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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Australia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Retail startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Australia

Investor	Retail Australia investments
Flying Fox Ventures	6
January Capital	3
Artesian VC	3
Airtree Ventures	3
Macdoch Ventures	3
Sydney Angels	2
Jolimont Global Mining Systems	2
Kurt Alexander	2
Investible	2
Black Sheep Capital	2
Antler Australia	1
Eleanor Venture	1
Tim Mannah	1
Luke Brooks	1
Five Elms Capital	1
Allied Venture Partners	1
OIF Ventures	1
Reinventure	1
Thomas Jones	1
AngelList	1
Brendan Hill	1
Seven West Media	1
Right Click Capital	1
Foresight Group	1
Nick Molnar	1
Justus Hammer	1
Southern Cross Venture Partners	1
Partners for Growth	1
Australian Renewable Energy Agency	1
Adrian MacKenzie	1
Skalata	1
Eric Liaw	1
PLUS Ventures	1
EVP	1
Bailador Technology Investments	1
MA Growth Ventures	1
CVC Capital Partners	1
Ariel Luedi	1
Jonathan Lui	1
Andrew Coppin	1
Matt Fayle	1
Wayne Baskin	1
Maurice Ben-Mayor	1
Qualgro VC	1
Laurence Escalante	1
Paul Greenberg	1
Brian Sugar	1
Silas Capital	1
ArdenPoint	1
Carthona Capital	1

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Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

CLT Toolbox — CLT Tool Box: CLT Design Software and Structural design software for CLT to simplify mass timber calculations for Europe, Australia, & New Zealand
Mayday — Streamline your finance team's multi-entity accounting adjustments with Mayday
Citadel — A cloud platform for AWS compliant with CDR, PCI, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA standards, providing security for your application, data, and customers.

January Capital believes that rapid digitalization will continue to occur across all industries over the next decade. This fundamental shift will enable one-of-a-kind possibilities for category-defining enterprises to emerge. They prioritise collaborating with founders who are developing technologies that allow such transformation. They invest fromthe beginning of a company's life cycle, but they may also provide ongoing assistance. They are looking for firms that were developed in or for the Asia-Pacific area. Analysts anticipate that certain themes will drive economic growth in this region over the next several decades.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Singapore, Australia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Fractl — Fractl is the industry's first Generative AI-powered, Zero-Trust, No-code Programming Language.
Inflow — Looking for reliable suppliers and efficient supply chain management for your fashion brand? Look no further than Inflow! Our online platform offers an end-to-end solution for all your production needs, from design to delivery. Simplify and optimize your production process with Inflow's high-quality sourcing and expert supply chain management. Try us out today!
Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Firmable — Firmable is the definitive B2B database in Australia helping businesses drive smarter decisions by knowing more about their leads, customers, and candidates than ever before.
ProcurePro — Unlock procurement, Enable performance.
Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cecil — From nature-based offset projects to biodiversity inventories, we simplify natural asset management for project developers, intermediaries, asset managers and investors.
Riparide — Riparide helps you plan and book your next escape through our Storyteller travel guides. These guides, called Riparide Stories, come packed with unique stays, local adventures and social vibes....
Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Remi AI — A.I-Powered Demand Forecasting, Supply Chain AI, & Price Optimisation | Remi AI
Trendspek — Trendspek is the drone data solution asset managers use to make empowered decisions and ensure absolute asset knowledge. Conduct complete visual inspections from any web browser. Extract detailed insights without a site visit. Use powerful tools to analyse the structure and build a complete picture of asset condition. Enhance predictive maintenanceby closely monitoring trends. View different models side by side to observe important differences. Refine your understanding of an ever-changing asset.
Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.

Resource Capital Funds is a mining-focused alternative investments firm that partners with companies to build strong, successful, and sustainable businesses.

Investment focus

Construction, Software, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

SciAps — SciAps specializes in portable analytical instruments with the power to measure any element. Our industry-leading X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and laser-based (LIBS) analyzers are at work across every major industry.
APE Mobile — APE Mobile develops a paperless site application for contractors in Australia. Its site application comprises features, such as operational forms, safety forms, project management, actions and defects, drawings and documents, and redline markup. David Hayward and Matthew Edwards founded APE Mobile in January 2, 2009. Its headquarters is inLeederville in Australia.
QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

Kurt Alexander

Investment focus

Mining, Retail, Medical
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series C
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Beamible — Get the most for and from your workforce. Deconstruct work down to its individual components so it can be reconstructed to better meet the needs of the business and the employees. Reduce turnover and burnout, enable flex and drive efficiency with Beamible.
Aerotruth — Aerotruth is a B2B SaaS solution which automates the document on-boarding process for banks, financial institutions and fintechs
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.

