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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Oceania in November 2024

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

Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Oceania in November 2024

Investor	Retail Oceania investments
Flying Fox Ventures	7
Airtree Ventures	4
EVP	3
Macdoch Ventures	3
January Capital	3
Artesian VC	3
Black Sheep Capital	2
K1W1	2
Eleanor Venture	2
AngelList	2
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund	2
Kurt Alexander	2
Sydney Angels	2
Jolimont Global Mining Systems	2
Investec	2
Investible	2
Brendan Hill	2
Carthona Capital	1
Andrew Coppin	1
Skalata	1
Foresight Group	1
Alium Capital	1
Aria Growth Partners	1
Melbourne Angels	1
Nick Molnar	1
Wayne Baskin	1
Tidal Ventures	1
Insight Partners	1
Paul Greenberg	1
Square Peg Capital	1
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund	1
Blue Sky Private Equity	1
Simon Murdoch	1
Icehouse Ventures	1
Commencer Capital	1
Five Elms Capital	1
NewRoad Capital Partners	1
Eric Liaw	1
Matt Rockman	1
Seven West Media	1
Qualgro VC	1
Bailador Technology Investments	1
Tim Ringel	1
Luke Brooks	1
Allied Venture Partners	1
CVC Capital Partners	1
Australian Renewable Energy Agency	1
Partners for Growth	1
Craig Winkler	1
Gandel Invest	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

Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
Mayday — Streamline your finance team's multi-entity accounting adjustments with Mayday
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.

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
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Singapore

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.
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.
SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.

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

CorePlan — CorePlan is drilling management platform for mining, exploration and drilling companies to digitise their drill program operations. Move from pen, paper and spreadsheets to digital plods, drill planning, rig management, safety compliance and more using our cloud based software.
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.
InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.

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.

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, Financial Services
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!
Kargo Technologies — Kargo adalah layanan logistik online yang menyediakan solusi pengiriman barang yang mudah, cepat, dan terpercaya. Temukan layanan yang dapat diandalkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengiriman Anda.

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

Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
Sova Health — Sova Health is a precision nutrition platform that guides users towards a healthier lifestyle with personalized nutrition advice based on accurate blood biomarker analysis. Understand what is stopping you from achieving your nutritional goal and get your personalized nutrition plan.

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 | Next-generation Enterprise Optimisation Platform
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.
Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.

K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative

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 — The award-winning solution for engaging teams and building response capability, empowering them to effectively tackle any disruption head-on.

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

Portfolio highlights

PAXAFE — PAXAFE's platform provides end-to-end visibility capable of answering who, what, when, where and how for all your shipments
Bemi — Bemi is an automatic audit trail for Postgres that tracks data changes reliably without the engineering complexity and costly infrastructure: Bemi Captures and stores data changes with 100% reliability and accuracy.
Roga — Fast, effective relief from stress whenever you need it

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Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
New Zealand, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure

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.

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

Trendspek — Make confident decisions on high-value infrastructure with speed, safety, and precision. Use Trendspek's intuitive 3D environment to interactively report asset conditions, streamline the O&M phase with advanced workflow tools, and securely share insights with global teams for informed decision-making. Empowering teams in 20+ countries.
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.

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Voltera — Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. They are challenged by the fact that charging infrastructure does not exist in the right place, at the right time, or of the right type necessary to support planned EV deployments. They're also challenged by the complexity of siting, building, owning, andoperating EV charging infrastructure without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital.
Recurrent Energy — As a leading provider of distributed solar power, Recurrent Energy is overcoming the barriers to widespread solar adoption, making renewable energy a practical choice for today's large scale energy users. They are a developer and owner of locally-sited solar power systems, selling clean electricity to their customers worldwide at competitiverates via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) or Feed-in Tariffs (FiT). In return, their utility, commercial, and government customers achieve energy independence, predictable pricing, and enhanced sustainability.
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.

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

Decarice — Explore DeCarice's hydrogen retrofit technology to significantly reduce carbon emissions from your existing diesel fleet. Decarbonize with innovative solutions for a sustainable future.
Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Josef — Automate lawyer-client conversations, document drafting and providing legal services. Josef is a software platform with a chatbot interface.
Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
SafeStack — SafeStack Academy is the New Zealand online cyber security, privacy and secure development training company.

