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Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in Oceania in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Travel startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in Oceania in December 2024

Investor	Travel Oceania investments
EVP	8
Sydney Angels	5
Bailador Technology Investments	4
Clinton Capital Partners	4
Follow[the]Seed	3
Grand Prix Capital	3
OneVentures	2
Bevan Clark	2
Aura Ventures	2
Singtel Innov8	2
Brisbane Angels	2
Guy King	2
NAB Ventures	2
RACV	2
Seven West Media	1
Steve Baxter	1
Dale Ventures	1
Queensland Government	1
Startive Ventures	1
Hollard Insurance	1
Simon Clausen	1
Gandel Invest	1
Escala Partners	1
Melbourne Angels	1
Solidus Company	1
Queensland Business Development Fund	1
Athletic Ventures	1
Tahmedia	1
Scalare Partners	1
Canaccord Genuity Group	1
Telescope Investment	1
Andrey Shirben	1
Future Now Ventures	1
Artesian VC	1
Andrew McEvoy	1
Matt Berriman	1
AS1 Growth Partners	1
Allan Moss	1
Everywhere Ventures	1
Wollemi Capital Group	1
Wavemaker Partners	1
eBay Ventures	1
Platform Advisory Partners	1
Skalata	1
Darren Patterson	1
Craig Winkler	1
John Grill	1
little fish Capital	1
Optus Innov8	1
SURPLUS Equity Partners	1

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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.

Investment focus

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

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.
Nexl — Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential.
InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Rosterfy — Connect to your volunteers with a comprehensive & user-friendly platform where you can recruit, retain, reward and train your volunteers.
Hapana — Elevate your fitness business with Hapana - The Ultimate Fitness Studio Software. Streamline operations, engage clients, and boost growth effortlessly.
updoc — Updoc provides a simple and accessible healthcare platform. Over 100,000 Aussies use updoc to easily connect with registered Australian Partner Practitioners who if suitable can provide medical advice, online medical certificates & prescriptions. 1,000+ 5-star reviews. Available after hours and on weekends, with Partner Practitioners online 9am-10pm, 7 days a week.

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 with our electronic signature software in just 2 minutes with our 14-day free trial. Try it now!

Follow[the]Seed is a post-seed algorithmic venture capital fund, using a unique predictive analytical model known as Raving Fans™ to identify the next $1 Billion+ ventures. Based in Sydney, Australia; San-Francisco, USA; Tel Aviv, Israel & Beijing, China our team has over 3 decades of combined experience building startups ourselves andanother 2 decades of experience investing in over 90 companies.Oh, and we truly love entrepreneurs and innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

HawkLabs — Concentrated liquidity yield optimizer on Solana with self-custodial & automated market making strategies
Rise Of Defenders — Rise of Defenders is a very interesting Metaverse NFT game, you can use your creativity and tactical thinking to become an excellent player and receive extremely attractive rewards.
Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.

Grand Prix Capital is a private venture capital and investment firm specialized in rapid growth, start-up, private and microcap listed businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Online Portals, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Rezdy — Rezdy is the stress-free online booking software for tour & activity operators. Discover more about the largest distribution network for tours & activities.
Bluethumb — Buy original art direct from Australia's leading artists. Find Abstract, Nature, Aboriginal, Pop, Nude art & more. Free shipping & free returns. Thousands of artworks & paintings for sale.
funding.com.au — Fast, flexible property finance solutions in Australia. Explore Bridging Loans, Business Loans, and more to accelerate your property goals with ease.

OneVentures is one of Australia’s leading venture capital firms, with over $330M in funds under management. But they do more than invest. They take companies to that all important next stage, by actively shaping their future. They apply their years of international experience, operational and executional expertise to accelerate the growth of theirportfolio companies. A global growth focus drives their investment selection with their current portfolio including companies with truly innovative products tackling multi-billion-dollar problems, from needle-free vaccinations to virtual communications to adaptive e-learning.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Australia, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.
StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
Employment Hero — Employment Hero is Australia's top cloud-based HR, payroll and benefits platform for employers & employees. FREE trial for...

