Steve Gledden

Managing Partner at Straight Bat Private Equity

📍 Greater Melbourne Area, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Australia
13
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6
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15y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
Dec 2023
KASE Building and Restoration Group ABN 53 622 145 171 is an Australian Building Services company and is a trusted source for specialised insurance building repairs and restoration in NSW, ACT & QLD. KASE has a management team with over 30 years’ experience in the domestic, insurance, commercial and government building industries. Our clients include strata management firms, loss adjusters, tier 1-3 construction and Insurance companies. KASE only use preferred contractors therefore delivering a quality service and reliability for our clients.
Investor
Nov 2022
Red smoke alarms are quite simply - Australias best smoke alarms. Red is the only brand of smoke alarms in Australia that come with a 10 year warranty across the entire range of products. All Red smoke alarms are photoelectric, of the highest quality and certified to Australian Standard 3786:2014. Quality and reliability is at the heart of every Red smoke alarm. Our manufacturing facility has been manufacturing smoke alarms for the Australian market for more than 20 years and is certified by UL Laboratories - one of the worlds largest testing and certifying companies.
Investor
Feb 2022
Toner Group is an established multi-service trade group, with a footprint expanding across Melbourne and outer Metropolitan Melbourne. With an expansive history of delivering quality services within the domestic, commercial and maintenance markets, our team continues to grow to provide the service you need. Relationships are at the heart of what we do. Built on trust and action, we have enjoyed 10+ year relationships with several of our clients.
Investor
Jul 2019
6clicks is an easy way to implement your risk and compliance program or achieve compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST, FedRamp and many other standards. Reimagine risk and compliance with 6clicks. Hundreds of businesses trust 6clicks to set up and automate their risk and compliance programs and streamline audit, vendor risk assessment, incident and risk management and policy implementation. Easily import standards, laws, regulations or templates from our massive content library, use AI-powered features to automate manual tasks, and integrate 6clicks with over 3,000 apps you know and love. 6clicks has been built for businesses of all shapes and sizes and is also used by advisors with a world-class partner program and white label capability available. 6clicks was founded in 2019 and has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, India and Australia.
Investor and Advisor
Jun 2017
Libryo is a compliance platform that helps global organizations know their EHS regulatory requirements, understand their obligations, and show their compliance. Law is poorly structured and non-searchable, it changes regularly and is written in complicated phrases. Libryo is re-organizing the world’s regulation, compiling unique, site-specific collections of regulations and standards for its customers, which are automatically updated and linked for compliance assessments. Since 2016, Libryo has helped thousands of users to navigate their compliance and improve their ESG performance. Libryo operates all over the world ensuring that everyone knows what to do for a just and sustainable world. Libryo - now you know. www.libryo.com Libryo is now a ERM Group company. ERM is the business of sustainability. As the largest global pure-play sustainability consultancy, ERM partners with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunities for future generations. ERM’s diverse team of 7,000+ world-class experts in over 170 offices across 39 countries supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability. Through ERM’s deep technical expertise, clients are well-positioned to address their environmental, health, safety, risk, and social issues. ERM calls this capability its “boots to boardroom” approach - a comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.
Investor
Jan 2017
Our mission is to empower anyone to make better food at home, every day of the week. If youre passionate about great food and you want to be a key part of bringing ambitious products into the world -- and to do it with a diverse group of teammates who share those passions, then Brava is for you! Check out our open roles at careers.brava.com. Were hiring!
Advisor and Investor
Sep 2016
Allow KareInn to become the digital backbone of your care business with a system that drives the highest quality standards in compliance, gives you complete oversite and keeps your staff and residents safe, informed and happy. KareInn has developed the next generation in electronic care planning and is the smarter, faster and more collaborative care home solution with: | Customised care plans | Clinical workflows that error-proof your processes | Intelligent task management | More powerful reporting | Seamless integration with your business software | Easy migration from paper or legacy systems | Choice and configurability | Cost savings with streamlined operations. "We're confident our clients have the smartest and easiest to use digital platform available on the market. We've built our system to be future proof and safely guide clients on their digital journey." Rachelle Mills, CEO of KareInn KareInn can be reached at hello@kareinn.com.
Investor and Advisor
Aug 2015
Songtradr is the world’s largest B2B music company, delivering the only full-stack solution for all business music needs. Were on a mission to change the music industry for good through technology, creativity, and transparency. Trusted by global businesses, agencies, and labels, our fully integrated products and services help amplify brands while enabling artists and rights holders to realize the full potential of their catalog. Whether with a classic song or a trending tune, a global music strategy or a sonic identity, we help translate ideas into powerful, ROI-driven solutions to ensure content always hits the right note. With the acquisition of Big Sync Music in 2019, Song Zu and MassiveMusic in 2021, the Songtradr Group has become the largest network of music specialists for brands and advertising in the world. Thanks to our combined expertise, we offer a holistic music solution for brands and advertising agencies, ranging from strategizing the use of music and developing sonic identities for brands, to providing music creative, selection, and custom music creation, through to the negotiation and procurement of global hit songs for major advertising campaigns. Our approach balances the creative process with data-informed decisions providing clients with music-optimized content.
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2023
Investor
Dec 2023
KASE Building and Restoration Group ABN 53 622 145 171 is an Australian Building Services company and is a trusted source for specialised insurance building repairs and restoration in NSW, ACT & QLD. KASE has a management team with over 30 years’ experience in the domestic, insurance, commercial and government building industries. Our clients include strata management firms, loss adjusters, tier 1-3 construction and Insurance companies. KASE only use preferred contractors therefore delivering a quality service and reliability for our clients.
2022
Investor
Dec 2022
A1 Rubber is lessening the impact on the environment, reducing landfill and producing more economically responsible products. Using their state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, A1 Rubber uses stripped rubber from old tyres to form new Australian made rubber flooring products.
Investor
Nov 2022
Red smoke alarms are quite simply - Australias best smoke alarms. Red is the only brand of smoke alarms in Australia that come with a 10 year warranty across the entire range of products. All Red smoke alarms are photoelectric, of the highest quality and certified to Australian Standard 3786:2014. Quality and reliability is at the heart of every Red smoke alarm. Our manufacturing facility has been manufacturing smoke alarms for the Australian market for more than 20 years and is certified by UL Laboratories - one of the worlds largest testing and certifying companies.
Investor
Feb 2022
Toner Group is an established multi-service trade group, with a footprint expanding across Melbourne and outer Metropolitan Melbourne. With an expansive history of delivering quality services within the domestic, commercial and maintenance markets, our team continues to grow to provide the service you need. Relationships are at the heart of what we do. Built on trust and action, we have enjoyed 10+ year relationships with several of our clients.
2019
Straight Bat Private Equity
Managing Partner
Oct 2019
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