Startup · $226m raised
Melbourne, VIC
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Linktree raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| AirTree Ventures | Series B · Series B · Series A | - |
| April Underwood | Series B | - |
| Coatue | Series B · Series B | - |
| Doug English | Series A | - |
| Greenoaks Capital | Series B | - |
| Harry Stebbings | Series A | - |
| Index | Series B | - |
| Index Ventures | Series B · Series B | - |
| Insight Partners | Series B · Series B · Series A | - |
| Jeff Weiner | Series B | - |
| Michelle Kennedy | Series B | - |
| Nick Molnar | Series B | - |
| Sam Yam | Series A | - |
Every published round Linktree 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.
Companies Linktree has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio companies recorded yet. | ||||
Fund closes reported for Linktree, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Linktree has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Linktree did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio company of Linktree is recorded as having been acquired. | ||||
Companies Linktree 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fingertip | Acquisition | 13 Nov 2025 | - | Dealroom, Startup Daily |
| Plann | Acquisition | 15 Aug 2024 | - | Startup Daily, TechCrunch Venture |
| Koji | Acquisition | 14 Dec 2023 | - | Startup Daily (Thu 13 Nov 2025), TechCrunch Venture (Thu 15 Aug 2024), TechCrunch Australia, Startup Daily (Fri 15 Dec 2023), TechCrunch Venture (Thu 14 Dec 2023) |
| Bento | Acquisition | Jun 2023 | - | Startup Daily (Thu 13 Nov 2025), TechCrunch Venture (Thu 15 Aug 2024), TechCrunch Australia, Startup Daily (Fri 15 Dec 2023), TechCrunch Venture (Thu 14 Dec 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 6 Jun 2023) |
| Odesli | Acquisition | 19 Aug 2021 | - | Startup Daily, TechCrunch Venture, Tech Funding News - Australia, SmartCompany |
Stories naming Linktree. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Side Stage Ventures has reached a $40 million initial close on its $50 million second fund, backed by founders of earlier wins, while principal Elli Hanson steps up to partner.
AirTree closes its $650m Fund V across seed and growth vehicles, backed mostly by international institutional capital, and promotes three early-career investors to Principal.
Linktree has bought Melbourne rival Fingertip and will shut it down in 2026, with its cofounders joining; the piece also recaps Linktree's earlier acquisitions and the Leibovich brothers' failed ventures.
Also Dealroom·Forbes Australia
Carted, the wishlist and commerce API startup, is shutting down on 22 October 2025. Its 2021 seed round raised $13m with Blackbird leading, alongside Grok Ventures and Tidal Ventures.
Also Startup Daily
Forbes Australia profiles Butter, a year-old Melbourne app fighting loneliness through in-person gatherings, now at 10,000 users with $260,000 from backer Antler at a roughly $2.2 million valuation.
Sydney venture firm Airtree has completed the close of its fifth fund at $650 million, drawing backing from US institutional investors and Australian superannuation funds, with allocations set for early and growth stages.
Airtree has launched Fund V, a $650 million pool divided into seed and growth sleeves and backed largely by global institutions, while promoting three investors, among them Perth-raised Dan Coughlan.
Also techpinions.com·Dealroom
Sydney AI customer-support startup Lorikeet has closed US$35 million in a Series A led by QED Investors, its third round in under a year, lifting total funding beyond $75 million.
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Sydney venture firm Airtree has closed its fifth fund, split into a US$250 million seed vehicle and a US$400 million growth vehicle, and promoted three investors to Principal.
Sports scoring software maker Liveheats has secured $1.3 million in seed backing from five individual backers to grow its product and sales teams and expand into the US and Europe.
Melbourne-based digital business card maker Blinq has raised a $25 million Series A round, with Touring Capital leading and Blackbird, Square Peg and HubSpot Ventures joining, to grow its enterprise reach.
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.
Also Startup Daily
Blackbird's investment note explains why it led Index's A$3.5 million seed round with Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator and industry angels, profiling the planning platform built by two former Canva and Atlassian staff.
Education startup HEX has bought Sydney-based learning platform EntryLevel for an undisclosed amount, while securing another year of Atlassian Foundation backing and partnering with Toyota's trust on a STEM program for regional students.
Airtree Ventures has reached a first close on its fifth fund, drawing commitments from three US institutions plus returning local super funds, against a $650 million target.
Roundup of three trans-Tasman raises: crime-intelligence software maker Auror's $72.6m Series C, underground mining-robot firm ADR's $2m round, and mentorship platform Matched's angel backing below $500,000.
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.
Also Startup Daily
TEN13's investor letter celebrates passing $100 million deployed, plus fresh backing for iion and Switchboard, team promotions, AutoGrab's overseas growth and NZ-arm sale, and the Mr Yum–Me&U merger.
Profile of Airtree Ventures' use of secondary sales for early liquidity; selling part of its Canva stake paid back its debut fund while the firm kept most of its holding.
Deputy says it is now worth more than A$1.1 billion after US staffing group Express Employment Professionals put in A$37 million, making the Sydney workforce-tech firm Australia's newest unicorn.
TEN13 newsletter reporting Chipper Cash's US$150m unicorn round, Mr Yum's Tiger Global-led Series A, and new investments in Payhippo, Preezie, Pushas and Heaps Normal, plus portfolio updates.
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AI search startup Marqo has landed a $12.5 million Series A and is relocating its headquarters to San Francisco, while LaunchVic statistics show Victoria's ecosystem grew in value despite a funding drop.
Linktree adds scheduling and archiving tools plus video fetching. The Australian firm also hired a chief product officer and two AI leads, and last year bought Koji and Bento.
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.
Linktree has bought rival link-in-bio service Koji from owner GoMeta for an undisclosed sum, its second such purchase of 2023 after acquiring Sequoia-backed Bento in June; Koji's product sunsets in January.
Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·TechCrunch Venture·TechCrunch Venture
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 launches a feature letting creators embed their Threads profile and posts on their Linktree pages, following its recent Snap partnership and Threads' rapid user growth.
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.
Also TechCrunch Venture·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·TechCrunch Venture·TechCrunch Venture
Weekly roundup of five startup raises: Fleet Space's Series C, Checkmate's Series A, Adventus's new round, Endua's hydrogen funding and Servicely's raise, with investors named.
Also Forbes Australia
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.
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.
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.
Australian venture investors AirTree, Blackbird, Square Peg and OneVentures review their 2022 deployment and fund raises and predict capital efficiency, venture credit, consolidation and selective funding will shape 2023.
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Devops startup Buildkite has raised a US$21 million Series B led by OneVentures and AirTree, with General Catalyst and angel Dom Pym participating, to build new developer products and grow teams.
Also Startup News (WA)·SmartCompany·Techboard·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Capital Brief·Forbes Australia