Jared Oken

COO | Unify Data. Automate Operations. Supercharged by AI

📍 Greater Sydney Area, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 Australia
11
Total investments
8
Early stage
2
Mid stage
0
Late stage
16y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor / Advisor
Aug 2025
4C Construction Systems is a prefabricated construction company delivering an innovative kit-of-parts for residential and commercial buildings. Our SAFE System combines structural steel panels, factory-installed insulation, and high-performance finishes to deliver projects that are: Faster — reducing build time through precision prefabrication Better — fire-resistant, energy-efficient, and architecturally flexible More Sustainable — lowering carbon footprint and minimizing waste We partner with architects, developers, and builders to deliver code-compliant, cost-predictable, and scalable projects across the U.S. At 4C, we believe in building smarter, one panel at a time.
early stageConstruction
Investor / Board Advisor
Jan 2022
Storydoc is an intuitive slide editor that creates interactive presentations that impress your leads. It makes it easy to replace static PDFs with engaging decks created exclusively for sales and marketing teams. Storydocs are proven to push leads to the next step, helping you to win more deals in less time. Every Storydoc is packed with powerful integrations, seamlessly connecting to your CRM and automatically personalizing your decks for each customer.
Investor
Mar 2021
Buying online should feel like walking into your favorite local shop: personal, friendly and easy. Zowie’s mission is to recreate offline shopping experiences online - but better. We’re hiring! We’re growing fast, remote-first, and focused on winning as a team. Check out our open roles. Zowie enables companies that sell online to deflect tickets using powerful automation technology, care for customers with omnichannel inbox and sell more using enhanced customer context. Zowie can act as your standalone customer service system or enhance your current tools like Zendesk, Intercom, Gorgias, and many others with automation technology. - Free analysis of your automation potential | Know what you’re buying! - Free omnichannel inbox | Get savings on tech. - Tons of integration | Connect with Shopify, Magento, Klaviyo, Zapier and take your automation to the next level. Use Zowie and… 1. Deflect up to 60% of repetitive questions in 4 weeks and cut resolution times by 67%. 2. Care – enables agents to resolve complex cases and increase CSAT by 12%. 3. Sell – detect buying intent and convert up to 40% more clients.
Investor / Advisor
Jan 2016
Maximize VAT Refunds with an AI-powered Solution. WAY2VAT helps you save up to 25% on your company’s international foreign vendor invoices and travel spend. The Foreign VAT Refund Opportunity: VAT-registered businesses can recover VAT charged on foreign supplier invoices. Regions such as Europe, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East refund indirect tax to businesses. If your business engages in any of the below, this is the solution for you. - Do you deal with foreign suppliers? - Does your company take part in international tradeshows? - Do you incur foreign employee travel & entertainment (T&E) costs? How You Can Benefit From VAT Reclaim: * Boost your cash flow: discover how VAT refunds can be a key driver to your cash flow planning. * Reduce expenses: watch as your ROI grows as VAT on business travel and supplier invoices is seamlessly recovered. *Offset future costs: attending a multitude of large trade shows globally? With your annual VAT refunds, you can pay for next year’s events. WAY2VAT Makes VAT Reclaim Simple: 1. End-to-end service from VAT retrieval to pay out. 2. Easy integration with all major expense management software. 3. Real-time reporting on VAT refund progress. 4. Manage all your claim documents with our AI-enhanced technology. 5. We’ve built relationships with tax authorities across 32 jurisdictions. 6. Industry-specific indirect tax expertise eg. pharmaceutical and automotive etc.
Investor
Jan 2016
Civic is a tokenized identity solution for the verifiable web, empowering people to privately manage their identities across chains with an on-chain representation of their reusable identity.
Investor
Jan 2015
Lodgify is a constantly growing tech start-up, focused on building vacation rental software that enables vacation rental owners to independently manage and market their business online. We do so by providing them with easy-to-build websites, including a booking and reservation system, various synchronisation options, and payment collection options. We are +350 Lodgifiers strong, and you can find us working in Barcelona and all around the world! We are working in a hybrid mode and provide our team members with an option to work from home and spend additional time with their family, friends and pets. With more than 60 nationalities, we celebrate diversity daily! With 43% of female and 57% of male employees we are striving to establish a gender balance. Actions are continuously taken to include more women in our Tech teams.
Investor
May 2014
MoneyHero Limited (NASDAQ: MNY) is a market leader in the online personal finance and digital insurance aggregation and comparison sector in Greater Southeast Asia. The Company operates in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines. Its brand portfolio includes B2C platforms MoneyHero, SingSaver, Money101, Moneymax and Seedly, as well as the B2B platform Creatory. The Company also retains an equity stake in Malaysian fintech company, Jirnexu Pte. Ltd., parent company of Jirnexu Sdn. Bhd., the operator of RinggitPlus, Malaysia’s largest operating B2C platform. MoneyHero currently manages 279 commercial partner relationships and services 8.1 million Monthly Unique Users across its platform for the six months ended June 30, 2024. The Company’s backers include Peter Thiel—co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and the Founders Fund—and Hong Kong businessman, Richard Li, the founder and chairman of Pacific Century Group. To learn more about MoneyHero and how the innovative fintech company is driving APAC’s digital economy, please visit www.MoneyHeroGroup.com.
