Top 10 Big Data Angel Investors in Oceania in October 2023

Jill Preotle is a private equity investor who works with entrepreneurs seeking access to capital and growth markets. She serves on the boards of Zipcar, Red Tail Solutions, iTeam, Dancing Deer Baking Company, TaskRabbit and Daily Grommet. She holds a J.D. degree from New York University Law School.

Investment focus

Big Data, Catering, Hospitality
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bridj — BRIDJ's powerful tools streamline the planning, scheduling & operation of bus & fleet transport. Work with BRIDJ to simplify your operations making them more time & cost efficient
ezCater — EzCater is an online catering marketplace that allows individuals to order food from local caterers. Co-founded by Briscoe Rodgers and Stefania Mallett in August 2007, ezCater is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Hugo de Jong is a Partner at Beames Capital.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Software
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

LUMOS — LUMOS is a MarTech platform with the mission to empower businesses to connect with customers in the right place at the right time

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Anthony has an extensive experience in cutting edge research and commercialisation, particularly across the University sector. Over the last 10 years Anthony has worked with a wide range of new innovations predominantly in the science, engineering and information technology fields. Anthony has experience in commercialisation strategy, intellectualproperty, due diligence, marketing and promotion, negotiation, grant and capital raising from his roles at UniQuest Pty Ltd and QUT Bluebox Pty Ltd. Anthony has a scientific background having completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Chemistry) – Hons(First Class) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Materials Science / Nanomaterials at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland (UQ). Anthony has also completed a Graduate Certificate (Research Commercialisation at UQ and an Executive Masters of Business Administration at QUT.Anthony currently holds the position of Investment Manager at Uniseed Ventures. In this role Anthony is responsible for- Provision of on-going guidance and direction to investee companies, including the role of Director and / or project manager where appropriate;- Development of financial and commercial strategy, including identification of finance requirements, and investment and divestment strategies for investee companies;- Management of the process of assessment and due diligence on potential ICT and physical sciences investments- Uniseed Investment Committee Member- Management of the relationship between UniSeed and its partner universities including, where necessary, working with partners to identify potential investments for Uniseed- Development and maintenance of Uniseed's relationships with the QLD and NSWGovernment, Australian VC and commercialisation sector

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Logistics, Mobile
Seed
Australia

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GiggedIn — GiggedIn is composed of avid music lovers. They combine that passion with a focus on assisting clients in activating awesome events and sell more tickets through various innovative campaigns.The company work alongside event organizers, artists and their management to create and deliver revolutionary ticketing solutions to ensure their event isa complete success.
Hypometer Technologies — Advanced sports predictions based on in-house machine learning models and over 15 years of research and development
Grocery Butler — GB is The Website Sharing all recipe and craft and arts

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Curt is an entrepreneurship and skateboarding evangelist & rainmaker with specialty in early stage venture investment and cross-border deals. Currently Curt is nurturing a number of ventures such as Cheduoshao, Boolaw, Qian8ao, Catapult Sports Group (ASX listed), F&B Education, Spring.me, VenturEase, among others, contributing his strengthon building a more healthy entrepreneurship culture in China and Australia.Been passionate on skateboarding for over 20 years, Curt is an experts for action sports life style specializing in reaching the X-Games and trend-setting youth markets. Curt holds a Master’s degree in International Communication from Macquarie University, Sydney, a GD of Translation and Interpreting with University of Western Sydney, as well as a B.S.of International Trade from Jiangsu University, China. He is Founding Partner of Imprint Capital Partners, splitting his time between China and Australia.

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Vylo — Vylo is thoughts and conversations about news that interests you.
GigaSpace — Gigaspace is the next metaverse. Live outside the law in an age of galactic superpowers and interstellar war, a new metaverse experience.
LUMOS — LUMOS is a MarTech platform with the mission to empower businesses to connect with customers in the right place at the right time

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Larry Summers

Investment focus

Big Data, Internet, Hospitality
Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bridj — BRIDJ's powerful tools streamline the planning, scheduling & operation of bus & fleet transport. Work with BRIDJ to simplify your operations making them more time & cost efficient
Belong — Renting is the new American lifestyle. We didn't create it. But we're making it sing.

