Founder, AirTree Ventures · angel in 1 deal
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Board Member (former) | NRF Corporation | Startup Daily |
| Founder | AirTree Ventures | Startup Daily |
| Founding Partner (former) | AirTree Ventures | AFR Technology, Startup Daily (18 Feb 2026), SmartCompany (18 Feb 2026), privateequitymedia.com.au, Startup Daily (13 Nov 2024), Startup Daily (4 Jun 2024), SmartCompany (26 Apr 2024), Startup Daily (9 Nov 2023), Startup Daily (23 May 2022) |
Every published round Daniel Petre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kismet | Pre-seed | May 2023 | $4m | Participant | SmartCompany (17 Sep 2024), SmartCompany (7 Mar 2024), SmartCompany (6 Mar 2024), Startup Daily, Forbes Australia, SmartCompany (18 May 2023) |
Companies Daniel Petre has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kismet | Melbourne-based Kismet provides a digital platform for elder and childcare | May 2023, Pre-seed | 1 | 0 |
This is a stake in the fund itself, money that the fund's manager invests, not a stake in the fund manager.
| Fund | Manager | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 first fund | AirTree Ventures | - |
Companies Daniel Petre has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Daniel Petre did.
Stories naming Daniel Petre. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Weekly roundup: Blackbird confirms a record fund close and Galileo reaches a first close, Genesis merges with Proudi, IREN secures massive debt, and several startups report raises, grants and program wins.
Airtree is in a dispute with longtime backers over poor proceeds from its Canva stake and could not rally enough support to prolong its debut fund.
SmartCompany reports HotDoc, a platform for booking GP appointments, has sold a majority stake to private equity buyer Potentia; the price was not disclosed, with Airtree and Acclivis Group among remaining owners.
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Athletic Ventures, started by former athletes, has closed its debut fund at $25 million, with about 100 sports stars and several veteran venture figures backing it as limited partners.
Industry minister Ed Husic told a Tech Council summit the National Reconstruction Fund is close to its first investments after asking for a $300m drawdown; the piece recaps federal tech funding moves including PsiQuantum's.
Psylo, a Sydney maker of psychedelic therapies, has landed a US$8 million seed round led by Tenmile while moving to the US; earlier raises in 2022 and 2021 are recalled.
Roundup of the week's funding news: nine companies across Australia and New Zealand secured investment spanning clean energy, construction logistics, legal tech, coaching, research tools, creator media, medtech and marketing software.
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Main Sequence, CSIRO's deep tech venture fund, adds Cochlear chair Alison Deans as a venture partner, extending her investment committee service since 2017; its third fund brought in $450 million in July.
Profiles three founders: Kismet's Mark Woodland ($4m pre-seed for disability-services software), Forage's Tom Brumskill and Pasha Rayan (job-simulation platform, Series A and B), and Diolog's Amy Benson (self-funded investor-communications startup planning a seed round).
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Weekly roundup of seven Australian and New Zealand startup raises, headlined by a previously unreported $32 million seed for banking software venture Constantinople, plus new rounds for six other companies.
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Sydney psychedelic biotech Psylo has banked a $5 million seed round led by CSIRO's Main Sequence Ventures, its second raise since emerging from Startmate, to advance a fast-acting psilocybin therapy toward clinical trials.
Weekly tech wrap: cloud-market trends, Tiger Global's cheques into Stake, Shippit and Carma, new VC funds, several acquisitions, grocery delivery startups Send and Quicko collapsing, and Elaine Stead joining M8 Ventures.
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