H2 Ventures

H2 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Sydney, Australia, that specializes in investing in startups within the fintech, data, and artificial intelligence sectors. Founded in 2015, the firm operates the H2 Accelerator, a 20-week program designed to support promising entrepreneurs through equity investment and mentoring. H2 Ventures typically invests $100,000 in exchange for a 10 percent equity stake in each startup, with a focus on fostering innovation in financial services, insurance, cybersecurity, and analytics. The accelerator program accommodates eight to ten teams of entrepreneurs, promoting a collaborative environment for developing disruptive technology solutions. By nurturing the startup ecosystem, H2 Ventures aims to position Australia as a global leader in fintech and AI while contributing to the broader innovation landscape of the Australian economy.

Ben Heap

Founding Partner

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Reserv Guru

Seed Round in 2017
Reserv Guru is a mutually beneficially community based platform that allows companies and businesses that take reservations, to list their ‘last minute’ availability with an incentive (such as 10% off, free glass of wine) to and connecting them with people looking for things to do, eat, see in their area at the last minute.

Stockspot

Series A in 2015
Stockspot Pty Ltd operates as an online and automated investment adviser and fund manager. The company invests in exchange traded funds which are listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). It also provides financial advice, fintech and robo-advice, investing, market news, money tips, and research reports. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Equitise

Seed Round in 2014
Equitise offers an equity crowdfunding platform for private investors to invest in early-stage companies and startups. It was founded on June 11, 2014, and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Edstart

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Edstart Australia Pty Ltd offers education loan solutions to school students in Australia. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Surry Hills, Australia.

Nod

Seed Round in 2018
http://noddocs.com is a document automation and compliance platform making complex document creation fast, accurate and easy. Build your own document automation workflows to create complex documents quickly and accurately, eliminating manual editing. Ensure peace of mind by building reports from document data to ensure compliance with regulation and your firm’s best practice standards. Our mission is to build amazing technology that empowers experts to help more people. We'd love to talk to you about how we can realise this mission within your company.

Reji

Seed Round in 2017
Reji is a digital shop assistant that helps retailers bring the content, personalisation and ease of online shopping into the physical store to improve customer experience and store performance

CurrencySpot

Pre Seed Round in 2014
CurrencySpot reimburses travelers for losses from exchange rate movements when they spend money abroad. We offer low fees and quick service. Just tell us when you’re traveling, how much you plan to spend, and link your debit and credit cards. Enjoy your travel. We’ll handle the money. Backed by AWI Ventures and H2 Ventures.

Whaley

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Whaley Australia provides a smartphone app that allows users to invest in stocks around the world. Its app allows users to connect to their existing bank account to use when funding investments; and invest in listed companies without having to pay any brokerage once an account is connected. The company is based in Sydney, Australia.

Retro Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Founded in Apr 2017, RetroAnalytics is a predictive analytics platform that tracks all user interactions and uses Artificial Intelligence to surface key conversion drivers. It is a self-service web & mobile analytics platform that uses a unique approach to user analytics by tracking all user interactions by default and allowing you to forgo the long, complex and error prone process of setting up analytics that are critical to your business growth. Their powerful query engine allows you to slice and dice data retroactively with a single tracking script.

Nestd

Seed Round in 2018
Nestd.io is a predictive analytics platform for property investors.

LoanDolphin

Seed Round in 2016
LoanDolphin is a loan bidding marketplace where banks and brokers compete to win your Home Loan. Everyone is unique, we all have our own preferences and we all have different needs and wants. LoanDolphin will help you find the mortgage product and lender that’s just right for you. We allow brokers, credit unions, banks and other mortgage providers to compete for your business openly in one dedicated platform. Join us today

Zemble

Seed Round in 2017
ClaimSpace is a web-based, white-labeled collaboration tool that enables insurers to create flexible, personalized digital experiences for customers and external stakeholder groups. Our configurable and user-friendly platform streamlines and automates the admin heavy parts of complex claims and complaints interactions while delivering new kinds of customer data to our enterprise clients.

