Laurence Schwartz

OIF Ventures

📍 Greater Sydney Area, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2021
Operator-angel🌍 Australia
11
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8
Early stage
2
Mid stage
0
Late stage
10y
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Portfolio

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Aug 2021
PUSHAS provides seamless infrastructure picks & shovels that enables reselling of hype alternate assets at scale. We make reselling faster and easier than ever, through an end-to-end platform which includes bulk inventory management, fulfillment, instant liquidity (think Opendoor for Sneakers), seller tools, authentication, and channel management. We are a fast-growing and extremely ambitious young team based in Sydney & Los Angeles. Join us as we pioneer hype reselling at scale. PUSHAS is backed by premier VCs such as TEN13, CapitalX, and Plug and Play Tech Center as well as angels such as Rayn Ong (Archangel VC), Justin Kan (Founder of Twitch), Ed McManus (CEO Aus of Deliveroo) and Tim Fung (Founder of Airtasker). Check us out on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter @pushasofficial
Investor & Board Observer
Aug 2021
Optical Sensing Systems for Machines + Robotics Visionary Machines provides advanced optical sensing and trusted spatial awareness for machines that enhance community safety and productivity. Staffed by a group of world-leading optical and robotics experts, the company simplifies and empowers machine and robotic autonomy, surveillance and inspection with passive optical 3D perception systems. Visionary Machines is a sovereign Australian company — headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Investor & Board Observer
Feb 2021
Vouch is the leading video-first AI content platform for talent teams. We work with global brands like Warner Bros Discovery, Stryker, GoDaddy, MongoDB and many more to help them attract talent, engage candidates and empower their recruitment teams to hit hiring goals faster.
Investor & Board Observer
Feb 2021
Arcade enables teams to realize their fullest potential through gamification, performance engagement, and incentivized rewards. Our enhanced gamification platform engages teams, motivates top performance, and drives the results that knock out KPIs and crushes sales goals. Through streamlined communication, various game styles, and employee recognition, Arcade strategically focuses employees towards actions and behaviors that move the needle for their organization.
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2020
Because death is already hard enough. At Bare we're working to make it just that little bit easier by questioning how we've always been told we need to say goodbye and choosing to do things differently. Launched in 2019 by our founders, Sam and Cale, we're not your traditional funeral director - we're so much more than that. Our mission has always been to change the way we deal with death, from how we farewell our loved ones, to how we manage their estate and work through our grief. Learn more at https://bare.com.au
Investor & Board Observer (Acquired)
Oct 2018
XM Cyber is a leading hybrid cloud security company that’s changing the way organizations approach cyber risk. XM Cyber transforms exposure management by demonstrating how attackers leverage and combine misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, identity exposures, and more, across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem environments to compromise critical assets. With XM Cyber, you can see all the ways attackers might go, and all the best ways to stop them, pinpointing where to remediate exposures with a fraction of the effort. Founded by top executives from the Israeli cyber intelligence community, XM Cyber has offices in North America, Europe, and Israel.
Investor (Acquired)
Jun 2018
Three million people now have access to the Stream platform through 2,000 brands - across the U.K., Europe and U.S. - making us the worlds most widely-used financial wellbeing provider. Offered through major employers like Bupa, Asda, New Balance, Hilton, Burger King and the NHS, our platform helps our members to build brighter financial futures. Stream Platforms, Ltd is a B corporation, built with a social charter to provide fair financial services.
Investor
Aug 2017
Assignar is a cloud based compliance, asset and workforce management platform for highly regulated industries. Developed from first hand experience and the need to solve the challenges within a fast growing construction service provider, Assignar rapidly gained interest from stakeholders in other highly regulated industries. Assignar delivers its customers increased efficiency, transparency and significant management cost savings. The core features of Assignar include: - Workforce & Asset scheduling - Project Planning - Compliance reminders & inspections - Document management - Full field mobility solution - iOS & Android - Ability to collect field data & timesheets - Automated prevailing wage/EBA/Award calculator - Invoicing and financial system integrations - SMS & Email communication system When you implement Assignar in your business, you benefit from on-the-go visibility of your workforce and asset utilisation, data to increase speed in your decision making and the advantage of real-time monitoring of costs. The system can be tailored to create solutions as unique as your business. Contact us today and ask for a Free Demo and see the positive difference Assignar can make to your business.