Board Member at YourGrocer.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

ReciMe — ReciMe is the ultimate cooking app that helps you save, share, and discover new recipes. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
PropCode — PropCode is a online platform, that helps in researching for town planning queries. the rules can be complex, and make it easy to get the right answers.
Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.

Guy King is the Co-Founder of Stateless Systems Pty Ltd. Guy King wrote BugMeNot as a "slapped-together" weekend project in 2003 that went on to become a worldwide hit. After time working a Realestate.com.au, Guy King founded Stateless Systems in 2007 and launched RetailMeNot, a consumer coupon sites.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne

NAB Ventures is an Australian Venture Capital fund backed by National Australia Bank (one of the largest 20 banks globally).

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.
Archistar.ai — Archistar's world-first artificial intelligence helps property professionals find profitable land development sites, assess for feasibility and generate dozens of architectural design strategies - all within a few minutes
Zodia Custody — Crypto Custody, Without Compromise. Empowering global institutions to navigate the digital asset landscape simply, safely, and without compromise.

RACV is there for members with emergency roadside assistance, car and home insurance, home assist, travel services & car loans.

Investment focus

Social, Travel, Leisure
Seed, Grant, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

JET Charge — Australia's #1 supplier and installer of EV charging stations for homes and businesses, expert solutions for all EV infrastructure needs.
Designer Journeys — Explore the world with Designer Journeys, where each trip is an extraordinary experience, tailored by our experienced Local Travel Designers.
Lifeline Australia — Lifeline is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.

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.

Steve Baxter - Non-Executive Director @ OtherLevels

Investment focus

Transportation, SaaS, Photography
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Go1 — GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.
Travelshoot — Your holidays are really important to us to create good memories and we are offering Worldwide Photographer Services. Get the best vacation photographer NYC & across the globe. Visit us now!
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.

Dale Ventures is a Personal Investment Holding Group based in Dubai with offices in Costa Rica, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Panama and Singapore.

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, mHealth
Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Huma — Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered inLondon, England.
Rail Online — At www.rail.online, customers in Europe, Australia and throughout the world can search for terrific deals on train tickets knowing they'll find the best prices and knowledgeable customer service staff all in one place.

Queensland Government is the government of the Australian state of Queensland that supports the economic and social participation of culturally diverse communities across Queensland and provides whole-of-government leadership, coordination, and monitoring in policy, program, and service delivery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderQueenslanders. It is established by the Constitution of Queensland, and its relationship with the Commonwealth is regulated by the Constitution of Australia.Queensland Government provides support and advice for the Premier and Cabinet and leads the public sector in delivering the government’s priorities.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, Computer
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cake — Here at Cake Equity we make equity easier to use. Grow your company, reward your team, eliminate the hassle. Sign up for FREE today!
Chicks Who Ride Bikes — Bikes fuel your adventures, and CWRB fuels you. A cycling community for women to connect, ride and discover what they're capable of.
Field Solutions Group — Field Solutions is an ASX listed Australian-based Telecommunication company. We aim to be Australia's largest rural, regional and remote telecommunications provider.

Startive Ventures is a boutique technology investment company. We are focused on global technology and Internet startup opportunities and look at investments both internationally and in our own backyard. With a vast experience in building successful global consumer-focused Internet brands Startive is a partner that provides more help than justcapital. We also recognize entrepreneurs need to focus on developing ideas, running & growing their businesses, and not dealing with investor overhead.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Blockchain, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

eMoov — Sell or let your property with online estate agent Emoov
Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.
Spaceship — Join thousands of Australians investing in their future with Spaceship. Grow your wealth with our investment and super accounts. Start in five minutes.

