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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Australia in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in July 2025

Investor	Retail Australia investments
Flying Fox Ventures	7
Sydney Angels	5
Airtree Ventures	4
Macdoch Ventures	3
Antler	3
January Capital	3
Brisbane Angels	3
Artesian VC	3
AngelList	2
Investible	2
Brendan Hill	2
Eleanor Venture	2
Investec	2
Kurt Alexander	2
Black Sheep Capital	2
Jolimont Global Mining Systems	2
EVP	2
Ariel Luedi	1
Commencer Capital	1
Laurence Escalante	1
Simon Murdoch	1
CVC Capital Partners	1
Skalata	1
Aria Growth Partners	1
Bailador Technology Investments	1
Alium Capital	1
OIF Ventures	1
Gandel Invest	1
Tim Mannah	1
Carthona Capital	1
Adrian MacKenzie	1
Allied Venture Partners	1
Paul Greenberg	1
Square Peg Capital	1
William Welty	1
Jonathan Lui	1
Right Click Capital	1
Insight Partners	1
Co Ventures	1
Inhouse Ventures	1
Jam Pad Investments	1
Perth Angels	1
TEN13	1
Antler Australia	1
Reinventure	1
Blue Sky Private Equity	1
Paul Greenberg	1
Foresight Group	1
Australian Renewable Energy Agency	1
ArdenPoint	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

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
EverYoung AI — Everyoung AI is a pioneering organization in the field of Aged Care, utilizing advanced AI technology to enhance the quality of life for seniors. They are committed to building evolutionary AI solutions and have a vision to revolutionize Aged Care with new technology. Everyoung AI is inviting interns to join their team and contribute to theirmission of redefining Aged Care through innovative AI solutions. Their goal is to make Aged Care more personalized, efficient, and accessible, and they are dedicated to nurturing fresh talent in pursuit of this meaningful cause.
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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, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Okkular — Okkular is an AI based fashion tech startup.
Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.
Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
Gridsight — Gridsight helps electrical utilities transition to a decentralised grid by creating 90%-accurate, AI-powered load flow models. These models enable utilities to safely and efficiently support more residential solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Based on CEO Brendan Banfield's PhD research, Gridsight was founded in 2020 to accelerate the transition to renewables.
Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.

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

Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
Primary — Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways.
Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rovers — Global Agricultural IP Company
Vern — Made with love in Sydney
Whisper — Whisper offers next-gen, real-time threat intelligence by leveraging a vast semantic graph built from 45 billion interconnected data points.

We partner with exceptional technology companies in the Asia-Pacific region, providing flexible capital solutions to amplify their growth ambitions.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Omni HR — Omni HR helps companies automate the end-to-end employee journey including onboarding, time off, employee management, and more. Easy to use and customizable!
Confident AI — Confident AI offers open-source unit testing solutions for applications utilizing large language models (LLMs).
Netbank — Netbank provides various banking solutions like alternative lenders, payment solutions, neobanks, and wallets.

Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Tendl — Write tenders faster with Tendl's AI tool. Keep your data private and secure. Easy installation, no sharing. Boost productivity and streamline your contract opportunities.
Shopfront — Shopfront provides tools for automated list generation, publishing, managing, and delisting of products across various marketplaces.
Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.

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, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
Strong Room AI — Software that enables high-strength care through streamlined workflows, continuous analytics, surfaced insights and safeguarded data.
SAMA Fertility — SAMA Fertility is a virtual fertility clinic that offers fertility care and treatments, including preservation and evaluation services.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

axiTrust — Trust Platform serving MSMEs with Technology and Consulting towards obtaining Surety Bonds
Phonicx AI — An AI-powered task management website template designed to streamline workflows, showcase features, and help users stay organized with ease and efficiency.
Whisper Software — Whisper Software is an AI-powered sales chatbot to grow fans business.

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

Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
Kite Magnetics — Electric motors enabling electric aircraft of all sizes to fly further, carry more and emit less. The future of aviation is electric.
Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.

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, Series A, 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.

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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 — AI and social listening driven marketplace, backed by education to create #SmarterInfluence and drive ROI for brands in esports and gaming.
iluminr — The award-winning solution for engaging teams and building response capability, empowering them to effectively tackle any disruption head-on.

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Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Master Plastics — Master Plastics develops sustainable flexible packaging and synthetic fabrics for industries, including food, agriculture, and construction.
Valency International — Valency International engages in selling and buying agriculture, fertilizer, industrial and other commodities.
Onyx Renewable Partners — Onyx guides your every step toward a cleaner future. Established in 2014, Onyx offers clean energy, solar, and decarbonization solutions throughout the United States.

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.

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

Kleecks — Kleecks is an innovative SaaS platform that optimises performance marketing activities, improves website health and speed in real-time, and has a significant impact on businesses by increasing revenues, lowering costs, and accelerating time-to-market
Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
Project Manda — Transform your workspace with Project Manda's AI-driven platform. Analyse company meetings, receive actionable recommendations, and boost staff productivity and ROI

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.

