Top 50 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Australia (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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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–$5.7M |
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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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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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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 | $750k–$48M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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3 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $104k–$29M |
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Brisbane Angels
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Machine Learning | $120k–$1.3M |
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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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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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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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Investec
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Energy | $1.1M–$335M |
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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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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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Jolimont Global Mining Systems
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States | Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Construction, SaaS | |
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Black Sheep Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $34k–$13M |
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Tidal Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $508k–$15M |
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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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Aria Growth Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Series A, Series B | Cosmetics, Beauty, Retail | |
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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–$35M |
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AltaIR Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Russian Federation | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $150k–$22M |
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Insight Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $12M–$135M |
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Reinventure
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $800k–$54M |
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Seven West Media
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series C | Software, Internet, Financial Services | $40k–$25M |
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Australian Renewable Energy Agency
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Canada | Grant, Series B | Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar | $1.3M–$112M |
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Square Peg Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $653k–$72M |
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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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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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5H Values Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Pre-Seed | B2B, Retail, Marketplace | |
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Alium Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, Apps | $500k–$465M |
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Perth Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Pre-Seed | B2B, Retail, Marketplace | |
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TEN13
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | |
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Inhouse Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Pre-Seed | B2B, Retail, Marketplace | |
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Co Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Pre-Seed | Travel, Professional Services | |
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Angel
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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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 | $59M–$1.5B |
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Skalata
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Education, Information Technology | $135k–$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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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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OIF Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $1.5M–$23M |
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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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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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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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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, Financial Services | $50k–$5M |
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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: 104
- Round size: Seed $992k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $649k–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Predelo — Streamline workflows and optimize operations with Predelo's AI-driven automation. Discover the benefits of our solutions and stay ahead!
- Mayday — Streamline your finance team's multi-entity accounting adjustments with Mayday
- 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.
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: 94
- 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
- Quizling — Quizling is an educational app that allows its users to make quick quizzes on their iPhone or iPad. Its users have the ability to plug their iPhone or iPad into their smart board or digital projector and challenge their class.Quizling is designed for teachers, students, and classrooms. Its aim is to make a teacher’s life easier, a student’slearning more interesting and challenging, and to help make the classroom a fun and engaging place. It can be used to preview a topic and check prior learning or before a test. Students also have the opportunity to make their own quizlings and challenge each other.Quizling was launched in 2012.
- 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.
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.
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: 227
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; 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
- CUZIN — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
- 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: 184
- Round size: Seed $750k–$10M; Series A $2.8M–$35M; Series B $4M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $288M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- TrueState — Accelerate your AI adoption with TrueState's library of high-impact AI solutions, infinitely customisable for your unique business context.
- Sauce — AI customer insights for product teams
- SafetyCulture — Digitize & improve elements of your operations. Give your teams the knowledge, tools & confidence to work safely & meet higher standards.
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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: 1193
- Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Carble — We provide carbon insetting technology to tropical commodity buyers and cash incentives to farmers that protect the forest. Our satellite-powered platform monitors carbon emissions, allowing for deforestation-free farming to be rewarded at scale.
- 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.
- One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $337k–$629k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Giftbee — Giftbee is a B2B gifting marketplace with smart, eco-friendly solutions that enhance value and experience.
- Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.
- The Laundry Lady — The Laundry Lady is a mobile laundry service company that offers washing, ironing, pickup, and delivery services.
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: 94
- 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
- Aemi Beauty — Aemi Beauty offers a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
- Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
- True Platform — B2B SaaS Company | Productivity & CRM
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- 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
- Life360 — Life360 is the leading family location safety app. Stay connected with your loved ones to ensure their safety with Life360.
- 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.
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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.
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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: 86
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Debt Financing $72M–$335M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% 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.
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: 104
- Round size: Seed $942k–$3M; Series A $1.2M–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
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.
- Mutiny — Mutiny is an analytics platform for marketing investments with a sizable customer base.
- InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.
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: 169
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $404k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
- Directo — Directo operates as an independent B2B e-commerce pharmacy marketplace.
- EdenFarm Indonesia — EdenFarm Indonesia merupakan Start Up B2B, Pemasok bahan makanan mulai dari produk segar hingga sembako untuk restoran, warung nasi, hingga toko grosir.Menjual berbagai bahan pangan untuk usahamu mulai dari restoran hingga warung nasi
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.
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, Series A, Pre-Seed
- 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.
- 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.
- ProfitPeak — Unify marketing performance, margin clarity, and inventory risk for profitable growth.