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

Simon is Founder and Director of Startive Ventures. With two decades of experience in high growth technology businesses in both Australia and the United States, Simon has worked on all levels and aspects of technology companies; from employee, to consultant, to founder & CEO of one of Australia's most successful technology startups. Histechnical expertise includes proficiency in multiple software development languages, computer security and vulnerability analysis, and he is co-author and inventor of a number of granted technology patents.Focusing on consumer-centric software and Internet enabled technology he founded, and was CEO of WinGuides, which later became PC Tools. With Simon as CEO PC Tools grew to over $100 million dollars in revenue, more than 250 employees and offices in 7 countries. PC Tools was acquired by Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC) in October 2008 in one of Australia‘s largest ever technology acquisitions at the time. Following the acquisition Simon became a Vice President at Symantec, before leaving in 2009 and founding Startive Ventures, a specialised technology venture fund. Today, Startive actively maintains investments in a number of successful global start-ups and Simon acts as a Director and advisor to companies around the world. Simon is the founding investor in Freelancer Limited (ASX:FLN) and is a board member of two publicly listed companies.

Investment focus

Apps, Travel, Home Decor
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Clippings — The all-in-one platform for interior professionals to discover, specify and buy furniture and lighting for their projects.
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
Spaceship — Join thousands of Australians investing in their future with Spaceship. Grow your wealth with our investment and super accounts. Start in five minutes.

Providing strategic capital and expertise to established and growth businesses around the globe.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
Singularity — Portal Gate operates as a compliant on-chain gateway to privacy and anonymity.
LightLink — EVM-compatible, optimistic-rollup Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain offering a gasless Enterprise Mode.

Escala is a wealth management advisory business based in Melbourne who work with high net worth individuals, families, foundations & institutional investors.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Travel
Series D, Series A, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Moula — Moula is a better way to borrow money to grow your business. Apply in 10 minutes and once approved, get funded for up to $250,000 within 24 hours.
Locomote — Locomote provides seamless online products designed to make managing business travel easier and more efficient from anywhere in the world.
Hemideina — Hemideina takes inspiration from nature to provide solutions for human hearing. It is our mission to be a trusted source of innovation for those with hearing loss.

Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Aurtra — Aurtra delivers highly cost-effective asset management solutions for power distribution transformers through online condition monitoring and state of the art analysis.They provide the insight to significantly reduce capital costs through maximum asset utilisation. Aurtra is an Australian company, based in sunny Brisbane, Australia. Aurtra wasincorporated in 2016 and has built its IP upon a foundation of world’s best practice technology from The University of Queensland, following a decade of transformer research between academia and industry. Aurtra’s three founders, all with success commercialising hardware and software technology, recognised the potential of the technology and its beneficial impact for asset management in the power distribution industry.
Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
Apop Imaging — Apop Imaging develops and commercialises novel imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic tools to improve patient outcomes based on our proprietary calcitonin receptor antibody technology.

Discover high quality customisable packaging made from solid board and recycled paper by experts, manufactured to meet your businesses packaging needs.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, Canada, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Poliana — Poliana is a web application that simpliﬁes the legislative system by analyzing and visualizing money’s inﬂuence in politics. Abraham Lincoln once discussed a “government of the people, by the people, for the people” in his famous Gettysburg Address. Since then, things have changed in how their government represents its constituents.
LiveSchool — Join a community of 1,000+ schools who believe positive student behavior comes from the right school culture.
Agisent Technologies — CivicEye delivers modern, easy to use cloud software for communities and law enforcement that helps to save lives and increase security.

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.

Athletic Ventures is a syndicate of past and present elite athletes investing in Champion Founders and their teams

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Sports
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
Bare — Bare provides a quality cremation service and a dedicated care team that helps you each step of the way. Arrange online or via phone. Call us on 1800 071 176
Guzman y Gomez (GYG) — At Guzman y Gomez, our passion is creating deliciously fresh and authentic Mexican food using only the best ingredients. Order today!

Tahmedia is part of the other financial investment activities industry.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, Agriculture
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Foodbomb — The one-stop-shop for restaurants to order wholesale food products. Search products, compare suppliers, and order in seconds anytime, anywhere.

