Investors in Australia

Global Founders Capital Management GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early, growth, emerging growth, mid venture and late ventures. The firm focuses on investing in the equity of young technology companies. It prefers to invest in internet, software, Fintech, e-commerce and wireless projects. The firm invests globally with a focus on Southeast Asia, Middle East, North Africa, Vietnam, Colombia, Europe, the United States, and China. The firm prefers to invest between €0.01 million ($0.01 million) and €10 million ($12.9 million). The firm invests between €0.1 million ($0.137 million) and €1 million ($1.38 million) during the seed stage, €1 million ($1.38 million) and €3 million ($4.14 million) during the early stage, and €3 million ($4.14 million) and €8 million ($11.03 million) during the growth stage. It prefers to be the lead investor and have a board seat in its portfolio companies. Global Founders Capital Management GmbH was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. It operates as a subsidiary of Rocket Internet AG.

Foresight Group is an alternative asset manager with a strong 30-year track record and specific expertise in environmental and solar infrastructure and private equity. Foresight Group is a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing investment funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for 30 years. With current assets under management of over £2.2 billion, raised from the UK and international private and high-net-worth individuals, family offices, pension funds and other institutional investors, Foresight strives to generate increasing dividends and capital appreciation for its investors over the long term. Foresight has offices in UK, USA, Italy, and Australia.

Artesian Capital Management (Australia) Pty Ltd is an investment firm specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. For direct investments, it seeks to invest in seed, angel, startups and early stage and late stage, growth and pre-IPO technology companies. For fund of funds investments, the firm seeks to invest in venture capital funds. The firm prefers to invest in Australia, China and South East Asia. Artesian Capital Management (Australia) Pty Ltd is based in Melbourne, Australia with additional offices in Shanghai, China; Sydney, Australia; Singapore; and London, United Kingdom.

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.

AMP Capital is a leading investment house which seeks to deliver outstanding investment outcomes to help clients own their tomorrows. With a network of offices in developed and emerging markets, we offer experience and leadership across asset classes and a wide range of contemporary investment solutions. We also share a 160-year heritage with the AMP Group, one of Australia’s largest insurance providers, providing the security that comes from investing with an organisation that has stood the test of time. Our aim is provide performance balanced by risk management, giving you confidence that AMP Capital is committed to helping clients meet their goals.

Founded in 2004, Allegro Funds is a Sydney-based private equity firm that specialises in mid-market and special situation opportunities across Australia and New Zealand.

Blackbird Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in inherently global Internet businesses formed by Australians. We back world-class founders who are setting out to make a difference in the world. Blackbird Ventures itself is a collection of Australia’s most successful startup founders and Silicon Valley’s top investors who want to help you succeed on a global stage.Blackbird’s fund investors are the founders of some of Australia’s most successful technology companies like Atlassian, Campaign Monitor, Aconex and more. They’re not only investing their money but also their time to help you succeed.Because we are looking for companies who are striving to be the best in the world we can help with introductions to our Silicon Valley networks, providing access to further expertise and capital.We provide equity capital for all stages from seed, series A and later stage.

Hostplus is the national superannuation fund for the hospitality, tourism, recreation and sport industries in Australia. The Australian Hotels Association (AHA) and United Voice (formerly the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union) jointly established Hostplus in 1988. It is one of the largest superannuation funds in Australia with nearly one million members, over 155,000 employers and almost A$33 billion in funds under management.

Reinventure Group Pty Ltd operates as an investment arm of Westpac Banking Corporation specializing in seed/startup, Series A, B, C and early stage investment with payments and lending along with start-ups seeking to outsource parts of the traditional financial services stack, including in the areas of data, identity, risk, artificial intelligence and application programming interfaces APIs. It seeks to invest in technology platforms in industries adjacent to financial services such as real estate, HR, food, property, healthcare, retail, and agriculture. It also prefers to invest in bitcoin/trust, security, and middleware, regtech, fintech, autofill technology, B2B, B2C, community, crime, cryptocurrency, hospitality, P2P and social network. It prefers to invest in Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific region. Reinventure Group Pty Ltd was founded in 2014 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Telstra is an Australia-based telecommunications and information services company offering a full range of communications services. The company has built a fully integrated IP network and a reliable mobile network for its clients. Through its strategic investments over the years and the recent acquisition of Pacnet in Asia, it now has the largest privately owned subsea cable network in Asia Pacific, have licenses throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas and it facilitates access to more than 2,000 PoPs in 230 countries and territories. Telstra’s international operations are headquartered in Hong Kong, where it provides wholesale and enterprise customers with a full breadth of holistic and end-to-end solutions across data, voice, satellite, and managed network services. The company was founded in 1975 and is locally headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.