PieLAB Venture Partners

Little Argas is an investment accelerator related to Flight Center, the Australian-based travel agency. We invest in post-launch tech, with investment size ranging from $50k up to $500k, with potential for follow-on investment. We usually invest alongside other investors and we can either lead, or follow other leading investors. More specifically, we are looking to invest in companies where we can add significant value around our core sectors of expertise. We are particularly interested in creative ideas where the opportunity falls into one of the following: travel experience, travel retailing, corporate travel, youth and student, certain non travel sectors like financial and health. Flight Centre brought discounted airfares to the Australian market over 30 years ago, and since then we have continued to be quite entrepreneurial as a company. The launch of our travel startup investment arm is part of an exciting plan for our future. Our goal is to work with our partners to nurture new business ideas and fast track travel start-up companies incorporating areas of our DNA. We want to be the destination of choice for a wide range of travel and technology start-ups. Through business partnerships, sponsorship, investment and mentoring, we are investing in the future of our business. We are excited about the prospect of working with business founders to create the next wave of business success stories.

Apex Capital is an investment firm which provides venture capital to exceptional founders who are revolutionising the financial services landscape. We have a strong track record of successfully establishing, investing in and growing businesses that have sought to provide innovative products and services to the financial services sector. Our entrepreneurial backgrounds give us a unique perspective on what it takes to start and scale a business in financial services.

Fairfax Digital Ventures is part of Fairfax Media, a leading multi-platform media company in Australasia. Fairfax Digital Ventures invests in early and growth stage internet based companies. Its current portfolio includes businesses in digital publishing, online dating, weather services, e-health, online education, subscription video-on-demand, online jobs search and online tenders. Digital Ventures welcomes approaches from companies with proven traction seeking investment funds (either through cash or investment-in-kind through advertising) to expand their existing business in Australia, or seeking assistance to launch a proven overseas business model locally in Australia.

Marinya Capital is the family office of John B. Fairfax, Nick Fairfax and their families. It invests directly in a concentrated portfolio of global long equities and has staff in Sydney and London.

Launched in 2016, Investec Emerging Companies has been actively executing on its "Advise, Invest, Connect" strategy and pursuing its goal of becoming the pre-eminent strategic partner and trusted adviser to entrepreneurs and their emerging companies in Australia.

Grok Ventures is the private investment firm led by Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes. Its investments include the acquisition of SunCable's assets and operating subsidiaries in 2023 and a minority stake in Australian impact manager Melior Investment Management announced in 2021.

Alceon Private Equity is a modern, ambitious and flexible private equity firm that does things a bit differently. We are diversely skilled business, operations and finance specialists within the $6 billion FUM Alceon Group. We invest in mid-market growth companies where we believe we can help more effectively and rapidly realise those companies' potential and consequently deliver outstanding returns to shareholders, founders and investors. We use modern tools, processes and playbooks that build from historically proven approaches but evolved to suit the future, not the past. As part of the successful Alceon Group, we have access to a large network of loyal investors with appetite to grow their wealth through investing in a variety of asset classes. Combined with Alceon Group's significant balance sheet, we think of this as our permanent capital. We then work with corporate advisers and company owners to identify high potential investment opportunities in which to deploy that capital as either a minority or majority stake. But we bring more than just money. We leverage our proven processes, governance and playbooks to work with our portfolio companies to level up their weaker operational areas and accelerate their growth plans. Unlike many of our competitors, we recognise each company has its own timeline so while we work to a successful exit, we do so on a schedule that will generate the best results for the business's shareholders.

Moat investments is the Investment vehicle of professional investor Cyril Jinks . His Family Office Solely focuses on emerging profitable industrial services and technology businesses with a large addressable market , a point of difference and improving unit economics . Particularly interested in technology and high returning services business who are founder led .

Talu Ventures is an early stage technology investor in Australia, with a particular focus on biotechnology, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Talu was founded in 2012 by three of the partners of CM Capital. Talu's founders have dedicated their careers to the IT and biotech industries and they understand the challenges of building companies from the ground up. In collaboration with Talu's Industry Advisors, portfolio companies can draw upon more than a century of leadership roles within a broad spectrum of successful companies. Talu has been the lead investor in more than 90 percent of its investments.

Nine Entertainment Co (NEC) is Nine’s listed parent company and operates a media network spanning broadcast, streaming, publishing and digital out of home.

Arowana is an investment holding group that invests in, builds and operates businesses across AI infrastructure, renewable energy, electric vehicles, education, circular economy and enterprise software. Its venture exposure includes the Vivarium venture studio.

We connect entrepreneurs with corporates and investors to solve the world's greatest challenges with technology. We help entrepreneurs design and build their pilot products in exchange for equity. We also typically invest up to $50,000 from our partners and VC fund(s) and provide training through our program supported by a team of full time entrepreneurs in residence (EIR). We are a team of 50 people with deep knowledge in achieving product-market fit, raising capital and establishing pilots. We have substantial expertise in development for web and mobile, as well as experienced senior people in product management and marketing. We are privately backed by some of the most respected family offices in Australia and the US. We invest in non-coding entrepreneurs who hold deep domain knowledge in their chosen industry (we look for founder-market fit) and we look for companies which have strong operational models. We then help our startups raise follow-on funding from our investor community and venture capital funds as well as help them hire their own engineering teams. We typically invest up to $250,000 in selected later stage companies on a follow-on basis. By connecting with our corporate partners to set up pilot trials, we help startups gain commercial traction.