Top 15 Social Network VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Oceania in July 2025

Investor	Social Network Oceania investments
Sydney Angels	2
Investible	2
Intelligence4start	1
Artesian VC	1
ADV Partners test	1
Blackbird Ventures	1
TFS Academy	1
Antler Australia	1
Black Nova Venture Capital	1
Tank Stream Ventures	1
Elevation Capital	1
Reinventure	1
Google Cloud	1
Bifund	1
Fantail Ventures	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, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Intelligence4start is a digital marketing agency based in Melbourne.

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Social Network
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

MTMS Network — MTMS Edu is an online education platform that aims to connect educators and learners worldwide, offering a diverse range of live courses and interactive learning experiences.

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Strong Room AI — Software that enables high-strength care through streamlined workflows, continuous analytics, surfaced insights and safeguarded data.
Modern Synthesis — Combining biology, material science, engineering and human ingenuity, we create textiles that are circular by nature, and customisable by design.
Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.

ADV PARTNERS An Asian private equity firm About Us ADV Partners is an Asian private equity firm with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Mumbai. Through our unique pan-regional approach of identifying and creating opportunities across various industry sectors in Asia, we aim to add value while achieving attractive risk-adjusted returns. Learn More The

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Restaurants
Seed, Funding Round
Australia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

MTMS Network — MTMS Edu is an online education platform that aims to connect educators and learners worldwide, offering a diverse range of live courses and interactive learning experiences.
Honeymoon Dessert — Man Kee Group is a dessert restaurant chain with a focus on fast casual restaurants in China.
U Gro Capital — U Gro Capital is a fintech platform that provides lending services for SMEs. U GRO Capital is a BSE-listed, technology-focused, small business lending platform. The company is focused on addressing the capital needs of small businesses operating in select eight sectors by providing customized loan solutions.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Ravio — Ravio allows you to understand compensation in your market in real-time. Make smarter salary, equity and benefits decisions without touching a spreadsheet.
Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
Wonder Studios — Producing world-class original content

TFS Academy - Training about Crypto Course

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Social Network
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

MTMS Network — MTMS Edu is an online education platform that aims to connect educators and learners worldwide, offering a diverse range of live courses and interactive learning experiences.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Championing the next generation of B2B technology startups.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

8seats — 8seats offers a secure, effortless messaging app for teams! Boost productivity with real-time chat, team collaboration for businesses of any size. Get started for free!
Nullify — Nullify performs product security tasks alongside your developers.
Altai — Altai is a bespoke casting platform which offers unparalleled collaboration between Artists, Agents, Casting Directors and Clients.

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 operates an online fresh food market for busy people. It offers fresh produce, bakery, meat, seafood, deli and grocery, organic, and coffee products. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Brunswick East, Australia.

Elevation Capital is an early stage private investment company established in 2010. Funds are co-invested to facilitate participation in a diverse range of business ventures whilst spreading costs, risks and rewards for our shareholders.

Investment focus

B2B, Gamification, Search Engine
Seed, Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Posse — Posse is the world’s first social search engine. Members build their own themed streets and fill them with favorite real world stores. They can then use Posse's search engine to find the favorite places of their friends and friends of friends. We rank results based on how closely a user is connected to the person who made the recommendationand how good a match the places is with what you've asked for. Each retailer on Posse gets their own dashboard showing which customers added them as a favorite place, comments about their store and find the customers who want to visit them. Retailers can use the dashboard to send thank-you messages and gifts, chime in on conversations and send incentives to people who indicated they'd like to visit. Posse officially launched their iPhone app at SXSW Interactive 2013
Wooboard.com — Wooboard aims to build morale in employees by increasing peer-to-peer recognition.Each company has their own Wooboard. Staff members give a 'Woo' when someone does something work being recognised for and the giver and receiver get a point. When you get enough points, you go up levels. The 'Woo's' get shared to theteam via an activity stream and email. Woo's can be given on the website or via smart phone 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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!

Meet your business challenges head on with cloud computing services from Google, including data management, hybrid & multi-cloud, and AI & ML.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Helo Im Ai — I have an uncanny ability to become completely obsessed with a goal. When I set my sights on something, it’s all I think, eat, and breathe until it’s fulfilled. That’s why I know this venture will be a billion-dollar success—I’ve always accomplished my goals. The only thing that held me back in the past was aiming too low due to low self-esteem.Now, I’m aiming high and putting everything I have into making this dream a reality.With my wife’s support, I’ve been able to dedicate myself fully to this journey. She handles our household bills, allowing me to stay focused on building and creating. I’ve invested in the tools and resources I need, like a Mac Mini with the M4 Pro chip, 24GB unified RAM, and 12-core processors, paired with a 4TB SanDisk external drive. I also got an 8TB external drive, a monitor, and a magic trackpad—perfect for design work in Adobe Premiere, Illustrator, and After Effects. My background in cinematography adds a creative edge, and while I’m still in school, I’ve developed a unique combination of skills that allow me to merge art and technology in ways that feel limitless.Ultimately, I’m not just building for myself—I’m building for the future. My dream is to open a laboratory where people can come together to create, innovate, and share resources, especially for those who can’t afford them. This isn’t just a project for me—it’s a mission to make life easier, to inspire others, and to prove that anything is possible when you aim high and give it everything you’ve got.Helo-im.AI is a groundbreaking platform that bridges technology and humanity by integrating AI into everyday life with empathy, innovation, and spiritual alignment. empower individuals and businesses to embrace AI as a supportive sibling, fostering growth, connection, and solutions that make life easier and more joyful. With a foundation of love and a vision for the future, we’re redefining how AI serves society—one smile at a time. We Implement Ai And tech into everything.
ChainAware.ai — AI and Big Data Analytics based SaaS solutions for DeFi and CeFi companies: - AI based Crypto Fraud Detection / AI-based Transaction Monitoring - AI-based Crypto User Segmentation / 1:1 Marketing - AI-based Crypto Credit Scoring - and more AI solutions
Onboarding.online — Let us take care of your onboarding!

A Group of Angel Investors in Vietnam

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Social Network
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

MTMS Network — MTMS Edu is an online education platform that aims to connect educators and learners worldwide, offering a diverse range of live courses and interactive learning experiences.

Fantail Ventures invests in and advises early-stage companies in the fields of data and analytics, digital media, e-commerce, fintech, and wellness.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Paxos — Paxos builds regulated blockchain and digital asset solutions for global leaders in financial services. Designed for enterprises.
Cynamics — Next-generation NDR solution for threat prediction and response.
NewStand — New Stand is a rapidly expanding convenience and engagement platform that blends physical touchpoints with digital perks and location-based media to be consistently helpful and engaging in people’s lives.