Top 10 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Australia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Sporting goods startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sporting goods companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Australia

Investor	Sporting Goods Australia investments
Investible	3
Aura Ventures	2
Andrew Coppin	1
Todd Forest	1
Vu Tran	1
Trevor Folsom	1
Pelorus Private Equity	1
Mark Livings	1
Andrew Bogut	1
Matt Fayle	1

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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

CarbonHQ — CarbonHQ is your all-in-one platform making it easy to manage carbon projects across teams. Internal and external.
Tability — Automate the boring parts of OKRs to cut the waste and spend more time doing what really matters.
Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.

Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

GAMURS Group — GAMURS Group is a leading gaming, esports, and entertainment media network - we own and operate a network of digital publications and social media communities.
VycoLend — The first decentralized Crypto money market built on BTC with advanced security features for pro traders
Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.

Andrew Coppin - Advisor @ DisruptSports.com

Investment focus

Retail, Logistics, 3D Printing
Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
Freight Exchange Pty Ltd — Multi-Carrier Shipping Software | TMS | FMS | ERP

Todd Forest - Managing Director @ NAB Ventures

Investment focus

Real Estate, Apps, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Angel
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,187,380 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
RecruitLoop — Zippia analyzed thousands of resumes and developed an AI algorithm to help you find the best candidates to fill your job posting.

Vu Tran is a director and co-founder at Go1. He is also a medical doctor working in General Practice and has passion for developing new and innovative ways to promote healthcare in the broader community. Aside from Go1, Vu Tran is also a co-founder and director of Aduro Learning Management System and Go Catalyse.Vu Tran obtained his MBBS inMedicine from Bond University.

Investment focus

Software, Consulting, Sporting Goods
Seed
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Officely — Ensure your team are safe and productive when they get back to the office after COVID-19
iNSPIRETEK — More Than (Just) An Athlete Management System We go further by empowering young athletes, coaches, parents, teams and sporting organisations to gain insight into mental health and wellbeing through tracking, evidence-based content, support and interventions through our Prevention-via-Prediction platform. Our accessible and affordable WMS focuses on the whole athlete, not just their

Elevation Capital was formed by a group of successful entrepreneurs who have co-invested in order to pool together their capital and experience. We consider ourselves to be “venture accelerators” rather than venture capitalists. After starting my first fledgling business at the age of 17, I truly understand the unique challenges faced byentrepreneurs and I am aware that it takes more than just capital for a company to succeed.Recently, Blueprint Management and the various business's we developed (up to 10 companies over 13 years) has given me exposure to the difficult challenges that every entrepreneur will face. My experience has involved the creation of a company with only $10K start-up capital, which grew to over 950 staff. This business was then sold to a private equity group. The success of this venture has given me invaluable knowledge that I can now share with others to guide them in the future.Specialties:If there is one simple thing I have learnt in recent times about investing into growth companies, it is: "to not waste anyones time".Elevation Capital is a professional and committed organisation and is able to invest quickly when a good business opportunity presents itself. We appreciate the challenge that entrepreneurs face when trying to raise capital while also dealing with the daily time constraints of running their businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.
Juggle Street — Juggle Street helps you find local babysitters, nannies, au pairs, tutors and before and after school care providers. We are a local neighbourhood network connecting people around Australia.

Pelorus Private Equity is a real estate investment firm generating value through counter cyclical, opportunistic, and workout investments. Its operations and structure have evolved from the demerger and restructure of the Pelorus Property Group Limited. Pelorus Private Equity is based in Neutral Bay, New South Wales.

Investment focus

Communities, Sporting Goods
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Sportility — Sportility is democratising grassroots sports sponsorship globally by connecting brands to teams, granting access to affordable and professional gear. We’re connecting household brands to an untapped grassroots sports community, allowing brands to increase their exposure and engagement through branded placement on sports uniforms.  Sportility ishas provided grassroots teams and clubs the ability to access affordable and professional gear and has now grown to support over 30,000 sports people across Australia and the USA.

Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands.