Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Australia in November 2024

Investor	Social Media Australia investments
Sydney Angels	4
Investible	3
Singtel Innov8	2
Black Sheep Capital	2
rob kawalsky	1
Mirvac Ventures	1
Stephen Garden	1
Zach Kitschke	1
NIPR	1
Optus Innov8	1
Jason Calacanis	1
Harry Stebbings	1
Chris Sang	1
Douglas English	1
Darren Patterson	1
David Greatorex	1
Julien Codorniou	1
Su-Ming Wong	1
Zelkova Ventures	1
Shawmut Capital Partners	1
Craig Roah	1
Rho Capital Partners	1
Silicon Balls	1
Exto Partners	1
Jelix Ventures	1
Right Click Capital	1
Blackbird Ventures	1
Gresham House Ventures	1
Amir Suissa	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Antler	1
Queensland Business Development Fund	1
Hollard Insurance	1
HATCHER+	1
Tank Stream Ventures	1
Airtree Ventures	1
Integral Capital Partners	1
Seven West Media	1
Brand Hoff	1
10X Capital	1
Sam Yam	1
Untitled Ventures	1
Right Side Capital Management	1
Clinton Capital Partners	1
Tribeca Venture Partners	1
Untitled Ventures	1
Starfish Ventures	1
Trident Capital	1
David Gyngell	1
Burch Creative Capital	1

Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Trendspek — Make confident decisions on high-value infrastructure with speed, safety, and precision. Use Trendspek's intuitive 3D environment to interactively report asset conditions, streamline the O&M phase with advanced workflow tools, and securely share insights with global teams for informed decision-making. Empowering teams in 20+ countries.
Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.
Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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

Singtel Innov8, the venture capital arm of the Singtel Group, invests in and partners with innovative tech start-ups worldwide. It has a fund size of US$250 million and its own set of decision making, approval and funding processes. Beyond funding, Singtel Innov8 is a gateway for start-ups to tap on the resources and expertise of the Singtel Group,while enabling the Group to gain access to emerging technologies. Singtel Innov8 focuses its investments on technologies and solutions that can lead to quantum changes in network capabilities, next generation devices, digital services and enablers to enhance customer experience. Headquartered in Singapore, Singtel Innov8 also has offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Cyber Security
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

VITURE — Making the parallel possible...
Monogoto — IoT Connectivity Management Platform: Monogoto Provides Global Cellular Connectivity & Private LTE Solutions As a Service. Click to Learn More
HPC-AI Technology — HPC-AI Technology provides a cloud-based platform to enhance AI computations by increasing CPU and GPU processing speeds.

Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kleecks — Kleecks | Next-generation Enterprise Optimisation Platform
Beamible — Get the most for and from your workforce. Deconstruct work down to its individual components so it can be reconstructed to better meet the needs of the business and the employees. Reduce turnover and burnout, enable flex and drive efficiency with Beamible.
Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.

rob kawalsky

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Health Care
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Human — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.
The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

Ventures arm of Mirvac Pty Ltd

Investment focus

Energy, Fashion, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Mys Tyler — Finally, an app that brings you body-relevant fashion inspiration. Discover like-minded, like-bodied creators sharing the outfits they love on Mys Tyler.
Allume Energy — Apartment residents can now access solar energy directly from their rooftops and share it fairly with their neighbours thanks to our world-first technology, SolShare.

