Top 10 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Oceania (October 2023)

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 110
Round size: Seed $125k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $642k–$1M; Series A $1M–$6.1M
Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Sherlok — Automated client retention for mortgage brokers, helping them grow their loan book by proactively keeping their existing clients happy and with them forever.
BintanGO — Creator Marketing Platform terbaik di Indonesia, lebih dari 40.000 Kreator dan 100 Brand sudah bergabung. Buat campaignmu jadi fleksibel, terlacak dan terukur.
Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.

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Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Australia, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 24
Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Series A $1.9M–$2.9M
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

GAMURS Group — GAMURS Group is a leading gaming, esports, and entertainment media network - we own and operate a network of digital publications and social media communities.
VycoLend — The first decentralized Crypto money market built on BTC with advanced security features for pro traders
SynergyXR — SynergyXR is a no-code, cloud platform that lets companies design, onboard, sell, and support across all XR devices without writing a single line of code

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Vu Tran is a director and co-founder at Go1. He is also a medical doctor working in General Practice and has passion for developing new and innovative ways to promote healthcare in the broader community. Aside from Go1, Vu Tran is also a co-founder and director of Aduro Learning Management System and Go Catalyse.Vu Tran obtained his MBBS inMedicine from Bond University.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Consulting, Sporting Goods
Stage:Seed
Geography: Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Officely — Ensure your team are safe and productive when they get back to the office after COVID-19
iNSPIRETEK — More Than (Just) An Athlete Management System We go further by empowering young athletes, coaches, parents, teams and sporting organisations to gain insight into mental health and wellbeing through tracking, evidence-based content, support and interventions through our Prevention-via-Prediction platform. Our accessible and affordable WMS focuses on the whole athlete, not just their

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Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands.

Investment focus

Industry: Content Marketing, Information Technology, Software
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 10
Round size: Seed $257k–$5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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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Todd Forest - Managing Director @ NAB Ventures

Investment focus

Industry: Real Estate, Apps, Marketplace
Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
Geography: Australia, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 13
Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $3.8M–$25M
Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,136,169 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
RecruitLoop — Zippia analyzed thousands of resumes and developed an AI algorithm to help you find the best candidates to fill your job posting.

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Elevation Capital was formed by a group of successful entrepreneurs who have co-invested in order to pool together their capital and experience. We consider ourselves to be “venture accelerators” rather than venture capitalists. After starting my first fledgling business at the age of 17, I truly understand the unique challenges faced byentrepreneurs and I am aware that it takes more than just capital for a company to succeed.Recently, Blueprint Management and the various business's we developed (up to 10 companies over 13 years) has given me exposure to the difficult challenges that every entrepreneur will face. My experience has involved the creation of a company with only $10K start-up capital, which grew to over 950 staff. This business was then sold to a private equity group. The success of this venture has given me invaluable knowledge that I can now share with others to guide them in the future.Specialties:If there is one simple thing I have learnt in recent times about investing into growth companies, it is: "to not waste anyones time".Elevation Capital is a professional and committed organisation and is able to invest quickly when a good business opportunity presents itself. We appreciate the challenge that entrepreneurs face when trying to raise capital while also dealing with the daily time constraints of running their businesses.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 32
Round size: Seed $38k–$642k
Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

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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Movac is New Zealand's most experienced technology investor and is deeply integrated into the Kiwi tech sector. We've been actively investing since 1998.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 30
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.3M; Series A $774k–$16M
Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

Atomic — Atomic embeds native, actionable customer interaction inside your iOS, Android or web app. Turn your customer data and insights into loyalty, retention and conversion.
ZeroJet — ZeroJet is the first jet propulsion system to be designed specifically for an electric motor, delivering the perfect balance of performance and runtime.
Mint Innovation — Founded in 2016, members of the Mint Innovation team have a strong background in chemistry, biotechnology, and leveraging IP in the industrial sector. They are scaling their technology in their Auckland plant and labs to demonstrate the commercial application of their biometallurgy processes for metal recovery.

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Matt Fayle - CEO & Founder @ TheLoop

Investment focus

Industry: Retail, 3D Printing, Sporting Goods
Stage:Angel
Geography: Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.

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Andrew Coppin - Advisor @ DisruptSports.com

Investment focus

Industry: Retail, Logistics, 3D Printing
Stage:Angel
Geography: Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
Freight Exchange Pty Ltd — Multi-Carrier Shipping Software | TMS | FMS | ERP

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