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, United States

Portfolio highlights

Modii — Modii is a leading provider of smart parking solutions, dedicated to transforming the way parking and mobility are managed and experienced through a unified platform of digital infrastructure, data integration, and parking intelligence. By integrating cutting-edge technology with user-friendly platforms, Modii helps institutions, organizations, andurban areas optimize their parking operations, improve efficiency, and enhance user satisfaction by enabling thoughtful parking planning through data-driven insights. For more information about Modii visit modii.co.
splose — splose isn’t just practice management software. It's your ally in handling the ins-and-outs of running a practice and a savvy tool for growth. At splose, we are dedicated to continuously improving and embracing the power of AI and automation to give healthcare professionals like you more time to focus on what matters most.
InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.

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 — Elevate your enterprise operations, accelerate innovation, and enhance human performance with reliable and accurate generative AI that employees trust.
Fluent Commerce — Fluent Commerce, a leading order management system, improves the customer experience, optimizes fulfillment & solves inventory visibility issues. Learn more!

Commencer Capital is a capital partner for founders and their emerging companies in Australia and New Zealand.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

mx51 — Obsessed with the merchant experience.
Tiliter — Tiliter's tech increases supermarket efficiency reduces loss and gives your shoppers a more convenient checkout experience.

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

Investment focus

Dairy, Retail, Automotive
Seed, Funding Round
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.

Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.

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

Portfolio highlights

Odevo — We are on a mission to become the leading force within property management and residential services through the combined power of people and technology. Join us.
Hempel — We help you protect your most valuable assets with our high-quality coatings
DealStack — Dealstack is the operating system for private capital, built for private capital, by private capital professionals.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Pre-Seed, Seed
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TALY — TALY is a platform that is designed to find, manage and retain employees from both perfromance and personality for business development.
Viewa — Viewa is an augmented reality(AR) content publishing platform that brings print media such as magazines to life in 3D.
Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.

Experienced consumer growth equity investors providing capital and elevated partnership to extraordinary consumer brands.

Investment focus

Cosmetics, Beauty, Retail
Private Equity, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Onda — Onda is a spirits brand for a new generation of drinkers. Onda’s first product is a line of canned sparkling tequila beverages, made with blanco tequila and real, legit fruit. Onda’s beverages are all 5% ABV, 100 calories, zero sugar, zero carbs and naturally gluten free. Onda’s brand is inspired by the surf style of the ‘90s.
LesserEvil — From source to snack, LesserEvil is dedicated to creating clean, healthy snacks that are as tasty as they are guilt-free. Start your journey to better snacking!
Ultra Violette — Shop Ultra Violette Australia face & body SPF. Skincare & sun protection in one. Buy now with AfterPay & free delivery on orders $50+ Aus-wide.

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.
Hapana — Elevate your fitness business with Hapana - The Ultimate Fitness Studio Software. Streamline operations, engage clients, and boost growth effortlessly.
updoc — Updoc provides a simple and accessible healthcare platform. Over 100,000 Aussies use updoc to easily connect with registered Australian Partner Practitioners who if suitable can provide medical advice, online medical certificates & prescriptions. 1,000+ 5-star reviews. Available after hours and on weekends, with Partner Practitioners online 9am-10pm, 7 days a week.

Alium Capital focuses on listed and unlisted technology investments to generate out-sized returns. The company invests in technology, innovation, and early-stage businesses, all the way through to publicly listed assets. It specializes in the fields of finance, investing, innovation, and capital.Alium Capital was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Academy Xi — At Academy Xi, we help APAC's largest and most sophisticated organisations optimise performance with concise, actionable training solutions.
DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,265,396 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!

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

Trusst AI — TrusstGPT puts Generative AI technology in the hands of operations teams to power any customer experience (CX) use case.
Factor House — Here for Engineers
Ideally — Remarkably affordable, fast, robust and accessible research to inform and develop your ideas, concepts and products. Join us on our mission to make consumer testing a place ideas go to grow.

Providing strategic capital and expertise to established and growth businesses around the globe.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
Singularity — Portal Gate operates as a compliant on-chain gateway to privacy and anonymity.
LightLink — EVM-compatible, optimistic-rollup Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain offering a gasless Enterprise Mode.

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.

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.

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

Rokt Calendar — 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.

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Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Bavovna AI — Bavovna Inc., a Delaware C-corp, is a dual-use tech company primarily focusing on AI-driven alternative navigation for Unmanned Vehicles operating in GPS-denied and Electronic Warfare (EW) threatened environments. Bavovna combines fully NDAA complaint modular hardware and SaaS AI software for aerial, surface, and subsurface UV platforms to addressmalicious and natural challenges to Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems. Bavovna has tested its solutions widely in Ukraine, EMEA, and the US for different types of UAVs, including VTOL, fixed-wing, multi-copters, and surface and underwater vehicles.
ROOK — RookMotion offers heart rate monitoring technology based on effort zone training for you and your fitness business. Train smart and reach the next level.
stealth — Stealth provides high performance industrial grade computers & peripherals that include Mini PCs, Rack Servers, LCDs & Keyboards.

