Startup · $181.3m raised
Melbourne, VIC
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Zeller raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Addition | Series B · Series A · Series A | - |
| APEX Capital | Series A · Seed | - |
| Apex Capital Partners | Series A | - |
| Headline | Series B | - |
| Hostplus | Series B | - |
| Spark Capital | Series B · Series A | - |
| Square Peg Capital | Series B · Series A · Series A · Seed | - |
Investors whose own portfolio pages list Zeller, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.
| Investor | Listed on |
|---|---|
| Glitch Capital | its portfolio page ↗ |
Companies Zeller acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Zeller. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Square Peg Capital has banked about US$647 million for two fresh vehicles, its biggest fundraise yet. The piece also recalls Blackbird's billion-dollar fund and Square Peg's past stake sales and exit windfalls.
Venture firm Square Peg has confirmed two funds holding more than $1 billion between them, alongside a look back at its biggest bets, sell-downs and the acquisitions that delivered windfalls.
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Zeller has rolled out a point-of-sale application for small Australian businesses, replacing subscription pricing with per-transaction charges and adding an AI assistant inside its merchant dashboard.
Fortnightly digest of local startup news: funding totalling $89.9m, acquisitions by SafetyCulture, Canva and CleanPeak Energy, CEO changes at Droneshield and Swyftx, and Zeller's move into the UK.
Ranking of Australia’s five best-funded fintechs — Airwallex, Athena, Zeller, InDebted and Brighte — profiling each one’s total raised, most recent raise, backers, valuation and growth moves.
Melbourne payments provider Zeller is launching in Britain, its first overseas market, appointing ex-ByteDance executive Lars Weber to head new London operations and building a 40-strong local team.
Square Peg's half-year investor letter reviews its accelerating AI investing, portfolio companies' progress including several completed raises, listed fund returns, a new data hire, and ongoing fundraising for its 2025 vintage funds.
In its half-year letter, Square Peg explains how it picks AI founders, reports several portfolio companies' recent raises, flags a data engineering hire, and says fundraising for its next funds is well advanced.
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Glitch Capital, a new $50m vehicle led by Leigh Jasper and backed by exited unicorn founders, has completed its first deal, backing Melbourne edtech firm Cadmus.
Square Peg's half-year letter to investors reviews 2024: $146m invested, $220m returned via five exits, fund value up to $3.25bn, plus portfolio raises at Rokt, Constantinople, Exodigo, Cuttable and Supabase.
Square Peg's half-year investor letter reviews 2024: portfolio growth, $220m returned across five exits, a Rokt secondary at a $3.5bn valuation, and recent raises at Constantinople, Exodigo, Cuttable and Supabase.
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An Australian business payments company has landed a 180 million Australian dollar investment to expand its product and support. Sidebar listings on the page note several other companies' fresh funding.
Zeller has released Zeller Terminal 2, a combined payments and point-of-sale device built by its Melbourne team, bundled with a free POS app and sold for $199 via its website.
Australian fintech Zeller has launched Corporate Cards, adding expense management features such as instant card creation, budget controls and real-time visibility, with a free trial for customers until April 2024.
LinkedIn's seventh annual ranking of Australia's top startups puts Immutable first and Harrison.ai second; the piece also notes me&u's recent merger with Mr Yum and the Tran brothers' three-year fundraising tally.
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Zeller has launched its online invoicing product for Australian small businesses after a beta, with a customer quoted on early use. No funding, hiring or transaction is reported.
Zeller launches transaction accounts, debit cards and an app, expanding beyond payments into broader business banking services, and announces an exclusive distribution partnership with Officeworks for its debit card.
Fintech Zeller launches standalone transaction accounts and debit cards for small businesses, distributing physical cards through Officeworks stores nationwide as it challenges the big banks.
Zeller hires Priya Kanniappan as Head of Marketing in Melbourne; she previously held senior marketing roles at carsales and Eventbrite and mentors at RMIT.
Merchant payments company Zeller reports rapid growth and a shift to larger Australian businesses, announcing an accounting software integration and partnerships with hundreds of point-of-sale platforms.
Payments company Zeller says larger merchants now drive its growth as it moves upmarket, and the piece recalls its 2021 and 2022 venture raises that produced a $1.1 billion valuation.
US giant KKR joined navigation-technology maker Advanced Navigation's $108 million Series B, alongside returning local backers; the company also bought ANU spin-out Vai Photonics, and two KKR staff will join its board.
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Profile of Zeller's co-founder Ben Pfisterer covering the payments firm's Melbourne base, unicorn valuation, early backers, product range and growth since launching in 2021.
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.
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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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.
Ignition Lane's weekly roundup: Zip's deal for Sezzle, Zeller's unicorn raise, several Australian funding rounds, Startmate backing Provvy, a space manufacturing grant, NZVC's first close, and tech's response to Russia.
Australian neobank Zeller closed a Series B valuing it above one billion Australian dollars, led by Headline with Hostplus participating and prior backers Square Peg, Addition and Spark Capital returning.
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Square Peg Capital's year-in-review recaps its 2021 portfolio: raises it led or joined, SPAC listing decisions, Vend's acquisition, new investment-team hires, and its newsletter and podcast output.
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Square Peg's podcast special explores how founders build talent engines, featuring interviews with leaders from Deputy, Vend, Aconex, Fiverr, Zeller and others, published alongside the firm's search for a new Head of Talent.
Square Peg's podcast interviews Zeller chief executive Ben Pfisterer about building the Melbourne payments fintech, his path through NAB, Visa and Square, and challenging Australia's major banks.
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.
Ignition Lane's weekly technology roundup: Seequent and Neto acquisitions, imminent listings for AirTasker and MadPaws, large venture rounds at Stripe, Yotpo, PatSnap, SecurityScorecard, Appfire and OpenSea, plus new fund plans and ecosystem news.
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Melbourne fintech Zeller announced a Series A led by Addition with Square Peg and Apex Capital returning, and recalled its 2020 seed round, ahead of launching payments services for small businesses.
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Square Peg Capital recaps 2020: eight new investments including Zeller and HealthMatch, a US$450 million fourth fund close, follow-ons, new hires across Sydney, Singapore and Israel, and portfolio updates.
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Roundup of ten Australian fintechs that raised capital between March and July 2020, including Payright, Zeller, Judo Bank and Airwallex; PictureWealth raised $12 million and acquired NEO Financial Solutions.
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Square Peg investor Ben Hensman argues conditions favour Australian fintech founders despite COVID-19, citing the firm's seed backing of Zeller and more than $100 million invested in local fintech businesses.
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