CEO · Founder, Linktree · angel in 2 deals
Every published round Alex Zaccaria took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Role | Alongside | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index | Seed | 11 Feb 2025 | $3.5m | Participant | Startup Daily, Forbes Australia, Blackbird Ventures | |
| WhyHive | Pre-seed | Mar 2023 | $600k | Participant | Startup Daily, SmartCompany (31 Mar 2025), SmartCompany (30 Aug 2024) |
Companies Alex Zaccaria has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
Fund closes reported for Alex Zaccaria, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Alex Zaccaria has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Alex Zaccaria did.
Stories naming Alex Zaccaria. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Melbourne data startup WhyHive is closing next month; founders T Guthrie and Matt Cohen couldn't sustain growth despite a $600,000 pre-seed round revealed last August with backing from Skalata Ventures and several tech founders.
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Weekly round-up of four Australian raises: Shift's $35 million Series D, Inform Ag's $7 million Series A, Cropify's $2 million round and WhyHive's $600,000 pre-seed.
Linktree has bought Plann, a Sydney-based startup whose tool schedules and auto-posts social content; Plann's team, including founder Christy Laurence, joins Linktree, which will add scheduling to its link-in-bio platform.
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Linktree has brought on two audio AI specialists and a new product chief as it pushes into AI-driven commerce; the hires previously built sound-recognition startup Sonalytic, sold to Spotify in 2017.
Linktree has bought and will shut down rival Koji, acquiring it from parent GoMeta for an undisclosed sum. The article also recaps Linktree's earlier Bento purchase and its past funding rounds.
Founder-backed syndicate Side Stage Ventures has become a $15 million seed fund, with LocalGlobe and several founders as limited partners, three startups already backed, and portfolio company Joyn acquiring event firm Arinex.
SmartCompany reports Side Stage Ventures has completed a $15 million first close of its debut fund, backed by founders of Airtasker, Linktree and Go1 plus LocalGlobe, targeting $30 million and already backing early startups.
Linktree is cutting 27% of its Australia and New Zealand staff to focus on US growth, and is buying Swiss competitor Bento, whose two cofounders will join; the piece also recaps Linktree's earlier raises.
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Jessica Box reflects on leadership lessons from her years in senior product roles during Linktree's rapid growth, covering culture, organisational systems and market moats, before leaving to found her own startup.
Ignition Lane's weekly wrap: Tiger Global's losses and past Australian bets, MilkRun and TradeSquare closures, Cyara's Spearline acquisition, a Co Ventures pre-seed fund, Square Peg's partner promotion and LaunchVic's 30×30 picks.
Melbourne-based Linktree has hired three US executives: Farnaz Azmoodeh as CTO, Sam Rogoway as its first CPO, and Monica Austin as CMO, drawing on backgrounds at Snap, Google, Headspace, Calm, Netflix and Meta.
Linktree's co-founders have launched Side Stage Ventures, a collective investing in very young creative-tech companies; it has already backed several startups, and associate Ben Grabiner's music platform Platoon was bought by Apple.
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Linktree banked a $110 million round led by Index Ventures and Coatue at a $1.3 billion valuation, with Greenoaks joining and earlier backers returning, and named industry veteran Mike Olson its first president.
Australian link-in-bio firm Linktree has raised $110m as an extension of its Series B, with Index Ventures and Coatue leading at a $1.3bn valuation. It also named a new president and bought Songlink/Odelski.
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Linktree launches a storefront feature built with Shopify, letting users display products on their profiles, while the link-in-bio platform reports its worldwide user base has grown to 18 million.