Blast OIF | 23 things from 2023
OIF Ventures' year in review: full Eftsure exit, Opportunity Fund close, Visory, DataMasque and Nullify backed, follow-ons at Inspace and Dataweavers, new team members and portfolio milestones.
Startup · $11.7m raised
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Mastt raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Artesian VC | Series A · Unnamed stage | - |
| Chris Peterson | Series A | - |
| Chris Peterson | Series A | - |
| David Jablonski | Series A | - |
| David Jablonski | Series A | - |
| Gravel Road Ventures | Series A | - |
| Investible | Series A · Unnamed stage | - |
| Leigh Jasper | Series A · Unnamed stage | - |
| OIF Ventures | Series A | - |
| Rob Phillpot | Series A · Unnamed stage | - |
| Sean McCreanor | Series A | - |
| Significant Early Venture Capital | Series A | - |
| Bob Hennessy | Unnamed stage | - |
| Significant Capital Ventures | Unnamed stage | - |
Companies Mastt 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Peterson | Chief Revenue Officer | Startup Daily |
| David Jablonski | Chief Technology Officer | Startup Daily, Our Innovation Fund |
| Doug Vincent | Managing Director · Founder | Our Innovation Fund (Wed 5 Apr 2023), Startup Daily, Our Innovation Fund (Mon 14 Mar 2022), Our Innovation Fund (Mon 14 Mar 2022), SmartCompany |
| Jamie Cerexhe | Head of Engineering · Founder | Our Innovation Fund (Wed 5 Apr 2023), Startup Daily, Our Innovation Fund (Mon 14 Mar 2022), Our Innovation Fund (Mon 14 Mar 2022) |
| Jessica Booth | Head of Customer Success (former) | Startup Daily, Australian FinTech |
| Raman Nambiar | Head of Strategic Partnerships · Founder | Startup Daily, Our Innovation Fund (Mon 14 Mar 2022), Our Innovation Fund (Mon 14 Mar 2022) |
Stories naming Mastt. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
OIF Ventures' year in review: full Eftsure exit, Opportunity Fund close, Visory, DataMasque and Nullify backed, follow-ons at Inspace and Dataweavers, new team members and portfolio milestones.
Biza.io, a Brisbane consumer data right firm, adds three staff: Jessica Booth leads customer success, Colleen D'Arcy joins as HR Business Partner, and Stephanie Robinson becomes Technical Writer.
OIF Ventures' newsletter announces leading Nullify's pre-seed round, two investment team hires, portfolio company awards and product launches, and Go1's acquisition of Anders Pink.
NSW government backing for Morse Micro's HaLow Wi-Fi expansion in Tech Central is still subject to a formal agreement, UTS plans a defence-compliant vault, and five scaleups are named as first recipients of accommodation rebates.
Techboard's March 2022 roundup of Australian funding: megadeals by Immutable, Saluda Medical, Linktree and Zeller, many smaller raises, acquisitions, an IPO, several fund closes, and companies still seeking capital.
Ignition Lane's weekly roundup covers Linktree's unicorn raise, several Australian funding rounds, Tiger and Insight's new mega-funds, falling SaaS valuations, the ACCC's action against Meta, and new accelerator and product launches.
Construction software firm Mastt has banked $9.5 million from OIF Ventures and other backers, including the Aconex founders' fund, to fuel its push into the United States and Middle East.
Also Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Cut Through Venture·Startup Daily
OIF Ventures says it led a $9.5 million Series A in Mastt, a SaaS platform for construction project management, citing the founders' experience, product-led growth pricing and international expansion potential.
Also OIF Ventures portfolio·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Techboard
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.
Weekly roundup by Ignition Lane covering Vend's sale to Lightspeed, Roblox's listing, raises at Pipe, DataGrail, Mastt, Sonnant and Corvus, LaunchVic's new fund for women founders, and Scale Investors' new co-CEOs.
Also Startup Daily·LaunchVic
Funding roundup covering raises by OpenMarkets, Mastt, Smrtr, The Nile Group and Preply, with Aconex's founders among Mastt's backers and Peter James joining The Nile as chairman.
Roundup: Square takes majority control of Jay Z's Tidal for US$297 million; WeLab banks a US$75 million Series C led by Allianz; construction software startup Mastt raises $2.2 million.