Scalare Partners is more than a technology investment fund. We provide critical funding and resourcing

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.
AsiaVerify — AsiaVerify is plugged into Asia's most authoritative and compliant government and regulatory sources. Our unprecedented coverage and intelligent platform opens the way for businesses to engage in Asian markets with greater confidence and ease.
FreeGuides — FreeGuides is a peer to peer platform, enabling locals to create, run and manage their own free walking tours.

Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. is a leading independent, full-service financial services firm, with operations in two principal segments of the securities industry: wealth management and capital markets.

Investment focus

Mining, Precious Metals, Software
Post-IPO Equity, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Li-FT Power — Li-FT Power is a cutting-edge company that focuses on identifying, exploring, discovering, and advancing early-stage lithium pegmatite projects in Canada. The company currently holds an interest in the Rupert Project, which is a 155,000-hectare greenfield lithium pegmatite exploration project.
enCore Energy — enCore Energy is a U.S. domestic uranium developer focused on becoming a leading In-Situ Recovery (ISR) uranium producer.
UGE — Cleaner, cheaper energy for everyone is our goal. Earn and save while you transition to renewable energy with community solar.

Telescope Investment is a private equity fund focusing on VC/PE investment projects in Chinese market. The office is located in Beijing. The founding team created its unique investment system out of their profound experience in consumer industry and advanced investment philosophy. Telescope Investment mainly focus on those top enterpriseswith high brand value in consumer goods, chain service, education, medical&health and culture industry. The investment stage covers both early stage and maturity stage and the investment scale varies from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars according to the specific circumstances of the projects.The investment team is composed of intelligent investment professionals with remarkable management ability and profound financial practical experience. As an emerging force in Chinese capital market, Telescope Investment spares no efforts to help Chinese enterprises achieve success with its advantages on intelligence, social resources and capital operation.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Online Portals
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Sucheon — Sucheon is an artificial intelligence high-tech enterprise that focuses on machine noise recognition and non-contact production process monitoring and equipment failure prediction.The main solution for the company's product machine auscultation master is to collect machine noise from the SC Box, which is placed in an industrial environment, toextract sound feature values, and to use machine learning to identify the real-time operating status of industrial equipment and the various components. Health indicators .
Starwhale — Starwhale is an MLOps platform to manage machine learning projects, models and datasets.
Beacon Education — Beacon Education their marketing, recruitment, support, and analytics technology services platform is a single-point solution for outstanding teaching and learning.

Time Traveler (trying to crack Teleportation as well). Andrey has been building companies, projects and ventures since he was 19 and hasn't stopped since (some call it serial entrepreneurship, he simply calls it "a way of life"). He has been investing in early stage start-up companies over the past 8 years, helping otherentrepreneurs build great companies. In 2012 he has founded SYD Ventures , which is not your ordinary fund - in fact it's not a fund at all - it's a start-up company that just happens to invests in other startups.Andrey invests in people, rather than ideas. He invests in startups, he can personally get involved in and help build and scale them. He invest relatively small amounts, mainly at very early seed and pre-seed stages, and being long-time entrepreneur himself, he understands the needs and interests of the startup venture and the entrepreneurs leading it.

Investment focus

Travel, Printing, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
Israel, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deep DAO — Discovery, listing and analytics for all DAOs
Cartesian Co — Cartesian Co is a New York-based technology startup that creates the world's first desktop electronics printer, the Argentum.
Jayride — Search and compare thousands of shared airport shuttle and private transfer companies. Find and book your door-to-door airport, or hotel transfer today

Creating tomorrow's value in today's growth ventures and early stage startups.

