Top 35 Education Angel Investors in Oceania in October 2023

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• Edoome — The most friendly and easy to use social learning management system that connects teachers with their students for effective communication and collaboration and provides tools to help teachers save time in planning, assessing and keeping track of their students’ progress, unifying everything in just one platform.
• Compono — Smart, easy-to-use HR management products for sourcing talent and helping them grow.
• Creatively Squared — Digital content that brings consumers closer to brands. Create engaging photos, videos and digital ads at scale

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• Kami — Your classroom PDF annotator. Students stay engaged with accessible annotation tools. Teachers save time with streamlined instruction and assessment.
• APIMatic — The Trusted Developer Experience platform for APIs. Achieve faster API onboarding via automatic SDKs, docs, code samples, and guided walkthroughs.
• QuiverVision — Experience the immersive wonder of 3D Augmented Reality with engaging coloring experiences that let your creativity run wild.

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• Vygo — At Vygo, we're building the one-stop hub for student support. For students, the Vygo platform organises all of their institution's support services at their fingertips. It gives students the tools to connect with the people they need, whenever they need them, wherever they are. For education institutions, Vygo helps them organise,digitise and optimise their student support services to drive student retention, wellbeing and success. With the Vygo platform, staff are able to cost-effectively scale their student impact.

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• JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
• REALas — REALas provides Australia's most accurate price predictions on properties listed for sale. This includes auctions and private sales. Nationally, on average we've predicted within 5% of the sale price over the past 12 months.Visit https://REALas.comREALas started with a conversation between friends who were determined to givebuyers more realistic price predictions to guide their bids at auctions or offers at private sales.In 2011, we set out to develop the smartest property price prediction service in Australia. An international search led us to some incredibly talented data scientists, right here in Australia, at RMIT University.Using the latest research in data science, lots of property data, local market knowledge from property experts, and input from buyers - we developed our proprietary algorithm.And so, REALas was born.Fast forward to today, REALas has been rigorously tested across the Australian market. Nationally, on average we’ve predicted within 5% of the sale price over the 12 month period beginning Sep 16 to Aug 17. And we have not stopped there. Our algorithm continues to adapt as the market changes.In 2016, ANZ acquired REALas so we can continue in our pursuit to provide the most accurate predictions in the Australian property market, and supports us in the work we do from afar.REALas will continue to keep it real for property buyers so they don’t waste their time out there.
• GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.

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• REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
• Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
• Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

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• Go1 — GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.
• Travelshoot — Your holidays are really important to us to create good memories and we are offering Worldwide Photographer Services. Get the best vacation photographer NYC & across the globe. Visit us now!
• Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.

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• Brex — Brex is all-in-one finance for growing businesses. It helps companies spend, save, and earn smarter—and take every dollar further—by doing more than a bank, bookkeeping, or reward program could ever do alone. After completing the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2017, Brex has grown to over 600 employees and raised over US$940 million in venturecapital.
• Capitol — Capitol uses the power of AI & Design to make better, faster decisions with data.
• Daring Foods — Craveable delicious plant chicken made from non-GMO plants and a short list of wholesome ingredients.

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• Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
• Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
• Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.

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• Komodo — Komodo is the complete wellbeing solution for schools to measure and improve the effectiveness of their wellbeing strategies.
• Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.

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• Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
• Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
• Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.

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• Triggr — SaaS Platform, Real-Time Sales Notifications and Top Quality Contact Data to Help Your Sales Team Close More Deals.
• Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
• GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.

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• Go1 — GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.
• AVUXI — AVUXI has ranked the popularity of every location on Earth to provide Location Context for Travel, Real Estate and Retail. Its pioneering GeoPopularity Engine and TopPlace™ product suite offer detailed Worldwide coverage, offering the quickest answer to where are the top places in any city. TopPlace™ products increase revenues and reduce timeconsuming location context data review, processing and research.

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• Ratio Ventures — Ratio Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.
• Tailwind Acquisition — Tailwind Acquisition is a purpose-built investment company that seeks to partner with a world-class founding and executive team. The company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. It also seeks tocapitalize on the multiple decades of combined investment experience of the company’s management team, the board of directors, and Advisors who are both technology entrepreneurs as well as technology-oriented investors with a shared vision of identifying and investing in technology companies.Tailwind Acquisition was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
• TRAVLR — TRAVLR is a revolutionary white label technology provider that consolidates the global travel industry into one seamless platform via its unique ‘Travel as a Service’ model.The company licences its full service travel platform to the world’s leading media companies, enabling their audiences to discover, plan and book curated, once-in-a-life-timetravel experiences.In turn, media companies are able to retain audiences within their ecosystem for longer, optimising for conversion by providing customers a seamless path from content through to real world experience.This unique ‘win-win-win model’ benefits all key stakeholders including consumers, media companies and the travel industry, who have traditionally experienced a fragmented travel booking journey across multiple platforms and providers.TRAVLR was founded in 2017 by Bali Bible founder Simon te Hennepe and has strategically located offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Denpasar. Its partners include Network 10, MTV, Bali Bible and Stuff.co.nz.

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• Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
• teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
• Vital Bio — Reinventing diagnostics for proactive & accessible care. Diagnostics designed for better outcomes. Eliminating gaps between care and treatment.

