# Top 50 Renewable Energy Startup Investors in Oceania in June 2026 ## Blackbird Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions. ## Main Sequence Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing We work with inventors who are building something hard from their unique expertise in science. These inventors are building the industries that will thrive for the decades to come. We have a unique working model to accelerate a company's pathway to scale. ## IP Group Australia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy Ip Group Australia build and support outstanding intellectual property-based companies. ## Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Clean Energy Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund The Fund makes seed & follow-on investments in clean energy focused startups from approved accelerators, incubators, university programs & angel ## Grok Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Renewable Energy, Software, Biotechnology Backing a better tomorrow ## Nicholas Assef - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Battery Investment banker, founder, angel capitalist. FOcussed on industrial technology applications including renewable energy and recycling technology. ## Artesian VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund. ## Melt Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing We provide venture capital, expertise and advice to advanced manufacturing-focused Australian startups with global ambitions. ## Icehouse Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand. ## Virescent Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Solar Virescent Ventures invests in founders, technologies, and businesses that can help achieve zero emissions and beyond. ## Southern Cross Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Energy Southern Cross Venture Partners was launched in 2006 by veteran venture capitalists who have managed and operated companies themselves. Southern Cross Venture Partners assist early stage technology companies that demonstrate the potential for exceptional growth and market leadership build significant businesses. The founding principle of SouthernCross is partnership -- they are passionately committed to doing everything they can to help their portfolio companies succeed. Their team has a strong record of utilizing their start-up and management experience, industry knowledge, network of business/customer relationships, and recruiting skills to assist in building significant shareholder value.Southern Cross is currently investing in companies that fit their investment criteria. They prefer to act as lead or co-lead in the early stages where they have experience that can help build value rapidly. They do not have a minimum investment amount, however, a typical initial investment will be $2 million to $5 million with an ability to invest more money in later rounds. ## ACAC Innovation - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Renewable Energy ACAC Innovation provides angel investment, mentoring and support to game-changing startups. We work with founders to turn their innovative ideas into successful businesses. ## Uniseed - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing Uniseed was established in October 2000 as a $20 million joint venture between the University of Melbourne (UM) and the University of Queensland (UQ). This proof of concept fund (Fund-1) operated with significant input and support from the commercialization offices of the two universities (UniQuest and Melbourne Ventures Limited), with staff ofthese organizations making up the majority of the Investment Committee and leading due diligence and management of most investment opportunities. Over 20 investments, typically of $250,000 - $500,000 were made from this fund.A new $40 million venture fund (Fund-2) ran from 2005-15, with the addition of a third leading university, the University of New South Wales, and a major private institutional investor, the Westscheme superannuation fund. The founding universities (UQ & UM) also committed further funds. Australian Super took over Westscheme's essets and commitments in July 2011.With the start of Fund-2, an independent management team was established, consisting of the CEO and three Investment Managers; one at each university catchment. The Investment Committee was restructured, with dedicated committees established for biotechnology or other technologies. The nominal investment limit was increased to $2.5 million to allow participation in follow-on funding rounds so as to preserve Uniseed's equity position.On 1 November 2015, Uniseed started its third and largest fund (Fund-3) with the addition of the University of Sydney and the CSIRO to the Universities of Queensland, Melbourne and NSW. This followed three high profile exits in the preceding 14 months (Fibrotech; Spinifex & Hatchtech). Each of the five partners committed $10 million over 10 years to the new fund (total fund $50 million).Uniseed’s partner research organisations spent nearly $4 billion on research, making up over 40% of the total research spend at 67 research organisations in Australia. Together, these organisations accounted for nearly 500 invention disclosures (34% of total) and 500 new registered IP rights filed (45% of total) over the same period(2013 National Survey of Research Commercialisation). Unlike private venture capital funds, Uniseed is dedicated to the needs of its research partners, and committed to servicing them consistently over the long term, irrespective of the short term conditions in external capital markets. It works in very close partnership with the research partner commercialisation companies and staff, providing a valuable adjunct to the capabilities these companies and staff provide. They in turn provide a best-practice commercialisation service tailored to their respective organisations. These companies are able to leverage to great effect the scale of operation and expertise of the Uniseed network.The fund is run with commercial discipline, ensuring independence and financial rigor in its investment decision-making processes. Success is measured by a balance of return on investment (including the flow of funds for research to further the commercialisation of intellectual property generated within the research partner catchments), the establishment of viable start-up companies, the generation of research income for research partners and the improvement of partner commercialisation processes. ## CP Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning The CP Ventures Fund invests in early-stage technology companies that are highly scalable, at the forefront of breakthrough technologies, and driven by the fourth industrial revolution. ## Sydney Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care 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. ## Taronga Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Construction, Energy Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business. Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia. ## Pacific Channel - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical Device, Medical, CleanTech Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future. ## Rio Tinto - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Convertible Note, Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Mining Rio Tinto is a mining and exploration finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. Steel is made from iron ore. Aluminum with a low carbon footprint for electric vehicles and smartphones. Copper is used in wind turbines, electric cars, and water pipes in our homes. Borates, which aid crop growth, and titanium, which is used inpaint. ## Tidal Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential. ## Hostplus - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Renewable Energy Join our leading Australian superannuation fund, committed to putting our members first, with a low admin fee and strong returns. Become a member today! ## Origin Energy - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Corporate Round, Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Mobile Connect your energy with Origin Energy - an Award Winning Electricity Provider & Gas Supplier. We also offer NBN internet, LPG, and custom solar solutions ## JEKARA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Renewable Energy Jekara Group is an early-stage venture capital business established by Australia's most successful cleantech collaboration. ## Andrew Rogers - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Renewable Energy Andrew Rogers is an individual investor. ## luxem - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Renewable Energy luxem ## Emlyn Scott - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Emlyn has spent more than 30 years navigating the complex landscapes of finance, financial markets and technology as a founder, public company CEO, angel investor, VC investor and fund manager. He's had the opportunity to make over 70 venture capital investments in innovative companies like Nutromics, DataRobot, Calm App, Cerebras Systems,Skylark Labs, Zainar, and Kami, and a similar number personally as an angel. He is a founder of OpenMarkets Group, one of Australia's largest online brokers. