Alan Jones

LP

2024 - Current

Co Ventures is Australia’s first dedicated pre-seed venture fund, focused exclusively on the pre-seed stage, investing in startups that are pre-product and pre-revenue. I’m a co-investor in Co Ventures Fund 1 via Euphemia.

Advisory Board Member

2024

Angel Investor

2022

Aussie Angels lets Angels join leading investors funding the next wave of world-changing startups. Aussie Angels gives more people the opportunity to participate in the venture economy and more startups the resources they need to change the world. For emerging syndicate and fund leaders, Aussie Angels provides a stepping stone to run an angel syndicate at a fraction of the cost.

Angel Investor

2022

Josef empowers legal teams and professionals with legal automation to save time, scale services and delight their clients and people. With Josef, anyone can easily create powerful legal bots.

Angel Investor

2022

Goterra offers complete food waste management infrastructure: clean organics from processing, kitchen waste and other pre-consumer waste streams, all the way to post-consumer restaurant and household food waste. We support both waste collection providers, collecting on behalf of their clients, as well as independent businesses seeking to recycle their food wastes.

General Partner

2017

Seed Investor

2022

The rate of change in tech is exponential, but the rate of change in traditional education is kinda flat. So HEX hangs out at the intersection of education and innovation, delivering a new kind of learning. We're all about experiences that are immersive, up-to-date, and based in the real world. 4000+ students have loved HEX’s seriously fun virtual programs, study-abroad experiences and hackathon-style events. And they leave HEX with amazing confidence, skills and networks — as well as university accreditation.

Seed Investor

2021

Mentor and Investor

2010

Startmate invests in extraordinary founders who are changing the way we work, live and play, powered by the most successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Australia. Startmate’s world-class community of mentors and alumni are scaling businesses from the first dollar to the next billion, and we share that knowledge through our 12-week accelerator program, 1:1 bespoke coaching and in-person events. Startmate encourages ambitious founders to hit their next milestone and offers invaluable resources, advice and support along the way. Since 2010, we’ve been welcoming exceptional founders into a community for life as they create groundbreaking businesses of tomorrow.

Chairperson

2020

We live in a world of digital overload. Too many social posts, status updates, and way too much email. People crave real connections. Receiving a heartfelt handwritten message or greeting card is more meaningful than ever. The sensory satisfaction of written communications is undeniable when you touch, open and keep a card on your shelf. Cardly lets you write and doodle inside beautiful cards from anywhere at any time. You can write and send a personal, handwritten postcard or card in two minutes from a computer or smartphone and it will be printed, inserted in an envelope with the handwritten address of your recipient, with a real stamp, and then posted in the mail from your choice of Australia, the US or UK. And yes, it can be integrated with your CRM or direct mail marketing. 55% of Cardly's sales are from repeat customers. 20% of them buy more than twice.

Investor

2017

You write, Cardly prints and posts. Cardly is reinventing the greeting card industry.