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: 53
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $508k–$1.3M; Series A $1.7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Operata — Continuously measure performance to deliver the best possible customer experience.
- Socialsuite — Share your impact with the world using Socialsuite’s social impact and ESG technology.Whether you're looking to monitor your nonprofit's impact on people, or would like to demonstrate your organization's ESG commitments, Socialsuite's powerful impact technology can help you to show the change you're making.With officesin Australia, America and Canada, Socialsuite simplifies the complexity of social impact and sustainability reporting for corporates, nonprofits, charities, NGO's, governments, foundations, management consultants and impact investors.
- Checkbox — Checkbox is an award-winning no code platform which allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.
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.
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: 6
- 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.
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: 99
- Round size: Series A $2M–$30M; Series B $3.7M–$35M
- 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.
- ShippyPro — Streamline shipping operations with ShippyPro features: label creation, tracking, returns, and analytics. Over 160+ carriers and 80+ sales channels integrated.
We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $150k–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1.7M; Series A $1.5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stayf — Cultivating a Healthy Corporate Culture through Sport and Wellness in One App
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- Sensi AI — Clanz Technologies offers an audio-based system designed to support security in human interactions. The system works by connecting to devices that record audio. It analyzes audio data to find unusual sounds or patterns that may indicate incidents. When an anomaly is detected, the system sends alerts in real time. The service also providesinformation about conditions that can affect care quality, such as stress levels or lack of training. It can be used in places where monitoring human interaction is important for safety. The company offers a demo for organizations that want to use the system.
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Browse database — It's Free!Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1028
- Round size: Series A $12M–$60M; Series B $18M–$111M; Series C $27M–$135M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3B in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Glass Imaging — Traditional cameras rely on an imaging lens which typically consists of several lens elements and a light sensitive sensor. Cameras have been built like this since 1816. Glass has been historically used to make high quality optical elements. We are replacing these elements with deep neural networks that give extreme flexibility when designing ourcameras. It allows us to squeeze a huge sensor into an ultra thin module that fits perfectly into a mobile device without the need for protruding bumps. Our cameras bring SLR image quality into your pocket.
- Rebellion Defense — Rebellion Defense helps our defense and national security agencies unlock the power of data across all domains. With our products, they can understand complex data, make better decisions, and act more quickly than ever before.
- Zone & Company Software Consulting — Zone & Co is a premier NetSuite Solution Provider & SDN partner helping companies automate complex lead-to-revenue entirely in NetSuite with Zone Apps.
Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally.With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner,Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4.7M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $8.1M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Kasada — Kasada stops automated threats and bot attacks from the very first request across web, mobile apps, and APIs. Real-time bot mitigation with no rules to manage.
- InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
- Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $40k–$3.4M; Series C $1.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carbar — Buy, finance or subscribe to your next car online. Sell your car without haggling, get an instant valuation.
- 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.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) improves the competitiveness and increases the supply of renewable energy in Australia.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
- Stage:Grant, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Grant $1.3M–$112M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- MGA Thermal — MGA Thermal, specialists in thermal energy storage technology. Renewable, high-power, economical, modular, safe and sustainable thermal storage solutions.
- GridWise Energy Solutions —
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, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 175
- Round size: Seed $653k–$12M; Series A $2.7M–$34M; Series B $10M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Neara — Beyond visualization. A geometrically precise, 3D model that reveals how assets behave and react in the real world
- Pluang — Investasi di Saham AS, Kripto, Emas & Reksa Dana mulai Rp5.000. Aman, teregulasi, dan mudah digunakan.
- 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.
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: 111
- Round size: Seed $404k–$4.2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M; Series B $9.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
- CoverRight — Use CoverRight's tools to find a personalized Medicare plan and get the best coverage for your situation! Compare and enroll in Medicare Advantage, Medigap, and Prescription Drug Plans, all in one place.
- Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.
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
5H Values Capital invests time and money in founders who are, in that order, humble, honest, happy, hungry, and high-performing.
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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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $4.5M–$10M; Series A $500k–$13M; Series B $2M–$465M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $72M in 2017
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. 1,328,201 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
Formed in late 2010, then known as the Western Australian Angel Investors In. the Perth Angels is a network of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in Perth, Western Australia.WA Angel Investors are members of the Australian Association of Angel Investors Ltd (AAAI) and support the AustralianPrivate Equity and Venture Capital Association Ltd (AVCAL).
