Square Peg is a venture capital firm from Melbourne, Australia that invests in companies in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Southeast Asia. It invests on seed, early stage and late stage ventures with a focus on Series A and Series B. It was founded in 2012 by Barry Brott, Justin Liberman, Paul Bassat, and Tony Holt. It primarily focuses on online and technology businesses.
In its early days, this company was a Limited Partners company made up of a small group of entrepreneurs that support technology builders. As of 2019, the company’s funds are made up of superannuation funds, endowments, family funds and entrepreneur funds.
Timeline
Funded Companies
ClimaCell is a Boston-based weather intelligence platform for automated weather predictions.
Q-CTRL is a company that develops software for quantum technologies.
A company offering a personal training chat bot enhanced with artificial intelligence.
Company
International payments company
Lightbits Labs provides cloud-based networking and storage solutions for efficient database application processing.
StashAway is a Singapore-based company founded by Michele Ferrario, Freddy Lim and Nino Ulsamer.
AIDoc Medical is a Tel Aviv-based artificial intelligence company founded by Elad Walach.
Deputy is an Australia-based company.
ImageBrief is a New York City-based company.
People
Jenna Shiels
Executive Assistant
Amanda Hjorring
Partner / Chief Operating Officer
Barry Brott
Co-Founder
Ben Hensman
Senior Associate
Dan Krasnostein
Partner
David Thodey
Special Advisor
Hagar Perez
Office Manager
Imogen Baxter
Head of Community
Ina Hoxha
Legal Associate
Justin Liberman
Co-Founder
Karen Wu
Executive Assistant
Leila Lee
Head of Distribution
Paul Bassat
Co-Founder / Partner
Philippe Schwartz
Partner
Tair Kowalsky Bass
Head of Growth
Tony Holt
Co-Founder / Partner
Tushar Roy
Partner
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Airwallex
Q-CTRL
Aidoc
Amber Electric
Deputy
HealthMatch
HealthMatch
Lightbits Labs
PureSec
