Company · Software

Aconex

Melbourne, VIC

Funding history

Acquisition by Oracle for ~$1,100,000,000

undated: recalled in later coverage, not announced by it

Sources: Blackbird Ventures, buildxact.com
IPO : amount undisclosed

2024: recalled in later coverage, not announced by it

Sources: SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures
Acquisition by Oracle for $1,600,000,000

Mar 2018: recalled in later coverage, not announced by it

Sources: SmartCompany (Tue 2 Dec 2025), Blackbird Ventures, LaunchVic (Tue 15 Oct 2024), LaunchVic (Wed 22 Nov 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 3 Nov 2023), Our Innovation Fund (Mon 14 Mar 2022), Square Peg Capital portfolio, SmartCompany (Thu 5 Mar 2020), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Mon 19 Aug 2019), Our Innovation Fund (Tue 2 Jul 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Jun 2019), thelawyermag.com
IPO : $140,000,000

2014: recalled in later coverage, not announced by it

Sources: Square Peg Capital portfolio, SmartCompany (Thu 5 Mar 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Jun 2019)
No funding rounds recorded. Know of one?

Investors

Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Aconex raised.

Investor	Rounds	Invested
No investors recorded yet. Know one?

On a portfolio page

Investors whose own portfolio pages list Aconex, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.

Investor	Listed on
Glitch Capital	its portfolio page ↗
TDM Growth Partners	its portfolio page ↗

Who bought Aconex

The transaction that ended Aconex's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.

Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Oracle	Acquisition	undated (recalled in later coverage)	~$1.1b	Blackbird Ventures, buildxact.com
-	IPO	2024 (recalled in later coverage)	-	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures
Oracle	Acquisition	Mar 2018 (recalled in later coverage)	$1.6b	SmartCompany (Tue 2 Dec 2025), Blackbird Ventures, LaunchVic (Tue 15 Oct 2024), LaunchVic (Wed 22 Nov 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 3 Nov 2023), Our Innovation Fund (Mon 14 Mar 2022), Square Peg Capital portfolio, SmartCompany (Thu 5 Mar 2020), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Mon 19 Aug 2019), Our Innovation Fund (Tue 2 Jul 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Jun 2019), thelawyermag.com
-	IPO	2014 (recalled in later coverage)	-	Square Peg Capital portfolio, SmartCompany (Thu 5 Mar 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Jun 2019)

What Aconex bought

Companies Aconex acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Aconex is not recorded as having acquired anything.

People

Name	Role	Sources
Karthik Venkatasubramanian		Startup Daily (Wed 5 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (Fri 6 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 6 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Mon 2 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Mon 2 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 3 Nov 2023)
Leigh Jasper	Chair (former) · Founder	Skalata Ventures, Startup Daily (Wed 5 Aug 2026), LaunchVic (Fri 15 May 2026), Startup Daily (Mon 11 May 2026), SmartCompany (Mon 11 May 2026), Startup Daily (Sun 10 May 2026), SmartCompany (Tue 2 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (Fri 17 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 10 Jun 2025), Blackbird Ventures, LaunchVic (Tue 15 Oct 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 26 Apr 2024), Startup Daily (Tue 23 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 3 Nov 2023), Startup Daily (Wed 21 Dec 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 16 Dec 2022), Australian FinTech, Startup Daily (Thu 17 Mar 2022), Our Innovation Fund (Mon 14 Mar 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 2 Feb 2022), buildxact.com, SmartCompany (Wed 22 Dec 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 26 Oct 2021), Our Innovation Fund (Tue 26 Oct 2021), Square Peg Capital portfolio, AgFunderNews, SmartCompany (Tue 23 Mar 2021), Startup Daily (Sun 14 Mar 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 10 Mar 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 9 Mar 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 3 Mar 2021), SmartCompany (Tue 15 Dec 2020), Startup Daily (Mon 30 Nov 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 5 Mar 2020), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Jan 2020), Startup Daily (Thu 12 Dec 2019), Startup Daily (Fri 4 Oct 2019), Startup Daily (Fri 13 Sep 2019), Startup Daily (Fri 13 Sep 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 10 Sep 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Jun 2019), thelawyermag.com, SmartCompany (Mon 13 May 2019)
Leigh Jasper	CEO (former) · Founder	Startup Daily (Wed 5 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (Fri 6 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 6 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Mon 2 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Mon 2 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Mon 29 Jan 2024), LaunchVic, Square Peg Capital portfolio, Australian FinTech, Startup Daily (Fri 23 Aug 2019), Startup Daily (Fri 10 May 2019)
Ofer Assor	Strategic Partnerships Lead (former)	Startup Daily
Paul Perrett		Startup Daily (Wed 5 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (Fri 6 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 6 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Mon 2 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Mon 2 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 3 Nov 2023)
Rob Phillpot	Founder	Startup Daily (Fri 6 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 6 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Mon 2 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Mon 2 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Tue 2 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 10 Jun 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 16 Jul 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 26 Apr 2024), Startup Daily (Tue 23 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Apr 2024), LaunchVic, SmartCompany (Fri 3 Nov 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 13 Oct 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 10 Oct 2023), Startup Daily (Wed 21 Dec 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 16 Dec 2022), Australian FinTech, Our Innovation Fund, Startup Daily (Wed 2 Feb 2022), SmartCompany (Wed 22 Dec 2021), Startup Daily (Fri 10 Sep 2021), Square Peg Capital portfolio, AgFunderNews, Startup Daily (Sun 14 Mar 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 10 Mar 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 9 Mar 2021), Startup Daily (Sun 6 Dec 2020), Startup Daily (Mon 30 Nov 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 5 Mar 2020), SmartCompany (Wed 18 Dec 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 10 Sep 2019), SmartCompany (Mon 19 Aug 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Jun 2019), thelawyermag.com, SmartCompany (Mon 13 May 2019)
Robert Phillpot	Founder	Square Peg Capital portfolio, Startup Daily (Fri 4 Oct 2019), Startup Daily (Fri 13 Sep 2019), Startup Daily (Fri 13 Sep 2019)
Simon Yencken	Chairman (former)	@AuManufacturing, SmartCompany (Fri 3 May 2024), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Wed 3 Jul 2019), Our Innovation Fund, SmartCompany (Mon 4 Mar 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Dec 2018)

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