Top 50 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Australia (July 2026)
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Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $120k–$11M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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6 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $108k–$28M |
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Macdoch Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, SaaS | $400k–$7.3M |
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Sydney Angels
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $120k–$1.5M |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $40k–$15M |
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Airtree Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $800k–$48M |
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Brisbane Angels
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $120k–$1.4M |
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Tidal Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $508k–$15M |
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January Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Singapore, Australia, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $2M–$50M |
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Investible
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $250k–$20M |
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services | $1.7M–$1.2B |
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EVP
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $942k–$5.4M |
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AngelList
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $121k–$23M |
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Black Sheep Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $34k–$13M |
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Eleanor Venture
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Education, Software, Marketing | $612k–$1.4M |
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Aria Growth Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Series A, Series B | Cosmetics, Beauty, Retail | $15M–$15M |
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OIF Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $1.3M–$23M |
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Jolimont Global Mining Systems
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States | Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Construction, SaaS | |
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Investec
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Energy | $1.1M–$550M |
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Seven West Media
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series C | Internet, Software, Financial Services | $40k–$25M |
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Australian Renewable Energy Agency
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Grant, Series B | Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar | $223k–$17M |
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Carthona Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $404k–$50M |
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CVC Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Spain | Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity | Software, Retail, Financial Services | $50M–$1.3B |
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Skalata
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Education, Information Technology | $129k–$2.3M |
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Southern Cross Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Series B, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Energy | $2M–$13M |
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Gandel Invest
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Singapore | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Travel | $1M–$29M |
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Bailador Technology Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Internet | $1.2M–$16M |
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Right Click Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $200k–$16M |
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Sidecar Fund2
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed | SaaS, Recruiting, Health Care | $300k–$500k |
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund
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1 | Brazil, United States, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $40k–$5M |
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Commencer Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Series A | Retail, FinTech, Finance | $4.6M–$25M |
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Qualgro VC
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, Australia, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $979k–$25M |
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Partners for Growth
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $3.8M–$150M |
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ArdenPoint
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Series A | Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce | |
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Foresight Group
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Private Equity, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $655k–$8.3M |
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Silas Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Australia | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail | $1.5M–$40M |
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Allied Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $100k–$7M |
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SBCVC
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Australia | Series A, Series B, Series C | Health Care, Software, Medical | $2M–$100M |
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BetterLabs Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Grant | Education, FinTech, Software | $915k–$11M |
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Lyra Growth Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Beauty | $1.3M–$8M |
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Coreline Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | Compliance, Data Governance, Risk Management | |
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Jam Pad Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Pre-Seed | B2B, Retail, Marketplace | |
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MA Growth Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Series B, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $616k–$44M |
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Antler Australia
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Sweden, Philippines | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $128k–$2.7M |
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Blue Sky Private Equity
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Thailand | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Service Industry | $1.5M–$15M |
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Five Elms Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Canada | Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $2M–$32M |
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Square Peg Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $875k–$72M |
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PLUS Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Video, Mobile | $720k–$15M |
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Aussie Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, B2B, Food Delivery | |
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Scalare Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | |
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $992k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $649k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Operata — Continuously measure performance to deliver the best possible customer experience.
- SPEC Toolbox — CLT Toolbox offers sustainable design of structural materials, using software to clear through the clutter and make design simple. CLT Toolbox is building structural design software to make mass timber as easy as concrete or steel.
- Mass Dynamics — Mass Dynamics exists to enable more life scientists to accelerate their studies using Mass Spectrometry (MS). It's our contribution towards enriching lives and freeing humanity and society from the burden of disease. Mass Dynamics includes Enrichment Analysis based on GSEA algorithms and utilises Gene Ontology (GO) and Reactome knowledge bases.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1818
- Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$750k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
- Visoid — Render your 3D models with ease! Quick and easy rendering software for architects, powered by AI. Try Visoid for free!
- One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $400k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.2M; Series A $1.4M–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CUZIN — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
- Vinex — Vinex is a global supplier of digital wine services, like supply management tools, early payments, and a B2B wine marketplace.
- Scala Med — ScalaMed has created the most transformative piece of real-estate in healthcare that embeds into any health App (B2B/SaaS), utilizing prescription fulfillment as the gateway of patient access & engagement.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $130k–$890k; Pre-Seed $337k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Keeyu — keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences.
