Top 50 Wellness Startup Investors in Australia in November 2024

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.

Giant Leap is Australia's first venture capital fund to be 100% dedicated to investing in exceptional, rapidly scalable impact businesses.

Brandon Capital invests in the most promising biomedical opportunities that have the potential to improve the lives of patients.

Adam Schwab, 36, studied Law/Commerce at Monash University before becoming a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers & acquisitions at Freehills (now HerbertSmithFreehills). At 25, Adam co-founded corporate accommodation and services group, Living Corporate Apartments. In 2010, Adam co-founded what would soon become the Lux Group. In2011, Adam co-founded of MyTable, which eventually formed part of Menulog (which was sold to JustEat in 2015). Adam is currently an investor and non-executive director of online art marketplace, BlueThumb.com.au.In 2015, Adam was named the Australian Young Executive of the Year by CEO Magazine, and Adam has been a director of the Myeloma Foundation of Australia since 2010.

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.

Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) provides dedicated, investment funding to support the commercialisation of early-stage medical research discoveries that originate from its member institutes. The collaborative nature of the MRCF seeks to foster best practice in the commercialisation of medical innovations.

Venture capital for high growth software companies.

Banana Capital is a technology investment firm that invests globally across all sectors and from pre-seed to pre-IPO.

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

Anjos do Brasil is a angel investor network dedicated to foster angel investment for supporting inovative entrepreneurs in Brazil. It was founded by Cassio Spina, a entrepreneur and a angel investor with over 25 years experience in tech industry (see more at http://www.crunchbase.com/person/cassio-spina-3) .Receivingsupport of major brazilian institutions related to entrepreneurship and investments, such as Endeavor Brasil, ABVCAP, BM&F BOVESPA, FIESP/CJE, Brazil Innovators, etc., Anjos do Brasil is commited to connect investors with entrepreneurs in order to help growing new business in Brazil.We do also keep relationship with major VC investment funds, in order to exchange investment opportunities between our members and them. Anjos do Brasil is advised by a seasoned board of advisors, that support our strategic actions for promoting our vision.We promote events between our members and some also for entrepreneurs, for both educating the community and connecting people, to empower their relationsIf you wish to contact us, please, visit our site at www.anjosdobrasil.net and leave a message.

Jeremy Same co-founded AussieCommerce in 2010. Jeremy Same began his career as a credit trader at ANZ Investment Bank in 2002, then departed in late 2003. He co-founded Living Corporate Apartments and serves as its Director. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director of BigThanks.com.au and Sames.com.au. He was Founder and Managing Director ofMyTable, an online takeaway ordering platform, before exiting the business in 2012 in a sale to EatNow, to create Australia’s fastest growing food ordering website. He is also a dedicated amateur guitarist - much to the delight of his neighbours. He serves as Executive Director of AussieCommerce.

Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.

Serial entrepreneur and investor Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.

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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.

Perennial Partners is a specialist, active investment management firm. Formed in 2000 and led by well-known Value investor, John Murray. The company's sole focus is to deliver excellence in funds management through equity ownership and the alignment of interests between key investment management staff and our clients. Perennial Value nowmanages over $5 billion on behalf of institutional and retail clients.

The Sypkes Group is a collection of investment companies and businesses managed by a private family office in Tasmania, Australia.

Early stage venture firm investing in Australia´s best pre-seed and seed stage Founders

Co-founder Rob Phillpot is senior vice president of product and engineering, responsible for product vision, strategy and management. He has been instrumental in developing the company’s business on a global scale and ensuring that Aconex solutions deliver a superior customer experience to buyers and users. Before founding Aconex in 2000 with CEOand director Leigh Jasper, he managed document control, quality and trades on a site team at Brookfield Multiplex. Prior to Brookfield Multiplex, Mr. Phillpot was an auditor at Deloitte & Touche in Australia. He holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Planning and Design degrees with Honors and a Master of Building degree from the University of Melbourne.

Leigh Jasper is the CEO of Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. Together with company co-founder Rob Phillpot, he raised A$86 million in private equity investment before listing Aconex on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December 2014. Prior toAconex, Leigh was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted for clients in the financial services, media and information technology sectors. He is a director of the Burnet Institute, a not-for-profit organization which aims to improve health in poor and vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally through research, education and public health. Leigh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Diploma of Modern Languages in French from the University of Melbourne.

BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

David Shuman

Alium Capital focuses on listed and unlisted technology investments to generate out-sized returns. The company invests in technology, innovation, and early-stage businesses, all the way through to publicly listed assets. It specializes in the fields of finance, investing, innovation, and capital.Alium Capital was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.

