The most positive and active investors are those marked with “hot” and “warm” engagement statuses, showing ongoing deal activity, referrals, and direct investments. Investors frequently involved in introductions, providing feedback on decks, actively making investments, and engaging in founder conversations dominate this group. Here are several examples:
Most Positive and Active Investors
- Leigh Jasper (Firmable, Glitch Capital, SecondQuarter Ventures): Leads a major Australian founders fund, frequently facilitates top-tier founder introductions and is actively seeking new scalable startups in B2B SaaS, AI, and deeptech.
- Bevan Slattery (SUBCO, Megaport, NEXTDC): Known for broad ecosystem influence, multiple high-growth ventures, and deep networks, actively backs infrastructure, cloud, and connectivity founders and provides referrals for ambitious teams.
- Jack Williams (Scalare Partners): Runs the Ascend founder-first program, regularly mentors early-stage fintech, healthtech, and AI startups and connects them to US investors.
- Jane Thomason (BlockchainQuantum): Multi-exited founder directly supports global founders in healthtech and blockchain, emphasizing strategic advice, capital, and active engagement through conversations and introductions.
- Jonathan Lui (Sohoapp, ex-Airtasker): Multi-exited founder with a venture fund and a startup club, speaks directly and facilitates introductions for scalable technology companies.
- Andrew Poesaste (Rampersand): Globally connected VC with deep pre-seed and seed involvement and a clear commitment to technical founders building globally ambitious startups.
- Sid Kasbekar (Airtree Ventures): Early-stage, high-signal investor embedded in local and US ecosystems, highly proactive in fintech and Web3 deal referrals.
- Edward Hooper (GXE): Runs infrastructure fund management, actively connects and rolls up angel investors, provides deal access, and follows up on pitch deck progress.
- Sabrina Zeng (Aura Ventures): Corporate development manager with strong capital insight and community leadership, actively backs ESG, fintech, healthtech, and edtech founders.
- Roseanne Healy (Enterprise Corporation, Swarmer): Seasoned corporate advisor supporting founders during pre-seed to Series A rounds, deep in legal structuring and governance, provides referrals and strategic oversight.
These investors stand out for their high frequency of engagement, strategic referrals, breadth of support, and sector diversity, making them the most positive and active contributors to current deal flow and founder support as found in your document
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