Investor - Advisor
Jan 2014
Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide. Our mission is to make the booking and hosting of holiday homes free of doubt and full of joy. Through the booking portal, guests can book their vacation accommodation with complete peace of mind and confidence. With its software and service platform, Holidu enables hosts to attract more bookings while minimizing effort. Our team of more than 600 colleagues from 60+ nations is based in Munich and in some of the most attractive travel destinations across Europe.
Investor
Oct 2013
Pin Payments is an online payment platform designed for small businesses. We build intentionally simple software to help our customers accept card payments, whether they run an online store, sell subscriptions, invoice their clients, or process card sales manually. One account, multiple ways to get paid.
Investor
2013
Gyft is a digital gift card platform that enables you to manage your gift cards. Users can upload, send and redeem gift cards from their phones. Gyft is seamlessly integrated with Facebook to make sending gift cards convenient and fun! For retailers, Gyft creates a meaningful new revenue channel and can help drive redemption. By using Gyft’s solution, merchants can drive customer acquisition, increase shopper interaction and drive social engagement.
Experience · 16 entries
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Investments (11)
Founder (5)
2025
Investor / Advisor
Aug 2025
4C Construction Systems is a prefabricated construction company delivering an innovative kit-of-parts for residential and commercial buildings. Our SAFE System combines structural steel panels, factory-installed insulation, and high-performance finishes to deliver projects that are: Faster — reducing build time through precision prefabrication Better — fire-resistant, energy-efficient, and architecturally flexible More Sustainable — lowering carbon footprint and minimizing waste We partner with architects, developers, and builders to deliver code-compliant, cost-predictable, and scalable projects across the U.S. At 4C, we believe in building smarter, one panel at a time.
early stageConstruction
2022
Investor / Board Advisor
Jan 2022
Storydoc is an intuitive slide editor that creates interactive presentations that impress your leads. It makes it easy to replace static PDFs with engaging decks created exclusively for sales and marketing teams. Storydocs are proven to push leads to the next step, helping you to win more deals in less time. Every Storydoc is packed with powerful integrations, seamlessly connecting to your CRM and automatically personalizing your decks for each customer.
2021
Investor
Mar 2021
Buying online should feel like walking into your favorite local shop: personal, friendly and easy. Zowie’s mission is to recreate offline shopping experiences online - but better. We’re hiring! We’re growing fast, remote-first, and focused on winning as a team. Check out our open roles. Zowie enables companies that sell online to deflect tickets using powerful automation technology, care for customers with omnichannel inbox and sell more using enhanced customer context. Zowie can act as your standalone customer service system or enhance your current tools like Zendesk, Intercom, Gorgias, and many others with automation technology. - Free analysis of your automation potential | Know what you’re buying! - Free omnichannel inbox | Get savings on tech. - Tons of integration | Connect with Shopify, Magento, Klaviyo, Zapier and take your automation to the next level. Use Zowie and… 1. Deflect up to 60% of repetitive questions in 4 weeks and cut resolution times by 67%. 2. Care – enables agents to resolve complex cases and increase CSAT by 12%. 3. Sell – detect buying intent and convert up to 40% more clients.
2016
Investor / Advisor
Jan 2016
Maximize VAT Refunds with an AI-powered Solution. WAY2VAT helps you save up to 25% on your company’s international foreign vendor invoices and travel spend. The Foreign VAT Refund Opportunity: VAT-registered businesses can recover VAT charged on foreign supplier invoices. Regions such as Europe, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East refund indirect tax to businesses. If your business engages in any of the below, this is the solution for you. - Do you deal with foreign suppliers? - Does your company take part in international tradeshows? - Do you incur foreign employee travel & entertainment (T&E) costs? How You Can Benefit From VAT Reclaim: * Boost your cash flow: discover how VAT refunds can be a key driver to your cash flow planning. * Reduce expenses: watch as your ROI grows as VAT on business travel and supplier invoices is seamlessly recovered. *Offset future costs: attending a multitude of large trade shows globally? With your annual VAT refunds, you can pay for next year’s events. WAY2VAT Makes VAT Reclaim Simple: 1. End-to-end service from VAT retrieval to pay out. 2. Easy integration with all major expense management software. 3. Real-time reporting on VAT refund progress. 4. Manage all your claim documents with our AI-enhanced technology. 5. We’ve built relationships with tax authorities across 32 jurisdictions. 6. Industry-specific indirect tax expertise eg. pharmaceutical and automotive etc.
Investor
Jan 2016
Civic is a tokenized identity solution for the verifiable web, empowering people to privately manage their identities across chains with an on-chain representation of their reusable identity.
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