- ExtrasJar — Swap health insurance premiums for balanced investments and get access to your funds when using health services.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 246
- Round size: Seed $135k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Vaulta — Discover Vaulta's high-performance batteries for sustainable energy solutions. Revolutionising power with easy installation, maintenance, and recycling. Join the Australian-made energy revolution today!
- Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
- Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 189
- Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $3.4M–$35M; Series B $4M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $288M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- XMO — XMO is building a consumer finance product centered on agentic AI and predictive money management. The company’s approach moves away from static budgeting or backward-looking transaction summaries and toward systems that can interpret patterns, anticipate future needs, and take action on a user’s behalf. Its product direction is framed aroundeveryday spending management first, with broader automation and decision support as the model develops.
- LawVu — Our all-in-one connected platform enables your legal team to manage all legal matters, contracts, spend and legal operations. Book your free demo now.
- Kronus — Full-stack development infrastructure for safety-critical systems.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $337k–$629k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Giftbee — Giftbee is a B2B gifting marketplace with smart, eco-friendly solutions that enhance value and experience.
- Indi — indi is an assistant for your child's care journey; supporting advocacy, mental health & uniting the village of care.
- The Laundry Lady — The Laundry Lady is a mobile laundry service company that offers washing, ironing, pickup, and delivery services.
We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $508k–$2.3M; Series A $1.7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- SecurePII — SecurePII provides a cloud-based platform that enables organisations to reduce exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) across voice, chat, and AI training channels. The service includes call-by-call redaction of credit-card and other sensitive data via its SecureCall component, enabling businesses to offload PCI-DSS complianceobligations while still retaining customer-facing interactions. SecurePII also empowers companies to process conversation data more safely, by filtering or anonymising PII in real time, to enable AI, analytics, and automation initiatives without compromising customer privacy. The platform integrates with existing payment gateway and communications infrastructure to support both contact centres and unified communications environments.
- 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.
- Checkbox — Checkbox is an award-winning no code platform which allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.
We partner with exceptional technology companies in the Asia-Pacific region, providing flexible capital solutions to amplify their growth ambitions.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $11M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Go1 — Simplify employee training with one subscription that delivers essential learning from 250+ providers, integrated seamlessly into your HR tech stack.
- Silicon Box — We are an advanced chiplet interconnection company specialising in cutting-edge semiconductor integration services. Learn more about our proprietary integration technology.
- Netbank — Netbank provides various banking solutions like alternative lenders, payment solutions, neobanks, and wallets.
Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- fileAI — Automate and analyze any file with AI. fileAI builds proprietary AI components for complex agentic workflow automation.
- VoiceByte — VoiceByte is an application platform that allows its users to record and share their voice either privately or on social networks.
- GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $1.7M–$869M; Debt Financing $127M–$1.2B
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alkane Resources — Alkane Resources is a gold mining company. They offer products that include gold and copper. They focus on gold production, exploration, and partnerships.
- Little Birdie — Little Birdie is an e-commerce startup that wants to become the new homepage of online shopping.
- Karta — Karta is a gift card platform which aims to simplify the gift card experience by making it more accessible for merchants and consumers.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $942k–$3.5M; Series A $1.3M–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Practifi — The leading wealth management CRM purpose-built for advisors, Practifi transforms how financial professionals connect with and grow their client base.
- Calcs.com — ClearCalcs makes structural engineering calculations easy with 100+ ready-to-use calculator library to US, CA, AU, NZ, and Eurocode standards.
- Fergus — Fergus is a smart field service management software for service businesses. Make job management easy and carry out work better with our all-in-one solution.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 173
- Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Pre-Seed $121k–$2M; Series A $2.8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Datakrew — Datakrew delivers real-time EV battery analytics and AI-powered fleet intelligence. Smarter, safer fleets start here. Explore our solutions.
- PodcastAI — Podcast like a pro: easily create transcripts, show notes, viral clips and publish your podcast everywhere all in just a few clicks of a button. Powered by AI, built for podcasters.
- Nova Benefits — We help companies find affordable health insurance and wellness benefits that their employees can trust.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $34k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $539k–$1.5M; Series A $1.2M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
- Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
- TokenOne — TokenOne is a Cyber Security software company that makes it easy to replace passwords, tokens and other forms of authentication with a more secure solution.
