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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Australia in April 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Australia in April 2025

Investor Recruiting Australia investments
Entrée Capital 4
Carthona Capital 3
Rampersand 3
Sydney Angels 3
SEEK 3
Hezi Leibovich 2
Capital Zed 2
TSVC 2
Archangel Ventures 2
Matt Berriman 2
Jelix Ventures 2
SeedIL Ventures 2
Aleph 2
TEN13 2
Gabby Leibovich 2
Utiliti Group - Ventures, Advisory, Global Expansion 1
Macdoch Ventures 1
Mondo Ventures 1
Skip Capital 1
Ben Thompson 1
Spring Capital Partners 1
Ultraviolet Ventures 1
No Brand 1
ALIAVIA Ventures 1
Hudson 1
Macquarie Capital 1
Aura Ventures 1
John Poynton 1
Dave O' Mahony 1
Skalata 1
David Shein 1
Brisbane Angels 1
Paspalis 1
Sam Kroonenburg 1
Robert Kawalsky 1
Airtree Ventures 1
Side Stage Ventures 1
Ruslan Kogan 1
Investible 1
Partners for Growth 1
Leigh Jasper 1
1in100 Ventures 1
W23 1
Dion Hershan 1
Accel-KKR 1
Clifford Rosenberg 1
Global Founders Capital 1
Jay Simons 1
Square Peg Capital 1
Capital Angels Australia 1
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Entrée Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 16 investments in the past 12 months
We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1.25B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
  • Alta — Alta leverages data and AI to drive business growth 24/7.
  • Bria — Bria is a Computer Software company.
Carthona Capital VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
  • BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
  • Ajust — Ajust makes it easy to resolve customer complaints with banks, telcos and energy companies. It's fast, fair and free for consumers.
Rampersand VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Rampersand is the first investor in founders with abnormal potential in Aus & NZ. We have invested 100M+ AUD in 34 companies & returned millions to investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
  • Cuttable — Cuttable operates as an automated content agency.
  • JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
Sydney Angels VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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
  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Okkular — Okkular is an AI based fashion tech startup.
  • Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.
  • Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
SEEK VC Fund · North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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
  • Human Resources, Recruiting, Software
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Go1 — Go1 offers training content from 250+ industry-leading providers, delivered seamlessly through any HR tech stack.
  • Employment Hero — Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HRprocesses. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees in Australia and beyond, by providing free, easy-to-use HR software that employers love to use, and access to far greater benefits for all employees.Employment Hero was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Sydney New South Wales.
  • Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment
Hezi Leibovich Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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
  • Internet, Apps, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom
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.
Capital Zed VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
an Australia-based disruptive technology investor
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Investment focus
  • Content, Software, Marketing
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MOBI — The digital partner of hospitality, MOBI helps businesses to stay connected with their customers
  • Influential — A Global Leader in Influencer Marketing
  • 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
TSVC VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Akool — Akool provides a generative AI platform that supercharges business with personalized premium quality visual content for marketing and advertisement.
  • Lumotive — Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com.
  • Place Genomics Corporation — Bio Tech
Archangel Ventures VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 11 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Australia, United States, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
  • Heidi Health — Heidi Health is modernizing primary care with AI-powered technologies to improve care's quality and accessibility. its creators and engineers is to completely eradicate missed and sluggish diagnoses worldwide. They are committed to bridging the gap between the level of care that patients desire and the level of care that doctors can delivergiven their budget constraints. To create a platform where patients can quickly and easily get the treatment they require and to give every clinician the resources they need to deliver care that is secure, efficient,
  • Pearler — Kickstart or continue your long term investment journey with Pearler, a simple alernative for those who crave boring investing.
  • Flowing Bee — Revolutionise your customer interactions using AI, customer and behavioural insights. We create powerful marketing communications that drive behaviour change.
Matt Berriman Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Financial Services, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Australia, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ratio — Venture capital fund
  • 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 Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Fugu — Cheap green carbon at scale for the dawn of the e-fuel age
  • Fugu Carbon — Fugu Carbon is a machinery manufacturing company that helps in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology from air.
  • Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.
SeedIL Ventures VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
SeedIL Ventures is a seed stage investment fund focusing on Israeli related companies in any sector except medtech/biotech and heavy Hardware. After investment, SeedIL is committed to ensuring that portfolio companies reach their full potential by providing on-going coaching and connections through its extensive network, including the Limitedpartner's connections and intelligence.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Big Data
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Israel, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Wisor — Propelling the supply chain industry into the digital age Wisor is a plug & play solution that provides a global automated quoting solution that allows freight forwarders to generate quotes and communicate with clients automatically Get a demo What took days now takes minutes Wisor is specifically designed to support and simplify the complexity of generating quotes
  • BlinqIO — Autonomously develop and maintain flawless automation code, combining Generative AI's power with human oversight for scalable testing solutions
  • 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.
