Top 20 CleanTech Startup Investors in Australia in October 2023
Top 20 CleanTech Startup Investors in Australia in October 2023
| Investor | CleanTech Australia investments |
|---|---|
| Antler | 3 |
| Uniseed Ventures | 2 |
| Carthona Capital | 2 |
| Allen & Buckeridge | 2 |
| Marbruck | 1 |
| Vulpes Investment Management Pte Ltd | 1 |
| Cyan Ta'eed | 1 |
| Applied Ventures | 1 |
| Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) | 1 |
| Epoch Capital | 1 |
| Main Sequence Ventures | 1 |
| Antler Australia | 1 |
| Paul Rayson | 1 |
| OneVentures | 1 |
| AES | 1 |
| 5 Pillars Capital | 1 |
| Black Nova Group | 1 |
| Simon Sheikh | 1 |
| Brian Hartzer | 1 |
| Existential Capital | 1 |
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
Uniseed was established in October 2000 as a $20 million joint venture between the University of Melbourne (UM) and the University of Queensland (UQ). This proof of concept fund (Fund-1) operated with significant input and support from the commercialization offices of the two universities (UniQuest and Melbourne Ventures Limited), with staff ofthese organizations making up the majority of the Investment Committee and leading due diligence and management of most investment opportunities. Over 20 investments, typically of $250,000 - $500,000 were made from this fund.A new $40 million venture fund (Fund-2) ran from 2005-15, with the addition of a third leading university, the University of New South Wales, and a major private institutional investor, the Westscheme superannuation fund. The founding universities (UQ & UM) also committed further funds. Australian Super took over Westscheme's essets and commitments in July 2011.With the start of Fund-2, an independent management team was established, consisting of the CEO and three Investment Managers; one at each university catchment. The Investment Committee was restructured, with dedicated committees established for biotechnology or other technologies. The nominal investment limit was increased to $2.5 million to allow participation in follow-on funding rounds so as to preserve Uniseed's equity position.On 1 November 2015, Uniseed started its third and largest fund (Fund-3) with the addition of the University of Sydney and the CSIRO to the Universities of Queensland, Melbourne and NSW. This followed three high profile exits in the preceding 14 months (Fibrotech; Spinifex & Hatchtech). Each of the five partners committed $10 million over 10 years to the new fund (total fund $50 million).Uniseed’s partner research organisations spent nearly $4 billion on research, making up over 40% of the total research spend at 67 research organisations in Australia. Together, these organisations accounted for nearly 500 invention disclosures (34% of total) and 500 new registered IP rights filed (45% of total) over the same period(2013 National Survey of Research Commercialisation). Unlike private venture capital funds, Uniseed is dedicated to the needs of its research partners, and committed to servicing them consistently over the long term, irrespective of the short term conditions in external capital markets. It works in very close partnership with the research partner commercialisation companies and staff, providing a valuable adjunct to the capabilities these companies and staff provide. They in turn provide a best-practice commercialisation service tailored to their respective organisations. These companies are able to leverage to great effect the scale of operation and expertise of the Uniseed network.The fund is run with commercial discipline, ensuring independence and financial rigor in its investment decision-making processes. Success is measured by a balance of return on investment (including the flow of funds for research to further the commercialisation of intellectual property generated within the research partner catchments), the establishment of viable start-up companies, the generation of research income for research partners and the improvement of partner commercialisation processes.
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- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ferronova — Ferronova is a medical device company that offers imaging and surgery products.
- Morse Micro — Smarter, farther, better. Meet the latest Wi-Fi, HaLow, 802.11ah. 10X FARTHER>1Km range, 100x area, 1000x volume 10X EFFICIENCYMulti-year on a single
- Tiny Bright Things — Melbourne-based company Tiny Bright Things was cofounded in 2020 by long-time research collaborators Ray Dagastine and Chris Bolton. We invented Halo microscopy to transform the way researchers and manufacturers look at small or transparent things. This helps manufacturers in areas like agrichemicals and pharmaceuticals (where the size and shape ofpowders are critical) and researchers at every stage of discovery— particularly in nanotechnology (where samples are especially tiny) and life sciences (where samples are often also transparent).
Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.
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- Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Josef — Automate lawyer-client conversations, document drafting and providing legal services. Josef is a software platform with a chatbot interface.
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
- SafeStack — SafeStack Academy is the New Zealand online cyber security, privacy and secure development training company.
Working on something fresh. Also, Partner @Acceleprise & columnist @TheNextWeb.
