Top 15 Art VC Funds & Investors in Oceania (October 2026)
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Black Sheep Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $38k–$14M |
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Investible
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $300k–$20M |
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Saniel Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, France | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $602k–$64M |
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Sydney Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $120k–$1.5M |
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AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $410k–$22M |
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Piton Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce | $1M–$38M |
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Skalata
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $129k–$2.3M |
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Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $34k–$32M |
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Acorn Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, India | Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $5.9M–$33M |
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $100k–$40M |
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EVP
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $998k–$10M |
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Silicon Balls
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Canada, Singapore | Seed | Art, Music, Brewing | $304k–$912k |
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Hillfarrance Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Gaming | $362k–$2.3M |
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Grand Prix Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Marketplace, Hospitality | $168k–$2.7M |
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New Zealand Growth Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $435k–$10M |
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Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $38k–$3M; Pre-Seed $502k–$1.5M; Series A $1.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
- Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
- Visaible.ai — Visaible is a hotel-technology startup that operates an artificial intelligence visibility platform purpose-built for the hospitality industry.
Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 245
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Apate.AI — Is the next generation of scam prevention and intelligence. We deploy advanced conversational AI bots combined with real-time insights to protect businesses, governments and communities globally.2
- Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
- GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.
Helping passionate founders build the future Saniel Ventures is a private investment group supporting high growth technology companies. Get in touch We invest in people first Smart, passionate, resilient founders building the future We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect that you are humble enough to know
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $602k–$8M; Series A $1.7M–$64M; Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
- Arca Climate Technologies, Inc. — Carbin Minerals unlock the enormous carbon dioxide removal potential of mine waste.
- Teacher’s Buddy — Create lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, and more in minutes. AI-powered tools designed for educators.
Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.5M; Angel $130k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $357k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Keeyu — keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences.
- iiShield — iiShield aims to improve patient outcomes and surgeon training in transplant surgery by providing effective organ heat protection.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $624k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $410k–$2.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
- Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
- BarterAds Pty Ltd — BarterAds is a programmatic advertising exchange that enables businesses to acquire customers without cash spend by converting unused ad inventory into a tradable asset. Instead of paying in fiat, companies earn and spend a proprietary internal currency called Barter Dollars, which are issued when they display ads on their owned media propertiessuch as websites, apps, or platforms.The platform operates as an auction-based exchange, similar to traditional ad networks, where advertisers bid for impressions using Barter Dollars. Inventory is matched contextually and priced dynamically through real-time bidding, ensuring efficient allocation of supply and demand across the network. This allows both advertisers and publishers to maximize the value of otherwise underutilized inventory.BarterAds primarily targets startups, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, gaming companies, and content publishers that have traffic but are constrained by rising customer acquisition costs. By removing the need for upfront cash spend, the platform provides a capital-efficient growth channel, particularly for small and mid-sized businesses.The system includes controls for brand safety, fraud prevention, and inventory quality through business verification, campaign approvals, and continuous monitoring. Barter Dollars are non-transferable and expire periodically, preventing hoarding and ensuring continuous circulation within the ecosystem.BarterAds is designed as a hybrid between barter networks and modern ad exchanges, combining the scalability and automation of programmatic advertising with a closed-loop, cashless economy. The company is headquartered in Australia and is focused on building a global network of advertisers and publishers who both contribute inventory and run campaigns within the platform.
Piton Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Piton focuses exclusively on network effects businesses (marketplaces, exchanges and platforms) as this provide one of the few moats or forms of defensibility to achieve dominance. There are several forms of great network effects businesses thataren’t marketplaces that include data network effects (including machine learning and AI), businesses that rely on user generated content, as well as SaaS businesses with the potential to layer network effects around it. The firm is a stage and style-agnostic and seeks to invest from seed to late stage (€200k to €15m).
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- Industry: Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $1.7M–$9.6M; Series B $6M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- CardNexus — CardNexus provides a digital platform for managing, trading, and selling trading card collections.
- Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.
- Munch — Munch operates a marketplace for restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries and cafes to sell their surplus food to consumers at a discounted price.
Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $135k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $129k–$406k
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $18M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
- Paperly — Paperly helps companies streamline processes, compliance, and approvals in one platform. Gain real-time visibility and empower your teams to work with clarity and confidence.
- Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 393
- Round size: Seed $34k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $51k–$2.7M; Series A $3.8M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $812M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
- Heidi Health — Heidi Health is a healthtech company that develops an AI medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation and related tasks.
- Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com
Acorn Capital Specialist Emerging & Microcap Investment Management. We research and invest in the most attractive Australian based emerging or microcap companies.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Series A $6.4M–$25M; Series B $5.9M–$33M; Venture - Series Unknown $7.1M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $64M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vetic — Vetic Pet Clinic provides human-grade pet healthcare across 65 clinics & 11 cities in India. Pet grooming, consultation, pet surgeries, pet supplies at Vetic.
- Conflux Technology — Conflux Technology is a new generation of heat exchangers made by metal additive manufacturing (3D printing).
- RDC.AI — RDC is driven by its purpose to increase global access to inclusive, fair, and sustainable credit. Passionate about AI, RDC are continuously developing new techniques, and enhancing their Decisioning as a Service (DaaS) platform to leverage traditional and alternate data to make better credit decisions across the lending lifecycle. RDC’s philosophyis to build the supporting lenders to transform the origination and management of credit. RDC DaaS has been leveraged by leading lenders in different markets.
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 519
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $100k–$5M; Series A $5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
- PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
- Slinky Network — Slinky Network provides an on-chain marketplace and payment protocol that connects AI agents and applications with third-party APIs. The company offers the SlinkyLayer platform, which wraps developer endpoints as discoverable skills and exposes them through an x402 pay-per-execution interface. Each API call triggers a non-custodial on-chainmicropayment, settling in the same request loop using networks such as Base and BNB Chain. Developers set prices, earn a defined revenue share, and receive instant payouts to their wallets without subscriptions or custodial holds. AI agents authenticate via wallet signatures, enabling autonomous, machine-to-machine access and payment without traditional logins or credit cards. The platform also records call ratings on-chain to provide portable, verifiable reputation for services.
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Browse database — It's Free!EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $998k–$3.5M; Series A $1.2M–$5.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Practifi — The only intelligent CRM built specifically for wealth management firms, Practifi combines native AI functionality with purpose-built capabilities.
- HotelClub — HotelClub is a web-based hospitality platform that allows its users to search for, compare, and book a range of hotels throughout the world.
- Fergus — Fergus is a smart field service management software for service businesses. Make job management easy and carry out work better with our all-in-one solution.
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- Industry: Art, Music, Brewing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia, Canada, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $304k–$912k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Preezie — Bridge the gap between in-store and online shopping through individualised journeys. Create guided selling experiences and omnichannel strategies for customer engagement.
- FleetOps — We power a network of load boards embedded inside leading ELD solutions. When you work with FleetOps, you can access 126K drivers, and automate your coverage in the spot market.
- Tribe Theory — A global business hub for startups & entrepreneurs. Visit our worldwide hostels. Explore coworking, events and access to venture capital.
We exist to serve great entrepreneurs with honest advice and education, investment capital that is fair, and an open door to our international network and connections.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $618k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $362k–$1.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $900k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kyoryu — Re-engineered dinosaurs roam a post-apocalyptic Japan. Follow the Samurai T-rex clan as they navigate complex dino clan rivalries.
- RiffRaff Games — Developers of Sleight of Hand
- Space Rock Games — Space Rock Games is the developer behind Criminals Within - a cooperative-only action game set in a medieval fantasy kingdom. Sign up to receive exclusive development updates!
Grand Prix Capital is a private venture capital and investment firm specialized in rapid growth, start-up, private and microcap listed businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Marketplace, Hospitality
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $168k–$1.7M; Series A $1M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Betterx — Trade Securely and Trade for Good with BetterX! Join sophisticated investors in trading hundreds of assets | $BTTX Coming Soon
- Programa — Stop juggling spreadsheets, email chains, and multiple tools. Programa is project management software built specifically for interior design studios. Track FF&E specs, client approvals, and vendor orders in one system. Trusted by thousands of designers. Try free for 7 days - no credit card required.
- funding.com.au — Fast, flexible property finance solutions in Australia. Explore Bridging Loans, Buiding Loans, and more to accelerate your property goals with ease.
The New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (formerly New Zealand Venture Investment Fund) was established to support early-stage technology companies and to stimulate private investment into this space.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $532k–$4.3M; Series A $2M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $435k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Linca — Critical metals for a circular battery supply chain
- Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
- Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
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