Startup · $30m raised
Comparison website that named Energy Locals green energy retailer of the year
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Finder raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Future Now Capital | Unnamed stage | $30,000,000 |
Companies Finder 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Ellis | Boss (former) | Startup Daily (4 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (26 Mar 2024) |
| Frank Restuccia | CEO · Founder | Startup Daily (2 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (30 Apr 2025), Startup Daily (27 Nov 2024), Startup Daily (26 Mar 2024), Startup Daily (21 Feb 2024) |
| Fred Schebesta | co-CEO (former) · Founder | Startup Daily (2 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (2 Jun 2025), Startup Daily (8 May 2025), Startup Daily (26 Mar 2024), Startup Daily (21 Feb 2024) |
| Jennifer Snell | General Manager, Marketing & Loyalty (former) | Australian FinTech |
| Joanna Auburn | Product Manager (former) | Startup Daily |
Stories naming Finder. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Origin Energy is buying Energy Locals, the membership-based power retailer founded to disrupt Australia's major gentailers. Its current owners, a consortium led by Palisade Impact, purchased it from Quinbrook about a year ago.
Sydney enterprise AI startup Collabra.ai appoints ex-Finder chief Chris Ellis as CEO as it moves from building its back-office automation product into selling it; cofounder Neill Miller has also put money in.
Crypto lender Block Earner, fighting ASIC in court, has closed an $8 million Series A at a $75 million valuation, led by CMCC Global's Titan Fund with King River Capital taking part.
Share trading and super platform Superhero has raised $11 million from existing backers, lifting its post-money value to $150 million, with plans to build tools that give investment advice.
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Finder is shutting its crypto wallet business Wallet Ventures four years after launch, moving users to Swyftx, which recently acquired Easy Crypto; Finder earlier won in court against ASIC over its Earn product.
Scaleup Mediafund swapped ad space for equity in Finder and ASX-listed insurer NobleOak, the latter worth $1.5m, among six investments from its third fund backed by major media companies.
Airwallex has named Jennifer Snell as its ANZ marketing director, drawing on her experience at Finder, amaysim and BrickX, as the fintech expands its New Zealand payments offering.
Finder has bought rewards business Grow My Money, founded by Pascale Helyar-Moray, at a price it did not disclose; the business and its staff stay on as a separate unit in the Finder Group.
A partner memo profiling Licode, a no-code platform for AI web apps founded by ex-Finder engineer Kelvin Htat, which took pre-seed backing from Antler Australia and is seeking follow-on capital.
Comparison site Finder has made roughly 60 staff redundant in its third round of cuts in a year; the article recalls its $30 million raise from Future Now Capital and ASIC's ongoing court action.
Investor's own year in review: five new portfolio companies, a follow-on into ULUU, the Verve Super exit, the Equity Clear gender-reporting initiative, a first founders' retreat, and a sweep of awards for portfolio companies.
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BetaCarbon has launched a blockchain platform letting Australians buy tokenised Australian carbon credits from one dollar, having already sold over four million dollars of tokens, with backing from several investment funds.
Car loan platform CarClarity appoints Damon Pezaro, who held product roles at Domain, Prospa and Finder, as a non-executive director to advise on product strategy during its 2022 expansion.
Comparison platform CIMET has raised $26.6 million from ASX-listed iSelect as part of a strategic partnership, funding expansion into new financial verticals and international markets.
Carbon accounting platform for small businesses secures a seven-figure round from a broad backer group including a family office and angels, with founders ex-Finder and Macquarie, and an earlier pre-seed recalled.