Australia's only truly global early stage VC, we believe in and back the most ambitious founders from the earliest stage.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Australia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Skipped — Never miss a sale again. Enabling retailers to sell even when a product is out-of-stock.
Geniepay — Geniepay offers embedded B2B payment terms to help enterprise sales teams improve performance.
Yesterday — Transform your recruitment strategy with Hire Yesterday's AI-powered candidate evaluation. Make informed hiring decisions faster, streamline the screening process, and deliver a personalised experience to candidates.

INVEST IN TECH TOGETHER

Investment focus

Education, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Tiliter — Tiliter's tech increases supermarket efficiency reduces loss and gives your shoppers a more convenient checkout experience.
GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.
iluminr — iluminr simplifies the work of agility-building by providing teams with the context, capability, and connectivity to conduct efficient wargaming and gameday response.

Tim Mannah is an Individual investor.

Investment focus

Retail, Retail Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.

Luke Brooks is an NRL player.

Investment focus

Retail, Retail Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.

Five Elms Capital | Growth Equity and Venture Capital Firm

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sendlane — Sendlane is the All-In-One eCommerce Marketing Automation Tool built for turning online shoppers into loyal, lifetime customers. Get started for free today.
ShippyPro — Streamline shipping operations with ShippyPro features: label creation, tracking, returns, and analytics. Over 160+ carriers and 80+ sales channels integrated.
Prismatic — Prismatic is an integration platform for B2B software companies. It builds integrations quickly and delivers a native integration marketplace experience to the customers. Founded in 2019 and is based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States.

Allied Venture Partners is one of Canada’s largest angel investor groups. Our mission is to grow and diversify Western Canada’s technology startup ecosystem by providing local investors with venture-scale investment opportunities from established VC markets, while providing local entrepreneurs with experienced outside capital.Investors can jointhe syndicate by visiting: https://www.allied.vc/join

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Edlink — Edlink provides two-way connections for e-learning and companies and publishers to tackle challenges like single-sign-on (SSO), content integration, and grade pass-back. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States.
Roq.ad — Roqad is an identity solutions provider for a post third-party cookie world. Forward-thinking companies in adtech are our customers.
Vint — Make the wine market investable

OIF is a venture capital firm focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs building businesses.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Zitcha — Zitcha builds own-branded, high-performance, Retail Media Businesses by connecting Retailers and Brands to all marketing channels in one omnichannel platform, onsite, offsite and in-store.
Nullify — Nullify performs product security tasks alongside your developers.
DataMasque — Simply mask your sensitive data while maintaining its function for testing, development, training and analytics. DataMasque makes it safe to explore, implement and harness the opportunities that data provides, free from privacy concerns or compromise.

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.

Thomas Jones is a entrepreneur and founder of Charlotte Street Capital. Previously he worked with SMARTS Group International as a Founder & Executive Director. He attended the University of Sydney and Birkbeck, University of London.

Investment focus

CRM, SaaS, Retail
Angel
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GoSquared — GoSquared is a platform where businesses can understand and communicate with their customers. GoSquared combines analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation in one seamless platform. The company's mission is to help businesses convert more visitors into customers.
Bandicoot Imaging Sciences — The easy, fast and affordable way to create high-quality digital 3D fabrics for fashion, furnishing and interior. Turn your physical fabrics into digital fabrics with just a camera!

Apply privately to 130,000+ remote jobs and startup jobs near you with one application. See salary and equity upfront. Find the latest tech jobs, company overviews, benefits and more at AngelList Talent.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

DOQFY — Doqfy offers online legal documentation , view encumbrance certificate,download,how to get encumbrance certificate & you require e-stamp paper with important documents.
Tap — The first secondary trading platform for private fund secondaries.
The Animal Age — Animal-based metaverse that brings together animal lovers and animal clubs worldwide.

