Alex Retzlaff

Growth Stage Venture Capitalist

📍 Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2020
VC🌍 Australia
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Investor - Seed Round
Oct 2020
CrowdProperty (www.crowdproperty.com) is the UKs leading specialist property development lending platform. Featured in the Sunday Times 100 report of Britain’s fastest growing profitable businesses, the Deloitte Fast 50 as one of UKs 50 fastest growing tech businesses, the Financial Times FT1000 fastest growing businesses in Europe for 3 consecutive years, the Tech Nation FinTech 5.0 programme, a WIRED Trailblazer and founding member of the Innovate Finance 36H Fintech Group. CrowdProperty is a profitable and disruptive fintech/proptech innovator with a game changing, highly scalable, customer-centric approach to the property finance market, underpinned by a leading technology platform supporting rapid UK growth and international expansion. With a distinct property finance by property people proposition, CrowdPropertys mission is to unlock the potential of small and medium sized property developers to build more much needed, under-supplied homes, helping them to grow their businesses quicker and drive spend in the economy on labour, materials and services. Actual property development and investment experience lies at the heart of the business meaning hands-on, expertise-led due diligence and loan monitoring and intimate understanding of the needs of a property developer. Lending is focused on small and medium sized developers, a key segment for supplying much needed UK housing stock, which is poorly and inefficiently served by traditional funding sources. CrowdProperty funds property professionals undertaking any sort of property project, structuring the perfect funding product and doing so with greater speed, ease, certainty, transparency and expertise than anyone in the market. Read more about fintech, proptech, property development, property finance and CrowdProperty on our Blog: www.blog.crowdproperty.com. Apply for property development, refurbishment, bridging or other short-term project finance in just 5 minutes at: www.crowdproperty.com/apply.
Investor - Seed Round
Sep 2020
Floatspace is an online boat marketplace and concierge booking service for your next celebration, event, or escape. Enjoy a range of unique experiences including birthdays, bucks and hens parties, business functions, romantic getaways and more. Our goal is for 1 million people to get on board a Floatspace boat, giving everyone the opportunity to build a life of incredible moments on the water! #getonboard
Investor - Merger
Sep 2020
Whizz is an online managed marketplace operating in the $52B Home Services category in Australia. Our two-sided marketplace focuses on connecting vetted and qualified professionals with consumers looking for services such as cleaning and removal. We have developed a range of technology solutions that deliver efficiency for Professionals and convenience for consumers. With over 100,000 homes serviced Australia wide, Whizz aims to become the number one destination for consumers when outsourcing tasks within the home.
Investor - Pre-Acquisition Round
Jun 2020
Meet Jarvis: your very own personal butler. Jarvis comes to your home each week to handle all your chores - from grocery shopping to tidying up to laundry and dry cleaning. Just enter your to-do list and any preferences into our app, and your Jarvis will handle the rest. We put your errands on autopilot so that you can come back to your groceries in the fridge, your laundry neatly folded in your cupboard and your home exactly as you like it. We do, so you can do more.
Investor - Pre-Seed Round
Sep 2019
Deckee (www.deckee.com), is pioneering the global operating system for safer boating, and is the maker of the leading boating safety app. For governments, maritime agencies and private companies, Deckee offers modular technology solutions covering community engagement, planning, operations, and optimization, with proven value in fostering safety, improving communications and increasing efficiency. Government agencies partner with Deckee to modernise and advance their waterway safety strategies. Boating is enjoyed by 200 million people every year, but can be dangerous, stressful and confusing, without access to the right information and guidance. The free Deckee mobile app (iOS, Android and Web) combines official information and alerts from our government partners, with crowdsourced reports, weather conditions and navigation aids into one easy-to-use app.
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2022
Managing Partner
Sep 2022
Unify Ventures has established a multi-thematic fund of funds that invests in managers covering B2B SaaS, Advanced Manufacturing and Fin Tech, with more thematics to come. Our thesis is that thematic funds are better able to assist early-stage portfolio companies through their thematic network.
2020
Venture Partner
Dec 2020
We are Black Nova VC, and were championing the next generation of B2B technology startups. Were a team of founders, turned investors. We have successfully built and exited companies and we can empathise with what you’re going through. We get it. We get you. That’s why we believe we can help. We support our portfolio companies with our time, our network, our experiences and our multiple initiatives. Our support is enabled by capital, not the other way around.
Limited Partner
Oct 2020
The Melt is an Industrial Prototyping Lab and Innovation Accelerator, powering the creation of the worlds best hardware products. It revolutionises the way startups and corporate innovators prove, prototype, pilot and produce globally scaleable products. Separate streams are offered for startups and corporates - The Melt Accelerator is a structured program with funding, tools and services to help startups build great hardware products and launch a successful business. Melt Labs provides R&D as a Service for corporates to deliver the strategic product development agenda and business as usual at the same time. The Melt is... Investment: Successful Startups receive up to $150,000 of investment through the program with the opportunity for further follow-on investment. Process: The proven Melt accelerator 4P Process is a structured, stage-gate/agile hybrid process that is the least-riskiest path to product development. Tools: Cutting edge Computer Aided Engineering Tools and Software for rapid prototyping and product development Services: Skills, experience and capabilities required throughout the product development lifecycle Coworking: Work in an industrial coworking space designed specifically for tech pioneers and their teams. Access advanced mechatronic and rapid prototyping equipment and the experts required to drive it all. Enjoy all the benefits of a virtual office – front desk services, meeting rooms, fast and secure wi-fi, coffee, printing, cleaning and storage.
Investor - Seed Round
Oct 2020
CrowdProperty (www.crowdproperty.com) is the UKs leading specialist property development lending platform. Featured in the Sunday Times 100 report of Britain’s fastest growing profitable businesses, the Deloitte Fast 50 as one of UKs 50 fastest growing tech businesses, the Financial Times FT1000 fastest growing businesses in Europe for 3 consecutive years, the Tech Nation FinTech 5.0 programme, a WIRED Trailblazer and founding member of the Innovate Finance 36H Fintech Group. CrowdProperty is a profitable and disruptive fintech/proptech innovator with a game changing, highly scalable, customer-centric approach to the property finance market, underpinned by a leading technology platform supporting rapid UK growth and international expansion. With a distinct property finance by property people proposition, CrowdPropertys mission is to unlock the potential of small and medium sized property developers to build more much needed, under-supplied homes, helping them to grow their businesses quicker and drive spend in the economy on labour, materials and services. Actual property development and investment experience lies at the heart of the business meaning hands-on, expertise-led due diligence and loan monitoring and intimate understanding of the needs of a property developer. Lending is focused on small and medium sized developers, a key segment for supplying much needed UK housing stock, which is poorly and inefficiently served by traditional funding sources. CrowdProperty funds property professionals undertaking any sort of property project, structuring the perfect funding product and doing so with greater speed, ease, certainty, transparency and expertise than anyone in the market. Read more about fintech, proptech, property development, property finance and CrowdProperty on our Blog: www.blog.crowdproperty.com. Apply for property development, refurbishment, bridging or other short-term project finance in just 5 minutes at: www.crowdproperty.com/apply.
Investor - Seed Round
Sep 2020
Floatspace is an online boat marketplace and concierge booking service for your next celebration, event, or escape. Enjoy a range of unique experiences including birthdays, bucks and hens parties, business functions, romantic getaways and more. Our goal is for 1 million people to get on board a Floatspace boat, giving everyone the opportunity to build a life of incredible moments on the water! #getonboard
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