Startup · $100k raised
Sunshine Coast, QLD
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round GreaseBoss raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Advance Queensland | Grant | - |
| Melt Ventures | Accelerator | - |
| YC | Accelerator | - |
Investors whose own portfolio pages list GreaseBoss, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.
| Investor | Listed on |
|---|---|
| 77 Partners | its portfolio page ↗ |
| Summit Capital | its portfolio page ↗ |
Companies GreaseBoss acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Barnett | CEO · Founder | Startup Daily, SmartCompany |
Stories naming GreaseBoss. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Queensland's QVCDF, managed by QIC, will fund five accelerator programs to ready over 160 local startups for venture capital investment across two years.
Melt Ventures launched an advanced manufacturing venture fund expecting first close soon and targeting $20 million by March 2023; the piece also recalls earlier backing of Camplify, Gamurs, Greaseboss and other companies.
GreaseBoss, a Queensland lubrication-monitoring startup, raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Pipeline Capital with NFL great Joe Montana among investors, after completing Y Combinator; earlier backing came via The Melt and 77 Partners.
Cut Through Venture's debut quarterly newsletter rounds up Q1 2021 raises across Australian and New Zealand startups, highlighting crowdfunding, fintech dominance, active investors, and two newly launched startups currently seeking backers.
Queensland industrial IoT startup GreaseBoss joined Y Combinator's accelerator remotely after winning a $100,000 state government grant, having earlier raised pre-seed backing, and plans a seed round.
Also Cut Through Venture
New hardware accelerator The Melt has backed five industrial startups and raised the first year of a rolling angel fund set to reach $10 million, while also delivering R&D services for large corporates.