and Reactome knowledge bases.
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ALIAVIA Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

ALIAVIA Ventures is a California-based firm focused on venture capital investing in U.S. and Australian-based female founders building world-changing enterprise and consumer tech companies. Their team is made up of operators and investors who have scaled tech businesses from $0 to $500 million through an IPO with a unique deal flow source and anextensive global network that supports high-potential female founders to deliver outsized long-term performance. Potential portfolio companies have at least one female founder with a significant equity position and a C-level role.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, TV, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $324k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.3M; Series A $649k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HowToo — Use our online course creation tools for eLearning. Design learning experiences for your team, including onboarding, upskilling and compliance and safety training.
  • Wakefully — Wakefully is an AI dream interpretation and analysis app that decodes your dreams in the context of your life. An interactive daily journal for your dreams and a personalized coach to help you optimize your sleep and rejuvenate your mind, so you can start your mornings emotionally clear and mentally
  • Neighbourlytics — A platform for place managers to access location data
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W23
VC Fund · Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

W23 invest in game-changing startups led by visionary founders, and actively help them achieve their ambitious plans faster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Australia, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$6M; Series A $5.4M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $125M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers
  • Eucalyptus — Eucalyptus or 'Euc' for short, delivers high-touch, high-quality healthcare to patients around the world who want to live better, for longer.
  • Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
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No Brand
VC Fund · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Software, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.4M
  • 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.
  • InsightWise — InsightWise is an AI-powered platform for consultants and strategy teams.
  • Primary — One place to see and act on your cash. Every bank, entity & currency. Trusted by leading growth companies. Built for the ones going global.
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Macdoch Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, 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 — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
  • Vinex — Vinex is a global supplier of digital wine services, like supply management tools, early payments, and a 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.
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Jay Simons
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$65M; Series A $11M–$200M; Series B $20M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Runway — Explore more than 30+ AI powered creative tools to ideate, generate and edit content like never before.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Utiliti Group
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$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.
  • Mercha.com.au — Mercha is Company Branded Merchandise Made Easy for You. Shop the highest quality promotional merchandise for your business with a click of a button. Shop Now.
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Brisbane Angels
VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $337k–$629k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Giftbee — Giftbee is a B2B gifting marketplace with smart, eco-friendly solutions that enhance value and experience.
  • Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.
  • The Laundry Lady — The Laundry Lady is a mobile laundry service company that offers washing, ironing, pickup, and delivery services.
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Follow[the]Seed
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Follow[the]Seed is a post-seed algorithmic venture capital fund, using a unique predictive analytical model known as Raving Fans™ to identify the next $1 Billion+ ventures. Based in Sydney, Australia; San-Francisco, USA; Tel Aviv, Israel & Beijing, China our team has over 3 decades of combined experience building startups ourselves andanother 2 decades of experience investing in over 90 companies.Oh, and we truly love entrepreneurs and innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, Germany, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $300k–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
  • Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
  • Liquorice — Liquorice is a developer of a DeFi protocol that combines one-sided loan pools with a MEV-free trading engine.
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Side Stage Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $681k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Leonardo.Ai — Transform your projects with our AI image generator. Generate high-quality, AI generated images with unparalleled speed and style to elevate your creative vision
  • Outstaffer — Find & hire talent from around the world. We handle payroll, benefits, tax, compliance, HR & provide WorkFromAnywhere tech to safeguard your IP & productivity.
  • Arca Climate Technologies, Inc. — Carbin Minerals unlock the enormous carbon dioxide removal potential of mine waste.
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Partners for Growth
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $5M–$29M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
  • Comfi.ai — Unlock B2B Growth in MENA: Streamline Payments & Offer Credit with Comfi BNPL
  • Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
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1in100 Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

1in100 Ventures is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SEO, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 — Software for fabricators to create orders, collaborate on work, track jobs and communicate with customers from one location.
  • Outstaffer — Find & hire talent from around the world. We handle payroll, benefits, tax, compliance, HR & provide WorkFromAnywhere tech to safeguard your IP & productivity.
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Accel-KKR
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

