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Shearwater invests in Australian and New Zealand technology businesses. We partner with inspiring founders who are passionate about building generationally great companies.

2016 - Inception investor | 2020 - Follow on | 2021: EXIT
Playground XYZ logo

Playground XYZ is on a mission to master the art and science of maximising consumer attention. Playground XYZ was acquired by GumGum Inc. in 2021.


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2018 - Seed | 2020 - Exited

Software to help event promoters sell more tickets through increasing word-of-mouth, building audiences and unlocking customer insights.


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2019 - Seed | 2021 - Exited

Earlytrade Marketplace is a cloud-based B2B network that allows your firm to invest your own cash-at-bank into your supply chain.


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2020 - Seed
Diffuse Energy logo

The worlds most powerful small wind turbine. A more sustainable alternative to diesel and a more powerful solution than our competitors. Sold on an Energy as a Service basis.


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2019 - Seed | 2020 - Seed+ | 2021 Series A
Sitemate logo

Sitemate’s flexible software platform Dashpivot enables companies in the industries to digitise and streamline how they capture, organise and track work – making them smarter and more productive in the office and on site, every day.


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2019 - Series A
LivePreso logo

LivePreso is a game-changing platform transforming enterprise sales by automating its most time-consuming activity – creating customised presentations.


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2021 - Series B
Fuel50

Fuel50’s AI Marketplace smart-matches company's people to learning, vacancies, gigs, projects and career journeys. They allow large organisations to harness next-gen workforce data, power internal talent mobility, drive workforce agility, and future-proof their organization.


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2020 - Series A
Amber Electric logo

Amber Electric pass through the real-time wholesale price of energy for $15 a month, so consumers can use power when cheap renewables are generating. No lock-in contracts and no exit fees.


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2021 - Series A
Lyka petfood logo

Lyka is Australia's freshest dog food, delivered. Healthy, cooked meals for puppers living their best life. Lyka offers custom subscription plans of nutritious, freshly cooked dog food, delivered to consumers' front door.




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2020 - Series A2 | 2022 - Series A3
GPN Vaccines logo

GPN Vaccines is a biotechnology company developing a vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) – the world’s foremost bacterial pathogen. S. pneumoniae is responsible for causing life-threatening pneumonia, bacteraemia and meningitis. Each year it causes 1-2 million deaths worldwide, killing more children than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.


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2021 - Pre-Seed
Storipress

For the Next Generation of Publishers. Whether it's a personal blog or a 100-writer publishing group, Storipress brings content, design and editorial teams together. Discover the best publishing platform ever.


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2021 - Seed | 2022 Seed +

ClearCalcs makes it easy to quickly create engineering computations. ClearCalcs replaces spreadsheets and expensive desktop software with powerful, easy to understand templates that are quick to export to PDF, and available online.


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2021 - Series A

Zero Co make eco-friendly personal-care and home cleaning products and deliver them direct to your door (carbon negative), minus all the single-use plastic.


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2021 - Series A

Buildxact is an easy to use construction management and estimating software designed for small builders and contractors.


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Series A - 2021

Kepler Analytics is the leader in retail analytics, store foot traffic counting and conversion tracking.


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Seed - 2022

Responsible data marketing. At scale. Evorra enables brands and marketing teams to build or monetise addressable, first-party audiences at scale.


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Seed - 2022

Refund now. Ship later. Only with Refundid. Refundid lets you access your refund instantly, before you've even sent back your return.


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Post Seed - 2022

Resource management software for the modern workforce. Assign the right people, to the right projects, in real-time.


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Inception investor - 2023

We are building a generational company with Australian journalism at its core.


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