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- Industry: Education, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $612k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Multitudes — Multitudes provides data-led insights and recommendations so your software engineering teams can work better together.
- Driven — Driven provides scientifically proven resilience assessment, research and training programs that are designed for individuals and organisations.
- GGWP Academy — AI and social listening driven marketplace, backed by education to create #SmarterInfluence and drive ROI for brands in esports and gaming.
Experienced consumer growth equity investors providing capital and elevated partnership to extraordinary consumer brands.
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- Industry: Cosmetics, Beauty, Retail
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Private Equity $15M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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.
OIF is a venture capital firm focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs building businesses.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Series A $2.6M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Bridgit — Bridgit is an Australian privately owned non-bank lender. At Bridgit, it is our mission to revolutionise property financing and offer Australians a solution that helps them progress in life, without any of the red tape. When it comes to buying property it can be very competitive and difficult to find the perfect home, a Bridgit loan is a greatoption for homeowners who want to buy on their terms by finding their next home without having to sell first. Through the use of technology we make it easy, with a 5 minute online application, same day approval and no monthly repayments you can focus on the important things.It is all about giving hard working Australians the opportunity to make progress in their lives, without the hold backs.
- Rosterfy — Connect to your volunteers with a comprehensive & user-friendly platform where you can recruit, retain, reward and train your volunteers.
- Circle In — Support your caregiver employees and create a family-inclusive business culture utilizing our data-backed research, processes, and tools.
Resource Capital Funds is a mining-focused alternative investments firm that partners with companies to build strong, successful, and sustainable businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Construction, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Debt Financing $72M–$550M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Splend — Change the way you own your rideshare vehicle for good with Splend. All-Inclusive vehicle packages for your Uber journey, in one easy weekly payment.
- Openpay — Openpay is a cutting-edge in-store, in-home and online payments solution that features a buy now and pay later service, interest-free. Openpay allows customers to make in-store and online purchases, and effectively split the payment for these purchases into multiple repayments over time. The company generates revenue from fees charged to merchantsand customers in exchange for the use of its payments platform.Openpay is available across Australia and New Zealand in many industries including retail, medical, automotive, home improvement, and more.
- Master Plastics — Discover innovative, sustainable packaging solutions for protecting and preserving agricultural and food products from farm to table with Master Plastics.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $40k–$3.5M; Series C $1.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mad Paws — Mad Paws is a Sydney-based start up that was created to fill in the ever growing need in the pet boarding market for affordable, and local pet accommodation while still maintaining the care, love, and attention pets received at high-end, expensive, pet boarding services.
- 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.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
- Stage:Grant, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Grant $223k–$17M; Series B $2.5M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 89% lead, 11% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edify Energy — Edify Energy is a renewable energy company that specializes in solar project structuring, investments, and financing services.
- Origin Energy — Connect your energy with Origin Energy - an Award Winning Electricity Provider & Gas Supplier. We also offer NBN internet, LPG, and custom solar solutions
- University of Queensland — UQ is a research-intensive institution in the top 50 universities world-wide, offering choice and opportunity in undergraduate and postgraduate learning.
Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $404k–$4.7M; Series A $3.3M–$17M; Series B $9.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- PREVE — Supporting back-to-back physios with their daily caseload, simplifying admin whilst making the patient experience more enjoyable. Preve does the admin work for practitioners. One click clinical notes, treatment plans, home rehab and documents.
- Qlarifi — Consumer lending decisions transformed with real time, comprehensive data.
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
CVC has seven complementary strategies across private equity, secondaries and credit, through which we invest on behalf of pension funds and other leading institutions
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- Industry: Software, Retail, Financial Services
- Stage:Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Private Equity $50M–$1.3B; Post-IPO Equity $145M–$855M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Avast — Avast is the global leader in digital security products for consumers and businesses, protects over 400 million people online. Avast offers products under the Avast and AVG brands, that protect people from threats on the internet with one of the most advanced threat detection networks in the world. Avast digital security products for Mobile, PC, orMac are top-ranked and certified by VB100, AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, OPSWAT, ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs, and others. Avast is backed by leading global private equity firms CVC Capital Partners and Summit Partners.
- Australian Venue Co — Australian Venue Co is a hospitality firm dealing with a portfolio of restaurants, bars & event spaces.
