Top 20 Startup Investors in Oceania in October 2024
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Venture capital startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Startup Investors in Oceania in October 2024
Investor | Venture Capital Oceania investments |
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Flying Fox Ventures | 2 |
Archangel Ventures | 2 |
EVP | 2 |
BridgeLane Capital | 1 |
Agriculture Victoria | 1 |
Emlyn Scott | 1 |
Churchill Asset Management | 1 |
Riverlane Capital | 1 |
Tank Stream Ventures | 1 |
Investec | 1 |
Melbourne Angels | 1 |
Simon Hackett | 1 |
Kain Warwick | 1 |
John Bacon | 1 |
Enabling Future | 1 |
The Myer Family Company | 1 |
Catalio Capital Management | 1 |
Black Sheep Capital | 1 |
Myer Family Investments | 1 |
Larry Diamond | 1 |
Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
- Mayday — Streamline your finance team's multi-entity accounting adjustments with Mayday
- EverYoung AI — Everyoung AI is a pioneering organization in the field of Aged Care, utilizing advanced AI technology to enhance the quality of life for seniors. They are committed to building evolutionary AI solutions and have a vision to revolutionize Aged Care with new technology. Everyoung AI is inviting interns to join their team and contribute to theirmission of redefining Aged Care through innovative AI solutions. Their goal is to make Aged Care more personalized, efficient, and accessible, and they are dedicated to nurturing fresh talent in pursuit of this meaningful cause.
Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Primary — Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways.
- Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.
- InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.
EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.
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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.
The BridgeLane Group is a privately-owned asset management firm specialising in the agricultural, real estate and innovation sectors. A significant global player in agriculture with a multi-decade record in large scale farming, the Group has a proud history in residential property development, comme
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- Australia, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Agerris — Agerris is a field robotics and AI start-up for the agriculture industry, based on technology created at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, the University of Sydney, where they have been developing air and ground robotic solutions for the agriculture industry since 2005.
- Sprout Stack —
- Evrima Technologies — Our clinical trial recruitment and management services put participants first. Trusted, timely clinical trial results are a good thing - for everybody.
Agriculture Victoria works in partnership with farmers, industries, communities, and other government agencies to grow and secure agriculture in victoria.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, AgTech, Sustainability
- Seed, Grant
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Rocket Seeder — Rocket Seeder is an accelerator for early stage startups in the Food and Agriculture sector in Australia. We help innovators and founders take their startups to the next level by providing them with the tools and guidance they need to scale.
- Farmers2Founders — Farmers2Founders supports accelerating the commercialisation of agrifood tech and innovation solutions that deliver real industry impact.
Emlyn is a successful founder and investor with personal investments in fast growing tech companies like Kami, A.Kin, MealMe, Segna, and EnsuredIt. Managing Partner at CP Ventures and the founder of OpenMarkets Group, Australia's second-largest retail broker. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s secondlargest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Masters Business Administration (MBA), Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI), and Bachelor of Economics (BEc).
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
- Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
- Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Churchill is a leading capital provider for private equity-owned, middle market companies. We provide first lien, unitranche, second lien and mezzanine debt, in addition to equity co-investments, secondary solutions and private equity fund commitments.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Pet, Dental
- Debt Financing, Private Equity
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Proto Axiom — Early-stage funding to growth capital, we guide scientific breakthroughs from proof-of-concept to commercial success. Our hands-on approach to support Australian research is a first-in-country model.
- Mosaic Dental Collective — Mosaic Dental Collective provides administrative and business operations support to dental practices. They are a multi-specialty group where doctors make decisions and are supported by an experienced professional management team.
- Heartland Veterinary Partners — Heartland Veterinary Partners is high quality and fast growing veterinary support organizations.
Long-term owner-operators of great Australian businesses.
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Investment focus
- Life Science, Biotechnology, Venture Capital
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Proto Axiom — Early-stage funding to growth capital, we guide scientific breakthroughs from proof-of-concept to commercial success. Our hands-on approach to support Australian research is a first-in-country model.
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.
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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
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Energy
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Voltera — Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. They are challenged by the fact that charging infrastructure does not exist in the right place, at the right time, or of the right type necessary to support planned EV deployments. They're also challenged by the complexity of siting, building, owning, andoperating EV charging infrastructure without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital.
- Recurrent Energy — As a leading provider of distributed solar power, Recurrent Energy is overcoming the barriers to widespread solar adoption, making renewable energy a practical choice for today's large scale energy users. They are a developer and owner of locally-sited solar power systems, selling clean electricity to their customers worldwide at competitiverates via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) or Feed-in Tariffs (FiT). In return, their utility, commercial, and government customers achieve energy independence, predictable pricing, and enhanced sustainability.