Stephen Garden (born 30 August 1984 - London, United Kingdom) is a British entrepreneur, Tech Investor and Executive Chairman of Caylent Inc which is a full spectrum AWS Cloud Native and DevOps consulting partner. Stephen Garden was the founder and CEO of Onica, one of Amazon Web Services largest consulting partners. Onica was acquired by Rackspacein November 2019. Prior to being acquired, Onica grew to 350 employees across 12 offices in just 6 years, generating almost $200 million in revenue.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kibsi — Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated environment designed for building computer vision applications. Our cloud native, low-code platform democratizes computer vision, allowing customers to focus on their business needs, not the complexity.
Caylent — Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using AWS. To thrive in a software-defined world where technology is at the core of every business, organizations need to empower their people and processes through technology. Caylent is uniquely positioned to fuel that engine ofinnovation by bringing ambitious ideas to life for our clients.Caylent is obsessed with accelerating time-to-value and our track record is backed by years of experience working with clients to solve their most complex challenges. Caylent’s team provides both insight and guidance where it matters most. Through a combination of expert advice and implementation, we see around corners and anticipate needs before they become challenges. We are forward thinking, exploratory in our approach, and pride ourselves on true partnership with our clients. Being a partner means engaging together in a focused effort to drive our clients’ vision and achieve both technical and business results.Caylent was born in the cloud as a cloud native organization with roots in building developer tools. Our mission from day one has been to help companies accelerate their cloud native journey. We recognize that there is a shift in the way software is built, deployed, and managed and that running applications in the cloud can be challenging. Since our formation, we’ve been an active member of the open source community focused on helping companies at all stages of their cloud journey maximize the value of their technology investment through open source.Our commitment to the open source community includes membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and status as a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP). This dedication to community extends to our philosophy, mindset, and investment in our people and practices. Our commitment to learning and career development includes providing time for engineers and architects to study, train, and get certified on the cutting edge technologies that our clients value. This dedication to continuous learning enables us to have opinions grounded in experience and best practices, which is a strong value-add to our clients who look to our team to solve the most complex technical challenges.Caylent’s core practice areas include Cloud DevOps, Cloud Migration & Modernization, Cloud Data Engineering, Cloud Native Applications, Cloud Security and Compliance, and Cloud Platform Monitoring. We also provide innovative services through our Extended Reality and Machine Learning practices. We deliver via an Agile, iterative approach through scoped projects or as an elastic capacity-based subscription model depending on the best fit for our client's needs.
Archera — Archera saves customers millions through no-cost cloud commitment and savings optimization and unique commitment insurance, financing, and financial services. Unlock commitment flexibility and take control of cloud purchasing.

Canva now has, after only two years more than 10 million users across 179 countries, and is used daily by many social media marketers, bloggers and small businesses to create things like posters, business cards and presentations. More than 100 million designs have now been created using the platform.The company is also made famous for theappointed Apple’s Chief Evangelist, Guy Kawasaki as it’s ambassador.

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) is a non-profit affiliate of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). NIPR developed and implemented the Producer Database (PDB) and the NIPR Gateway. NIPR is governed by a 13 member board of directors, with 6 members representing the NAIC, 6 industry trade association representatives,including 3 producer trades and the CEO of the NAIC as an ex-offcio voting board member.The PDB is an electronic database consisting of information relating to insurance agents and brokers (producers). The PDB links participating state regulatory licensing systems into one common repository of producer information. The PDB also includes data from the Regulatory Information Retrieval System (RIRS) to provide a more comprehensive producer profile. The key benefits of PDB are:Increased productivity, less costReduction or elimination of paperReal time informationNational verification of license and statusWeb based accessSingle source of data vs. multiple web sitesThe NIPR Gateway is a communication network that links state insurance regulators with the entities they regulate to facilitate the electronic exchange of producer information. Data standards have been developed for the exchange of license application, license renewal, appointment and termination information. All data flowing over the NIPR Gateway will conform to these standards. The key benefits of NIPR Gateway are:Reduction or elimination of paperwork and data entryUses national standards regarding electronic transmission of licensing dataFaster turnaround time, including real time in certain states

Investment focus

Audio, Software, Web Hosting
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Audinate — Dante is a complete AVoIP platform offering full control and management used in more than 3,800 networked audio and video products worldwide
Monitoring Division — MDi was created to fill critical gaps in network diagnostic tools for carriers migrating from SONET to IP over Optics, and to lay the groundwork for smart optical infrastructure. mdi's in-service monitoring software is the first to provide real-time insight into fiber networks. The company's tools let telecom systems vendors, carriers andtechnicians quickly and cost-effectively characterize fiber assets for network migration to 40G+, easily find impairments, and continuously manage high-speed networks.

Optus Innov8 is an Australian venture capital firm focused on investments in technology-driven startups.

Investment focus

Video, Events, Travel
Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Venuemob — Australia's #1 site to find the best venues for hire. Discover & compare over 5,000 top event & meeting venues. Over 100K happy customers since 2013!

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

Harry is the Founder of The Twenty Minute VC, the world's largest independent venture capital podcast with over 100,000 listeners, partnerships with Mattermark and ProductHunt and guests from over 200VCs including the likes of Accel, Kleiner, Y Combinator, Benchmark and Index. He is also a contributor for TechCrunch covering all thingsstartups and VC funding and has recently joined Jason Lemkin at Saastr to build out the platform and expand into new verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.
Contextual AI — Our contextual language models are built to be highly accurate while minimizing hallucinations, are fully auditable, and keep your data safe.

