Steve Hibberd

Business. Tech. Music - Founder/CEO, Advisor, Investor

📍 Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2023
VC🌍 Australia
6
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Apr 2023
Tapanda offers bespoke services to the automotive sector of Australia. We tailor our solutions to suit and add unique value to the Customer experience, whilst ensuring we control cost, quality and timeliness at every touchpoint.
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Investor
Jul 2022
Imagine if you could have all your favorite data tools as a single platform thats incredibly easy to use? Data is one of the most fragmented industries, with over 500 vendors in 15+ categories. The analogy we use is that data vendors are selling car parts. Imagine walking into a Honda dealership, and instead of selling you a Civic, they sold you an engine, and you had to build your own car. It turns out that SMBs dont care about buying and integrating multiple vendors. They want a complete platform (car) that works out of the box. Thats exactly what we have created at 5X. Companies use 5X for 3 reasons: 1) Build a data platform from scratch, or fill in missing pieces on your existing platform. 2) Decrease the total cost of ownership by up to 50%. 3) Use our full stack data consultancy for support on data strategy, analytics, data engineering, cost optimization or AI/ML. 5X was founded in 2020 with presence in the USA, Singapore, UK and India. Our global team is 70+ people strong and rapidly growing. We’ve recently raised our seed round from Flybridge Capital and backed by top founders from companies like Datadog, Preset, Astronomer, Mode, Rudderstack and other prominent angel investors. For more information, visit 5X.co
Investor
Mar 2022
SignOnSite is a leading construction safety software. SignOnsite goes beyond being a sign-in app by offering comprehensive features such as SWMS management, inductions, toolbox talks/site briefings, emergency management and Permits. Our platform provides robust safety inductions for both site induction and employee induction requirements, ensuring construction site safety. It enhances site visibility, generates in-depth site reports and seamlessly integrates with construction management software like Procore and Autodesk for optimised construction workforce management and real-time information in construction.
Investor
Jun 2021
Say hello to Komodo the school-wide wellbeing solution. With a mission to make school a place where all students thrive, we are revolutionizing the educational landscape by prioritizing the holistic development of students and educators alike. At the core of Komodo lies evidence-based, comprehensive software designed to address the diverse needs of school communities around the world. Our solution seamlessly integrates wellbeing measurement, mental health initiatives, social-emotional learning, and mindfulness practices into the daily fabric of school life. Created with input from psychologists Komodo is designed to empower students and enable schools to make positive and effective interventions.
Investor
Oct 2020
Tractor Ventures provides a range of flexible alt-capital funding options to help you grow your technology company sustainably, at the speed that suits you. We don’t believe the ability to access capital to achieve your goals should be so ambiguous and difficult. Companies generating revenue can access alt-capital and plan to fund the future, via a suite of funding options co-designed by ourselves and the companies we fund. Tractor Ventures is run, and funded, by a team of Australia and New Zealand’s most experienced tech founders, investors and operators.
Co-Founder & Board Member
Feb 2019
Tiger Pistol is a premier local advertising platform designed to streamline and simplify localized advertising through the power of automation. With a focus on three core pillars - scale, simplicity, and performance - Tiger Pistol helps franchises, multi-location brands, and marketing resellers efficiently manage and optimize digital advertising campaigns. The platform automates complex tasks, allowing users to effortlessly execute large-scale, locally relevant campaigns across top digital channels like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Amazon. This automation not only enhances the ease of use but also drives superior advertising performance, making effective local marketing accessible to all levels of expertise. Campaigns published through Tiger Pistol’s platform drive better results with greater spend efficiency and ad performance, proving the local relevancy of campaigns improves the return on investment. It is the ideal solution for advertisers seeking to launch effective location-based campaigns easily and efficiently.
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2024
Co-Founder & CEO
Mar 2024
We’re on a mission to keep good businesses in business. Genshare is a succession solution for retiring small business owners, and an ownership pathway for next generation leaders. Wed love to hear from you if youre a small business owner, a business broker, or if youre looking to own a business one day. Well share more details about Genshare soon.
2023
Board Member
Apr 2023
Tapanda offers bespoke services to the automotive sector of Australia. We tailor our solutions to suit and add unique value to the Customer experience, whilst ensuring we control cost, quality and timeliness at every touchpoint.
mid stageInsurance
2022
Advisor
Oct 2022
EMT Partners specialises in Entertainment, Media, Sport and Technology advice, through EMT Lawyers and EMT Advisory. We are principal investors in the sectors and understand the critical importance of delivering fast, accurate and strategic solutions to our clients. EMT Partners is led by Brett Chenoweth (Chairman), Trent Blacket (Co-Founder) and Peter Davey (CEO). Trent Blacket co-founded EMT Partners with the vision of creating a true global leader in the EMT space. EMT Partners, along with only a handful of other innovative firms, offers both legal and non-legal expertise, and an ability to invest in, and alongside, clients. Across our Lawyers, Advisory and Investment teams, we have the capability and flexibility to deliver on that vision.
Investor
Jul 2022
Imagine if you could have all your favorite data tools as a single platform thats incredibly easy to use? Data is one of the most fragmented industries, with over 500 vendors in 15+ categories. The analogy we use is that data vendors are selling car parts. Imagine walking into a Honda dealership, and instead of selling you a Civic, they sold you an engine, and you had to build your own car. It turns out that SMBs dont care about buying and integrating multiple vendors. They want a complete platform (car) that works out of the box. Thats exactly what we have created at 5X. Companies use 5X for 3 reasons: 1) Build a data platform from scratch, or fill in missing pieces on your existing platform. 2) Decrease the total cost of ownership by up to 50%. 3) Use our full stack data consultancy for support on data strategy, analytics, data engineering, cost optimization or AI/ML. 5X was founded in 2020 with presence in the USA, Singapore, UK and India. Our global team is 70+ people strong and rapidly growing. We’ve recently raised our seed round from Flybridge Capital and backed by top founders from companies like Datadog, Preset, Astronomer, Mode, Rudderstack and other prominent angel investors. For more information, visit 5X.co
Investor
Mar 2022
SignOnSite is a leading construction safety software. SignOnsite goes beyond being a sign-in app by offering comprehensive features such as SWMS management, inductions, toolbox talks/site briefings, emergency management and Permits. Our platform provides robust safety inductions for both site induction and employee induction requirements, ensuring construction site safety. It enhances site visibility, generates in-depth site reports and seamlessly integrates with construction management software like Procore and Autodesk for optimised construction workforce management and real-time information in construction.
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