- Rayner Surgical Group — Rayner is a British manufacturer of ophthalmic medical products, including intraocular lenses (IOLs) and eye drops to support ocular health
Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $135k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $129k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $18M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Paperly — Paperly is an mobile app that provides modules for school management system and learning management system.
- Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
- BarterAds Pty Ltd — BarterAds is a programmatic advertising exchange that enables businesses to acquire customers without cash spend by converting unused ad inventory into a tradable asset. Instead of paying in fiat, companies earn and spend a proprietary internal currency called Barter Dollars, which are issued when they display ads on their owned media propertiessuch as websites, apps, or platforms.The platform operates as an auction-based exchange, similar to traditional ad networks, where advertisers bid for impressions using Barter Dollars. Inventory is matched contextually and priced dynamically through real-time bidding, ensuring efficient allocation of supply and demand across the network. This allows both advertisers and publishers to maximize the value of otherwise underutilized inventory.BarterAds primarily targets startups, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, gaming companies, and content publishers that have traffic but are constrained by rising customer acquisition costs. By removing the need for upfront cash spend, the platform provides a capital-efficient growth channel, particularly for small and mid-sized businesses.The system includes controls for brand safety, fraud prevention, and inventory quality through business verification, campaign approvals, and continuous monitoring. Barter Dollars are non-transferable and expire periodically, preventing hoarding and ensuring continuous circulation within the ecosystem.BarterAds is designed as a hybrid between barter networks and modern ad exchanges, combining the scalability and automation of programmatic advertising with a closed-loop, cashless economy. The company is headquartered in Australia and is focused on building a global network of advertisers and publishers who both contribute inventory and run campaigns within the platform.
Southern Cross Venture Partners was launched in 2006 by veteran venture capitalists who have managed and operated companies themselves. Southern Cross Venture Partners assist early stage technology companies that demonstrate the potential for exceptional growth and market leadership build significant businesses. The founding principle of SouthernCross is partnership -- they are passionately committed to doing everything they can to help their portfolio companies succeed. Their team has a strong record of utilizing their start-up and management experience, industry knowledge, network of business/customer relationships, and recruiting skills to assist in building significant shareholder value.Southern Cross is currently investing in companies that fit their investment criteria. They prefer to act as lead or co-lead in the early stages where they have experience that can help build value rapidly. They do not have a minimum investment amount, however, a typical initial investment will be $2 million to $5 million with an ability to invest more money in later rounds.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Energy
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Series A $2M–$5M; Series B $5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $145M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- Nitero — Nitero is a fabless semiconductor company with offices in Austin, Texas and Melbourne Australia. They are designing an ultra-low power 60 GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi solution that performs at speeds up to 10X faster than even the very latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions – all that with close to zero latency.They spun out in 2011 from National ICT Australia(NICTA) and have benefited from years of their 60GHz commercial-focused research. In the past two years they put together a world class team and are aggressively developing a unique mobile-60GHz product.They are growing rapidly and seeking more world changers to join the effort. If you are looking for a challenging opportunity, check out their careers page and drop us a line.
- Quantenna Communications — Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensionalapproach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.
- Precise Light Surgical — Precise Light Surgical creates less invasive surgical resection solutions, preserving critical anatomy to improve patient outcomes.
Providing strategic capital and expertise to established and growth businesses around the globe.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Travel
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.5M; Series A $1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EatClub — EatClub shows you nearby restaurants, with spare tables, offering last minute deals. Receive up to 50% off your bill (including drinks!)
- upcover — upcover is Australia's award winning Online business insurance provider for All type of business owners, startups, consultants, freelancers and gig economy workers in Australia. Get a quote online today.
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$16M; Series B $3.4M–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PropHero — Invest wisely in real estate There is an easier way to invest in real estate. Whether you are just getting started or already on your investment journey, at Pro
- Rosterfy — Connect to your volunteers with a comprehensive & user-friendly platform where you can recruit, retain, reward and train your volunteers.
