Michael An

Co Founder & Managing Director at Perle Ventures

📍 Greater Sydney Area, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2017
VC🌍 Australia
7
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3
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1
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2
Late stage
12y
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Board Member
2017
Technology is rapidly evolving, causing a significant skills gap. The demand for skills is insatiable and is growing. We provide short, practical and skill-specific courses for people or companies to upgrade their capabilities in design and innovation. We’ve delivered a number of custom team training packages, as well as inspiring, modular short courses for individuals. With our dynamically changing curriculum, we teach current, in-demand skills to transform individual careers whilst integrating new learnings about emerging markets and future technologies. We’re driven by a great purpose: Xi Act, our socially focused community pillar. With our vision to change the world through education, Academy Xi partners with existing Social Impact organisations such as Remarkable, Cerebral Palsy Alliance, OpenIDEO and WWF to collaborate on projects.
Board Member
2017
GAMURS Group is the leading esports media network and a growing contender in the entertainment space. We strive to inform and engage the global gaming and entertainment communities with the best content.
early stageMedia Production
Board Member
2016
X2M Connect (ASX:X2M) has developed a patented proprietary Internet of Things (IoT) technology that delivers proven productivity improvements, cost savings and improved public safety to enterprise and government clients in the utilities sector through a SaaS based arrangement.
Board Member
2014
Smart Business Telecom is a proud 100% Australian owned and operated Telecommunications business which based in Melbourne, with over 10 years of experience and success in the ever changing Australian Telecommunications Industry. Having a proven track record of success, Smart Business Telecom has quickly become recognizable as a company delivering consistent year on year growth, strong bottom line profits and has received industry recognition including prestigious business awards. By achieving such a comfortable platform to continue our growth, Smart Business Telecom has become the envy of many players within the industry. With our Smart Wholesale division we are now connecting with Entrepreneurs to facilitate many new profitable ventures in niche markets across Australia, and are always looking for new connections and opportunities. Our team at Smart Business Telecom is a great mix of youth and experience from a variety of backgrounds enabling us to quickly understand and respond to all aspects of the rapidly changing Australian market. Considered an “Employer of Choice” in the industry, Smart Business Telecom will keep you updated on any exciting opportunities to join our vibrant team, as we continue to expand our range of products and services. If you want to jump the queue and join the team today, feel free to contact us and we’ll arrange a meeting to discuss how your talents could be put to use!
Board Member
2014
Imagine coming in to work every day and just knowing everything. The status of every campaign and job. How budgets are tracking. How much capacity there is to take on new work. What’s been approved, and where the correct, most up-to-date version of every asset can be found. Simple Marketing Operations Product suite enables this and more. • Initiatives, campaigns and jobs: Simple gives you three levels of hierarchy for your marketing projects, giving you an accurate, top-down view of how everything fits together. • Smart briefing: Create and assign all your briefs in Simple using customisable templates, and clone previous briefs to save time while leveraging your organisation’s existing knowledge. • Budget management: See where every cent of your marketing or comms budget is being spent, and if it’s aligned to what works. Then iterate and test to maximise the effectiveness of your marketing mix. • Approvals workflows: Never lose sleep because the people you need to and sign off your content and campaigns got missed. Simple’s mark-up and approvals tools help ensure 100% marketing compliance. • Traffic management: Know exactly who’s doing what and how much capacity they have to do more. You can also bring external agency projects in-house using Simple’s traffic management capabilities. • Integrated reporting: Assess the effectiveness of your marketing and comms against your spend – and share your insights with senior management using crystal clear visualisation tools.
Board Member
2014
Catapult exists to unleash the potential of every athlete and team on earth. Operating at the intersection of sports science and analytics, Catapult products are designed to optimize performance, avoid injury, and quantify return to play. Catapult has over 400 staff based across 24 locations worldwide, working with more than 3,800 elite teams in over 100 countries globally. Catapult Group International Ltd is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: CAT). For further information, please visit Catapults Investor Centre at catapult.com/investor
Board Member
2014
The Waratek ARMR #SecurityAsCode platform allows you to define the final state of your desired security behavior to be executed constantly in the runtime release-after-release.
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Board (7)
2017
Board Member
2017
Technology is rapidly evolving, causing a significant skills gap. The demand for skills is insatiable and is growing. We provide short, practical and skill-specific courses for people or companies to upgrade their capabilities in design and innovation. We’ve delivered a number of custom team training packages, as well as inspiring, modular short courses for individuals. With our dynamically changing curriculum, we teach current, in-demand skills to transform individual careers whilst integrating new learnings about emerging markets and future technologies. We’re driven by a great purpose: Xi Act, our socially focused community pillar. With our vision to change the world through education, Academy Xi partners with existing Social Impact organisations such as Remarkable, Cerebral Palsy Alliance, OpenIDEO and WWF to collaborate on projects.
Board Member
2017
GAMURS Group is the leading esports media network and a growing contender in the entertainment space. We strive to inform and engage the global gaming and entertainment communities with the best content.
early stageMedia Production
2016
Board Member
2016
X2M Connect (ASX:X2M) has developed a patented proprietary Internet of Things (IoT) technology that delivers proven productivity improvements, cost savings and improved public safety to enterprise and government clients in the utilities sector through a SaaS based arrangement.
2014
Board Member
2014
Smart Business Telecom is a proud 100% Australian owned and operated Telecommunications business which based in Melbourne, with over 10 years of experience and success in the ever changing Australian Telecommunications Industry. Having a proven track record of success, Smart Business Telecom has quickly become recognizable as a company delivering consistent year on year growth, strong bottom line profits and has received industry recognition including prestigious business awards. By achieving such a comfortable platform to continue our growth, Smart Business Telecom has become the envy of many players within the industry. With our Smart Wholesale division we are now connecting with Entrepreneurs to facilitate many new profitable ventures in niche markets across Australia, and are always looking for new connections and opportunities. Our team at Smart Business Telecom is a great mix of youth and experience from a variety of backgrounds enabling us to quickly understand and respond to all aspects of the rapidly changing Australian market. Considered an “Employer of Choice” in the industry, Smart Business Telecom will keep you updated on any exciting opportunities to join our vibrant team, as we continue to expand our range of products and services. If you want to jump the queue and join the team today, feel free to contact us and we’ll arrange a meeting to discuss how your talents could be put to use!
Board Member
2014
Imagine coming in to work every day and just knowing everything. The status of every campaign and job. How budgets are tracking. How much capacity there is to take on new work. What’s been approved, and where the correct, most up-to-date version of every asset can be found. Simple Marketing Operations Product suite enables this and more. • Initiatives, campaigns and jobs: Simple gives you three levels of hierarchy for your marketing projects, giving you an accurate, top-down view of how everything fits together. • Smart briefing: Create and assign all your briefs in Simple using customisable templates, and clone previous briefs to save time while leveraging your organisation’s existing knowledge. • Budget management: See where every cent of your marketing or comms budget is being spent, and if it’s aligned to what works. Then iterate and test to maximise the effectiveness of your marketing mix. • Approvals workflows: Never lose sleep because the people you need to and sign off your content and campaigns got missed. Simple’s mark-up and approvals tools help ensure 100% marketing compliance. • Traffic management: Know exactly who’s doing what and how much capacity they have to do more. You can also bring external agency projects in-house using Simple’s traffic management capabilities. • Integrated reporting: Assess the effectiveness of your marketing and comms against your spend – and share your insights with senior management using crystal clear visualisation tools.
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