A trusted global software & technology capital partner helping hundreds of enterprise software companies go further than they imagined.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Debt Financing $11M–$17M; Private Equity $11M–$84M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $4.4B in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exxat — Exxat is a trusted leader in clinical and experiential education management, connecting schools, clinical sites, and students through one unified system. Our secure, AI-enabled solutions scale with programs of every size. Exxat Prism supports curriculum management, competency tracking, and accreditation, while Exxat One streamlines placementcoordination, site collaboration, and talent pipeline development. Powered by Exxat Approve for compliance, our integrated solutions serve 1,500+ programs across 65+ disciplines and 8,500+ clinical partners nationwide. Discover more at exxat.com
  • PINC — PINC provides scalable software, hardware, and services that enable companies to move inventory throughout the supply chain faster, cost-effectively, consistently, and more efficiently. Its cloud-based real-time asset tracking platform powered by an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network that includes passive RFID, GPS, optical, cellular, andother sensors, provides actionable insights and connected expert guidance that allow companies to optimize their supply chain execution.The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Union City, California.
  • Kimble Applications — Kimble is a PSA solution that helps professional service organizations make better decisions, sooner. Global leaders in consulting, software, and hi-tech such as NTT Data, Sage, and Canon use Kimble to optimize resource utilization, profitability, and business scalability. Kimble is the only leading provider focused exclusively on PSA, constantlyinnovating to improve team collaboration and efficiency around key services processes. Built to work seamlessly with CRM, Kimble drives predictability, enabling businesses to consistently deliver value to their customers. Model the proposed scope, find the ideal resources, make sure the project stays on track as time is booked against it, and invoice for that work – all in real-time – keeping everyone in sync about what’s happening and what’s going to happen.Since Kimble is aligned around successful project delivery, so are teams that use it. Where important decisions would typically get caught in bottlenecks, our PSA guides salespeople, resource managers, and project managers to the information they need to take decisive action early.
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Paul Robson
Angel · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Recruiting, 3D Printing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
  • Gravity Sketch — Gravity Sketch is an intuitive 3D design platform for cross-disciplinary teams to create, collaborate, and review in an entirely new way.
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Capital Angels Australia
VC Fund · Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Beachhead Venture Capital
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Beachhead is a venture capital firm investing in high-growth Australian companies looking to grow bigger, go further and achieve more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $740k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Binary Tech — Binary Tech develops an end-to-end operating system for Massive IoT, encompassing device manufacture, firmware, cloud algorithms, and APIs. Our solution facilitates swift deployment for telcos and systems integrators, offering a proof environment for enterprises to conduct POCs. Our stack can be white-labelled, and we also apply it through our own sub-brands, enabling us to enhance the technology continually as we expand.
  • Factory.app — Software for fabricators to create orders, collaborate on work, track jobs and communicate with customers from one location.
  • Outstaffer — Find & hire talent from around the world. We handle payroll, benefits, tax, compliance, HR & provide WorkFromAnywhere tech to safeguard your IP & productivity.
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Dave Shepherd
Angel · Carmel, Indiana, United States · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Clifford Rosenberg
Angel · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Clifford Rosenberg

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources
  • 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.
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Alua Group
VC Fund · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Alua Group is an Australian investment firm focused on public and private companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Software, Recruiting
  • 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.
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David Shein
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$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.
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Leigh Jasper
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Construction
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.5M; Series A $1.6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
  • Tint Paint — Tint Paint manufactures decorative paints for a wide range of colors for commercial and residential uses.
  • Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
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Macquarie Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Macquarie Capital combines specialist expertise, innovative advice and flexible capital solutions to help our clients and partners make opportunity reality.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series B, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Series B $12M–$103M; Private Equity $30M–$320M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lion Storage — Lion Storage builds and manages standalone utility-scale battery energy storage systems that support the roll-out of more renewable energy production, thereby accelerating the energy transition.
  • Brazil TecPar — Brazil TecPar always discovers new ways to achieve operational excellence and, thus, elevates all companies to greater results. They have been bringing connectivity to thousands of people in the most diverse regions and markets. They work optimizing the management of companies and always looking for innovation to achieve all goals.
  • Sapia — PredictiveHire 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 the help 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
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Robert Kawalsky
Angel · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

Rob Kawalsky is Head of Product at Canva.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 824
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
  • Clever Care Health Plan Inc. — Clever Care delivers culturally sensitive Medicare options in Southern California that honor and represent the cultural values of the communities we serve. Health and wellness, centered around you.
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Airtree Ventures
VC Fund · Paddington, Western Australia, Australia · 1 investments in Australia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
  • DroneDeploy — DroneDeploy is a provider of cloud-control software solutions for drones which include automated flight safety checks, workflows, and real-time mapping and data processing.The company has partnered with leading drone manufacturers like DJI to provide its software to end users in a variety of industries, including agriculture, real estate, mining,construction and many other commercial and consumer arenas. DroneDeploy is compatible with any drone.
  • SafetyCulture — Digitize & improve elements of your operations. Give your teams the knowledge, tools & confidence to work safely & meet higher standards.
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Recruiting Investor funding in Australia at a glance

Stats across 50 deals from 75 investors.

75
investors
in Australia Recruiting startups
50
deals
in Australia Recruiting startups
$1M
median round
in Australia Recruiting startups
33%
lead investors
lead at least one round
48%
Seed
most common funding stage
76/24
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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