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

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

Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
WhyHive — WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses.
LoveHeart — LoveHeart is an AI educator-aide that streamlines child development documentation. Write learning stories, journals, plans, and reflections in seconds. Trusted by leading educators. Get your team plan today.

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

Previsico — Previsico is a spinOut company from Loughborough University specialising in modelling flooding in real-time, using weather predictions to make street-level flood nowcasts and forecasts. The company's mission is to be the leading global provider of cutting-edge flood prediction that saves lives and livelihoods.Its FloodMap Live producesround the clock street-level flood risk predictions and analytics. Uniquely, these are continuously modelled and updated using a combination of different weather forecasts. This allows the company to map the likelihood of short and long-term surface water events in real-time to the street level.
Looper Insights — Looper Insights - Optimizing Content and App Placement Across Connected TV Devices. The market leader in analytics on Connected TV devices.
We Are Fulfilment — With over 50 integration partners at your disposal, our in-house team of experts is here to facilitate seamless connections with a wide range of e-commerce

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. 1,248,642 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!

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.

Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
Apop Imaging — Apop Imaging develops and commercialises novel imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic tools to improve patient outcomes based on our proprietary calcitonin receptor antibody technology.
Alkira Software — Deliver interactive content and answer customer queries at scale using conversational AI. TalkVia offers quick and easy NO CODE voice and chat solutions for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri and web based chatbots.

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.

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.

We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Asseti — Intelligent asset management. Asseti identifies, quantifies & tracks your property assets.
Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.
Orkestra — Orkestra is a renewable energy software platform that provides tools to assist energy companies in the planning, selling, and optimization of new energy deployments.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vinted — Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Apskritis, Lithuania.
Filigran — Embrace a proactive approach with end-to-end cyber threat management, from anticipation to response.
Finix — Finix Payments is a payment infrastructure platform that gives businesses an alternate way to own, manage, and monetize their entire payments experience without the headaches or expenses associated with building an in-house system from scratch. Payments are the lifeblood of every business, and it is critical to company revenue and customerexperience that companies get the underlying technology right. Through its Visa partnership, Finix also facilitates real-time push-to-card payments.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Paul Greenberg is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Retail, Retail Technology
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

ReciMe — ReciMe is the ultimate cooking app that helps you save, share, and discover new recipes. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cuttable — Cuttable operates as an automated content agency.
Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.
Mindverse — Discover the AI that transforms your life. MindOS boosts productivity, makes suggestions, and perfects your routines. Get an AI memory today.

M12 is Microsoft's venture capital fund. We invest in early-stage technology companies disrupting the enterprise.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Relyance AI — Full visibility and proactive data protection. Know how data moves through your code base, infrastructure, and third-party vendors. Learn more.
Moondream — Vision AI that runs everywhere.
CruxOCM — Crux OCM: Automate your oil and gas control room operations

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 — Global leaders in low-cost, low-power, secure direct-to-orbit satellite connectivity for the Internet of Things.
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.

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.

Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
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.

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.

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.
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.
Practice Better — Health and wellness professionals use Practice Better to scale smarter and impact more clients. The only Practice Management software you need.

NewRoad Capital Partners is a growth equity capital firm based in Rogers, AR, that invests in proven and innovative technologies, products, and services that serve existing, unmet needs in the marketplace. NewRoad focuses on investing in and acquiring demand-driven businesses in the Retail and CPG and Business Services industries with an emphasison Supply Chain and Logistics, Consumer Goods, Outdoor Goods, Healthcare Technology, Media and Retail Technology.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Rogers, Arkansas.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Logistics
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, New Zealand

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WaveBL — WAVE BL lets you digitally issue, transfer, sign, endorse and surrender trade documents while cutting costs and eliminating fraud.
Tracer — Your engine for answers.
Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.

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.