I’m an entrepreneur, angel investor and growth marketer.I started angel investing after my ecommerce startup was acquired in 2016. I love investing because it’s one of the most intellectually stimulating things you can do. You’re constantly learning about new ideas, technologies and gaining a surface level education in many areas. I’ve investedin awesome startups from Fintech, Blockchain, Data, Sharing Economy, Renewable Energy, Health, Podcasting and Computer Vision.As an angel investor, I provide a combination of capital, time, network, and expertise to the startups I invest in.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

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,
Tiliter — Tiliter's tech increases supermarket efficiency reduces loss and gives your shoppers a more convenient checkout experience.
Beforepay — Beforepay understands that traditional pay cycles are a form of financial stress. So we set out to find a better way, giving Australians the control and confidence that comes with managing your own money, on your terms.That’s why we created Pay On Demand™ - a service that allows you to access the money you have earned at work, when you choose todo so. After all, it is yours!The app also automatically predicts when your bills are due, shows you how much is OK for you to spend, and automatically creates budgets for you, effortlessly.

Seven West Media is the leading, listed national multi-platform media business based in Australia. We comprise Seven Television, the leading free to air capital city television network; Pacific Magazines, the country's second largest magazine group by readership; Yahoo!7 one of the nation’s most successful internet platforms, as well asWestern Australia's leading newspaper, The West Australian and associated WA regional newspapers and radio stations. Seven West Media was created through the acquisition of Seven Media Group by West Australian Newspapers Holdings Limited (WAN) as approved by WAN shareholders on 11 April 2011.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series C
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Carbar — Carbar is Australia's first and leading vehicle subscription service. Carbar started off as a virtual car dealership that streamlines the process of selling and buying cars. It also offers a car subscription service, an alternative to car ownership where a customer can get to use a car for a recurring fee. Their car subscription serviceincludes no fixed term-contracts, fully inclusive of insurance, registration, maintenance, roadside assistance and the ability to switch cars depending on your needs.Carbar was founded in 2016.
InStitchu — InStitchu is an online custom clothier specializing in tailor made menswear. Customers are able to design custom made garments online which are then made to their exact measurements.InStitchu provides tailor made, high quality menswear through a simple online ordering process. Once a customer has added measurements to their profile, a suit orshirt can be ordered in a few minutes and on its way in two weeks. There are multiple ways for a customer to get their measurements perfected and enjoy that “perfect fit” InStitchu customers keep coming back for - our measurement guide will take you on a journey from your living room to the hustle and bustle of our tailor’s studio. Customers can choose from a wide range of globally sourced high quality wool and cotton fabrics, and when you’ve chosen, we’ll deliver your design right to your door. This new approach to shopping is stress free and cuts out the middleman, allowing us to deliver customers luxury tailor made suits and shirts without the high price tag.
CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cydarm — A case management platform that enables cybersecurity operations teams to collaborate, integrate, and respond with ease.
Tability — Automate the boring parts of OKRs to cut the waste and spend more time doing what really matters.
Nomad Atomics — At Nomad Atomics, we develop innovative quantum sensors to solve outstanding problems in mining, underground resources and navigation

Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Jersey

Portfolio highlights

Inoviv — Inoviv biomarker tests to support novel therapies
Live Group — Live Group delivers global events and communication strategies to create connections, spark moments, inspire action and deliver better ROI. Find out more.
Family Adventures Group — Family Adventures Group operates as a children's nursery and play provider.

Nick Molnar is Co-Founder and CEO of Afterpay, an innovative digital platform that offers interest-free installment plans for online purchases.Named one of Australia’s fastest-growing fintech companies by IDC, Afterpay offers a “buy-now, pay-later” service that does not require shoppers to enter into a traditional loan or pay any upfront fees orinterest. Earlier in his career, Molnar worked as an investment analyst at venture capital fund M.H. Carnegie & Co., where he was primarily responsible for growth-stage investments. He holds a bachelor’s of commerce degree from the University of Sydney.

Investment focus

Gaming, Retail, PC Games
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.
Untamed Planet — The official Untamed Planet Whitepaper coming June, 2022.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Sunman — Sunman Energy is a technology company founded by a group of industry veterans delivering the future of Solar. Through the research and development of composite materials, Sunman has successfully commercialized the world’s first glass-free, lightweight and flexible Panel – eArc. Replacing glass completely, eArc brings solar power to markets andapplication scenarios that were previously impossible.
Wave Computing — The future of high-tech in online casino is a bright one. For example, RFID technology will help casinos track and identify stolen chips. In addition, these systems can also predict player behavior and betting patterns. The latter are especially useful if a player is caught while he is trying to switch out his cards. These ... Read more
Brisbane Materials Technology — Brisbane Materials aims to be the leading supplier of anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for solar and other applications. Born out of the University of Queensland in 2005, Brisbane Materials builds on six years and significant investment in technology and application experience. Longer term, Brisbane Materials will extend its unique roomtemperature and atmospheric pressure synthesis of glass and ceramic coatings to a wide variety of materials systems and applications.