Helping passionate founders build the future Saniel Ventures is a private investment group supporting high growth technology companies. Get in touch We invest in people first Smart, passionate, resilient founders building the future We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect that you are humble enough to know

Bosco Tan

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

Anthony Zaccaria is the Co-Founder of Linktree.

Nick Humphreys is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Linktree.

Titanium Ventures provide venture capital investment in lighthouse technology companies that are commencing scale. Leveraging data science for scaling new business.

Point King Capital offers long term growth equity to founders and entrepreneurs of global consumer and financial services companies. PKC has an extensive operating experience in the consumer and financial services sectors, as well as access to a global network of operating experts and business leaders. They invest in a ‘deal by deal basis’,allowing greater flexibility to structure a transaction that aligns with the objectives of founders.

Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.

Chris Hadley - Managing Director @ Quadrant Private Equity

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

We back ambitious founders solving complex problems

OIF is a venture capital firm focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs building businesses.

Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together.

James Beshara is the founder of Magic Mind.

Lars Rasmussen is a co-founder and 'Chief Espresso Officer' at Weav Music, Inc in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly, he was a director of engineer at Facebook London where he headed up the Facebook Workplace team. Formerly, he was a member of Google's technical staff, based in the Sydney office, and with his brother the

We purchase shares from early shareholders, founders, professional investors and employees who want to take a bit off the table. We also provide similar liquidity to investors in venture capital funds. These types of transactions are known as "secondaries" and we are the first secondaries

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.

John founded two startups. SendBird is the chat API for mobile apps and websites, a Y Combinator and Techstars company. His first startup, Paprika Lab - a social gaming company, was acquired by GREE.His focus is on problem solving, building teams, and business development. A car enthusiast and Korea's all-time no.1 and world's no.3Unreal Tournament player in 2000.

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

Hakuhodo DY Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm.

We help build strong Web3 companies

Mr Di Marco founded TechnologyOne in 1987, after extensive software industry experience in the area of large scale fixed time and fixed price software development projects to meet client-specific requirements. Mr Di Marco has more than 30 years' experience in the software industry. He is responsible for all operational aspects of TechnologyOneand its strategic direction.

Matt Mullenweg is the CEO at Automattic Inc. Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston.

Nathan brings a unique entrepreneurial business and organizational development background developed during years of hands-on, active leadership and operational experience. As one of the Northwest’s leading organizers of entrepreneurial and investor relations-focused media and funding events, he has facilitated scores of engagements and successfullypromoted hundreds of privately financed high-growth companies.In June 2014, Nathan became CEO of Keiretsu Capital with the mission of fostering closer ties between Keiretsu Forum angels, the institutional investor community and Keiretsu Forum portfolio companies. Keiretsu Capital provides access to proprietary deal flow by investing alongside the angels, providing additional capital to complete rounds and acting to source follow on capital where appropriate.Nathan co-founded and currently serves as Chairman of the Northwest Region of the Keiretsu Forum global angel investment group. He wrote the business plan and designed the organizational structure, which led to the initial license agreement with global Keiretsu Forum. He recruited the team, implemented policies and procedures, designed, and coordinated multi-faceted events. As part of his overall regional growth strategy, he created and implemented controlled expansion activities in Seattle, Bellevue, Boise, Portland, Spokane, Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. Nathan’s leadership and personal networking skills combined to quickly build the region into the fastest growing angel investment group in the nation, adding over 650 investor members and facilitating over $164 million in funding for over 240 companies.In 2004, Nathan became Managing Director of Venture Velocity, a business growth consulting organization. He recruited a talent pool of executive-level consultants from among the most successful and fastest growing companies in the region. Nathan has been a moving force in building and shaping investor networks for two emerging fund managers including The University Funds and Pacific West Land.Nathan has dedicated much of his career to stimulating growth-stage capital investment including as lead organizer for the Northwest’s most successful venture funding conference, raising over $30 million for 15 growth companies. As Co-founder and Managing Director of the Investment Forum, he produced the highest quality educational programs, social events, and investment forums in the region in collaboration with more than thirty-five industry groups and hundreds of different sponsors. Nathan co-founded an industry leading showcase event and media piece, which attracted over 500 of the region’s most influential investors and CEO’s to recognize and celebrate their accomplishments.Nathan is a graduate of University of Washington Michael G. Foster Business School with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration & Finance with an emphasis in entrepreneurial leadership and venture finance. He has been a consistent supporter and volunteer for his alma mater, serving as a sponsor and judge for the UW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition for many years. Nathan and his wife Brianna live in the Wedgwood neighborhood in Seattle with their three young children Evan and Wyatt and Ana Leigh.

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