Macdoch Ventures
Our mission is to support Australia & New Zealand’s late seed stage founders. Since 2011, we have partnered with extraordinary founders building companies using technology to build a better future.
We are looking for late seed stage founders who have a product and paying customers, in businesses across Australia & New Zealand. Our current thesis surrounds networked businesses (like platforms and marketplaces) and select SaaS, but we do engage more broadly.
We have been active seed investors since 2011. We invested in Cliff, Mel and Cameron when Canva was just starting to offer paid subscription plans. We partnered with Dylan and Mark at Qwilr based on their first public beta. Peter and Tony at Mable had 350 carers on their Sydney-based marketplace when we first partnered with them.
Past deals in New Zealand
Wonde
Venture Round in 2019
Wonde operates a platform that provides schools with the tools to manage their school data. Its solution allows schools to control their school data; approve, decline, and monitor those who integrate with their data; and receive monthly reports and manage the application. The company’s solution also allows developers to view the status of existing integrations and request access to new school data, as well as school data integration. In addition, it offers reporting tools to the school senior leadership team. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Audience Republic
Seed Round in 2020
Audience Republic Pty Ltd. provides a platform and service that allows organizers to create campaigns by offering merit-based rewards of various types and levels to various users (fans). The company allows users to sell tickets for their event; and develops tools that integrate with various ticketing platforms. Its campaigns help users to grow their following across various social platforms. The company also import sales data from ticketing agencies and interest/demographic data from social media platforms, and allows users to create segments, track loyalty, and identify influencers. Audience Republic Pty Ltd. was formerly known as Ticket Squad. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Sydney, Australia.
AmazingCo
Seed Round in 2017
AmazingCo is an experiences and activities creator. Through its platform, it makes it easy for people all across the globe to discover and enjoy amazing real world experiences, helping people spend their time in a more connected way.
FarmBot
Series A in 2021
FarmBot provides online water level monitoring services for farmers. It offers remote water level monitoring service using Farmbot system and sensors that enables users to know what is happening with the water levels via their smartphones, tablets, and computers. The company’s system also reduces tank/reservoir manual inspection; provide warning of impending problems caused by system issues and changing demand; and provide detailed information and analysis based on the water level history to better understand usage, system problems, and support planning for the future; and alerts. FarmBot was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
LawPath
Venture Round in 2015
LawPath Operations Pty Limited provides an online platform for users to ask legal questions and connect with lawyers in Australia and internationally. Its platform allows users to ask legal questions in the areas of business law, family and personal, intellectual property, employment law, immigration and visas, and wills and estates. LawPath Operations Pty Limited has a strategic alliance with LexisNexis and Norton Rose Fulbright. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Qwilr
Series A in 2020
Create the perfect proposal, pitch, sales quote and more. Every Qwilr page you send has outstanding visual polish, together with intelligent tracking, automation and analytics.
Launched in 20154 Qwilr has customers in over 60 markets around the world and has raised over AUD$12M in funding to date. It is backed by Point Nine Capital, Airtree Ventures, Right Click Capital, Macdoch Ventures and Typeform founder Robert Muñoz.
Fluent Commerce
Seed Round in 2016
Fluent Retail Pty Ltd, trading as Fluent Commerce, designs and develops software solutions that integrates online and in-store business operations with online shoppers. It provides order management cloud services, click and collect solutions, shipping services from store, single view of inventory, online order return, order fulfillment, and customer support services. Fluent Retail Pty Ltd was founded in 2008 and is based in Surry Hills, Australia with additional locations in London, United Kingdom and New York, New York.
JobGetter
Seed Round in 2014
JobGetter is an application that enables its users to search for full-time and part-time jobs. in Australia. Its platform is a blend between a job marketplace, applicant tracking software/candidate CRM and workforce data analytics provider.
The company has been supported by the NSW Department of Trade and Investment through an MVP grant, JobGetter has been recognized as one of Australia’s Cool Companies, SMART100 and a finalist in the Mobile Awards and MyBusiness Awards. Its founders Fiona Anson and Alli Baker are counted among Australia's leading female entrepreneurs with reputations as true thought leaders in the HR and Recruitment industry.
JobGetter was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Better Caring
Series B in 2015
Mable is an online platform where people with disability, or those who are ageing, can find and hire local care and support workers.