We partner with companies at an inflection point in their business, who are seeking flexible and customized financing, matched to their trajectory and needs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Tabby — With Tabby, you can split your purchases into 4 interest-free payments at your favourite stores. Download the Tabby app to get started.
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.
Flower Chimp — Best Price online for fresh Flowers by #1 florist in Malaysia with same day FREE Delivery on all orders. Shop for Roses, Sunflowers, Baby Breath flower bouquets & gifts from a wide selection for any occasion at FlowerChimp. Over 200 bouquets, stands and hampers to choose from - all prepared by experienced professionals

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) improves the competitiveness and increases the supply of renewable energy in Australia.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Energy Storage
Grant, Funding Round, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chargefox — Welcome to Australia's largest EV charging network. Powered by 100% renewable energy and Australian owned and operated, we're connecting Electric Vehicle drivers with a cleaner future.
AGL 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.
Sundrive Solar — SunDrive Solar is a Wollongong based technology start-up creating lower cost, higher efficiency, more material abundant solar cells.

Adrian MacKenzie is a Director on the Board of Ascender, and founder of 5V Capital, where he has made several successful investments in both established and venture capital businesses. His recent success includes the acquisition of Ascender, becoming the major shareholder in Madman Film & Entertainment, and the successful exit of his investmentin Mysale, where he remains a director. His venture capital investments include Canva, Standard Media Index, ImageBrief and Parcelpoint.Prior to 5VC, Adrian was Managing Partner and board member at private equity firm CVC Capital Partners (London), where he worked on numerous transactions before moving to Hong Kong to help establish the Asia Pacific business, and then to Sydney to open the Australian office. During this time, he completed many significant transactions including Pacific Brands, Tech Pacific, Affinity Healthcare and Nine Entertainment. Having become a Managing Partner and board member, Adrian left CVC after 17 years in 2012. Adrian’s career began in corporate finance with J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co Ltd, in the London and New York offices.Adrian holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in engineering and economics.

Investment focus

Advertising, TV, Real Estate
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

CalReply — Drive results and measure impact with personalized outreach to each customer, sent when subscribers are most likely to engage with Rokt Calendar.
ImageBrief — ImageBrief is an online marketplace that connects image buyers with a global network of professional photographers. Buyers can post a brief for an immediate image requirement and photographers submit images that are tailored to the buyer's request.Targeted at advertising agencies, marketing departments, magazines and graphic designers,ImageBrief provides an alternative solution for image buyers who no longer wish to spend hours trawling through image stock libraries. ImageBrief is not a stock library but is a crowd sourced buyer-driven marketplace connecting image buyers and photographers. By letting buyers outline their needs within a brief and allowing photographers to respond, it turns the traditional image buying process on its head. ImageBrief provides a new way for buyers to source rights-managed images that perfectly match their usage and exclusivity requirements. Photographers ensure that their image meets the requirements before submitting, which means buyers only see images they can actually use.ImageBrief also allows buyers and photographers to interact and collaborate directly while working on the brief. Both buyers and photographers can ask questions, provide each other with feedback, or clarify requirements. Perhaps the greatest difference however is that buyers establish their usage requirements and budget up-front. This allows photographers to understand the terms of the brief and to decide whether to respond.
ParcelPoint — Our vision is a world where people are more connected to their community. Parcelpoint has over 1400 locations to pickup or drop off your online orders.

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.

Eric Liaw is the General Partner of IVP. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Australia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Volt.io — Increase retention and digital sales by allowing your customers to initiate direct payments, from their bank accounts to yours in real-time. Your checkout in super-drive, powered by Volt.
Wedding Spot — Wedding Spot is the first online marketplace that allows users to search, price, and book thousands of wedding venues. Working directly with venues, Wedding Spot gathers all the information required to allow newly engaged couples to easily search for venues based on budget, location, style, and guest count. Users can "build out" theirideal wedding day by selecting specific services and options to see a price estimate and then book a venue viewing appointment with one click of a button. Wedding Spot’s proprietary technology enables wedding venues to manage their entire wedding booking process on its platform, including acquiring customers, organizing content, and marketing inventory. Launched in August 2013, Wedding Spot is based in San Francisco, CA and is backed by leading VC investors.
Local Threads — Local Threads is the best price value marketplace for Australia's top independent fashion brands. Find your fit for any occasion at Local Threads with over 150 ethical clothing brands and 6000 products to choose from. We ensure that all our products are Australian, and are committed to being ethical and sustainable.

