Operating Partner · Founder, Side Stage Ventures · angel in 2 deals
Every published round Anthony 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mindset Health | Series A | 24 Mar 2023 | $17.8m | Participant | Alberts Impact Ventures (Tue 19 Dec 2023), Crunchbase News, Alberts Impact Ventures (Thu 25 May 2023), SmartCompany, Alberts portfolio, Tenmile portfolio | |
| Heaps Normal | Accelerator | 16 Nov 2020 | $1.3m | Participant | Startmate, SmartCompany (Mon 29 Nov 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 18 Dec 2020), SmartCompany (Mon 16 Nov 2020), Startup News (WA), SmartCompany (Thu 10 Sep 2020) |
Companies Anthony 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heaps Normal | 16 Nov 2020, Accelerator | 1 | 0 | |
| Mindset Health | 24 Mar 2023, Series A | 1 | 0 |
Fund closes reported for Anthony Zaccaria, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Anthony Zaccaria has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Anthony Zaccaria did.
Stories naming Anthony Zaccaria. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
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.
A weekly funding roundup covering Mindset Health's Series A, grants for two lunar rover consortiums, Pivot's raise, and Invest Inya Farmer's seed round.
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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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.
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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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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Non-alcoholic beer startup Heaps Normal has raised $1.3 million from angel investors including founders of Adore Beauty, Culture Amp and Linktree, while its co-founders were completing the Startmate accelerator.
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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.