Top 10 Restaurants Startup Investors in Australia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC 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

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

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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, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

CarbonHQ — CarbonHQ is your all-in-one platform making it easy to manage carbon projects across teams. Internal and external.
Tability — Automate the boring parts of OKRs to cut the waste and spend more time doing what really matters.
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.

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

Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more.
Kepler Analytics — Kepler uses retail in-store analytics to provide retail managers with unprecedented insight into shopper behaviour and create amazing customer experiences.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

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.

Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PropCode — PropCode is a online platform, that helps in researching for town planning queries. the rules can be complex, and make it easy to get the right answers.
Tability — Automate the boring parts of OKRs to cut the waste and spend more time doing what really matters.
Omni Biotech — Omni Biotech builds health and performance algorithms that work on all hardware platforms.

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.
Factory.app — Software for fabricators to create orders, collaborate on work, track jobs and communicate with customers from one location.
Smartabase — Human performance optimization software helps elite sports teams & military organizations with data-driven, performance-enhancing solutions

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"
Mon Purse — Superior quality leather accessories for both women & men. Add your monogram to our cosmetic cases, bags, pouches, phone cases, travel and tech accessories.
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.

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.

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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!