BLACK SHEEP CAPITAL

Partnering with world leading founders to accelerate the transition of innovative ideas from concept to world leading companies.

22
Investments

22
Investments

Pre-Seed

30%

Seed

40%

Series A

30%

Typical Investment Size

*Indicative only and subject to change

Pre-seed

100k

Seed

250k

Series A

500k

Portfolio Successes

$290M
2

Over $290M &
2 this year

$290M
2

Capital Raised by Companies

Exit Events

We are focused on identifying exceptional founders with deep domain expertise building scalable technology companies. We’re willing to provide hands on support from day one to day done – this is what sets us apart from the rest.

Meet Our Team

THE BLACK SHEEP CAPITAL

Portfolio

We’ve invested as early as Concept/Pre-seed and as late as Series B.

Our portfolio of investments are featured below:

Airball
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Exited
Exit by IPO
Airball
Exited
Airball
Airball
exit by IPO
Airball
Airball
Airball
acquired
Airball
Airball
Exited

WHAT

our founders say

Black Sheep Capital are the best kind of investors - incredibly generous with their time, willing to crack-in and solve problems alongside you as a founder, and committed to building long-term high-trust relationships.

Chris Thompson

Co-CEO and Co-Founder

We couldn’t think of a better investor than Black Sheep. Not only are they committed to helping our business succeed, they have added deep insight to our approach while helping us to scale and grow through excellent advice and strategic thinking.

James Chin Moody

CEO

Black Sheep have been our investors and partners for years now, and they bring a wealth of real-world expertise to helping our team navigate difficult decisions. Perhaps more importantly, the team go to great lengths to connect us with the right people in industry to help drive our business to the next big commercial win. Investors like Black Sheep that draw a careful balance between trusting founders and pushing the thinking are worth their weight.

Alex Molloy

CEO and Co-Founder

It's amazing when your venture team has been in yours shoes, it shows and shines through. From external resources, training and number crunching, they are working tirelessly to help us fine tune and ramp up our business. They've only been invested a short time, but they are proactive and we are feeling the benefits already. It's how investment should work, they double down to get the best out of you and the best possible results for everyone involved.

Guy Pearson

CEO

The team at Black Sheep have been absolutely awesome. Massive amount of energy and a really helpful hand in growing our company over the years. Most importantly, they’re also really genuine people and a pleasure to work with.

Tim Fung

CEO

The Black Sheep team are a rare example of investors that have endless drive to understand the detail of your business, and find interesting and new ways to assist the founders to scale. From day one, the team has pro-actively found new opportunities for us, and have dedicated their own time and the time of their network to helping us 'get things done' – we're stoked to have them on our team!

Andrew Barnes

CEO and Co-Founder

Black Sheep Capital have an investment philosophy.

 

We believe in a “be the most helpful investor” approach to early stage technology investing, where it is our role to support founders through all stages of their journey as best we can. As high conviction and thematic driven investors, we see incredible potential in the founders we invest in and their vision, and work closely with them to provide the best opportunity to succeed. No problem is too big or small.

We commit time, energy and our combined knowledge to help accelerate the growth of our portfolio companies. We work closely with our founders, other investors and our team to ensure we help accelerate the transition from 0-1 and add value at all stages of growth. Our terms are industry standard, our intentions clear and honest. We employ principle based investment decisions from day 1 to day done.

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THE BLACKSHEEP

Team

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Dan Gavel

DIRECTOR
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Dan Gavel

DIRECTOR

Dan started out in financial advisory, growing his own practice before exiting the industry in 2013 and establishing Black Sheep Capital to invest in early-stage tech companies and other assets. Today, Black Sheep Capital is one of Australia’s most active angel and seed investors, and has funded a wide range of startups including Amber Electric, Go1, Ignition and Valiant Finance.

Dan plays an active role backing and mentoring startups, and contributing to the development of Australia’s innovation eco-system. He brings his commercial acumen and strong corporate networks to his investment activities, and believes strongly in the power of collaboration in helping new ventures grow to their full potential.
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Paul Osborne

DIRECTOR
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Paul Osborne

DIRECTOR

Over the last 10 years Paul has amassed extensive experience in property investment in Australia as well as in south East Asia. More recently, Paul has been a key driver in the establishment and diversification of the Black Sheep portfolio to the startup capital sector. Paul has a scientific background having completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Chemistry) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and a Bachelor of Science – Honours(First Class) at the University of Melbourne.

Paul is a Director at Black Sheep Capital. In this role, Paul provides oversight and strategic direction across the innovation investment portfolio. Paul is intimately involved in the selection and negotiation of new investments at Black Sheep Capital and in growing the Black Sheep’s presence and brand in the micro Venture Capital space.

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