- DASH Technology — DASH Technology provides financial services. They provide software, platform, and even wealth management space services. They provide advisers and broader wealth services. They provide inquiries through email, phone calls, and online applications.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $200k–$3.6M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
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
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- Industry: SaaS, Recruiting, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $300k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FLAYR — Get Hair And Makeup Done At Home For Less Than The Price Of At A Salon
- Cognoptix — Cognoptix is creating and developing an innovative, non-invasive eye test to assist in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. Cognoptix's goal is to provide clinicians with a quick, predictive, reliable, inexpensive, and widely available test, enabling early diagnosis and treatment.The company was founded in 2001 and headquarteredin Marlborough, Massachusetts.
- Sourcr — Sourcr is a recruitment marketplace that connects employers to expert recruiters to find the best talent. Employers can post a job, set their own placement fee and have freelance and agency recruiters apply to them to work on a role. There is a built in candidate tracker so all applications can be managed in one place. There are one set ofuniversal terms that govern all transactions on the site and all placements are subject to a 60-day replacement guarantee. Our vision is to solve the challenges of employment by perfectly blending technology and human interaction.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 649
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Pre-Seed $40k–$653k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $362k in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
- Sukha — The Focus App for Healthy Productivity. Sukha offers focus music, timers, AI assistants and more while you work.
- Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.
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Browse database — It's Free!Commencer Capital is a capital partner for founders and their emerging companies in Australia and New Zealand.
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- Industry: Retail, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $4.6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
- MadeComfy — Award-winning Airbnb management service in Australia and New Zealand. MadeComfy is a selected official partner of Airbnb. Find out how we earn you higher returns with short-term rentals.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $979k–$4.7M; Series A $1.6M–$20M; Series B $7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- SynaXG — Empower your network with SynaXG's hyperconverged AI-RAN platform. We deliver AI-first, open, and energy-efficient 5G infrastructure solutions tailored for mobile operators and enterprises.
- Supermom — Supermom is the digital platform designed by and for moms, providing recommendations on products and services through a community of moms. lt...
- Furhat Robotics — Furhat Robotics is a humanoid robotics and conversational AI company, building the next generation of humanoid robots with with human-level conversational and social skills. We believe that face-to-face interaction is a basic human need. Even a driver for quality of life and mental health. We believe that technologies like robots need to interact with people on human terms.
We partner with companies at an inflection point in their business, who are seeking flexible and customized financing, matched to their trajectory and needs.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $5M–$29M; Debt Financing $3.8M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Vero — Send personalized emails, mobile push notifications and SMS messages to your users based on what they do in your product.
- Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
- TotallyAwesome — TotallyAwesome is the only youth-first engagement platform in APAC. We enable a youth-first and brand-safe digital ecosystem with more than 500 million monthly active users.
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.
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- Industry: Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $655k–$7.3M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iMist — iMist water mist fire suppression systems are perfect for commercial, industrial and residential applications. More effective, uses less water, and is more economical than traditional fire sprinkler systems.
- usheru — usheru is an innovation-driven company in the film and entertainment industries, focused on marketing and analytics solutions.
- Industrial Engineering Plastics — Industrial Engineering Plastics delivers specialist thermoplastic fabrication for demanding industrial applications.
A Growth Equity & Venture Capital Firm for Consumer Products Companies
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.7M; Series A $5M–$17M; Series B $4.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Orebella — Orebella manufactures and sells perfumes, cosmetics, and personal care products.
- YSE Beauty — YSE Beauty is a manufacturing company that offers beauty, cosmetics, and personal care. YSE Beauty was founded in 2023 and was headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Acceler8 — Acceler8 is a business intelligence platform that aims to replace traditional, calendar-driven workforce decisions with continuous, data-driven insights.
- Intellectible — Craft complex documents likes bids and proposals easily using AI
Established in 2000, SB China Capital (SBCVC) is a leading venture capital and private equity firm that manages both USD and RMB funds. Their investment focuses on high-tech, high growth companies in TMT, clean technology, healthcare, consumer/retail, and advanced manufacturing sectors; and they invest across all stages of companies.Withextensive entrepreneurial and operating experiences, their professional and seasoned deal team members recognize the vision and champion the ideas of start-up companies. In addition to providing capital support, they help their portfolio companies realize their strategic and commercial potential by giving value-adding services and advices including planning, business development, recruiting and resources deployment.They have a proven track record and solid reputation in identifying high potential start-ups and creating successful industry-leading companies. Some of their spotlight portfolio companies are Alibaba, Taobao, Focus Media, GDS, BGI, Ankon, Di’an, and Edan.With their operational headquarters located in Shanghai and regional offices spread in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Hangzhou and Taiwan, they have an extensive coverage of the greater China region and access to potential investment opportunities.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: China, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Series A $2M–$28M; Series B $4.5M–$43M; Series C $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- UCaize — UCaize is a biopharmaceutical company that researches and develops novel medications for the treatment of blood cancers.