Matt is an investor in venture businesses and will soon be basing himself in the United States working with Square Peg Capital. He invests across a wide sector of industries and geographies. Matt and his wife have a foundation where they focus on community projects, which have the ability to enhance the social sector.Prior to working as aninvestor in his own right, Matt was one of the three original founders of SEEK LTD. Along With Paul and Andrew Bassat, Matt took SEEK from business plan to become one of Australia’s most successful online businesses. SEEK is now an ASX Top 100 Listed company with a market capitalisation of $4 Billion, and with businesses in the UK, China, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.Matt also is an accomplished speaker and helps many organisations realise their full potential through his business insights. Matt holds a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from Monash University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, B2B
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vend — Easily manage and scale your business with retail point of sale systems from Vend. A retail POS system including debit/credit card readers and inventory management.
Unlockd — Unlockd is changing the way people use and pay with their digital devices.The revolutionary white label mobile platform is the first to create an “attention” based virtual currency platform. In exchange for viewing relevant ads, content or offers upon unlocking their smartphone, users amass points to redeem on items like mobile credit, premiumentertainment content or loyalty points.They can also complete other in app tasks like taking surveys, downloading apps and viewing videos to generate even more rewards.Unlockd’s unique win-win-win model means partners, whether they be telcos, streaming services or loyalty programs, address customer retention and acquisition while driving new revenue streams and increasing ARPU. Major content and advertising partners including Twitter, Yahoo, MoPub and high profile brands such as McDonalds, British Airways, Doritos and Uber, receive coveted first access to consumers at their most engaged digital moment. Unlockd provides the opportunity to deliver the right content at the right time, resulting in market leading engagement and click through rates. Unlockd’s enterprise grade proprietary technology is tailored to meet industry needs via three product streams:Unlockd Connect targeted specifically at forward thinking mobile operators, with five major markets in operation including in the USA with Sprint Telecom subsidiary Boost Mobile, UK with Tesco Mobile, India with Aircel and Indonesia with AXIS.Unlockd Stream is the ultimate ad funded platform for OTT subscription content providers and launched in 2017 with MTV’s music player MTV Trax. The first and only ad funded model that offers an uninterrupted listening and viewing experience for consumers, Unlockd Stream enables providers to monetise non-paying subscribers Unlockd Loyalty provides a platform for loyalty programs to solve challenges like member engagement & increased frequency of point redemption, contributing to the health of the loyalty program ecosystem. It launched in 2017 with one of Australia’s largest programs, flybuys.The company was founded in Melbourne in 2014 and has strategically located offices in New York, London, Singapore and New Delhi.
Ordermentum Pty Ltd — Ordermentum is a wholesale online order management system for the food and beverage industry. Book a free demo to learn how mobile ordering and payments can help you.

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.

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

Hevo Data — Effortlessly load data from 150+ sources into your warehouse, transform it and deliver analytics-ready data to business tools using Hevo's fully automated data pipeline in minutes.
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.
Supermom — Supermom is an online marketplace for parents and expecting mums to shop for products and services covering maternity, newborn, baby, toddler, and kids. It offers products like diapers, feeding, baby food, bathing accessories, maternity wear, a wide range of toys, kids educational materials, enrichment services, strollers, car seats, bedding andnursery items, baby fashion.

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, Secondary Market
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

Tim Ringel is a Global CEO at Meet The People. He attended the University of Duisburg-Essen from 1996 to 2001.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Series E
Germany, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
yamuntu — yamuntu is the social commerce platform that democratizes the influencer market by making everyone a brand ambassador
SpaceX — SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

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.

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Investment focus

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

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Ediphi — With the life-changing international internship, you can build your international career and gain valuable and transferable skills.
Trace — Trace is the simplest way ever to create AR content and experiences for your product and business.
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.

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
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.

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.

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.
TP24 — Tradeplus24 is a provider of SME Lending using receivables as security. Operational in Europe and APAC.
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

Craig Winkler Co-founded Australian small business accounting software provider MYOB in 1991. Craig built MYOB to be a popular business tool and brand which, in 2004, merged with Solution 6 to become Australia’s largest IT company. Craig joined Xero's board and became a substantial shareholder in 2009. He now spends the bulk of his timeworking in the philanthropic sector.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Apps
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chaser — Automate invoice reminders, get paid faster and maintain great customer relationships. Our users get paid 16+ days sooner and save 15+ hours a week on A/R.
Myprosperity — An all-in-one client portal with innovative digital tools to increase practice efficiencies, scale client engagement and grow revenue.
Ignition — Engage clients, get paid and run your business on autopilot with Ignition. Create online proposals & automate client payments, all from one place. Learn more.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
Singularity — Portal Gate operates as a compliant on-chain gateway to privacy and anonymity.
LightLink — LightLink is an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain that lets dApps and enterprises offer users instant, gasless transactions. Top 10 in transaction volume among rollups.

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