Mad Paws
Seed Round in 2015
Mad Paws is a Sydney-based start up that was created to fill in the ever growing need in the pet boarding market for affordable, and local pet accommodation while still maintaining the care, love, and attention pets received at high-end, expensive, pet boarding services.
Stackla
Seed Round in 2014
Stackla is a social content marketing platform that puts user-generated content at the heart of brand marketing. With an AI-powered user-generated content (UGC) platform and asset manager, Stackla sits at the core of the marketing stack, actively discovering and recommending the best visual content from across the social web, as well as internal and external resources, to fuel personalized content experiences at scale.
More than 500 global brands, agencies, media companies, and nonprofits use Stackla to curate and publish the best content from across the social web. Founded in 2012, Stackla has offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, and London.
LawPath
Venture Round in 2019
LawPath Operations Pty Limited provides an online platform for users to ask legal questions and connect with lawyers in Australia and internationally. Its platform allows users to ask legal questions in the areas of business law, family and personal, intellectual property, employment law, immigration and visas, and wills and estates. LawPath Operations Pty Limited has a strategic alliance with LexisNexis and Norton Rose Fulbright. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Quivers Inc.
Series A in 2018
Quivers develops an omnichannel e-commerce platform designed to control the brand beyond the domain, resolve channel conflict with retailers, and deliver the products through a better customer experience. The platform offers order flow controller and quivers syndicated product information management service and thereby lets specialty brands to manage orders from online channels while selectively distributing order fulfillment to local retailers, enabling brands to leverage their existing retailer network to offer a more personalized omnichannel experience.
Selz.com Pty Ltd
Seed Round in 2014
Selz.com Pty Ltd. develops an online payment processing platform for businesses. It offers PayPal app that processes MasterCard, Visa, and American Express cards; allows customers to pay with their PayPal account; and enables users to accept cards from various countries. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia with an additional office in San Francisco, California.
AmazingCo
Series A in 2019
AmazingCo is an experiences and activities creator. Through its platform, it makes it easy for people all across the globe to discover and enjoy amazing real world experiences, helping people spend their time in a more connected way.
Speedlancer
Seed Round in 2016
Speedlancer is a freelance platform that enables users to sell or purchase professionals skills in content creation, marketing, and design. It was launched by Adam Stone in July 2014.
AmazingCo
Seed Round in 2018
AmazingCo is an experiences and activities creator. Through its platform, it makes it easy for people all across the globe to discover and enjoy amazing real world experiences, helping people spend their time in a more connected way.
Qwilr
Seed Round in 2015
Create the perfect proposal, pitch, sales quote and more. Every Qwilr page you send has outstanding visual polish, together with intelligent tracking, automation and analytics.
Launched in 20154 Qwilr has customers in over 60 markets around the world and has raised over AUD$12M in funding to date. It is backed by Point Nine Capital, Airtree Ventures, Right Click Capital, Macdoch Ventures and Typeform founder Robert Muñoz.
Quivers Inc.
Seed Round in 2013
Quivers develops an omnichannel e-commerce platform designed to control the brand beyond the domain, resolve channel conflict with retailers, and deliver the products through a better customer experience. The platform offers order flow controller and quivers syndicated product information management service and thereby lets specialty brands to manage orders from online channels while selectively distributing order fulfillment to local retailers, enabling brands to leverage their existing retailer network to offer a more personalized omnichannel experience.
Mad Paws
Series A in 2018
Mad Paws is a Sydney-based start up that was created to fill in the ever growing need in the pet boarding market for affordable, and local pet accommodation while still maintaining the care, love, and attention pets received at high-end, expensive, pet boarding services.
Mon Purse
Series A in 2016
In late 2013, our Founder Lana, realised that she simply spent far too many hours pounding the pavement, looking for the perfect handbag. Yet, nothing was perfect, and she wanted 'perfect'. Why pay premium prices if it isn't exactly what you want?
She remembers sitting in her car in the Westfield Bondi Junction car park, and thinking that there simply had to be a better way.
We realised, if it was possible for kids to build their own teddy bears, people to create their own custom Nike shoes, and fashionable women around the world to design their own premium women's shoes, there simply had to be a way to create high quality, luxury and bespoke handbags.