DueToday

Seed Round in 2017
DueToday is an integrated accounts receivable and payments service that keeps your business ticking along with or without you. They handle your customer's payment experience, so you can focus on your work rather than get distracted by managing your cash flow. You do what you do best, and they’ll take care of the boring bits.

Bsociable

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Bsociable is a smart and highly sophisticated mobile app for simplifying your everyday social interactions and with a simple and versatile interface, you can connect, organise events and interact in person with anyone and anywhere. Their app supports the exchange of media such as text, photo, video and locations within group chats, choice of different group types for different lifestyles, event time and date, centralised group calendar showing availability of group participants, location service to determine estimated arrival time of your guests, RSVP function, event venue including restaurants, parks, places of interest and also postal address.

Triggr

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Triggr develops an online portal for sales and marketing professionals. It use many different methods for gathering data on business and people. The company provides business, technology, and personal data. Triggr is based in Sydney, Australia.

BookHop

Pre Seed Round in 2018
BookHop is helping students attain the best value out of their textbooks and turn them into cash.

RightCourse

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Right Course Holdings Pty Ltd is an Australian’s independent provider of tertiary educational information. They offer comprehensive information and review on tertiary courses and associated educational institutions, assisting students to make more informed decisions about higher education and career. They provide an effective online platform for students (both international and domestic) to access and compare the tertiary course information through a user-friendly approach. The Right Course team is made up of passionate education experts who really want to assist students make the right choice of study and hence career pathway. They look forward to collaborating with students and educational institutions.

Seneca

Seed Round in 2017
Seneca is a smart personal library experience–where effortless organisation of your content meets discovery and exploration. They are life long learners. Creatives and makers. Idea shapers. The information carnivores. Curious, wide-eyed explorers of the world. Their modern world gives us unprecedented access to create and consume more content than ever. With more information comes more noise, and with more noise, it becomes difficult to hear the whisper in the hurricane. Great content gets lost and forgotten. They waste time trying to find it.

Birch

Angel Round in 2016
Birch Finance, LLC provides Birch Finance, a web application that helps users manage their rewards programs and points across multiple credit cards and accounts. Its application plugs into a bank account; looks at a user’s spending habits; and recommends what kinds of cards they should sign up for or how they should spend their money in order to maximize their point returns. The company’s application helps users keep track of their cards and spending, and optimize all rewards in one place. Birch Finance, LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Gainesville, Florida. As of October 30, 2018, Birch Finance, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Even Financial, Inc..

FloodMapp

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Floodmapp Holdings Pty Ltd aggregates live rainfall and river height data and offers predictive flood inundation mapping and analysis. The company’s products include Predictive Mapping, which allows rapid large scale flood modelling to predict and visualize the expected extent of floods before it happens and Hazard Mapping, a data product, which is for underwriters to determine the risk of particular property or areas of flooding. Floodmapp Holdings Pty Ltd aggregates rain and river data, integrates the data into elevation models and forecasts the intensity of flood. Floodmapp Holdings Pty Ltd was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Fortitude Valley, Australia.

Stockspot

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Stockspot Pty Ltd operates as an online and automated investment adviser and fund manager. The company invests in exchange traded funds which are listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). It also provides financial advice, fintech and robo-advice, investing, market news, money tips, and research reports. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

PayHero

Seed Round in 2015
Start Your Recurring Revenue Business Today. Payhero is an easy way to accept subscription payments and turn your regular customers into recurring revenue. Payhero for the Sole Trader and Small Business merchants who don't have the technical ability to implement their own payment gateway into a website or are limited by the costs associated with hiring a developer.

Walnut Exchange

Seed Round in 2018
Walnut is the cheapest way to send money overseas. A peer-to-peer remittance service, we facilitate moving money where it needs to go — keeping it safe and secure until your transaction is complete.

