Investment and Advisory | Jungle Capital

Jungle Capital is an investment and advisory business based in Australia, Singapore and the United States.

We are an investment partner with experience in transforming ideas into thriving businesses

We invest in businesses from pre-seed to pre-IPO and as part of a restructure event.

Our Team

Our Team—

Thomas Mort

Executive Director

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Thomas Mort

Executive Director

Thomas Mort

Thomas is an Executive Director of Jungle Capital and a Non-Executive Director of Aje., BidFin, The Memo, and Presagen.

Thomas is a Board Member of My Room, Million Dollar Lunch and Chairman of Caitlin’s Retreat.

Thomas has extensive experience in restructuring, management, and M&A across private and listed Australian entities, including several successful exits over varied industry sectors.

Stuart Grimshaw

Executive Director

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Stuart Grimshaw

Executive Director

Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart is an Executive Director of Jungle Capital and currently serves as CEO of Humm Group (ASX:HUM). Prior to his role at Humm Group, Stuart was the CEO of NASDAQ Listed financial services company EzCorp Inc.

Stuart’s previous roles include CEO of Bank of Queensland and CEO of Caledonia Investments Pty Ltd.

Stuart also served 8 years as at Commonwealth Bank of Australia as CFO and Group Executive of Wealth Management (encompassing Colonial First State Investments).

Peter Sidwell

Executive Director

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Peter Sidwell

Executive Director

Peter Sidwell

Peter has a diverse business background covering many industry sectors.

Over the last 30 years, Peter has created, developed, managed, and advised a wide range of companies in the software, manufacturing, hospitality and agricultural industries.

Peter is an Executive Director of Sea Change Hospitality, Sutton Grange Winery, Tapendium, Elton Homes, and serves as Chairman of Tayside Australia.

Peter’s experience generates critical perspectives on strategic tactical executions.

James Roche

Executive Director

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James Roche

Executive Director

James Roche

James Roche is an Executive Director of Jungle Capital and Roche Holdings Pty Ltd.

James is a Board Member of The Children’s Cancer Foundation, My Room and Million Dollar Lunch.

James’ previous roles have included Co-Founder and Owner of Healthcare of Australia Holdings Pty Ltd which was sold to Healthscope Ltd. James also retired as Chairman of ADC Forum in 2017.

Prior to this, James was an Analyst with the Merrill Lynch investment banking group.

James holds a Masters in Accounting, Masters in Business Administration and Bachelor of Business – Banking and Finance.

Kade Aytekin

Associate

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Kade Aytekin

Associate

Kade Aytekin

Kade is an Associate at Carbine Funds Management and Jungle Capital.

Kade has extensive experience across the private market with particular focus on advising early-stage companies through traditional roadblocks on their path to hyper-growth.

Kade joined Carbine and Jungle Capital after working in Deloitte’s Private Advisory business where he services clients from a diverse range of industries and backgrounds with specific interest in private-equity and succession planning.

Kade is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business – Accounting, Banking & Finance.

Portfolio

Brother and sister team Tim and Sophie Swann love digital technology and in 2003 as the market for digital accessories was beginning to grow they saw an opportunity to provide quality and stylish phone cases from Melbourne to the World. Eighteen years later Cygnett products are sold in over 200,000 retail outlets through 42 countries.

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Designed ‘by marketers, for marketers’ in 2009, founder and CEO, Tessa Court started IntelligenceBank as the product she always wanted as the CMO of a global technology company. The vision was to bridge the gap between creative efficiency and compliance.

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Presagen AI Open Projects is an online platform for clinics to contribute to the creation of medical AI products. There are a range of areas where AI can have a profound impact on women’s health outcomes.

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Founded in 2008 by best friends Adrian Norris and Edwina Forest, Aje is a contemporary Australian fashion brand dedicated to raw beauty, tough femininity and effortless cool. The duo’s coveted creations illustrate a pure reflection of their learnings and background.

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Licella is the global leader in hydrothermal liquefaction, the next-generation of advanced recycling. Their patented Cat-HTR™ technology platform reduces, recycles and recaptures carbon from a wide variety of recovered resources, both plastic and biomass feedstocks, across multiple markets.

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Biosceptre is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of our BRiDGECAR™ system, which combines nfP2X7-targeted technology with highly potent chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and multiple targeted antibodies. This system has the potential of delivering unprecedented outcomes to many types of cancer.

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ThinkMarkets is a multi-awarded provider of online trading services empowering traders with opportunities across a wide range of financial markets on their award-winning platform. From learning the basics to developing strategies to actual execution, ThinkMarkets provides full guidance to traders throughout their trading journey.

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Ignition Wealth help institutions providing financial advice scale their traditional advisory models by bringing together the best of human and robo-advice capabilities. The global SaaS platform helps financial institution clients deliver on their advice vision and help more customers access financial advice.

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Every time we make an investment it’s slightly different, but this is the general process you can expect.

Raising money is one of the hardest and most stressful things a founder can do. We work hard to make the process as easy and straightforward as we can for you and your team.

Week 1: We receive your pitch deck. Usually, we are introduced to you by a mutual contact. Sometimes we are emailed cold, and that works.
Week 2: Catch-up with our Executive team, informal, friendly, mutual discussion. Are we the right fit for each other?
Week 3: Your partner discusses your startup at our weekly Investment Meeting.
Week 4: Follow-up from the Investment Meeting. This is also when our version of due diligence starts.
Week 5: You’ll run through your pitch and then field questions from a number of our key investor group. After the meeting we will get in touch within a few hours with a plan for follow-up. It’s possible at this point we might need to undertake more due diligence.
Week 6: It’s a Yes or perhaps unfortunately a no. Either way we want to tell you as soon as we possibly can.
Week 7: Term Sheet Time
Week 8: Full Documents & Funding transfer.

Once we are done, you join our team and we work together to manage growth and scale in your business and execute on your dreams.

Contact Us

Level 3, 51 Stephenson Street, Cremorne VIC 3121

hello@junglecapital.com.au

Our Team

Our Team—

Thomas Mort

Stuart Grimshaw

Peter Sidwell

James Roche

Kade Aytekin

Portfolio

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