Paul Greenberg is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Retail, Retail Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

ReciMe — The #1 app to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook & more!
Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.

Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform
AI Hay — AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community.

William Welty

Investment focus

Mining, Retail, Medical
Seed
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.

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!

Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

black.ai — Build smarter spaces with Black.ai
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

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Xelix — Empower your AP & P2P teams with Xelix: AI-powered software that prevents overpayments & delivers meaningful insights around working capital.
Delve — Delve speeds up the process of achieving HIPAA compliance.
Asylon — Asylon created a complete robotic security solution, allowing aerial security drones and ground security robots to automatically patrol and respond to alarms.

Co Ventures: Empowering pre-seed founders to create billion-dollar global companies from day one. Australia's first specialist pre-seed venture capital fund.

Investment focus

Travel, Professional Services
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Build Club — Build Club is a home for big dreams and top builders where the world's top AI builders gather. The company is a team of a global network of engineers, researchers, and founders building at the frontier of AI.
Shopfront — Shopfront provides tools for automated list generation, publishing, managing, and delisting of products across various marketplaces.
Matilda Migration — Migration made simple. Specialising in Employer Sponsored visas and Partner visas. With a 99% success rate for ultimate peace of mind. Visit us now.

We are the #1 place for founders, industry leaders and VC to match, advise and invest faster. The ecosystem is messy so we made it simple.

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Marketplace
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Shopfront — Shopfront provides tools for automated list generation, publishing, managing, and delisting of products across various marketplaces.

JamPad is the family office of Paul & Adele Greenberg, investing in future-focused Australian Early Stage Startup Funding start up funding and purpose-driven ventures

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Marketplace
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Shopfront — Shopfront provides tools for automated list generation, publishing, managing, and delisting of products across various marketplaces.

Formed in late 2010, then known as the Western Australian Angel Investors In. the Perth Angels is a network of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in Perth, Western Australia.WA Angel Investors are members of the Australian Association of Angel Investors Ltd (AAAI) and support the AustralianPrivate Equity and Venture Capital Association Ltd (AVCAL).

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Marketplace
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Shopfront — Shopfront provides tools for automated list generation, publishing, managing, and delisting of products across various marketplaces.
Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
Rockfish Data — Generate privacy-preserving data using state-of-the-art deep generative algorithms to operationalize outcome-centric solutions. Our generative data platform is tailored for enterprise operations, addressing critical business needs.
MiLaboratories — Top-notch solutions for adaptive immunity studies

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Australia, Sweden, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

ReFresh — ReFresh is the emotional intelligence platform for modern workplaces. We help companies detect stress, burnout, and disengagement early through analysing patterns in how teams communicate and work.
Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.
Pinatubo Interactive — Pinatubo Interactive is a developer of an AI platform designed for adventure games.

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

InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
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
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.

Blue Sky Private Equity invests in Australian companies to support their growth.Blue Sky is Australia’s leading diversified alternative asset manager.Blue Sky specializes in managing investments across the four major alternative asset classes: private equity, private real estate, real assets and hedge funds. Founded in 2006, Blue Sky has sincegrown to have more than $3.9 billion in fee-earning assets under management and an 11-year investment track record of delivering returns to our investors of 15.0% p.a.1 (net of fees as at 31 December 2017).Blue Sky has a world-class team, a global investor base, offices across Australia and the United States and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:BLA).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HeyLets —
Myriota — Myriota delivers low-cost, low-power satellite IoT connectivity globally. Our technology enables remote monitoring for agriculture, utilities, mining, and more.
Shoes of Prey — Shoes of Prey creates bespoke, hand-made women's shoes designed by the customer, and delivers them to anywhere in the world.Shoes of Prey has grown rapidly over 5 years and has won a number of awards including Online Retailer of the Year and Store Design of the Year at the World Retail Awards in Paris 2013.Founded in 2009, the company isheadquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Paul Greenberg

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Waave — We are giving you back control. Security, visibility and freedom of choice over your money. | Pay by Bank | Wendi | Open Banking
Refundid — Receive your refund in real-time as you decide to make a return. Refundid lets you shop online with confidence, guaranteeing an instant and effortless returns process.
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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Cavero Quantum — A quantum-safe symmetric cryptographic key solution built to last
Isocom Components — Isocom Components 2004 Ltd. is a manufacturer of Optocouplers & Optoswitches Isocom Components is a leading supplier of infrared optoelectronic devices and has been for over thirty years, specialising in Optocouplers. We offer competitive products that are drop-in replacements for all the popular Optocoupler industry standard types as well as our own
DP Medical Systems — DP Medical Systems is a medical supplies company that offers equipment and instruments for ENT 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

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.
Ark Energy — Australia's leading renewable energy company.
Australian Gas Infrastructure Group — The new Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) consists of the Dampier Bunbury Pipeline, Australian Gas Networks and Multinet. Find out more.

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.

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