Deposit Rates Exchange

Seed Round in 2015
At Deposits.org our vision is that banking no longer has borders, boundaries, or country limits. We are focused on banking and understand that each banking institution competes in a global market place and that every product is different but is comparable worldwide. Our customers are worldwide, but we cater to each and every one. We list financial products for emerging markets including Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, and South America.

ALOKI

Pre Seed Round in 2017
ALOKI is a platform which enables anyone anywhere to learn anything from anyone

dotd

Pre Seed Round in 2017
dotd automates startup equity legal management and investor communications to give time back to founders and investor to build great companies

Sempo

Pre Seed Round in 2017
At Sempo there’s a simple, but radical idea that we find particularly inspiring: one of the best ways to help vulnerable communities is to just give them money, no strings attached. Cash Transfers bring dignity to affected people, and solve a fundamental problem with humanitarian relief - too often, we spend millions of dollars on the wrong kind of aid: In Iraq, 70% of Syrian refugees have sold the aid they were given, in order to buy what they actually need. We're on a mission to help all aid organisations, from grassroots to international, to increase their usage of cash transfers as a tool to alleviate suffering, provide dignity and ultimately increase long-term self-sufficiency.

Forage

Seed Round in 2017
Forage (formerly InsideSherpa) partners with leading companies to deliver free open-access training courses for candidates. Any candidate can enroll in the company-backed courses to build career skills, visibility, and experience. The platform is running various virtual training courses including with KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, GE, BCG, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citi, Deloitte, Accenture and others. There are +1 million students in the Forage ecosystem.

Code Create

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Code Create empowers our youth through dynamic courses in coding, data, and design. At its workshops, students learn as part of a thriving passionate community and turn their ideas into real-world projects in 3 - 5 days. Their courses also connect them with experts, mentors, and evangelists from great places like Google, University of New South Wales and more.

Valiant

Seed Round in 2016
Valiant is an online business loan marketplace in Australia. Its proprietary technology enables business owners and advisers to explore products and lenders that they have the highest probability of being funded. The company is driven by a mission to make sense of the madness and empower the small business owner and their advisers to find the best loan option available. Valiant was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Surry Hills, Australia.

Timeweave

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Timeweave is an app for college students that automatically imports your class schedule and is a platform where all your friends class schedules are in one place so you can find out when they're free to meet. We've penetrated 40% of the students in the major Sydney universities and have 100,000 MAU - so we're now expanding to the US!

Adaptive Technology

Pre Seed Round in 2018
AdaptiveFinder transforms mortgage brokers into financial concierges for life.

HashChing

Seed Round in 2015
HashChing is an online marketplace for consumers to access home loan deals from a local mortgage broker. HashChing has been created to empower people to share their grievance or positive experience and make an informed decision when choosing a financial product, in a simple and convenient manner.

Inspitrip

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Inspitrip provides a platform to connect travellers to locals for personalized and off the beaten path experiences. The company creates authentic travel experiences and empower local communities. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Kosmonotes

Seed Round in 2018
Kosmonotes is a AI-driven research, authoring and collaboration tool which simplifies the creation and navigation of complex information.

MoneyLoop

Seed Round in 2018
Receive healthcare today and pay later in five interest free instalments.

Alfie

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Alfie makes it easy for hoteliers to connect with their guests, by providing a stylish and intuitive self-service guest portal, at an affordable price. We use data to create a guest profile, allowing the hotel to full customise the guest's experience prior to arrival. Our innovation lies in the way we collect and disseminate this unique data prior to arrival, rather than post-stay (such as Google or Tripadvisor reviews), so the hotel can act proactively. Includes: - Fun and intuitive navigation - Easy ordering and delivery process for food, drinks and services - Live chat - Live translation into 20 languages - Exclusive deals and promotions - Track orders - Review past orders - Manage spend - International currency conversion - Secure payment - All orders added to in-room bill - Access hotel info before your stay to plan and prepare - Receive tips from hotel staff and professional travel writers - Seamless check-in and check-out - Free for the guest