Aleph VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Israel, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Grain — Grain is a fintech company that develops exposure analysis, self-service, and embedded FX solutions to eliminate risk for customers.
  • Reeco — #1 Shopping Solution for the hospitality industry
  • Dream Security — Dream Security provides critical infrastructure defensive cyber solutions.
TEN13 VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 6 investments in the past 12 months
TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
  • Rockfish Data — Generate privacy-preserving data using state-of-the-art deep generative algorithms to operationalize outcome-centric solutions. Our generative data platform is tailored for enterprise operations, addressing critical business needs.
  • MiLaboratories — Top-notch solutions for adaptive immunity studies
Gabby Leibovich Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, FinTech, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Australia, United Kingdom
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.
Utiliti Group - Ventures, Advisory, Global Expansion VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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
  • Payments, Software, Recruiting
  • Seed
  • Australia
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.
Macdoch Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
  • Primary — Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways.
  • Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.
Mondo Ventures VC Fund
Full stack serverless development, Google Cloud & digital transformation services provided in Australia - serving Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth & Adelaide
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Software, Recruiting
  • Seed
  • Australia
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.
Skip Capital VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Skip Capital is a private investment fund investing in technology and infrastructure
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Australia, United States, Canada
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.
  • Visibuild — Visibuild is a construction software web & mobile platform providing real-time insights, workflows, defect tracking, ITPs inspections.
  • GROWL — Discover GROWL: the smart boxing bag blending cardio, strength, and gaming. Experience an immersive home boxing coach and step up your performance.
Ben Thompson Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ben Thompson is the founder and CEO of Employment Hero. Ben also currently serves Employment Innovations as director and the founder of Power2Motivate.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Recruiting
  • Series A
  • Australia
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.
Spring Capital Partners VC Fund · Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Based in Maryland, U.S., Spring Capital Partners provides mezzanine capital to growing small and medium businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Advertising, Marketing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States, Australia
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.
Ultraviolet Ventures VC Fund
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Investment focus
  • Software, Recruiting, Communities
  • Seed
  • Australia, Philippines
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
No Brand VC Fund
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
  • Recruiting, Communities
  • Seed
  • Australia
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.
  • Primary — Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways.
ALIAVIA Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States
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
  • Information Technology, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
  • GoFIGR — We are a talent insights and opportunity marketplace platform that helps you develop, engage and retain employees in the flow of work.
  • Neighbourlytics — A platform for place managers to access location data
Hudson VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Hudson is a leading recruitment agency in Australia with a solid expertise to realise career potential. Connect with your next hire or great job today.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
  • Seed
  • Australia
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
Macquarie Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Renewable Energy, FinTech
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Australia, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Raylo — Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
  • Simon Data — Simon Data empowers CRM teams with the data, tools, & support to drive personalization at every customer touchpoint.
  • Hyro — A stellar customer journey starts with conversational AI. Take complex data and turn it into simple dialogue across any digital channel, for all enterprises and their customers.
Aura Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, Denmark
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!
  • 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
  • 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.
John Poynton Angel
John Poynton is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Software, Recruiting
  • Seed
  • Australia
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.
Dave O' Mahony Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Dave O' Mahony
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Communities
  • Seed
  • Australia
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.
Skalata VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Australia, United States, United Kingdom
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.
  • Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
David Shein Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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
  • SaaS, Software, Construction
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Australia, United States
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 — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.
  • All G Foods — 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.
Brisbane Angels VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Tendl — Write tenders faster with Tendl's AI tool. Keep your data private and secure. Easy installation, no sharing. Boost productivity and streamline your contract opportunities.
  • ReciMe — ReciMe is the ultimate cooking app that helps you save, share, and discover new recipes. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  • Shopfront — Shopfront provides tools for automated list generation, publishing, managing, and delisting of products across various marketplaces.
Paspalis VC Fund · Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
The Paspalis Innovation Investment Fund (the first venture capital fund launched in the Northern Territory) is designed to satisfy one of the criteria for visa nomination by the Northern Territory Government of an individual under the Australian Federal Government Business and Skilled Migration Program
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Aerospace, Space Travel
  • Seed, Series B
  • Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Go Locum — Go Locum uses artificial intelligence to ease the recruitment process by automating credentialing and matching healthcare professionals to job possibilities in regional and remote areas.