- Onyx Renewable Partners — Onyx guides your every step toward a cleaner future. Established in 2014, Onyx offers clean energy, solar, and decarbonization solutions throughout the United States.
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.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Alkira Software — Deliver interactive content and answer customer queries at scale using conversational AI. TalkVia offers quick and easy NO CODE voice and chat solutions for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri and web based chatbots.
After graduating from the University of Adelaide, Simon Hackett founded Internode in 1991. Internode grew to become the largest privately held national broadband services provider in Australia, and it was sold to iiNet Limited in 2012. Simon is now invested in a variety of Australian and US startups in fields he is passionate about.Simon is akeen supporter of electric vehicles. Meeting Elon Musk at FiRe in 2008 led to him being the first Australian customer of Tesla in 2009. His family now owns multiple Tesla vehicles (and no gas-powered ones).In the energy sustainability field, Simon has invested in startups in Australia and the US, most significantly in Redflow (ASX:RFX), where he is a significant shareholder and a member of the board. He considers this to be a case of putting his money where his beliefs are.Simon is also a board director of the National Broadband Network (www.nbn.com.au) in Australia.Simon is a serial delegate at the SNS FiRe conference, having participated in almost all FiRe events since their inception.Away from the office, when he isn't spending time with his family, Simon is usually off flying in something.
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Investment focus
- Advice, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Series A, Series C
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Nano Nouvelle —
- BlueChilli — We help impactful startups scale, globally. Learn more about our award-winning accelerator programs & meet our portfolio companies.
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- EarthFast — EarthFast provides cryptocurrency front-end hosting solutions. It enables projects to build and deploy decentralized apps, providing a secure alternative to traditional cloud platforms.
- Firewall — Firewall is building a security layer for Web3, including the Safe Sequencer and its modular components that mitigate smart contract hacks before they impact users. Backed by NIV, Breyer Capital and Hack VC.
John Bacon
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Investment focus
- Crowdfunding, Venture Capital, Funding Platform
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- VentureCrowd — VentureCrowd is an alternative investments crowdfunding platform providing investors unique access to fractional equity, property and credit investment opportunities.
Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies withcapital, experience, strategy and network.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United Arab Emirates, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- NÜWATER — NÜWATER was born out of a desire to combat the harmful impact that plastic bottles have on our environment today. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean every year, NÜWATER is a recyclable alternative to plastic bottled water. We'd like to put the UAE at the forefront of driving sustainability, to ensure ourfuture generations live in a cleaner, healthier, plastic free world. NÜWATER is sourced from an artesian spring 500 meters underground, one of the deepest springs in the world. Filtered through rich volcanic rock, NÜWATER supplies the body with essential minerals for life. In comparison to desalinated water - a process that is highly energy intensive, removes all the minerals and produces toxic waste in the process. We are proud to say our manufacturing process is 100% Carbon Neutral. We aim to be a Carbon Net Positive company by 2023. see less
- Trifacta — Trifacta has joined Alteryx to help customers and partners bring even more value to their businesses, powered by breakthrough data analytic insights.
- Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
The Myer Family Company provides strategic wealth management, investment and philanthropic services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Advice, Banking
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Judo Bank — Speak to one of our relationship bankers today. Judo Bank. Boldly backing business.
- BlueChilli — We help impactful startups scale, globally. Learn more about our award-winning accelerator programs & meet our portfolio companies.
Catalio Capital Management was created by George Petrocheilos and Dr. Jacob Vogelstein to invest in breakthrough biomedical technology companies created or referred by Catalio Capital Management, an elite group of world-renowned, serial scientist-entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
- InSightec — Discover the therapeutic power of Focused Ultrasound. By harnessing acoustic energy, you can help transform patient lives.
- Imperative Care — Imperative Care focuses on developing a portfolio of innovative solutions to address the vast and urgent unmet needs in stroke care. It focuses on medical technology designed to expedite and improve the effectiveness of treatment, giving patients a chance for optimal recovery.
Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.
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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.
Myer Family Investments operates as a private investment company. It provides long term, patient, and supportive capital, and its investments are designed to support the financial future of the family and its philanthropic pursuits.
The firm was established in 1925 by Sidney Myer, the founder of the Myer Stores department store chain.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Advice, Banking
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Judo Bank — Speak to one of our relationship bankers today. Judo Bank. Boldly backing business.
- BlueChilli — We help impactful startups scale, globally. Learn more about our award-winning accelerator programs & meet our portfolio companies.
Larry Diamond is the founder of ZipMoney, a company that provides shoppers with online credit facilities. He was previously a director at Diamond Capital Partners.
Diamond holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Technology, Sydney and a master’s degree from UNSW Australia.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
- Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
- InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.
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