Finhay

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Finhay is a platform to help users save smart and optimize idle money by automatically bringing accumulated money to reputable financial funds in Vietnam. Finhay is a one-stop-shop for financial services in Vietnam that helps millennials build wealth wisely. Finhay aims to serve the under-served audience in the market. Finhay was nominated in Fintech 100 2019 by KPMG, a 1st Runner-Up by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam and Top 10 startups in 2017 at Techfest Vietnam.

Nod

Pre Seed Round in 2017
http://noddocs.com is a document automation and compliance platform making complex document creation fast, accurate and easy. Build your own document automation workflows to create complex documents quickly and accurately, eliminating manual editing. Ensure peace of mind by building reports from document data to ensure compliance with regulation and your firm’s best practice standards. Our mission is to build amazing technology that empowers experts to help more people. We'd love to talk to you about how we can realise this mission within your company.

Spriggy

Seed Round in 2015
Spriggy is a tool that helps parents teach kids healthy money habits for the digital age. It's a mobile app and card that families can use to earn, save, and spend safely.

Debt To 10k Pty Ltd.

Seed Round in 2014
Debt To 10k Pty Ltd. is a no-advice service based on personal challenges and money saving deals designed to help people clear their debt faster and take back control. Its partnership with corporate Australia is currently being developed which allows it to offer quality and exclusive product deals for its members. Debt To 10k Pty Ltd. was launched in 2014 by Jessica Bailey and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Macrovue

Seed Round in 2014
Macrovue Pty Ltd. owns and operates an online platform that provides tools to investors for developing an investment strategy, testing their outlook, and putting together a portfolio. Macrovue Pty Ltd. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Tapview

Seed Round in 2016
Paying for content online is currently broken. Subscriptions are costly and hard for users to manage, and users no longer get their news and other content from a single source. Advertising revenue is threatened by the increasing popularity of adblockers. Media companies need an easy way to get consumers to pay for content online. Tapview is a “read more” button with a small payment attached. A user can click this button to access content on any website that has Tapview integrated, spending from a single balance across all sites - a pay once, consume many times model. Content is revealed immediately on purchase. Tapview does not host content, wrap pages or redirect users. It works on all modern desktop and mobile browsers and does not require the user to install an app or a browser plugin.

Goodments

Seed Round in 2017
Goodments Pty Ltd is and online investment community that helps clients in stock selection based on their personal values. It provides necessary financial tools and support services to get a complete picture about choices and helps clients in portfolio selection. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Bravi

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Bravi is a mobile application for couples. Bravi collects preferences and level of confidence in current relationships from each partner and Artificial Intelligence algorithm returns educational materials, exercises, and challenges, that fit that particular couple needs to improve their personal and intimate well-being.

Furnys

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Furnys helps people moving between distant cities when they need to vacate or fill their house.

SuperAlbert

Seed Round in 2016
SuperAlbert automates the superannuation onboarding for employers and employees. Employers can start saving time and ensure they are compliant with our automated onboarding tool. Employees can save time, confusion, and have a greater choice of super funds when they start a job.

Simply Wall St

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Simply Wall St helps share market investors make better informed decisions, by giving them access to institutional quality financial data presented visually through easy to understand infographics. Users are able to research more than 18,000 stocks with our unique infographic visualization, get new investment ideas, and manage their share portfolios.

mPhyt

Pre Seed Round in 2017
mPhyt Pty Ltd. develops a digital wellbeing platform for seniors to keep an active and healthy life. It enables to create personal wellbeing index; suggest tailor made services and activities; manages personal services, such as hairdresser, plumber, and appointment changes; stay connected with family; take actions to improve wellbeing and get rewards; and connect fitness devices or pedometer app. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.