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.

Doug developed and led key architecture projects for major financial and consulting organizations such as NAB, ANZ and EDS. His sneezes are so tectonic, we've come to consider them performance art.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Recycling
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Linktree — Linktree is a social media startup company that offers a platform that enhances internet presence for influencers and e-commerce stores across social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch.The platform allows big brands to individuals, celebrities to everyday content creators to build a microsite that houses their digitalecosystem, making it easier to connect with their audiences. It simplifies the internet economy for eCommerce and enables social media influencers, entrepreneurs, and businesses to share, sell, curate, and grow more. Linktree's notable users include Garnier, HBO, Shopify, Wix, YSL, and Zapier, and sports teams such as the Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Cubs, and Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as Selena Gomez and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2016 brothers Alex and Anthony Zaccaria and their business partner Nick Humphreys launched the company in Melbourne, Victoria.
Who Gives a Crap — We make super-soft, 100% recycled toilet paper, and we donate 50% of profits to build toilets in the developing world. Good for your bum, Great for the world!

Mr Patterson has more than 20 years’ experience working with both start-up and blue-chip technology companies spanning Australia, Europe, US and Asia. As a leading senior executive, his experience includes telecoms, IT, digital media and venture capital. Mr Patterson is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alchemy Ventures, an ESVCLP venturecapital fund established to invest in teams and ideas which changes lives and industries, whilst having a positive impact on human and environmental wellness.Mr Patterson's international experience has seen him hold senior business development roles with Yahoo, ECI Telecom, Energis Communications / Cable and Wireless PLC and Cisco Systems. He has been an investor in technology ventures Abyss Solutions, Persollo, Republic Capital Management, Firstwave Cloud Technology, Lumific and Datasift where he secured investment from US venture funds.Most recently he was the CEO and Co-Founder of Australia’s only regulated property investment platform, BrickX, and was CEO and executive director of Property Connect Holdings (ASX:PCH).Mr Patterson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Directors.

Investment focus

Sports, 3D Technology, Commercial Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Clearmatch — Alternative funding, fixed income marketplace
Persollo — Analyse any Instagram, TikTok, YouTube account, sell on social media in just 1 click and discover influencers with the audiences you need. AI powered. Designed for mobile. The results are magical.
LocalAgentFinder — LocalAgentFinder provides homeowners with the ability to compare and connect with the most suitable real estate agents. Their unique service changed the game and set the standard in one. Choice. LocalAgentFinder allows anyone to compare a wide range of local agents to learn how they’re different, without the ring-around or upfront appraisals. MostAustralian agencies have provided them their information, including their fees.The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Victoria, Australia.

David Greatorex - Founding Investor @ ResMed

Investment focus

Social Media, Private Social Networking
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Tapestry — Tapestry is the original and leading childhood education platform that has education expertise at its heart. All the tools you need at an affordable price.

Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Sharpist — We offer personalized learning that will help people-centric organizations and teams grow throughout the challenges of today and tomorrow. Learn more!
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

Su-Ming Wong is an investment professional with over 30 years’ direct investment, international corporate advisory and merchant banking experience.He is a director of several portfolio companies including Lorna Jane and Scentia. Prior portfolio directorships include SG Fleet, H-E Parts, TSmarine, Retail Apparel Group, Dexion, Amdel, Mulford andIntercast & Forge.Su-Ming Wong was a member of the Council of University of Technology, Sydney (2010 – 2014). He was a founding director of National ICT Australia (a centre of excellence in ICT research & development), a member of the Industry Research and Development Board and a director of Unisearch. He was a council member of the Australian Venture Capital Association and was a member of the South Australian Government’s Venture Capital Board.He holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Sales, EBooks, Marketing
Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Booktopia — Booktopia - buy online books, DVDs and Magazine Subscriptions from Australia's leading online bookstore with over 4 million titles. Booktopia offers thousands of eBooks, daily discounted books and flat rate shipping of $9.99 per online book order.
Tapestry — Tapestry is the original and leading childhood education platform that has education expertise at its heart. All the tools you need at an affordable price.

