External Advisor, Flagship · angel in 1 deal
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Afterpay Lead (former) | Square | Australian FinTech |
| Co-founder and co-CEO (former) | Afterpay | SmartCompany (6 Jun 2025), Startup Daily (2 Jun 2025), SmartCompany (4 Apr 2025), SmartCompany (14 Sep 2023), Startup Daily (12 Sep 2023), SmartCompany (25 Jul 2022), Startup Daily (17 Mar 2022), Australian FinTech (2 Feb 2022), Australian FinTech (1 Feb 2022), Startup News (WA) |
| External Advisor | Flagship | SmartCompany |
Every published round Nick Molnar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flagship | Seed | 14 Sep 2023 | $2m | Participant | Startup Daily (4 Apr 2025), SmartCompany (4 Apr 2025), SmartCompany (14 Sep 2023), Startup Daily (12 Sep 2023) |
Companies Nick Molnar has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flagship | Digital visual merchandising platform bridging e-commerce data and bricks-and-mortar reta… | 14 Sep 2023, Seed | 1 | 0 |
Fund closes reported for Nick Molnar, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Nick Molnar has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Nick Molnar did.
Stories naming Nick Molnar. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Two raises reported: Superhero has banked $20m of a hoped $30m round led by Salter Brothers at a $176m valuation, while New Zealand crime-intelligence startup Azonic took NZ$1m in a Blackbird-led pre-seed.
Amber raised $45 million led by ETF Partners, while Sydney fintech Superhero secured $11 million at a $150 million valuation, with several executive hires announced alongside the raise.
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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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Roundup of two Australian raises: a quantum security company's government-led $20m round and a retail analytics startup's US seed round backing its American push.
Flagship, whose software helps retailers optimise in-store merchandising, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Tidal Ventures, with Afterpay cofounder Nick Molnar, brother of founder Simon, among the backers.
Share trading platform Superhero is demerging from crypto exchange Swyftx, its founders resuming control via a management buyout backed by earlier investors, as Swyftx contends with crypto downturn and repeated staff cuts.
Profile of Flagship, a Sydney retail-tech startup founded by Simon Molnar, brother of Afterpay's Nick Molnar, which tracks in-store shopper behaviour using battery-less tags and counts Afterpay's early investors among its backers.
Melbourne link-management startup Linktree has raised a $152 million Series B extension at a claimed $1.8 billion valuation, led again by Index Ventures and Coatue, a year after its $59 million Series B.
Block has completed its purchase of Afterpay, and Square is rolling out Afterpay's buy-now-pay-later option to its online sellers in the US and Australia, with a free trial until May 2022.
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WA angel group Perth Angels has opened applications for its first 2022 funding cycle, with pitches due 16 February; it recently deployed $250,000 across three startups at its previous investor night.