- Hydrexia — Hydrexia is an Australian company that has successfully designed, built, and tested systems that stores hydrogen in solid form, based on a proprietary magnesium alloy.
- Guoke Tanmei — Guoke Tanmei is a visionary enterprise focused on developing materials for carbon-based energy storage. It directs at application scenarios including base stations, two-wheelers, electric cars, industrial cars, and energy storage.
BetterLabs is an early-stage venture capital fund and venture studio based in Perth, Australia. Backed by RAC the fund invests in technology and opportunities that impact next-generation insurance, clean technology, mobility, work and money. The studio creates ventures to solve challenges in these domains and we also invest in them.
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- Industry: Education, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Grant
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $915k–$5M; Series A $7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- upcover — upcover is Australia's award winning Online business insurance provider for All type of business owners, startups, consultants, freelancers and gig economy workers in Australia. Get a quote online today.
- WeMoney — WeMoney is focused on obtaining an Open Banking license so that the Fintech firm can gain access to customer banking data, which may be used to improve the quality of services offered to them.WeMoney’s platform lets users keep track of their pending utility bills and other recurring payments. The platform also aims to help customers with managingtheir savings and monitoring their monthly income. Joveski revealed that his company is also developing features that will use behavioral science and AI to help users make better or more informed financial decisions.
- The Volte — Dress hire grows your wardrobe with over 60,000 new, chic designer options. We help women get the perfect dress for every event on their calendar.
Lyra Growth Partners is a Vancouver based Investment Firm providing capital and brand-savvy coaching to help emerging consumer brands accelerate growth and maximize value. With Lyra, you receive the full package to help your business grow to the next level. We provide non–institutional capital that is free from unrealistic expectations. Ourcoaching focus is on creating and strengthening a brand’s relationship with their consumers. To ensure our mutual success, we also provide the necessary coaching for igniting both business and personal development.Lyra is looking for fast growing Companies with over $5 million sales. If you have an emerging consumer brand and you want to maximize value while nurturing a positive corporate culture, then we want to talk to you.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.7M; Series A $4.5M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BuildDirect — BuildDirect Technologies Inc. is an innovative platform for purchasing and selling quality home improvement materials online. It directly connects buyers (consumers and contractors) with sellers (suppliers and manufacturers). Categories include, but are not limited to, flooring, tile, decking, building materials, outdoor, kitchen & bath,moldings & accessories and doors. The company is credited with building the first open network for heavyweight products. In February 2016, BuildDirect launched the BuildDirect Home Marketplace – the world’s largest online marketplace for heavyweight home improvement products. It is an online platform that cuts out the “middle men” to connect the suppliers of home improvement products directly with their customers. The BuildDirect Home Marketplace allows suppliers to manage the sale and distribution of their home improvement products. In February 2017, BuildDirect launched the Gateway Supply Chain, opening their logistics network to third parties and providing access to warehousing services, ground and ocean logistics for any part of the shipping process. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Vancouver, Canada with warehouses across North America.
- Hooray Foods — Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing. Plants that remind us of our favorite meats while being made of ingredients we can feel good about? Now that's something to celebrate and say Hooray!
- Schoolyard Snacks — Old School Snacks Made the New Way: Low Carb, Keto Approved, High Protein
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- Industry: Compliance, Data Governance, Risk Management
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Monolyst — Monolyst operates within the manufacturing industry, where the primary method of placing orders is still conducted via fax. The company provides detailed product information, including specifications and descriptions, through traditional documentation channels, reflecting a more conventional approach to industrial procurement and communication.
- Lens — Lens ocuses on supporting corporate activities related to governance, risk management, compliance (GRC), and security.
- Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.
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
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Shopfront — Automate multi-channel selling across eBay, Depop, Grailed & Shopify. AI-powered listings, bulk uploads, inventory sync.
