Top 10 Restaurants Startup Investors in Australia in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Restaurants Startup Investors in Australia in May 2025

Investor	Restaurants Australia investments
Antler	2
Scott Heyes	2
Justus Hammer	2
Reinventure	1
Chris Morris	1
Investible	1
Adrian Di Marco	1
Melbourne Angels	1
Robert	1
Marat Kichikov	1

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!

Scott Heyes is a CFO at Mendoza Ventures. He Attended Columbia Business School.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Foodini — Foodini is an app that enables users to develop a customized profile of their dietary requirements and connects those with food allergies and intolerances with the restaurants and menu items that are most suitable for them.

Justus is a seasoned entrepreneur who has been working in the technology space for over a decade. First as a founder of Spreets and later as an investor and advisor to other startups such as Airtasker. His latest venture is Sellable with which he plans to revolutionise the real estate landscape in Australia.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, FinTech
Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Upstreet — 'NextGen Loyalty Solution', 'FinTech', 'Share Trading', 'Marketing Solution', 'B2B', 'B2C', 'DtC', "Share Rewards"
Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
Foodini — Foodini is an app that enables users to develop a customized profile of their dietary requirements and connects those with food allergies and intolerances with the restaurants and menu items that are most suitable for them.

Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally.With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner,Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand

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
Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!

Chris is a founding member of Computershare Limited (established in 1978) and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 1990. Chris’ extensive knowledge of the securities industry and its user requirements from both a national and international perspective, coupled with his passion and long term strategic vision, have been instrumental in developingComputershare into a global company that is unique in its provision of a full range of solutions to meet the needs of listed companies and their stakeholders.Chris became the Computershare Group's Executive Chairman in November 2006 and relinquished his executive responsibilities in September 2010. Chris was last re-elected in 2012, but retains the role of Non-Executive Chairman. Chris now brings his extensive experience guiding Computershare to the board of Smart Parking.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Apps
Angel, Series A, Post-IPO Equity
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Adslot — Pioneering the next generation of media. Advancing how brands, agencies and publishers collaborate. Learn more about Adslot Media and Symphony.
Aston Club — Aston Club is a mobile app that allows patrons to pay for food and beverage in bars, restaurants and pubs through their mobile phone. Aston Club is a simple, secure, and fast Point-of-sale integrated payment solution that aims to help hospitality venues increase their bar efficiency and table turnover, improve the customer experience, and enhancepayment security.
Auga Technologies Limited — Auga Technologies is a high-growth technology company building a dominant global position in the facilitation of real-time audience engagement and insight.

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

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.

Mr Di Marco founded TechnologyOne in 1987, after extensive software industry experience in the area of large scale fixed time and fixed price software development projects to meet client-specific requirements. Mr Di Marco has more than 30 years' experience in the software industry. He is responsible for all operational aspects of TechnologyOneand its strategic direction.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Restaurants
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Restoplus — Checkout our point of sale, website, online ordering, qr code table ordering, and table booking. Contact our experts to learn more.
Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
Factory.app — Software for fabricators to create orders, collaborate on work, track jobs and communicate with customers from one location.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Aurtra — Aurtra delivers highly cost-effective asset management solutions for power distribution transformers through online condition monitoring and state of the art analysis.They provide the insight to significantly reduce capital costs through maximum asset utilisation. Aurtra is an Australian company, based in sunny Brisbane, Australia. Aurtra wasincorporated in 2016 and has built its IP upon a foundation of world’s best practice technology from The University of Queensland, following a decade of transformer research between academia and industry. Aurtra’s three founders, all with success commercialising hardware and software technology, recognised the potential of the technology and its beneficial impact for asset management in the power distribution industry.
Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
Seitec — Seitec is a security company that manufactures seismic security applications and instruments for civilian and military markets.

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Investment focus

Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Foodini — Foodini is an app that enables users to develop a customized profile of their dietary requirements and connects those with food allergies and intolerances with the restaurants and menu items that are most suitable for them.

Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!