# Top 35 Hospitality Startup Investors in Australia in May 2026 ## Flying Fox Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed. ## Tidal Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential. ## Alberts Impact Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Music, Energy, Events We back pioneers who share our vision for a better tomorrow. ## TEN13 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate. ## ACAC Innovation - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## AirTree Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier. ## ASI Growth Partners - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Travel, Software, Analytics ASI Growth Partners is an investment Firm. ## Matthew Kelly - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Delivery, Logistics, Hospitality Matthew Kelly ## Patty Mills - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Apps, Hospitality, Food and Beverage Patty Mills ## Unified Music Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Richmond, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Events, Hospitality UNIFIED is an independently owned music company that provides a varied range of services that include Artist Management, Recorded Music, Merchandise Services, Touring and Events. ## Folklore Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Blackbird Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions. ## VU Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Machine Learning A multi-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech ## Marat Kichikov - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Education, Cryptocurrency Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing! ## Midlands Engine Investment Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Software MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local EnterprisePartnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands. ## NAB Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software NAB Ventures is an Australian Venture Capital fund backed by National Australia Bank (one of the largest 20 banks globally). ## Skalata - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Wildcard Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Sports, Tennis Led by Tennis Australia and some of the biggest names in tennis, Wildcard Ventures is a venture capital fund built to turbocharge SportsTech startups and their founding teams from the very beginning of their journey. ## Rampersand - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Marketing, Enterprise Software Rampersand is an early-stage venture capital firm. We invest in the best Australian technology founders, teams and companies and are committed to helping them become major national, regional and global leaders.The rampersand team has worked with successful startups and technology firms in Australia, Silicon Valley, Israel, Europe and Asia. Ourpartners have seen numerous companies from the early stages through to successful exits including BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle for US$7.2bn), Jajah (acquired by Telefonica), Snaptu (acquired by Facebook), Onavo (acquired by Facebook), StepStone (acquired by Axel Springer) and Amobee (acquired by Singtel for over US$300m).As you can see, we have done it before and know that companies need more than just capital to succeed. ## OneVentures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Debt Financing - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Michael Sharkey - Type: Angel - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Music, Events, Hospitality Michael D. Sharkey, President, MB Business Capital, is responsible for the bank's asset based lending group. With nearly 40 years of experience in financial services, he oversees a nationwide market with regional offices in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Hartford, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City,San Francisco, and Scottsdale.From July 2008 until the merger with MB in 2014, Sharkey was president of Cole Taylor Business Capital and executive vice president, asset based lending.Prior to that, he was president and CEO of LaSalle Business Credit, where he helped build the group into the fifth largest asset based lending company in the United States. During his tenure at LaSalle, he also served as executive vice president for LaSalle Bank and ABN Amro. Sharkey began his career in financial services with GE Capital as a field examiner and loan officer, and moved on to Manufacturers Hanover Commercial Corporation where he served as senior loan officer. From there, he joined and within four years became president of StanChart Business Credit, which was ultimately acquired by LaSalle Bank.Sharkey is a permanent member of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Finance Association, as well as past president and chairman of that organization. He is also past president of the American Brain Tumor Association.Sharkey is a graduate of Rutgers University and J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. ## Ruslan Kogan - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, SaaS, FinTech Ruslan Kogan is a serial entrepreneur, having created and run many successful businesses. He is one of the pioneers of online retail in Australia, and his Internet ventures have expanded to include a global footprint. His companies have operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, with much more international expansion planned. Histremendous success made him Australia's wealthiest self-made person under the age of 30. The technology manufacturer and online retailer he created, Kogan.com, has gone on to become the biggest online retailer in Australia, valued at over $400 million.Ruslan Kogan is a regular guest contributor to TechCrunch, Forbes, Gizmodo, and other outlets. ## Skip Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Skip Capital is a private investment fund investing in technology and infrastructure ## Tiger Global Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes. ## Adventure Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce Adventure Capital is a leading Australian early-stage technology venture fund. Adventure Capital is intently focused on advancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem benefiting from Australia’s significant human capital and intellectual property by providing opportunities for innovative, driven and intelligent entrepreneurs to reach their fullpotential.Adventure Capital’s current fund, the Digital Accelerator LP, is a super-angel style venture fund focused on finding and guiding early-stage tech companies that are capital-efficient, and have global ambition and potential to succeed.Adventure Capital is Founding Investor of the York Butter Factory, a co-working space for high-potential seed-stage companies and next generation building management platform EQUiEM. The Digital Accelerator fund portfolio includes world #1 mobile publishing platform Oomph, leading AdTech DSP/RTB Brandscreen (acquired by Zenovia), social media platform Peazie, retail activation tool suite Myagi, education sales and marketing augmentation and optimization solutions provider doMore, and breakout technology businesses 121cast and Axiflux. ## Chadd Ciccarelli - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage Chadd Ciccarelli ## Dominic Pym - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cooking, Hospitality, Marketplace Dominic Pym is Co-Founder at Pin Payments. ## Rüfüs Du Sol - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Apps, Hospitality, Food and Beverage Rüfüs Du Sol is a music group from Sydney, that consists of Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George and James Hunt. ## SURPLUS Equity Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Travel, Resorts, Hospitality ALP.X Group is an entrepreneurial, hypothesis-driven investment- and asset manager with a focus on real assets and corporate growth. ## Howard Fyffe - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Delivery, Logistics, Hospitality Howard Fyffe is a Managing Director at VAST Data. He Attended NYU Stern School of Business. ## Grand Prix Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bondi, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Online Portals, Marketplace Grand Prix Capital is a private venture capital and investment firm specialized in rapid growth, start-up, private and microcap listed businesses. ## Investible - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally. ## Commerce Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services At Commerce Ventures, they are building a new and different type of venture capital firm. Their investors are a unique and strategic blend of leading entrepreneurs, senior executives, and corporates from their focus sectors (mobile, retail/e-commerce, payments, fin-tech, insurance). In addition to providing capital, they are committed tohelping their portfolio companies succeed in scaling their commerce-related innovations. ## Sandhill Investment Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Buffalo, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Music, Events, Health Care Sandhill is a nationally-recognized investment firm overseeing more than $2.01 billion in assets under management and advisement. ## Nick Shelton - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Apps, Hospitality, Food and Beverage Nick Shelton is a Director & Publisher at Broadsheet Media. He attended Melbourne Business School. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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