Zelkova Ventures is a venture capital firm committed to helping entrepreneurs build companies. The firm primarily looks to invest in early stage companies, many times pre-revenue. In many instances they provide a company's first outside/institutional capital. They look to take an active role and partner with the companies they investin. Along with their capital, Zelkova brings expertise, insight and execution to all of their portfolio companies.Zelkova, although not exclusively, focuses on several key sectors - Software Services, Internet Technologies, Environmental Technologies and Consumer Products.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Vitally — Vitally enables forward-thinking Customer Success teams to increase revenue growth, reduce churn, and provide a proactive, world-class customer experience at scale.
myPocketCFO — Automated data ingestion, AI-powered bookkeeping, prequalification for working capital financing, and on-demand expert advice. $10/day for complete financial control. Try it free today.
Respondology — Respondology helps you moderate your social media comments by removing hateful, racist, spammy, and brand-damaging comments.

With over 35 years of experience in technology and venture capital, over 70 years of experience in financial services,

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Events
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

bTrade.com — bTrade.com, formerly Comm-Press Technologies, Inc., is the leading provider of infrastructure solutions that link e-Business partners and communities, whether Internet or legacy-based, without requiring changes to any existing applications.
Event Zero — Event Zero is an independent software vendor with a focus on software products which bring insight and intelligence to the operation of IT services. Specializing in products for Microsoft Lync unified communications and green IT.
P&H Solutions — P&H Solutions Inc. was acquired by ACI Worldwide, Inc. P&H Solutions, Inc. provides Web-based corporate cash management solution, Web Cash Manager Suite in North America. It also offers outsourcing, project management, training, sales and marketing support, technical support, and conversion services. The company serves financialinstitutions, credit unions, and regional financial institutions. The company was formerly known as Politzer & Haney, Inc. and changed its name to P&H Solutions, Inc. in November 2004. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. P&H Solutions, Inc.

Founder at OCR Aviation

Investment focus

Dating, Social Media, Social Network
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Spring.me — Spring.me is the best way to meet people, express yourself and expand your life. Millions of people visit Spring.me every month.Meet PeopleThe world is full of people you don’t know yet. Meet people by starting a conversation with anyone, find people who are online now and follow people you find interesting.Express YourselfBeYourself, Be Anonymous, Be Anyone. Ask the questions that matter to you. Get honest answers and find out what people actually think. Make memes, post photos or animated GIFs and share them with everyone.Expand Your LifeMake a connection; watch what everyone else around the world is posting, real-time. See something amazing? Post a link or share a video from anywhere. Spring.me lets everyone share openly.

Rho Capital Partners is the parent company to Rho's four operating divisions, Rho Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, Rho Fund Investors and Rho Acceleration.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Advertising
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

ESG Flo — ESG Flo, the leading ESG software, leverages artificial intelligence to seamlessly automate the collection and transformation of ESG data into audit-ready metrics.
Toothio — Dental offices gain access to high-quality dental professionals, on-demand, while dental professionals can pick up work that fits their schedules.
evaluate.xyz — NFT Valuation Platform and Community

Seed VC

Investment focus

Art, Music, Brewing
Seed
Australia, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Preezie — Bridge the gap between in-store and online shopping through individualised journeys. Create guided selling experiences and omnichannel strategies for customer engagement.
FleetOps — We power a network of load boards embedded inside leading ELD solutions. When you work with FleetOps, you can access 126K drivers, and automate your coverage in the spot market.
Tribe Theory — A global business hub for startups & entrepreneurs. Visit our worldwide hostels. Explore coworking, events and access to venture capital.

Exto Partners is a leading Australian venture capital firm that has backed the next growth phase of many of Australia's fast growing tech companies.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hey You — Formerly Known as Beat The Q and Posse. Hey You is evolving the way that people order and pay at cafes, restaurants and bars. They connect customers with businesses through their app, so that you can order ahead and pay through your mobile. Hey You understand that humanity is at the core of all hospitality and we bring this to our users throughour app. It also focuses on building connections between customers and businesses every day from helping venues grow and run their businesses to transforming the way customers order at their favorite venues.Hey You was founded in 2011and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Zetaris — Zetaris is the Australia's Analytical Data Virtualization platform for self-service BI, AI and SQL Data Analytics and Big Data Visualization. Contact Us Today!
Airtasker — Access thousands of skilled people for your home & office tasks. From furniture assembly to data entry - hire a skilled Airtasker today.

Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Gelomics — Gelomics operates as a biotechnology company. Gelomics provides 3D cell culture technologies.
Fugu — Cheap green carbon at scale for the dawn of the e-fuel age
Fugu Carbon — Fugu Carbon is a machinery manufacturing company that helps in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology from air.

Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
Clove — Clove is a global recipe and culinary platform to make cooking easier for everyone. Clove platform enables recipe producers to post high-quality, easy-to-follow recipes and reach new audiences, while AI and personalization assist ordinary cooks in finding relevant and inspired dishes.
Leonardo AI — Transform your projects with our AI image generator. Generate high-quality, AI generated images with unparalleled speed and style to elevate your creative vision

Gresham House Ventures is a growth equity investor, working with exceptional entrepreneurs and investing in high growth businesses.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia

Portfolio highlights

CitySwift — CitySwift is a data-driven scheduling and planning technology for urban bus networks. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict journey times and passenger demand, making routes more efficient. Schedulers can create optimized timetables that take into account traffic, events, and hundreds of other external factors, ensuringon-time performance and increased passenger satisfaction.CitySwift was established in 2016 and is operating in Galway, Ireland.
Ozone API — Ozone API helps banks and financial institutions thrive in the world of Open Finance. Our technology provides APIs which go beyond compliance.
OnSecurity — Protect your business from hackers with our pentesting and cyber security services. Try our platform for free.

Amir Suissa - President of the Board @ wefox

Investment focus

Credit, Dating, Banking
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
Lua — Lua is a swipe-free dating app focused on depth and intimacy. With our smart & unique matching model, users receive hand-picked matches that consider their interests, personal sharings, and engagement holistically.Once matched, users are guided through a series of intimacy-building questions during a mystery meeting, before being given theoption to reveal their personal profile, and continue the journey with that special someone in the light.
Black Label — Jasper, formerly CreditStacks, is a financial service company that offers a credit card designed for professionals. Jasper uses technology to assess applicants holistically, so applicants may qualify for a premium Jasper Mastercard, issued by WebBank, even if they are just starting their credit journey.The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in New York City, New York.

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Read AI — Read AI enables better meetings through shared measurement. Read AI is a provider of a real-time shared dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees.
Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
Magic Potion Games — Magic Potion Games is a computer gaming company that offers an online space for social gaming.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

Queensland Business Development Fund

Investment focus

AgTech, Travel, Farming
Funding Round, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kira Biotech — Kira Biotech is an emerging Australian biotechnology company developing novel immunomodulatory compounds for the treatment of immune system disorders. Its lead candidate, KB312, is a first-in-class, selective, immune-cell depleting monoclonal antibody which targets activated immune cells and aims to restore homeostasis through induction of immunetolerance. Kira Biotech has attracted venture capital funding and is progressing KB312 through preclinical development and phase 1 clinical trials with a team of drug development experts led by well-known US-based rheumatologist and immunologist, Dr Dan Baker.
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SwarmFarm Robotics — Global crop protection specialists ADAMA and Australian ag-tech company.

Love your life without worrying about the risk.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Australia, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Bdeo — Bdeo provides a visual intelligence solution designed to change the way customers connect with insurance companies. Its platform enhances the customer journey beginning with underwriting and all the way through the time the claim is processed, also recognizing risks, damage, and providing assessments in real-time, allowing insurance companies todetect fraud or pay customers in the event a claim is approved.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!
Simply — Life, Disability and Funeral Insurance

Hatcher+ is a data-driven venture capital firm that uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading accelerators and investors, worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Italy, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Cropify — Eliminating subjective testing from the classification process using AI and machine learning. Cropify.io
Kybele's Garden — Algae Biotechnology for Agrifood & Cosmetics Solutions
Cellivate Technology — Startup, with proprietary platform technologies and products that enable cellular meat companies to accelerate the growth of cells