Investment focus

Mobile, Retail, Travel
Seed
Philippines, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Flyspaces — FlySpaces empowers businesses as a digital marketplace that provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week or a few months - we have a network of hundreds of spaces to discover across key South East Asian cities.For venue owners,FlySpaces acts as a digital marketing platform that connects you to a vast user base, allowing you to optimize and monetize your space.We recognize that workspace is more than a mere location. It is a setting that inspires ideas, motivates action and promotes growth. With FlySpaces, find where your business will accomplish its next milestone.FlySpaces empowers businesses as a digital marketplace that provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week or a few months - we have a network of hundreds of spaces to discover across key South East Asian cities.For venue owners, FlySpaces acts as a digital marketing platform that connects you to a vast user base, allowing you to optimize and monetize your space.We recognize that workspace is more than a mere location. It is a setting that inspires ideas, motivates action and promotes growth. With FlySpaces, find where your business will accomplish its next milestone.
Four Eyes — They offer quality eyewear at the most affordable rates through their eCommerce store to the Filipino consumers.Prescription glasses, sunglasses, computer glasses can be tried at home using their Home Try-On feature, or through their website using the Virtual Try-On feature.They own the supply chain - from assembly to delivery of the endproduct.
JESI Management Solutions — Workforce Safety Management Platform. Monitor the safety of mobile and lone workers, streamline your EHS program and safeguard your workforce.

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

Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
Sova Health — Sova Health is a precision nutrition platform that guides users towards a healthier lifestyle with personalized nutrition advice based on accurate blood biomarker analysis. Understand what is stopping you from achieving your nutritional goal and get your personalized nutrition plan.

Experienced CEO and Chairman with a demonstrated history of working in the leisure, travel & tourism industry. Skilled in Digital Strategy, Marketing Management, Negotiation, Business Planning, and Hospitality Industry. Strong entrepreneurial professional who has successfully run large teams to achieve common purpose.

Investment focus

Travel, Social Network, Information Technology
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Travello app — Travello is a social network for travellers used in over 180 countries. It's a global community of travellers and is fast becoming the largest and most trusted travel community in the world. It's available for free on iOS and Android. However, Travello is more than just a social network. We have developed a suite of Travel-Tech solutionsunder the brand BlueTee. www.bluetee.io These platforms allow travel companies to connect with their customers 'in-destination', using self serve geo-fence technology, customer segmentation and location based push messaging. For the first time, travel companies can partner with Travello and get the right message, to the right traveller, in the right place at exactly the right time - all with NO technical integration.

Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ratio Ventures — Ratio Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.
Tailwind Acquisition — Tailwind Acquisition is a purpose-built investment company that seeks to partner with a world-class founding and executive team. The company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. It also seeks tocapitalize on the multiple decades of combined investment experience of the company’s management team, the board of directors, and Advisors who are both technology entrepreneurs as well as technology-oriented investors with a shared vision of identifying and investing in technology companies.Tailwind Acquisition was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
TRAVLR — TRAVLR is a revolutionary white label technology provider that consolidates the global travel industry into one seamless platform via its unique ‘Travel as a Service’ model.The company licences its full service travel platform to the world’s leading media companies, enabling their audiences to discover, plan and book curated, once-in-a-life-timetravel experiences.In turn, media companies are able to retain audiences within their ecosystem for longer, optimising for conversion by providing customers a seamless path from content through to real world experience.This unique ‘win-win-win model’ benefits all key stakeholders including consumers, media companies and the travel industry, who have traditionally experienced a fragmented travel booking journey across multiple platforms and providers.TRAVLR was founded in 2017 by Bali Bible founder Simon te Hennepe and has strategically located offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Denpasar. Its partners include Network 10, MTV, Bali Bible and Stuff.co.nz.

AS1 Growth Partners operates a privately held fund that invests in ambitious and disruptive technology-enabled growth businesses

Investment focus

Travel, Hospitality, Real Estate
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.

Allan Moss acts an adviser to Anchorage’s Investment Committee. Currently Principal of Allan Moss Investments, a private investment company, Allan retired from the role of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Macquarie Group in May 2008. He was with Macquarie Group for 31 years and served as CEO from 1993 to his retirement in2008. He was also a non- executive director of CSR Ltd from 1996 to 2001.Allan graduated from Sydney University in Arts with a major in Economics and in Laws with Honours. He is also a graduate of Harvard University with a Masters Degree in Business Administration with High Distinction. Allan has received numerous industry awards and recognitions. He was twice named by Barron’s Magazine as one of the 30 most respected CEOs in the world (2006, 2007). He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2005.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Australia, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Skykraft — Skykraft is an Australian space services firm that specializes in smallsat constellation design, production, and operation.
Ferronova — Ferronova is a medical device company that offers imaging and surgery products.
Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.