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• REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
• Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
• Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

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• CareMonkey — CareMonkey automates school and district processes; eliminating paperwork and saving time and money with award-winning features:- Online parent consent forms & payments, with automated notifications and reminders - Parent managed medical data - Online staff forms & trip approval processes - Staff mobile app with offline access to medical& trip data - Group messaging via text, email & push notificationsThere’s no paper, better engagement, and less work for schools, teacher and parents.CareMonkey is designed, built and supported by CareMonkey Pty Ltd, a software company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.The system is used by schools, universities, in sport, for HR, scouts, the disability sector, camps, youth groups, churchs and other community groups.

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• ELLA App Pty Ltd — ELLA is a mobile and web application that offers a range of services for teachers.The application enables its users to set learning goals and provides them with micro-certification recommendations. In addition, it offers social media integration to obtain gamification services. Furthermore, it enables its users to capture their teaching skillsand obtain actionable insights.ELLA was launched in 2015 by Matt Esterman, Wai Yat Wong, and Atul Pandey and is based in Sydney.

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• Alta — Alta is a virtual reality company developing A Township Tale, a social VR multiplayer experience!
• WORK180 — The WORK180 endorsement is the globally recognized sign of a great workplace for women. Find out what, how, and why leading employers want to wear it.
• Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.

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• LearnCoach — Learn from 2500+ video tutorials and practice questions for 80 NCEA standards. LearnCoach covers everything you need to master NCEA and get your best results ever!

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• Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
• Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
• YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne

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• Funetics — Funetics is a digital English-pronunciation platform that helps its users be fluent in English. It was launched in July 2013 and is based in Paddington, Australia.

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• Academy Xi — Future-proof your career with our online short courses. Highly practical & employment-driven, stay ahead of the industry curve with our courses. Learn more here.

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• Straker Translations — Straker Translations is revolutionizing the translation industry by offering fast, efficient and cost effective translations with their unique pay-per-hour translation model, it enables clients to significantly reduce their ongoing translation costs as well as simplifying the translation process.Founded in 1999 by Grant Straker, as a softwarecompany specializing in multi-lingual content management for websites, they morphed in 2010 into Straker Translations, a global translation agency with offices in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand building a global client base that includes: Sun Life Financial, Glaxo Smith Kline, Caterpillar, Creative, Exxon Mobile, Fuji Xerox, Mailchimp and BP.

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• HINDSITE Industries — HINDSITE powers the spread of know-how from subject matter experts to your frontline. Automate microcredentialing using Workflows and provide access to a global microskill library and remote mentoring.

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• DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
• Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.
• Juggle Street — Juggle Street helps you find local babysitters, nannies, au pairs, tutors and before and after school care providers. We are a local neighbourhood network connecting people around Australia.

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• Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
• Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
• Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.

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• Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
• Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
• Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.

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• LearnCoach — Learn from 2500+ video tutorials and practice questions for 80 NCEA standards. LearnCoach covers everything you need to master NCEA and get your best results ever!

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• Kami — Your classroom PDF annotator. Students stay engaged with accessible annotation tools. Teachers save time with streamlined instruction and assessment.
• StyleRow — StyleRow is a design company that focuses on streamlining the design process for designers and creating an experience for brands and showrooms to work together, all in one place. It features an online-based portal that allows design professionals to scale their businesses.The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in California, UnitedStates.
• Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery

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• Academy Xi — Future-proof your career with our online short courses. Highly practical & employment-driven, stay ahead of the industry curve with our courses. Learn more here.

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• HINDSITE Industries — HINDSITE powers the spread of know-how from subject matter experts to your frontline. Automate microcredentialing using Workflows and provide access to a global microskill library and remote mentoring.

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• HINDSITE Industries — HINDSITE powers the spread of know-how from subject matter experts to your frontline. Automate microcredentialing using Workflows and provide access to a global microskill library and remote mentoring.

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• ELLA App Pty Ltd — ELLA is a mobile and web application that offers a range of services for teachers.The application enables its users to set learning goals and provides them with micro-certification recommendations. In addition, it offers social media integration to obtain gamification services. Furthermore, it enables its users to capture their teaching skillsand obtain actionable insights.ELLA was launched in 2015 by Matt Esterman, Wai Yat Wong, and Atul Pandey and is based in Sydney.

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• Zookal — Zookal.com is the largest student portal in Australia providing a variety of service lines that make students' lives easier.The largest service line is Textbook Rentals which provides a faster, easier and cheaper alternative to what is available disrupting the current textbook market. We solve one of the biggest pain points forprice-conscious students by providing textbooks at a fraction of the price that they are currently getting them for in the Australian market.Zookal also provides a digital video platform, test prep apps and textbook solutions.

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• ELLA App Pty Ltd — ELLA is a mobile and web application that offers a range of services for teachers.The application enables its users to set learning goals and provides them with micro-certification recommendations. In addition, it offers social media integration to obtain gamification services. Furthermore, it enables its users to capture their teaching skillsand obtain actionable insights.ELLA was launched in 2015 by Matt Esterman, Wai Yat Wong, and Atul Pandey and is based in Sydney.