Angel investor · CEO · Founder, Linktree
Every published round Alex Zaccaria 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index | Seed | 11 Feb 2025 | $3.5m | Participant | Startup Daily, Forbes Australia, Blackbird Ventures | |
| WhyHive | Pre-seed | Mar 2023 | $600k | Participant | Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Mon 31 Mar 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 30 Aug 2024) | |
| Delegate Connect | Seed | 16 Sep 2021 | $10m | Participant | SmartCompany (Thu 6 Oct 2022), Startup Daily (Fri 19 Aug 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 24 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 20 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 16 Sep 2021), SmartCompany (Thu 16 Sep 2021), TechCrunch Australia |
Companies Alex Zaccaria has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delegate Connect | 16 Sep 2021, Seed | 1 | 0 | |
| Index | 11 Feb 2025, Seed | 1 | 0 | |
| WhyHive | Mar 2023, Pre-seed | 1 | 0 |
Fund closes reported for Alex Zaccaria, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Alex Zaccaria has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Alex Zaccaria did.
Stories naming Alex Zaccaria. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Melbourne data startup WhyHive is closing next month; founders T Guthrie and Matt Cohen couldn't sustain growth despite a $600,000 pre-seed round revealed last August with backing from Skalata Ventures and several tech founders.
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Weekly round-up of four Australian raises: Shift's $35 million Series D, Inform Ag's $7 million Series A, Cropify's $2 million round and WhyHive's $600,000 pre-seed.
Linktree has bought Plann, a Sydney-based startup whose tool schedules and auto-posts social content; Plann's team, including founder Christy Laurence, joins Linktree, which will add scheduling to its link-in-bio platform.
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Linktree has brought on two audio AI specialists and a new product chief as it pushes into AI-driven commerce; the hires previously built sound-recognition startup Sonalytic, sold to Spotify in 2017.
Linktree has bought and will shut down rival Koji, acquiring it from parent GoMeta for an undisclosed sum. The article also recaps Linktree's earlier Bento purchase and its past funding rounds.
Founder-backed syndicate Side Stage Ventures has become a $15 million seed fund, with LocalGlobe and several founders as limited partners, three startups already backed, and portfolio company Joyn acquiring event firm Arinex.
SmartCompany reports Side Stage Ventures has completed a $15 million first close of its debut fund, backed by founders of Airtasker, Linktree and Go1 plus LocalGlobe, targeting $30 million and already backing early startups.
Linktree is cutting 27% of its Australia and New Zealand staff to focus on US growth, and is buying Swiss competitor Bento, whose two cofounders will join; the piece also recaps Linktree's earlier raises.
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Jessica Box reflects on leadership lessons from her years in senior product roles during Linktree's rapid growth, covering culture, organisational systems and market moats, before leaving to found her own startup.
Ignition Lane's weekly wrap: Tiger Global's losses and past Australian bets, MilkRun and TradeSquare closures, Cyara's Spearline acquisition, a Co Ventures pre-seed fund, Square Peg's partner promotion and LaunchVic's 30×30 picks.
Melbourne-based Linktree has hired three US executives: Farnaz Azmoodeh as CTO, Sam Rogoway as its first CPO, and Monica Austin as CMO, drawing on backgrounds at Snap, Google, Headspace, Calm, Netflix and Meta.
Linktree's co-founders have launched Side Stage Ventures, a collective investing in very young creative-tech companies; it has already backed several startups, and associate Ben Grabiner's music platform Platoon was bought by Apple.
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Australian link-in-bio firm Linktree has raised $110m as an extension of its Series B, with Index Ventures and Coatue leading at a $1.3bn valuation. It also named a new president and bought Songlink/Odelski.
Linktree launches a storefront feature built with Shopify, letting users display products on their profiles, while the link-in-bio platform reports its worldwide user base has grown to 18 million.
Melbourne virtual and hybrid events platform Delegate Connect has raised A$10 million in seed funding led by AirTree Ventures, with Skip Capital, TEN13 and founders Alex Zaccaria and Andrew Barnes also taking part.
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Australian startup Linktree has bought music link platform Odesli for an undisclosed sum, folding its technology into a new Music Link feature, with Odesli's founder joining Linktree as technical lead.
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US angel VC The Fund launches an Australia and New Zealand chapter, backed by local founder limited partners, with a four-person investment committee intending to back around 40 early-stage startups over two years.
Australian founders and operators including Kate Morris and Alex Zaccaria have launched the local arm of angel group The Fund, targeting seed and pre-seed deals, with an aim to raise about US$3.5 million.
Early-stage venture firm The Fund is expanding to Australia, naming a four-person local investment committee and founder limited partners to back pre-seed and seed startups across the region.
Profile of Linktree's growth playbook, updated to note the company raised $150 million in March 2022 at a $1.7 billion valuation with 24 million users.
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The Melbourne link-in-bio platform has secured its first outside capital, a Series A led by two venture firms with several individual backers joining, to grow its analytics and product functionality.
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SmartCompany's year-end roundup profiles nine businesses that scaled rapidly in 2019, including Shebah's record equity crowdfunding and follow-up round, July's Strandbags-led raise, and Louis Mittoni's revival of the Toys 'R' Us brand.