Investor · 2 deals

Southern Angels

Adelaide, SA

Disclosed deals

Every published round Southern Angels 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
Keeyu	Pre-seed	Jul 2025	$2.3m	Participant	Rampersand Archangel Ventures Startmate Empress Capital Exhort Ventures Sydney Angels Jason Wyatt Alexey Mitko Paul Greenberg Luigi Iacullo	Startup Daily (14 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (13 Nov 2025), Rampersand (12 Nov 2025), Rampersand (11 Nov 2025), Empress Capital portfolio, Exhort Ventures portfolio, Rampersand portfolio
PickStar	Unnamed stage	7 Mar 2022	$5m	Participant	Adam Gilchrist Judith Griggs Mike Jeffries RADVentures	Startup Daily, SmartCompany

Portfolio

Companies Southern Angels has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
Keeyu	AI agent for proactive e-commerce post-purchase operations	Jul 2025, Pre-seed	1	0
PickStar	Platform for booking sports stars and celebrities	7 Mar 2022	1	0

Funds

Fund closes reported for Southern Angels, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for Southern Angels yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies Southern Angels has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Southern Angels did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of Southern Angels is recorded as having been acquired.

Name	Role	Sources
Josh Garratt	CEO	Techboard

Coverage

Stories naming Southern Angels. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

13 deals

Cheque-in: 8 startups gobbled up $572.12 million in funding this week

Weekly roundup of eight raises totalling $572.12 million, led by Firmus's $500 million round; RAGE Biotech, SunDrive, Number 8 Bio, Fabra, Keeyu, MyGig and Drone-Hand also funded, plus two RAGE Biotech executive appointments.

Startup Daily 14 Nov 2025 Drone-Hand Fabra Keeyu MyGig Number 8 Bio RAGE Biotech SunDrive Archangel Ventures Atlassian Canva CDC Data Centres Clean Energy Finance Corporation Eucalyptus Firmus Technologies Marketplacer Nvidia Tesla UNSW Artesian VC Aussie Angels Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)Blackbird Ventures Breakthrough Victoria Concept Ventures Co Ventures CSIRO Empress Capital Exhort Ventures government-backed Australian Renewable Energy Agency Hostplus Icehouse Ventures IP Group Australia January Capital Li & Fung Main Sequence Ventures Monash Ventures One Innovators Radius Capital Rampersand Side Stage Ventures Southern Angels Startmate Sydney Angels The March Group Alexey Mitko Jason Wyatt Luigi Iacullo Paul Greenberg Dr Alex Carpenter Angus Vidor Cameron Adams David Hu Dr Edwin Tucker Gloria Yu Luke Grana Malcolm Turnbull Mike Cannon-Brookes Nick Manks Oliver Curtis Robyn Denholm Dr Siro Perez Tim Rosenfeld Dr Tom Williams Vince Allen

Also SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Business News Australia

2 deals

💫 Ramplify: November Nattering

Rampersand's newsletter announces it led Keeyu's $2.3 million pre-seed round, alongside portfolio updates from Quantum Brilliance, Cuttable, Hatch and Goterra, plus job listings and reflections on domain founders and Australian venture capital.

Also Rampersand·quantumwire.com·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·semiconductorindustrymonthly.com

Fund close $10m

South Australia has a new early-stage VC fund to back B2B startups

Eastend Ventures, a VC based in Adelaide, has locked in $10 million for its $50 million debut fund — South Australia's first ESVCLP — and has already backed three startups with it.

Startup Daily 27 Jun 2025 Eastend Ventures Canva Heatseeker Priori Analytica SafetyCulture South Australian Government Southern Angels JD Sheard Josh Garratt

Also Startup News (WA)

Unnamed stage $444k

Australian Angel Awards 2022 – Winners Announced

Techboard announces the 2022 Australian Angel Awards winners, honouring Tim Hirst as Angel of the Year and Brisbane Angels for its Clipchamp exit, while recalling past raises and exits including Clarity Pharmaceuticals and Instaclustr.

Techboard 18 Oct 2022 Clipchamp Capital Angels Clarity Pharmaceutical Climatech Gamma Vaccines GPN Vaccines Instaclustr Microsoft NetApp Southern Angels Sydney Angels Techboard Brisbane Angels John Mactaggart Jordan Green Josh Garratt Professor Tim Hirst

Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily

Seed $1.5m

Super Fierce launches wealthtech platform to address $30 trillion global gender wealth gap

Australian FinTech 9 Mar 2022 Super Fierce Macquarie Bank MyRewards Seed Space Venture Capital Southern Angels Raymond Spencer Craig Swanger Trenna Probert

Unnamed stage $5m

Pickstar scores $5 million to go global with talent booking tech

Talent booking platform Pickstar, co-founded by two former AFL players, has raised $5 million from backers including Adam Gilchrist, Mike Jeffries and RADVentures to grow in Australia, the UK and the US.

SmartCompany 28 Feb 2022 PickStar Afterpay Cricket Australia Formula One NFL SmartCompany Xero RADVentures Southern Angels Adam Gilchrist Judith Griggs Mike Jeffries James Begley Matthew Pavlich

Also Startup Daily

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