Everywhere Ventures (fka "The Fund") is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators acrossten micro funds. The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mbue — AI for Architectural review. To help Architecture, Engineering and Construction firms build better businesses by providing AI-based quality control tools.
Flora — Flora Fertility is dedicated to empowering the next generation of parents by putting the control of reproductive health outcomes back where they belongs—in your hands. It aims to revolutionize how women's health and family building are approached, making fertility care more accessible, transparent, and personalized. By reimagining thefinancial and medical aspects of family planning, we help you navigate the journey to parenthood with greater confidence, ease, and support, ensuring that your fertility choices align with your personal goals and circumstances.
Matilda Migration — Migration made simple. Specialising in Employer Sponsored visas and Partner visas. With a 99% success rate for ultimate peace of mind. Visit us now.

Wollemi Capital Group's mission is to invest in businesses and ventures delivering a positive impact for generations to come.

Investment focus

Travel, Professional Services
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Matilda Migration — Migration made simple. Specialising in Employer Sponsored visas and Partner visas. With a 99% success rate for ultimate peace of mind. Visit us now.

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

NoneAway — NoneAway is an AI -powered app that makes property buying, selling, and renting safer, smarter, and simpler.
Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
Portcast — Our solution improves your supply chain resilience and profitability by accurately predicting arrival times and monitoring valuable container shipments around-the-clock.

eBay Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of eBay Inc. We invest in disruptive early-stage companies that are revolutionizing the commerce landscape.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sustainability, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Series B
Norway, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ecomtent — Ecomtent enables brands to create eCommerce content with Generative AI. Using Ecomtent's self-service tools, customers can generate their entire optimized Amazon listing, using our AI product photo generator, AI Generate infographics at scale, a+ content, and generate optimised copy.
The Volte — Dress hire grows your wardrobe with over 50,000 new, chic designer options. We help women get the perfect dress for every event on their calendar.
talkshoplive — talkshoplive is the leading live stream commerce network and distribution vehicle with a patent-pending embeddable video player containing sales execution, allowing transactions to be processed within the video player anywhere it exists. The network and app offer a full range of services for both buyers and sellers - from live show creation toorder processing, to ease of shipping and payouts.

Platform Advisory Partners provides corporate advisory services to high growth and technology companies including capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, business sale and founder exit and strategic advisory.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Travel
Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Foodbomb — The one-stop-shop for restaurants to order wholesale food products. Search products, compare suppliers, and order in seconds anytime, anywhere.
CartonCloud — CartonCloud is an easy-to-use (TMS) transport management system and (WMS) warehouse management system with a mission of making logistics, simple.

Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Pre-Seed, Seed
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Viewa — Viewa is an augmented reality platform that enables virtual product placement, enhances print creative, generates qualified customer leads and provides advertisers with direct sales opportunities.
Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
WhyHive — WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses.

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.

Craig Winkler Co-founded Australian small business accounting software provider MYOB in 1991. Craig built MYOB to be a popular business tool and brand which, in 2004, merged with Solution 6 to become Australia’s largest IT company. Craig joined Xero's board and became a substantial shareholder in 2009. He now spends the bulk of his timeworking in the philanthropic sector.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Apps
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chaser — Automate invoice reminders, get paid faster and maintain great customer relationships. Our users get paid 16+ days sooner and save 15+ hours a week on A/R.
Myprosperity — An all-in-one client portal with innovative digital tools to increase practice efficiencies, scale client engagement and grow revenue.
Ignition — Engage clients, get paid and run your business on autopilot with Ignition. Create online proposals & automate client payments, all from one place. Learn more.

John Grill - Founder @ Worley

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Mobile Apps
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Leezair — Leezair connects travelers with Experiences, Tours & Activities around the world.

Partnering with passionate entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Travel, Information Services
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

FreeGuides — FreeGuides is a peer to peer platform, enabling locals to create, run and manage their own free walking tours.

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!