MA Financial Group's Asset Management division manages investments for institutional & wholesale investors across real estate, credit, private equity & venture capital.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $616k–$18M; Series A $2M–$8.1M; Series B $4.6M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sonder — Sonder's employee care platform is the future of workforce health, medical, safety and wellbeing. One platform. All the support. Learn more.
- Apera Hotels — Apera Hotels is a platform designed to provide accommodations in hotels that cater to the mid-range market.
- Avena Communities — Avena Communities provides a platform for communities, offering diverse property options for both permanent and holiday living.
Australia's only truly global early stage VC, we believe in and back the most ambitious founders from the earliest stage.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Sweden, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $128k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $128k–$200k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
- Blakthumb — Blakthumb is an Operating System software for cannabis and food producers. We make your operations so simple and intuitive, it's like running on autopilot.
- Accord — Accord turns millions of conversations into structured, actionable insights for product and game teams.
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).
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Service Industry
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Myriota — Myriota delivers cutting-edge IoT technology through low-cost, low-power satellite connectivity for global remote monitoring.
- aCommerce — aCommerce, the largest e-commerce enabler in Southeast Asia. End-to-end e-commerce management services trusted by top global brands.
- 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.
Five Elms Capital | Growth Equity and Venture Capital Firm
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Series A $2M–$30M; Series B $3.7M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crelate — Let Crelate's end-to-end powerful recruitment CRM, applicant tracking system, and staffing software enhance your hiring process with ease.
- Panopta — FortiMonitor empowers NetOps teams with user-to-application performance monitoring that helps improve customer and employee digital experience.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Seed $875k–$14M; Series A $2.7M–$35M; Series B $10M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pluang — Investasi di Saham AS, Kripto, Emas & Reksa Dana mulai Rp5.000. Aman, teregulasi, dan mudah digunakan.
- Vi Labs — Productized AI for Health Enterprises. We turn data science into patient & operational ROI.
- Excelero Storage — Founded in 2014 by a team of storage veterans and inspired by the Tech Giants’ shared-nothing architectures for web-scale applications, the company has created a Software-Defined Block Storage solution that meets performance and scalability requirements of the largest web-scale and enterprise applications.With Excelero’s NVMesh, customers canbuild distributed, high-performance Server SAN for mixed application workloads. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage TCO. The solution has been deployed for hyper-scale Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and massive-scale simulation visualization.
PLUS Ventures, part of the Moldawsky Group, is the first multi-vehicle early-stage investment firm - a structure which enables the company to tailor the right investment suited for each venture's specific needs.PLUS's investment specialization is in Israeli early stage, fast growth technology and media ventures. Its mission is to takea hands-on approach and help great entrepreneurs create great companies.In addition to, and as important as, straight-up cash, PLUS puts its long-term expertise, skills, and ecosystem to work with, and for, its portfolio companies.PLUS Ventures is one of the most active early-stage investors in Israel, and plans to continue to be a dominant player in this field for years to come.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Video, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $720k–$1.7M; Series A $1M–$11M; Series B $4M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
- Evrideo — Evrideo provied end-to-end cloud broadcasting platform, enabling to easily create and manage channels, using broadcast SaaS technology solution
- DocAuthority — Dapurtoto mempersembahkan promosi spektakuler untuk para penggemar togel online! Dengan hadiah besar yang ditawarkan situs bandar togel online ini menjanjikan bayaran penuh dan pengalaman bermain yang luar biasa.
A platform for investors to launch & lead syndicated investments into startups. Apply to join syndicates and invest on a deal-by-deal basis.
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- Industry: Software, B2B, Food Delivery
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Bugster — Discover bugs before they hit production
- Shopfront — Automate multi-channel selling across eBay, Depop, Grailed & Shopify. AI-powered listings, bulk uploads, inventory sync.
Scalare Partners is more than a technology investment fund. We provide critical funding and resourcing
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Brauz — Brauz connects your customers now with Reserve In Store, Find in Store, Click + Collect, On Demand Delivery, Ship from Store, Appointment Booking, Video Commerce, Clienteling and more.
- Betterx — Betterx is a technology company focused on infrastructure to support Web3.0 and Digital Assets.
- Amelio Health — Amelio Health is a program integrating a set of pathways developing the capabilities of case managers to signpost claimants at risk of developing chronic pain
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