Tank Stream Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in strong teams solving core human problems!. We support founders with an almost obsessive vision to disrupt existing industries, create new ones and improve lives through technology.We like Founders with a problem solving vision as opposed to a solution driven one. We seetechnology as an enabler rather than an end in itself.We like to get involved as early as we can and are flexible in terms of geography – we’ve made investments from Hobart to Stockholm, with a strong concentration in Australia and the US.Through Tank Stream Labs, Australia's leading entrepreneurial community and co-working space, we are surrounded by entrepreneurs, thought leaders and ingenious opportunities every single day.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Biteable — Make on-brand videos with the leading online video maker. Biteable is the leading solution for creating concise, engaging, on-brand video content.
Flare — Flare is a free HR software offering paperless onboarding, employee benefits, and employee management. Level up your operations and book a free demo today.
YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
Build Club — Build Club is a home for big dreams and top builders where the world's top AI builders gather. The company is a team of a global network of engineers, researchers, and founders building at the frontier of AI.
SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.

Integral Capital Partners operates a family of partnerships that invests in expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies in

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series C
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
GroGuru — GroGuru is a privately held company based in San Diego, CA which provides precision soil and irrigation monitoring systems to the commercial agriculture industry. GroGuru enables farmers to increase crop yields while optimally use water, energy and other scarce resources in a sustainable way. GroGuru sells an innovative hardware-enabledsubscription-based solution to farmers that enables optimal irrigation. GroGuru’s patented 100 percent wireless underground system (WUGS) enables a permanent installation of soil sensors, even in annual field crops like corn and soybeans that have a destructive harvest. GroGuru’s patented WUGS-based systems can be buried below the till depth and communicate through several feet of soil wirelessly, thus eliminating the need for the sensors to be annually installed and removed for seeding and harvesting, respectively, for these annual crops. GroGuru is part of EvoNexus, AgLaunch, the Yield Lab, SVG-Thrive and Plug and Play AgTech accelerator programs.
CloudCath — CloudCath is offering a sensor enabled digital platform for peritoneal dialysis patients that provides early complication detection and safely reduces the number of monthly patient visits.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Brand has had a long and successful career in ICT both in Government and Private Industry. Brand is a successful entrepreneur, company director and investor. He founded TOWER Software which was acquired by HP in May of 2008. Brand has a degree in Computer Studies from the University of Canberra, has served as a Councillor of the University ofCanberra and is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra. Brand has served as a Director of NICTA, the Australian ICT Centre of Excellence, Taggle Systems, SNAPeWallet and MyTaggles Pty Ltds. Brand also served as Chairman of Canberra Business Council and a Councilor of the NSW Business Chamber. He has served as Chairman Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) Canberra Division and as a Director on the National Board of AICD. He was awarded the 2011 National Pearcey Medal, for a lifetime contribution to Australian ICT and in 2012 he was inducted as a Member into the Order of Australia.

Investment focus

Social Media, Private Social Networking
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Tapestry — Tapestry is the original and leading childhood education platform that has education expertise at its heart. All the tools you need at an affordable price.

10X invests across the capital structure, alongside the world's top technology investors. They align Wall Street and Silicon Valley by bringing institutional capital to high growth ventures in private and public markets, helping founders and investors achieve scale and liquidity while retaining upside and control.10X was founded in 2004 andis based in New York.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
Portal — Don't Transfect, Just Deliver!

Sam Yam is the Co-Founder, President and CTO of Patreon. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Backer — Backer is a smart way to save for your kid's education with help from family and friends. Save 4x more with backers. Invest your savings tax-free with a gold-rated 529 savings plan.
Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
Collective — Collective offers financial solutions designed for self-employed business owners - company formation, tax, accounting & bookkeeping.

Untitled Group is the collective responsible for a variety of unique festivals, events, venues, tours and good times enjoyed by our artists and patrons from all around the globe.The Melbourne based collective produce over 100+ events annually within Australia and abroad, bringing hundreds of thousands of music lovers together each year.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Hospitality
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Segwise — AI powered observability platform for Growth and Product teams
Induced AI — Induced is an AI-native browser RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with smart reasoning and memory, to automate enterprise workflows of all kinds.
The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
Hutsy — Hutsy is your go-to financial app, offering personalized financial guidance based on your unique situation. Our mission is to help you improve your financial health through tailored advice on spending, savings, credit building, investing, debt management, and more.