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s second largest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: - Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) - Masters Business Administration (MBA) - Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI) - Bachelor of Economics (BEc) ## CSIRO - Type: VC Fund - Location: Campbell, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Grant - Focus: Health Care, Software, Agriculture As Australia's national science agency and innovation catalyst, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. ## Mirvac Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Energy, Fashion, E-Commerce Ventures arm of Mirvac Pty Ltd ## Alberts Impact Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Music We back pioneers who share our vision for a better tomorrow. ## Black Sheep Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow. ## Melbourne Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Internet Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country. ## John P. Clifford Jr. - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering Mr. Clifford is Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Travelers, a position he has held since May 2007. Mr. Clifford has led Human Resources for the company since the April 2004 merger of The St. Paul Companies, Inc. and Travelers Property Casualty Corp. Prior to the merger, he led Human Resources for The St. Paul Companies after beingpromoted to Senior Vice President of Human Resources in 2002. Mr. Clifford, who has more than 30 years’ experience in Human Resources, joined The St. Paul Companies in 1984 as a compensation analyst. He was promoted to Compensation Manager later that year; to Compensation and Benefits Officer in 1994; and to Vice President of Compensation and Benefits in 1999. ## Climate Venture Capital Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Renewable Energy Climate Venture Capital Fund invests in disruptive New Zealand climate-tech companies driving decarbonisation and returns. Acceptable Managed Fund for AIP Visa investors. ## Energy Estate - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy Energy Estate provides strategic consulting, transaction advisory ​and project development services to the global energy sector. ## Euroz Hartleys - Type: VC Fund - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Legal, Energy, Internet WA's trusted financial services business specialising in the provision of wealth management, stockbroking, corporate finance and institutional sales. ## Westoz Funds Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy Westoz Funds Management is focused on investing in small to mid-cap ASX listed securities, generally connected to Western Australia. ## Providence Asset Group - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Solar, Energy, Battery Investor in renewable energy businesses ## Vestas Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, CleanTech With our strategic partnerships we are taking our collaboration initiatives to the next level. The partnerships range from strategic awareness campaign to commercial partnerships. ## DRW - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency DRW is a diversified trading firm innovating across both traditional and cutting-edge markets. ## Shearwater Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Edgecliff, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Marketplace Shearwater Capital is a $100m venture fund which has three founders as partners. We're investing our own capital. We invest in founders who we like and trust, and who are passionate about building generationally great companies. ## Direct Capital Private Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity - Focus: Software, CRM, Energy Direct Capital is a private equity manager established in 1994. Today Direct Capital remains owned and managed by three of its founding directors, Ross George, Mark Hutton and Bill Kermode. The team has grown to 13 investment professionals, who together have 110 years of private equity experience.Direct Capital seeks to be a pre-eminentprovider of equity capital to Australasian businesses lacking ready access to the stock market, with a focus on increasing shareholder wealth in private companies, and assisting shareholders to release value. ## Amit Shanbhag - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Apps, Finance Amit Shanbhag is the Founder and Founding Director at Rocketreach.co. Amit Shanbhag is also an angel investor, and has authored numerous patents in data science. ## AGL Energy - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Series A, Series B - Focus: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy AGL is one of Australia's leading integrated energy companies, and the largest ASX listed owner, operator and developer of renewable energy generation in the country. Drawing on over 175 years of experience, AGL operates retail and merchant energy businesses, power generation assets and an upstream gas portfolio. AGL also has one ofAustralia's largest retail energy and dual fuel customer bases. AGL has a diverse power generation portfolio including base, peaking and intermediate generation plants, spread across traditional thermal generation as well as renewable sources including hydro, wind, landfill gas and biomass. AGL is taking action toward creating a sustainable energy future for their investors, communities and customers. ## Kiko Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Chemical, Software, Smart Home Kiko is a venture capital firm ## BlueScopeX - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Timber, Software, Construction BlueScopeX is the corporate venture capital arm of BlueScope Steel. The company invests in decarbonization throughout the steel production value chain, as well as technologies that improve building and construction. ## Lightbank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software Lightbank VC is a $700M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage vertically focused AI, consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr(NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Extend, Attain, Paytient and Expel. ## Ampol - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Energy Storage Ampol connects our proud history with everything our business is known for today, our trusted high-quality products, our commitment to customer service, local communities and the largest leading transport fuels network in Australia. ## Hesham Zreik - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster. ## Archangel Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together. ## IAG Firemark Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Insurance, Property Management IAG Firemark Ventures is a corporate venture capital and incubation firm of Insurance Australia Group that began operation in October 2016, with its headquarters in Sydney in Australia and offices in Surry Hills in Australia and Singapore. It seeks to make minority seed, early-stage, and late-stage investments. It prefers to invest in companiesfrom the insurance, financial technology, insurance technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, cybersecurity, and internet of things sectors in Australia and Singapore. ## Clean Energy Finance Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate The Clean Energy Finance Corporation invests using a commercial approach to overcome market barriers and mobilize investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and low emissions technologies. They seek to catalyze and leverage private sector funding for the commercialization and deployment of clean energy technologies necessary for thetransition to a carbon-constrained economy.