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Matt Perkes

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Software
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

LUMOS — LUMOS is a MarTech platform with the mission to empower businesses to connect with customers in the right place at the right time

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Lead Entrepreneurship Professor and Dean of External Relations, Harvard Business SchoolWilliam Salhman is an advisor to HST Solar where he guides the firm on strategy. He is the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff – Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The d’Arbeloff Chair was established in 1986 to support teachingand research on the entrepreneurial process. His research focuses on the investment and financing decisions made in entrepreneurial ventures at all stages in their development. Sahlman has written numerous articles and two textbooks on topics including entrepreneurial management, venture capital, private equity, deal structuring, incentives, commercializing science, and the role of entrepreneurship in the global economy.In April 2011, the National Venture Capital Association gave Sahlman The American Spirit Award, which was created in 1999 to recognize individuals who have shown outstanding leadership by applying business skills, knowledge, expertise and resources to make a meaningful contribution to society. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business Economics (1982), also from Harvard.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile Apps, Ride Sharing
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.
Truepic — Real or synthetic, original or edited, details matter. Be informed with Truepic's technology that empowers transparency and shared trust in content across the internet
pop.in — Smiletime, Inc. powers pop.in, an app for spontaneous, ephemeral live connection. On pop.in, civility and inclusivity are the bedrock of dynamic conversations, which are hosted in an environment that allows for discussions to be as multifaceted as the people having them. An unlimited number of people can join pop.ins and use video, audio, text andimages to have nuanced dialogue. A pop.in only lasts as long as people are in them, so by their definition, pop.ins are never empty and never lonely. And with the ability to create "ground rules" that are unique to every pop.in, hosts are empowered to be deliberate in setting a tenor and intention for their conversations from the get-go. Smiletime, Inc. believes technology can and should enable honest dialogue and empathetic connection, and that's what they've created with pop.in.Smiletime, Inc. was founded by Alex Kruglov, Sharon Chang, and Jace Hall in 2014, and is located in Los Angeles, California.

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Damien Waller is a Chairman at Point Hacks. He attended Monash University.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Nimble — Nimble provides a fast solution to short-term financial hurdles. A Nimble loan is paid back over weeks, not months or years. Their world-leading profiling technology allows customers to receive an instant decision upon completing an application.You'll know if you've been approved straight away - not hours or days later. Their freshapproach to lending means there's no waiting around for someone to assess your application. No sitting around anxiously wondering whether you're approved or not.You'll have an answer within a minute and cash can be in your bank account within 60 minutes. Nimble re-branded from Cash Doctors in October 2012.

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Daniel Gavel is an entrepreneur and investor who has founded a number of businesses including early stage investment firm Black Sheep Capital, leading Queensland property developer Golden State Property, and venture capital firm Full Circle Venture Capital.Dan started out in financial advisory, growing his own practice before exiting the industryin 2013 and establishing Black Sheep Capital to invest in early-stage tech companies and other assets. Today, Black Sheep Capital is one of Australia’s most active angel and seed investors, and has funded a wide range of startups including Airtasker, Sendle and Go1.Dan plays an active role backing and mentoring startups, and contributing to the development of Australia’s innovation eco-system. He brings his commercial acumen and strong corporate networks to his investment activities, and believes strongly in the power of collaboration in helping new ventures grow to their full potential.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, CRM
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Hypometer Technologies — Advanced sports predictions based on in-house machine learning models and over 15 years of research and development
Llama Life — Llama Life is a platform that offers task timers to increase focus and attention, shortcut facilities to plan the day quickly and easily, preset lists to create templates, soundscapes to replace the unwanted noises, simple report management and workflow integration, enabling people to increase their productivity and manage their daily to-do listsby creating meeting agendas, keeping everyone on track during Zoom meetings and running large workshops, taking online classes as well as writing their masters thesis.
Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more.

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