  • Esper Satellite Imagery — Esper is building and launching the world's most versatile satellite imagery network for mineral exploration, agronomy, and national security. Task imagery now.
  • Equatorial Space — Revolutionising spaceflight with reliable, flexible and affordable rockets - starting 2022.
Sam Kroonenburg Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sam Kroonenburg is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Cuttable. He previously worked at Pluralsight as an Executive Strategic Advisor.Sam Kroonenburg attended Curtin University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Recruiting
  • Series A
  • Australia
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.
Robert Kawalsky Angel
Rob Kawalsky is Head of Product at Canva.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Recruiting
  • Series A
  • Australia
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.
Airtree Ventures VC Fund · Paddington, Western Australia, Australia · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Australia, United States, Singapore
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.
  • InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
  • Build Club — Build Club is a home for big dreams and top builders where the world's top AI builders gather. The company is a team of a global network of engineers, researchers, and founders building at the frontier of AI.
Side Stage Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Early stage venture firm investing in Australia´s best pre-seed and seed stage Founders
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, Medical
  • Seed, Series A
  • Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • TrueState — Accelerate your AI adoption with TrueState's library of high-impact AI solutions, infinitely customisable for your unique business context.
  • 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.
Ruslan Kogan Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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
  • Apps, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Australia, New Zealand
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.
Investible VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 15 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Grw AI — Grw AI offers scalable 1:1 coaching solutions that leverage AI to assist B2B sales teams complete deals.
  • Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
  • Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.
Partners for Growth VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
  • United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
  • Futurerent — Futurerent is a tool that offers solutions to residential property investors for investment capital and cashflow needs.
  • Downpayments — In the dynamic world of real estate, time is money, capital is power, and access to the down payment is the biggest barrier to creating wealth through property. Downpayments is on a mission to transform how Amercians purchase real estate, by financing the down payment and allowing the buyer to break their commitment into affordable, manageable payments that are interest-free, or at low rates.
Leigh Jasper Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Construction
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, India
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 — Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.
1in100 Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1in100 Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SEO, Human Resources
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United Kingdom
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.
W23 VC Fund · Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Retail Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Gr4vy — Gr4vy is a powerful payment orchestration platform that allows you to deploy and optimize all your payments through one simple integration.
  • ExoFlare — Exoflare Biosecurity Threat Management - better protect livestock. Easy, fast, compliant. Australian-owned. Increase your biosecurity readiness now.
  • Eucalyptus — Eucalyptus or 'Euc' for short, delivers high-touch, high-quality healthcare to patients around the world who want to live better, for longer.
Dion Hershan Angel
Dion Hershan, Executive Chairman and Head of Equities at Yarra Capital Management.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
  • Seed
  • Australia
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
Accel-KKR VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States
A trusted global software & technology capital partner helping hundreds of enterprise software companies go further than they imagined.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Ntracts — Healthcare's Trusted Partner for Comprehensive Contract Lifecycle Management. Transparent, Fixed Pricing. Guided by Hall Render, the Nation's Largest Healthcare-focused Law Firm. Sophisticated & Automated Workflows.
  • Appspace, Inc. — The way we work is changing, as are the places we work. Appspace is part of this shift in the workplace experience. Appspace has all the tools enterprises need to drive awareness and productivity on a single, unified software platform. With over 120 experts in 12 countries, Appspace supports a network of partners and integrators to deliver the bestmodern workplace experiences for many of the most recognizable brands in the world.
  • Ocuco Ltd. — Ocuco is a software company supplying off the shelf software to the optical industry. With over 17 years of commitment to optics, they continue to stay at the leading edge of technology, with their optical Practice Management System and Lab Management System software providing sound business value to their customers.
Clifford Rosenberg Angel
Clifford Rosenberg
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Human Resources
  • Seed
  • Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • myInterview — Hire the right candidates with myInterview with Video for Free. Create Your Account Today. The Video Tool Recruiters Love.
Global Founders Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
  • Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
  • Scribe Health AI — HIPAA-compliant clinical documentation tool that seamlessly integrates with 50+ EMR systems including Epic, Cerner & Athena . Automates SOAP notes and medical coding while ensuring data security. Perfect for healthcare providers seeking efficient, compliant documentation workflows
Jay Simons Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Australia
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.
Square Peg Capital VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Australia, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
  • Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform
  • GoodWork.ai — The most powerful analytics AI ever created for the retail sector_
Capital Angels Australia VC Fund · Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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
  • Recruiting, Information Technology, Small and Medium Businesses
  • Seed
  • Australia
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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