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Shopfront — Automate multi-channel selling across eBay, Depop, Grailed & Shopify. AI-powered listings, bulk uploads, inventory sync.
- Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.
TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
- Arintra — Arintra is an AI-powered autonomous coding technology that delivers significant efficiency and accelerates your revenue cycle business performance.
- Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
We are the #1 place for founders, industry leaders and VC to match, advise and invest faster. The ecosystem is messy so we made it simple.
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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.
Co Ventures: Empowering pre-seed founders to create billion-dollar global companies from day one. Australia's first specialist pre-seed venture capital fund.
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- Industry: Travel, Professional Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Build Club — Build Club is a home for big dreams and top builders where the world's top AI builders gather. The company is a team of a global network of engineers, researchers, and founders building at the frontier of AI.
- Freckle — User friendly data enrichment. The easiest way to run enrichment, research, and clean up tasks on company & people data.
- Shopfront — Automate multi-channel selling across eBay, Depop, Grailed & Shopify. AI-powered listings, bulk uploads, inventory sync.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Vytal.ai — Vytal allows for brain health evaluation in minutes with just a laptop. Take control of your cognitive health.
- Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
- Greena World — In a world where travel connects us, we often overlook the impact we leave behind. Tourism accounts for over 8% of global CO2 emissions. Beyond environmental challenges like deforestation, pollution, and water scarcity, local communities also face pressure, experiencing changes in their traditions and ways of life.With expertise from SwanseaUniversity and the United Nations, our team recognised these challenges and envisioned a world where travel helps, not harms. Introducing Greena World. More than just a piece of technology, it's a guide for hotels and restaurants, helping them understand, improve, and share their impact on both the environment and local communities.The true beauty of embracing sustainability? The rewards. With the Greena Index, businesses can improve their sustainability and, in doing so, unlock a new market of over 100+ million eco-conscious travellers, boost revenues, and save on operating costs.The sustainable tourism sector is rapidly expanding, currently valued at $75B and witnessing a growth rate of 9.7% each year. While our initial focus is on hotels and restaurants, the Greena Index has ambitions to reshape the entire spectrum of the industry, from airlines to activities and destinations.Join us on a mission to transform the entire tourism industry for many generations to come.
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: 104
- Round size: Private Equity $59M–$1.5B; Post-IPO Equity $145M–$855M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Airalo — Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store for travellers to access over 190+ eSIMs at the most affordable, local rates from around the world, all via eSIM compatible smartphone, tablet or PC. Airalo offers you both connectivity and freedom - you’ll never have to carry multiple SIM cards or change your number again, no matter where you are in theworld.
- Australian Venue Co — Australian Venue Co is a hospitality firm dealing with a portfolio of restaurants, bars & event spaces.
- Dream Games — Join Dream Games and explore a vibrant universe of characters and puzzles. Discover why millions of players worldwide love our mobile games. Visit us to learn more about our games, company culture, and career opportunities.
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: 81
- Round size: Seed $135k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $135k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% 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: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.5M; Series A $1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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.
- Swan AI —
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.7M; Series A $4.5M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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
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: 74
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.5M; Series A $2.7M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Nullify — Nullify performs product security tasks alongside your developers.
- Apate.AI — Apate.ai is an AI-powered fraud prevention and intelligence platform designed to fight scam operations proactively. It uses artificial intelligence bots to detect scam calls and messages at their source, engage scammers in real-time, and disrupt their fraudulent activities before they reach real victims. The platform not only protects individualsand businesses from financial loss but also extracts valuable intelligence from scammer interactions, including tactics, attack vectors, and sensitive data like bank account and cryptocurrency wallet details.
- DataMasque — DataMasque automatically discovers and masks sensitive data, replacing it with synthetically identical customer data for development, testing, analytics and AI. GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA compliant.
Master the fundamentals of company building with Coreline Ventures. Explore our approach to building sustainable companies with high-conviction investments.
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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.
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: 27
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$16M; Series B $3.4M–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rosterfy — Connect to your volunteers with a comprehensive & user-friendly platform where you can recruit, retain, reward and train your volunteers.
- Instaclustr — Instaclustr Managed and supported platform for open source technologies. Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL and Redis.
- 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.
Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm
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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
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–$17M; 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.
Sidecar Fund2
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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.
Aprenda a Investir em Startups
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 534
- Round size: Seed $181k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $362k in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- PlayBPO — Plataforma para gestão da operação para quem trabalha com BPO Financeiro
- 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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