Startup
Sydney, NSW
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round CreditorWatch raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Warburg Pincus | Unnamed stage | - |
Companies CreditorWatch acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Coghlan | Chief Executive Officer | Australian FinTech (12 Jul 2026), Australian FinTech (8 Dec 2025) |
| Colin Porter | Founder | Startup Daily, Nightingale Partners (31 Oct 2021), Nightingale Partners (31 May 2019) |
| Dale Hurley | Founder | Startup Daily, Nightingale Partners |
Stories naming CreditorWatch. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Warburg Pincus has agreed a growth-equity stake in Sydney credit bureau CreditorWatch, terms undisclosed, completion expected in the third quarter of 2026 — extending the firm's record of backing data businesses.
Also Australian FinTech
Australian wealth-tech firm Briefcase has hired Michael Wang, previously at MLC Asset Management, RoZetta Technology and CreditorWatch, as Lead Portfolio Manager to advance its direct indexing, tax optimisation and AI portfolio capabilities.
CreditorWatch has added a generative-AI feature that produces instant plain-language summaries of business credit reports, aiming to speed credit risk decisions; CEO Patrick Coghlan says the tool is now live for all customers.
Avenue Bank, a Sydney lender to small businesses, has obtained a full banking licence from APRA, 18 months behind schedule; the article recalls its $37m Series B, Liberty's backing, and neobank failures and sales.
Nightingale Partners' blog records its October 2020 investment, alongside Phoenix Development Fund, in PayOK, a payments-verification venture from CreditorWatch founder Colin Porter, with Lindsay Phillips joining PayOK's board.
Nightingale's post announcing its participation in Avenue's 2019 Series A, profiling the SME-focused neobank's leadership team and recalling founder Colin's earlier credit bureau, since acquired by InfoTrack.