Startup · $16m raised
Sydney, NSW
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Hyper Anna raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| AirTree Ventures | Series A | - |
| IAG Firemark Ventures | Series A | - |
| Reinventure Group | Series A | - |
| Sequoia | Series A | - |
| Sequoia China | Series A | - |
The transaction that ended Hyper Anna'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alteryx | Acquisition | 8 Oct 2021 | - | ARN (ARNnet) (Wed 3 Nov 2021), ARN (ARNnet) (Fri 8 Oct 2021), SmartCompany, Startup Daily |
Companies Hyper Anna 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cubean Liu | Lead Engineer (former) | SmartCompany |
| Natalie Nguyen | CEO · Founder | SmartCompany (Wed 3 Jun 2026), ARN (ARNnet), SmartCompany (Fri 8 Oct 2021), Startup Daily |
| Sam Zheng | Founder | SmartCompany (Fri 8 Oct 2021), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Wed 6 Feb 2019) |
Stories naming Hyper Anna. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Fishburners, the Sydney not-for-profit co-working community, has gone into voluntary administration over a long-running rent debt to the NSW government. KPMG administrators will keep it trading while pursuing a sale and recapitalisation.
IAG's venture arm Firemark Ventures has committed a $75 million second fund, already deployed into Texas 3D imaging startup Plnar; earlier backing included UpGuard, Myriota, Hyper Anna, Airtasker and Life360.
Also Startup Daily
Analytics automation firm Alteryx has acquired Sydney AI startup Hyper Anna on undisclosed terms. The article recalls Hyper Anna's 2016 seed round and 2017 Series A backed by Sequoia China, Airtree, Reinventure and IAG Firemark.
Techboard revises its analysis of large 2018 funding events won by female-founded companies, recounting raises by Airwallex, Canva, Judo Capital and others, earlier big rounds, and UrbanYou's acquisition.
Sydney AI e-commerce startup Particular Audience secured a $1.8 million seed round led by Carthona Capital, delayed until founder James Taylor obtained an entrepreneur visa; the company also hired a new chief technology officer.
A Sydney conversational AI startup built for automated job interviews has raised seed capital from two investors to grow its team and product; a competitor's earlier backing is also recalled.
The Australian Computer Society has launched an AI guide for businesses at its Sydney hub; the piece also reports Unleash Live raising $4.75 million and Soapbox.ai securing $500,000 in seed funding.