Clinton Capital Partners is a VC advisory business that specialises in raising capital and growing shareholder returns, for early stage technology companies and their investors. In addition, we invest our own funds to align company, investor and advisor. We have completed >70 successful transactions, and crystallised 14 liquidity events.Clinton Capital Partners has a long and established track record of growing companies, raising capital, conducting mergers, and creating liquidity events. When raising capital, we feel early-stage companies underestimate the time involved, the distraction to the underlying business, and the importance of identifying the “right culturally aligned” investors for their journey.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

OpusXenta — Byond is comprehensive business management software for cemeteries & crematoria, streamlining operations with mapping, record-keeping, sales management and more.
PaidRight — Know your payroll compliance. Monitor variances in your payroll, get insights and visibility into your own payroll systems and processes so your employees are paid right.
FLK It Over — Sign documents online easily with FLK it over. Get started in just 2 minutes with our 14-day free trial. Try it now!

Tribeca Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in digital media, e-commerce, fintech, education, ad tech, and mobile apps sectors. The firm was founded in 2011 by Brian Hirsch and Chip Meakem and is based in New York, United States.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Actuate — Drastically increase the efficiency of your existing surveillance systems with Actuate's AI camera software. No hardware required.
Finix — Finix Payments is a payment infrastructure platform that gives businesses an alternate way to own, manage, and monetize their entire payments experience without the headaches or expenses associated with building an in-house system from scratch. Payments are the lifeblood of every business, and it is critical to company revenue and customerexperience that companies get the underlying technology right. Through its Visa partnership, Finix also facilitates real-time push-to-card payments.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Quantum Circuits — Quantum Circuits accelerates the path to fault-tolerant quantum computing with powerful dual-rail qubits with built-in error detection.

Untitled Group is the collective responsible for a variety of unique festivals, events, venues, tours and good times enjoyed by our artists and patrons from all around the globe.The Melbourne based collective produce over 100+ events annually within Australia and abroad, bringing hundreds of thousands of music lovers together each year.

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

Starfish Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm focused on information technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Australia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Aktana — Build stronger relationships with HCPs using Aktana's artificial intelligence (AI) platform for life sciences to optimize omnichannel engagement.
DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,248,642 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
Marani — Marani helps maternity providers quickly identify and manage maternal and fetal risk as well as empowering moms to have healthier pregnancies.

Trident Capital is a multistage venture capital firm that has invested in over 180 companies since inception in 1993.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Mocana — Mocana is a developer of cybersecurity software solutions that protect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, operational technology, mission-critical systems, and industrial infrastructure. The company's on-device cybersecurity software and lifecycle management platform enable manufacturers and industrial companies to build self-defending systemsthat are tamper-resistant. Its tightly integrated solutions help companies to minimize the risk of a cyber breach, comply with industry standards, and protect intellectual property by ensuring that devices and processes are trusted end-to-end, from device manufacturing to deployment. Unlike IT network security approaches, Mocana enables devices to protect themselves and prevent malware from being installed.It was established in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
HyTrust — HyTrust was founded by veterans in the enterprise infrastructure and security space who recognized early on not only that virtualization and the cloud were going to dramatically transform the data center, but also that security would be a critical inhibitor to cloud adoption.The mission behind HyTrust has always been to mitigate the risk ofcatastrophic data center failure and data breaches — especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualized and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently expand virtualization to mission critical applications and take full advantage of the cloud.HyTrust has assembled a world-class team of company builders and innovators and has earned venture backing from the biggest players in the next-generation datacenter: Cisco, VMware, Intel, Fortinet, and In-Q-Tel, the funding arm of the US intelligence community. Further venture investment has come from highly respected firms such as Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Advanced Venture Partners and Granite Ventures.
prevoty — DevOps-oriented application security solution.

David Gyngell was the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from November 2010 until November 2015, having previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Nine Network from September 2007. David Gyngell became a Non-Executive Director of the company in November 2015. He has almost 20 years’ of experience at Nine and over 25 years’ overallmedia sector experience.Previously, David Gyngell was Chief Executive Officer of Granada Television and also Director of International Management Group and Transworld Media International. He has also worked as Executive Director, Group Marketing and Communications for Publishing & Broadcasting Limited.

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

Burch Creative Capital is a creative capital firm with a decidedly different approach to creating value.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Retail
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Israel, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Faena —
Octopus Interactive Inc. — Rideshare advertising delivering location-based video ads to a captive audience through interactive tablets inside Uber and Lyft vehicles.
Win Brands Group — We are a community of best-in-class owned and beloved brands.