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- Telecommunications, Chemical, Hardware
- Series C, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- RPO — RPO, Inc. develops, designs, and manufactures waveguides for the consumer electronics market. The company’s products include digital waveguide touch systems, which is a touch screen solution applied in various products, including gameplayers, cellphones, PDAs, GPS systems, automotive control displays, multimedia players, and tablet personalcomputers, as well as in ATM’s and gambling machines. It also manufactures polymer optical waveguides on wafer and panel substrates. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. It has a research and development facility in Canberra, Australia; and pilot assembly operations in Sydney, Australia.
- BT Imaging — Home page for BT Imaging. BT Imaging sells inspection manufacturing equipment into the photovoltaics manufacturing sector. We specialise in photoluminescence imaging or PL Imaging
- Fultec Semiconductor — Fultec Semiconductor operates as a circuit protection semiconductor company. It offers transient blocking device for the over-voltage and over-current protection of telecommunication and data communication systems. The company's products offer wide bandwidth circuit protection against lightning, power induction, power cross, and short circuitevents. Its products have applications, such as telecom, datacom, sensors, automotive, and power distribution. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. As of October 13, 2008, Fultec Semiconductor, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Bourns, Inc.
Marbruck is an open-ended venture capital group. Marbruck sources, invests, and provides ongoing guidance to early / growth stage technology companies. With no outside capital, Marbruck actively manages a diverse global portfolio of 30+ companies spanning Seed through to pre-listing. Marbruck leverages its intellectual capital, its network ofpartner investors, and its deep operational experience, to successfully navigate the highest-risk, highest-reward spectrum of investing.
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- Information Technology, Software, Messaging
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- VitalXP — The Action-Packed Gameverse. Lowlife Forms is our flagship IP, an evolutive looter-shooter with deep NFT customization. Vital Systems is our web3 gaming ecosystem with interoperable NFTs.
- SafetyCulture — Raise your game with an easy to use mobile app and software inspection solution. iAuditor by SafetyCulture is available on iOS and Android.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
At Vulpes, we think differently. We create long-term sustainable capital appreciation by welcoming co-investment and aligning incentives. We choose to be patient and invest in ways that are profitable, yet with benefits that are not solely financial.
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- Health Care, Internet, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Vietnam, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FoodMap — FoodMap is a startup with the goal of connecting customers with ethical farmers and food suppliers directly.
- Peddlr — Effortlessly track and manage your business sales, expenses, and inventory with our leading POS mobile app. Use it anywhere, anytime, and even offline!
- MyRobin.id — MyRobin menjembatani Anda dengan tenaga kerja fleksibel, berpengalaman dan terpercaya. Manajemen tenaga kerja dalam 1 genggaman, mudah & aman!
Cyan Ta'eed was born in Sydney, Australia. She worked as a graphic designer before co-founding Envato in 2006 with her husband, Collis Ta'eed, and his best friend, Jun Rung. She now serves on Envato's Board of Directors. Cyan Ta'eed is also the co-creator of New Day Box, a charity focusing on women in crisis.
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- Consumer, CleanTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Trace — trace helps individuals and businesses go carbon neutral - measure (for free), reduce & offset your carbon footprint. Track your impact across our handpicked project portfolio including biodiversity in Australia.
- YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne
- Bloom Impact Investing — Bloom Impact Investing provides an investment platform to investors wanting to make a difference to the environment. Join us to access clean energy and cleantech investment portfolios that your future self will thank you for.
Applied Ventures, LLC, is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMAT) investing in innovative startups for over a decade.
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- Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, France
Portfolio highlights
- Ionblox — High energy density lithium ion batteries for ground and aerial electric vehicles
- Scintil Photonics — SCINTIL Photonics develops and markets Heterogeneous Silicon Photonic IC with wafer-level lasers integration.
- Lightspeed Photonics — Lightspeed Photonics is a building of modular optoelectronic processors and interconnects for data centers and near-edge computing.
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- SATIM — SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery.
- Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
- Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
Trading with bright minds and bold ambitions.
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- Consumer, CleanTech
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Auros — We develop world class technology to implement arbitrage and other trading strategies within the crypto space.
- Trace — trace helps individuals and businesses go carbon neutral - measure (for free), reduce & offset your carbon footprint. Track your impact across our handpicked project portfolio including biodiversity in Australia.
We work with inventors who are building something hard from their unique expertise in science. These inventors are building the industries that will thrive for the decades to come. We have a unique working model to accelerate a company's pathway to scale.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Australia, United States, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Endua — Endua is building the next generation of clean energy deep storage to power communities, remote industries and off-grid infrastructure at the flick of a switch - all day and night
- Jdoodle — JDoodle is an Online Compiler, Editor, IDE for Java, C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and many more. You can run your programs on the fly online, and you can save and share them with others. Quick and Easy way to compile and run programs online.