PLUS Ventures, part of the Moldawsky Group, is the first multi-vehicle early-stage investment firm - a structure which enables the company to tailor the right investment suited for each venture's specific needs.PLUS's investment specialization is in Israeli early stage, fast growth technology and media ventures. Its mission is to takea hands-on approach and help great entrepreneurs create great companies.In addition to, and as important as, straight-up cash, PLUS puts its long-term expertise, skills, and ecosystem to work with, and for, its portfolio companies.PLUS Ventures is one of the most active early-stage investors in Israel, and plans to continue to be a dominant player in this field for years to come.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Video
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
Evrideo — Evrideo provied end-to-end cloud broadcasting platform, enabling to easily create and manage channels, using broadcast SaaS technology solution
DocAuthority — DocAuthority is developing a revolutionary document control solution. DocAuthority solves this by automatically discovering and accurately identifying unprotected sensitive documents, thus enabling a broad yet business-friendly security policy. The company introduces a unique approach that enables IT professionals as well as business users todefine business aligned security policies to control documents' usage throughout the organization.

EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nexl — Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential.
Servicely — Servicely is your AI-Powered Service Management Platform. Request a Demo
Programa — Programa is an all-in-one platform for professional designers, brands, renovators, and homeowners.Programa’s project management software seeks to solve workflow problems for the A&D industry to help them run projects more efficiently, and to seamlessly integrate with brands to make quoting and procurement far easier.

Bailador is a growth capital fund that focuses on the IT and media sectors, managed by an experienced team with demonstrated sector expertise. The company supports its portfolio companies in subsequent rounds of funding through their own participation and with introductions to larger international growth expansion funds. It assists in thepreparation and management of fundraising, M&A activity, and pre-IPO processes. The portfolio businesses of the company are DocsCorp, Click Loans Group, Rezdy, Stackla, iPRO Solutions, and SiteMinder.Bailador is an Australia-based company that was founded in 2010 by Paul Wilson and David Kirk.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Rosterfy — Connect to your volunteers with a comprehensive & user-friendly platform where you can recruit, retain, reward and train your volunteers.
InstantScripts — InstantScripts (instantscripts.com.au) is Australia’s leading online prescription service. Launched in 2018, the fast-growing platform allows Australians to access prescriptions online for more than 300 common medicines, delivered to their door or their local pharmacy. InstantScripts’ partnerships with more than 2500 pharmacies across Australia hashelped more than 300,000 Australians access their everyday medicines online. The InstantScripts Telehealth service connects Australians to a team of GPs seven days a week for health advice, online medical certificates and pathology requests. Visit instantscripts.com.au.
Access Telehealth — Connecting people. Improving health outcomes. At Access Telehealth, we connect patients, GPs, specialists and Therapists through our secure, easy-to-use software. Access Telehealth - Connecting People, Improving Health Outcomes

MA Financial Group's Asset Management division manages investments for institutional & wholesale investors across real estate, credit, private equity & venture capital.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Sonder — Our digital care platform improves organisational culture by delivering immediate safety, medical & mental health services to your people. Improve your wellbeing strategy and create a culture of Active care today.
Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms
Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.

CVC has seven complementary strategies across private equity, secondaries and credit, through which we invest on behalf of pension funds and other leading institutions

Investment focus

Software, Retail, Financial Services
Private Equity, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

TOPdesk — TOPdesk is an independent, international provider of service management solutions based in Antwerp. We are a proud, young, innovative organization with commitment, trust and respect for each other and our customers. We help our customers to satisfy their customers. TOPdesk delivers user-friendly products and targeted services that bring complexservice processes to the essence. This enables service organizations to better focus on their core business and supporting role. TOPdesk was founded in 1993 as a manufacturer of service management software. Over the past twenty years, TOPdesk has turned out to be an independent, reliable company that has developed into a major, well-known player in the service management market. At that time, the company has grown into an international company with eight foreign offices and more than 500 employees.
Sunday Natural — Sunday Natural develops various kinds of organic, plant-based, and healthy products. It offers vitamins, supplements, fruits, vegetables, tea, skincare items and cosmetics that are made with scientific and clinical research. Sunday Natural is based in Berlin, Germany.
Skybox Security — Global security posture management leader with solutions for vulnerability management and network security policy management. Learn more.

Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Augmented Reality
Seed, Series A, Angel
Switzerland, Austria, Australia

Portfolio highlights

CREAL — CREAL makes Hi-Fi light-field projector for smart eyewear which ultimately everyone will use everyday for everything from cooking to neurosurgery.
Squirro — Empower your enterprise decision-making with SquirroGPT's generative AI, enabling smarter decisions, evidence-based answers, and enterprise-grade security.
Fluent Commerce — Fluent Commerce, a leading order management system, improves the customer experience, optimizes fulfillment & solves inventory visibility issues. Learn more!

Jonathan is a director and a founding member of the Tank Stream Ventures Investment Committee.Jonathan is a technology entrepreneur with a extensive experience as a founder, investor and advisor with expert knowledge in online and telecommunications industries. He is a co-founder and COO of Airtasker where he heads up all IT and product developmentoperations.Jonathan is a founding director of Tank Stream Labs and is the co-author of a “Wireless LAN based Indoor Positioning” study published in 2007 which has been presented internationally.As a founding team member and project manager for amaysim, Jonathan worked directly with the COO to build a web based MVNO which achieved one of the fastest telecommunications service provider rollouts in Australia. Prior to this, Jonathan was an executive at IBM where he managed Westpac’s IT infrastructure projects. He is also an entrepreneur within the music industry as a founder of event management group Infinity Productionz.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Lifestyle
Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

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.
Cake — Here at Cake Equity we make equity easier to use. Grow your company, reward your team, eliminate the hassle. Sign up for FREE today!

Andrew Coppin - Advisor @ DisruptSports.com

Investment focus

Retail, Logistics, 3D Printing
Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
Freight Exchange Pty Ltd — Multi-Carrier Shipping Software | TMS | FMS | ERP

Matt Fayle - CEO & Founder @ TheLoop

Investment focus

Retail, 3D Printing, Sporting Goods
Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.

Wayne Baskin is Chief Technology Officer at Booktopia.

Investment focus

Retail, Retail Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.

Maurice Ben-Mayor is the president of Stryker South Pacific.

Investment focus

Retail, Retail Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.

Qualgro is a venture capital (VC) fund based in Singapore that provides funding to tech startups across Southeast Asia, in areas like Data, Software, and AI.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
Singapore, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Convosight — World's #1 platform to monetize your Facebook group, engage members and get deep insights into what is working in your community.
Accredify — Build digital trust for your organisation with verifiable information. Issue instantly verifiable digital documents and simplify document management processes.
Supermom — Supermom helps parents make the right decisions on what to buy and where to buy at the lowest prices. Best prices guaranteed for millions of mom, baby & kids products.

Laurence Escalante is the Founder and CEO at Virtual Gaming Worlds.

Investment focus

Retail, Automotive, Publishing
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Bae Juice — 100% Korean pear juice
CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

Paul Greenberg is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Retail, Retail Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.

Brian Sugar is the Managing Partner of Sugar Capital. He is a Founder at POPSUGAR.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AirRobe — Empowering the collaborative consumption of luxury consumer goods.
Murmur — Murmur is a collaborative platform where teams decide how they want to work together.
Disco — Co-op commerce is a network of the world's best brands partnering together to grow.

A Growth Equity & Venture Capital Firm for Consumer Products Companies

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Lifestyle
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Vacation® — Excessively good sunscreen
Cake — 18K Followers, 6,705 Following, 859 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cake (@hellocake)
Makeup by Mario — Shop the official MAKEUP BY MARIO collection from renowned makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic. Luxury makeup crafted to deliver a professional makeup experience for anyone who loves and is inspired by makeup. Shop MAKEUP BY MARIO eye collection.

ArdenPoint is a Sydney based entrepreneurial investment firm that brings together opportunities, talent and capital.Our mission is to partner with business builders who are defining and enabling the next generation of businesses, products & services.The Founding Partners have worked together for 10 years leading investments, strategyand portfolio management.We are active hands on investors with extensive operational & entrepreneurial experience.We are based in Sydney with a global network of entrepreneurs, advisors and investors in Hong Kong and London.

Investment focus

Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

ParcelPoint — Our vision is a world where people are more connected to their community. Parcelpoint has over 1400 locations to pickup or drop off your online orders.

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CNaught — CNaught is an online platform that helps companies to purchase a diversified portfolio of carbon offsets.
NayaOne — Revolutionise your financial institution with NayaOne's Sandbox as a Service platform. Accelerate innovation, reduce risks, and partner with top-tier fintechs.
Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.

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