Investor and Board Observer
Mar 2017
Kasada is the most effective and easiest way to defend against advanced persistent bot attacks across web, mobile, and API channels. With Kasada, trust in the Internet is restored by foiling even the stealthiest cyber threats, from credential abuse to data scraping. The solution invisibly stops automated threats while inflicting financial damage to attackers, destroying their ROI. With the ability to onboard in minutes, Kasada ensures immediate and long-lasting protection while empowering enterprises with optimal online activity. Kasada is based in New York and Sydney, with offices in Melbourne, San Francisco, and London. For more information, please visit www.kasada.io and follow on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Investor
2017
Go1 is the worlds learning & development content expert. Go1 curates content from top learning providers to deliver high-quality education and training across a world-leading range of industries and topics. Through Go1’s open platform, organisations can offer their employees the skills and training that are relevant for them, in the formats that suit them best – all in a single solution.
Investor and Board Observer
Sep 2016
It’s no secret that the best-performing teams and organizations are also the most connected. And yet, the prevalence of hybrid and remote work, complicated tech, and information overload makes building and maintaining those connections more challenging than ever. How can you ensure every moment of the employee experience – from onboarding to learning and development, performance management, career growth, and organizational change – is designed to connect, engage, and grow your people? Enboarder’s Human Connection platform cuts through the noise of daily communications and elevates the things that matter most with interactive, actionable nudges. By creating better human connections across the entire employee journey, Enboarder helps meet employees’ innate needs to feel seen, supported, and to belong. And research proves companies with high levels of belonging and connectedness see higher productivity, retention, and engagement. Join leading global brands like McDonalds, Hugo Boss, ING, and Eventbrite that use Enboarder to easily build and deliver a more human-centric employee experience. To learn more, visit enboarder.com.
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Investments (11)
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Board (7)
2021
Investor
Aug 2021
PUSHAS provides seamless infrastructure picks & shovels that enables reselling of hype alternate assets at scale. We make reselling faster and easier than ever, through an end-to-end platform which includes bulk inventory management, fulfillment, instant liquidity (think Opendoor for Sneakers), seller tools, authentication, and channel management. We are a fast-growing and extremely ambitious young team based in Sydney & Los Angeles. Join us as we pioneer hype reselling at scale. PUSHAS is backed by premier VCs such as TEN13, CapitalX, and Plug and Play Tech Center as well as angels such as Rayn Ong (Archangel VC), Justin Kan (Founder of Twitch), Ed McManus (CEO Aus of Deliveroo) and Tim Fung (Founder of Airtasker). Check us out on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter @pushasofficial
Investor & Board Observer
Aug 2021
Optical Sensing Systems for Machines + Robotics Visionary Machines provides advanced optical sensing and trusted spatial awareness for machines that enhance community safety and productivity. Staffed by a group of world-leading optical and robotics experts, the company simplifies and empowers machine and robotic autonomy, surveillance and inspection with passive optical 3D perception systems. Visionary Machines is a sovereign Australian company — headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Investor & Board Observer
Feb 2021
Vouch is the leading video-first AI content platform for talent teams. We work with global brands like Warner Bros Discovery, Stryker, GoDaddy, MongoDB and many more to help them attract talent, engage candidates and empower their recruitment teams to hit hiring goals faster.
Investor & Board Observer
Feb 2021
Arcade enables teams to realize their fullest potential through gamification, performance engagement, and incentivized rewards. Our enhanced gamification platform engages teams, motivates top performance, and drives the results that knock out KPIs and crushes sales goals. Through streamlined communication, various game styles, and employee recognition, Arcade strategically focuses employees towards actions and behaviors that move the needle for their organization.
2020
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2020
Because death is already hard enough. At Bare we're working to make it just that little bit easier by questioning how we've always been told we need to say goodbye and choosing to do things differently. Launched in 2019 by our founders, Sam and Cale, we're not your traditional funeral director - we're so much more than that. Our mission has always been to change the way we deal with death, from how we farewell our loved ones, to how we manage their estate and work through our grief. Learn more at https://bare.com.au
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