- Number 8 bio — Number 8 bio objective is to decarbonize agriculture while feeding the world's rising population. This can be accomplished by harnessing the power of trillions of carbon-hungry bacteria that feed on harmful greenhouse gases and turn them into profitable animal feeds.
Australia's only truly global early stage VC, we believe in and back the most ambitious founders from the earliest stage.
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- Health Care, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Yesterday — Transform your recruitment strategy with Hire Yesterday's AI-powered candidate evaluation. Make informed hiring decisions faster, streamline the screening process, and deliver a personalised experience to candidates.
- Stori Gaming — The future of storytelling
- Dream Machine — Dream Machine uses generative AI on brain waves to visualise your thoughts and dreams.
Paul Rayson is a CEO at Hearts and Minds Investments.
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- SaaS, Software, CleanTech
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
OneVentures is one of Australia’s leading venture capital firms, with over $330M in funds under management. But they do more than invest. They take companies to that all important next stage, by actively shaping their future. They apply their years of international experience, operational and executional expertise to accelerate the growth of theirportfolio companies. A global growth focus drives their investment selection with their current portfolio including companies with truly innovative products tackling multi-billion-dollar problems, from needle-free vaccinations to virtual communications to adaptive e-learning.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Vaxxas — Vaxxas develops and commercializes needle-free vaccine delivery system. Vaxxas was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brisbane, Australia.
- BiVACOR — BiVACOR is a privately held company founded in 2008. Their staff includes world-class engineers, medical specialists, and business executives, who are diligently working to advance this ground-breaking technology. Together, they have established a strong collaborative network that extends both nationally and internationally. Their worldheadquarters is located in Houston, Texas, USA, and their international office is in Brisbane, Australia.
- ImmVirX — ImmVirX is an Australian company founded in 2019 with a mission to improve outcomes for patients with cancer types in which immunotherapy treatments have limited effect.
AES provides affordable and reliable energy to customers around the world through its distribution businesses and thermal and renewable power generation facilities. With more than 30 years of experience, diverse mix of generation and utility sources provides the strength and flexibility to adapt to local and regional market needs, maximize plantefficiency and deliver reliable, affordable electricity.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
- Series A, Private Equity, Grant
- United States, Brazil, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Motor — Motor provides all inclusive electric car subscription service. Motor is dedicated to helping drivers discover, switch to, and stick with electric cars.
- 5B Australia — 5B is a clean technology innovator and developer of the Maverick solution. 5B accelerates the transformation of the world to a clean energy future by developing and delivering technology and solutions that make clean energy more competitive, accessible and powerful than ever before
- Uplight — We are the market-leading customer engagement, enrollment, and load flexibility platform for energy providers.
5 Pillars Capital is an investment firm.
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- Consumer, CleanTech
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Trace — trace helps individuals and businesses go carbon neutral - measure (for free), reduce & offset your carbon footprint. Track your impact across our handpicked project portfolio including biodiversity in Australia.
Black Nova Group provide services across investment & venture capital.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kismet — Find the best disability or healthcare service to support your journey
- The Mintable — Give your managers the practical insights, training, and support they need to succeed (so everyone else can too).
- Varicon — Construction Management Software: Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site
Simon Sheikh
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- SaaS, Software, CleanTech
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
Brian was appointed Managing Director & CEO in February 2015. Brian joined Westpac as Chief Executive, Australian Financial Services in June 2012 encompassing Westpac Retail & Business Banking, St.George Banking Group and BT Financial Group.Brian was appointed Chairman of the Australian Bankers' Association in February 2015. Priorto joining Westpac, Brian spent three years in the UK as CEO for Retail, Wealth and Ulster Bank at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Prior to that, he spent ten years with Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) in Australia in a variety of roles, including his final role as CEO, Australia and Global Segment Lead for Retail and Wealth. Before joining ANZ, Brian spent ten years as a financial services consultant in New York, San Francisco, and Melbourne. Brian graduated from Princeton University with a degree in European History and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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- SaaS, Software, CleanTech
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
invest in companies and protocols that challenge the existing norms and push for the next frontier of digital innovation.
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- Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Consumer
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Israel, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Tonstarter — Tonstarter is the TON-native launchpad, enabling crypto projects to raise capital in a decentralized, safe, and user-friendly environment.
- Trace — trace helps individuals and businesses go carbon neutral - measure (for free), reduce & offset your carbon footprint. Track your impact across our handpicked project portfolio including biodiversity in Australia.
- Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
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