# Top 30 Digital Media Startup Investors in Oceania in October 2023 ## Skip Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Skip Capital is a private investment fund investing in technology and infrastructure ## CP Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning CP Ventures is a VC fund that invests internationally in early stage, highly scalable, breakthrough technology companies driven by the 4IR ## Blockchain Founders Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications. ## Folklore Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Information Technology Folklore is a team of investors, founders, and builders committed to supporting Australian and New Zealand tech founders. We are a first cheque to forever investment firm, and we believe in the power of founder vision and the potential of teams, right from the start. ## Skalata - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Education, Apps Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future. ## Chris Sang - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Venture Advisor, Global Investor ## Total Sport and Entertainment - Type: VC Fund - Location: Crows Nest, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Video, Mobile, Social We are Australia's leading, full service sports and entertainment agency specialising in marketing, events, sponsorship and creative. ## Thomas Rice - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet of Things Portfolio of the Global Innovation Share Fund at Perpetual (post-IPO). Angel investor in Australia. Mentor at Startmate, an Australian startup accelerator. ## AMD Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps Through AMD Ventures, AMD’s investment program, AMD invests in strategic software and application ecosystem companies that serve large and growing markets.AMD’s product strategy synergistically combines both CPU and GPU technology to create APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) that promote improved user experiences by enhancing the vibrantworldwide AMD ecosystem. This ecosystem includes new software, hardware, business models, CE devices, intellectual property, processes, support models and other new developments. Through our investment program, AMD works with the companies in which it invests to enable differentiated solutions optimized on AMD hardware platforms. ## Common Sense Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Training Common Sense Ventures is an Australian family office backing early-stage, fast-growing businesses. We partner with ambitious managers looking to solve problems that will help the world. ## Carthona Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally. ## SpringCapital Investment - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software SpringCapital is an Australian Venture Capital firm investing in high-tech companies. It operates an Investment Club and ESVCLP Fund. ## Breakthrough Lab - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 Breakthrough Lab are successful start-up founders who have operated businesses from pitch deck to exit.Breakthrough Lab manages Australian technology focused venture capital investments.We are a team of successful start-up founders who have operated businesses from pitch deck to exit. As venture capital fund managers we are dedicated toachieving market-beating returns for both our investors and the founders we back. ## ACAC Innovation - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Renewable Energy ACAC Innovation provides angel investment, mentoring and support to game-changing startups. We work with founders to turn their innovative ideas into successful businesses. ## Cygnet Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Post-IPO Equity - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Cygnet Capital is a boutique corporate finance company offering advisory services and helping clients raise capital. ## Regal Funds Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Regal Funds Management was founded in 2004 by Andrew and Philip King. Regal utilises a long/short investment strategy and performs investment management and investment advisory services to a number of Australian Unit Trusts and Cayman Island Companies. ## Shearwater Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Edgecliff, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Marketplace Shearwater Capital is a $100m venture fund which has three founders as partners. We're investing our own capital. We invest in founders who we like and trust, and who are passionate about building generationally great companies. ## Saniel Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed Helping passionate founders build the future Saniel Ventures is a private investment group supporting high growth technology companies. Get in touch We invest in people first Smart, passionate, resilient founders building the future We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect that you are humble enough to know ## Thorney Investment - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence Thorney Opportunities Ltd is an investment company. The Company's principal activity is making investments in listed securities. The Company is focused on producing absolute returns for shareholders over the medium to long-term. Its primary focus is on the selection of investments, which enable it to be a catalyst towards unlocking the valuein the companies that it identifies. The Company's investment manager is Thorney Management Services Pty Ltd. ## Seven West Media - Type: VC Fund - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet Seven West Media is the leading, listed national multi-platform media business based in Australia. We comprise Seven Television, the leading free to air capital city television network; Pacific Magazines, the country's second largest magazine group by readership; Yahoo!7 one of the nation’s most successful internet platforms, as well asWestern Australia's leading newspaper, The West Australian and associated WA regional newspapers and radio stations. Seven West Media was created through the acquisition of Seven Media Group by West Australian Newspapers Holdings Limited (WAN) as approved by WAN shareholders on 11 April 2011. ## North Base Media - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal. ## Hollard Insurance - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Travel, Finance, Internet Love your life without worrying about the risk. ## Cardinia Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Lending, Software, Education Cardinia Ventures supports and invests in software and hardware companies throughout a wide range of sectors from Pre-seed to Series A across Australia and the US. The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in Sydney, Australia. ## CPS Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: IaaS, Digital Media, Information Technology CPS Capital Group is a Perth based boutique Corporate Finance and Stockbroking firm providing specialist advice to retail, sophisticated and institutional investors within Australia and around the globe. Call us on (08) 92232222 or 1300 799 569. ## Investec - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Energy Welcome to Investec. Find out more about us, our businesses, sponsorships and career opportunities. ## Gravel Road Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Digital Media, Interior Design = Don't forget where you came from. The road is not smooth. Detours are inevitable. Who you travel with matters. Enjoy the ride. ## Enterprise Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities. ## Perennial Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Perennial Partners is a specialist, active investment management firm. Formed in 2000 and led by well-known Value investor, John Murray. The company's sole focus is to deliver excellence in funds management through equity ownership and the alignment of interests between key investment management staff and our clients. Perennial Value nowmanages over $5 billion on behalf of institutional and retail clients. ## Queensland Business Development Fund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: AgTech, Travel, Farming Queensland Business Development Fund ## Opher Yorn Tov - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 Opher Yorn Tov # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co