Top 10 Crowdfunding VC Funds & Investors in Australia (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Telstra Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | Non Profit, Crowdfunding, Funding Platform | |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $70k–$15M |
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Colinton Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Grant, Series A, Series B | CRM, Sensor, Chemical | |
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CVC Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Spain | Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity | Software, Retail, Financial Services | $50M–$1.3B |
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GTR Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, United Kingdom, China | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Supply Chain Management | |
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Investec
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Energy | $1.1M–$550M |
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BridgeLane Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Real Estate, Financial Services | $673k–$6.1M |
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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–$35M |
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Chain Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, United States, China | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology | $1M–$80M |
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Tank Stream Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Social Media | $673k–$5M |
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Telstra Foundation has committed to helping 1 million children and young people to be more included, empowered, and connected by 2030.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Crowdfunding, Funding Platform
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.
Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 407
- Round size: Seed $101k–$5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$1M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- LivedCX® — LIVEDCX: Advanced AI technology for contact centre leaders who must simplify complexity to create growth.
- Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
- Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
We are an Australian private equity investment group that helps realise the potential of great businesses - Colinton Capital Partners
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- Industry: CRM, Sensor, Chemical
- Stage:Grant, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.
- Clear Dynamics — We create better software applications by leveraging the power of AI-driven automation and a data-first approach.
- Alexium International — Heard about https://t.co/8PSH3Unp4u yet? Visit today! info@alexiuminternational.com
CVC has seven complementary strategies across private equity, secondaries and credit, through which we invest on behalf of pension funds and other leading institutions
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- Industry: Software, Retail, Financial Services
- Stage:Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Private Equity $50M–$1.3B; Post-IPO Equity $145M–$855M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Avast — Millionen nutzen unser Gratis-Antivirus (PC/Mac/Android). VPN zu Ihrem Schutz. Avast herunterladen!
- Australian Venue Co — Explore over 200+ unique and iconic venues + function spaces Australia-wide. Contact Australian Venue Co. today for bookings + more!
- Dream Games — Join Dream Games and explore a vibrant universe of characters and puzzles. Discover why millions of players worldwide love our mobile games. Visit us to learn more about our games, company culture, and career opportunities.
GTR Ventures is a forward-thinking venture capital firm partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to build the future. We invest in early-stage companies transforming industries through technology and innovation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United Kingdom, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JuniGo — JuniGo is a financial technology company that provides a digital wallet and payment platform for micro, small, and medium enterprises.
- Dutycast — Dutycast is a browser/app value-added extension that enables customers to purchase goods from selected global e-commerce sites and marketplaces with ease.
- TradeDocAI — Transform unstructured trade paperwork into structured, validated digital data with AI-powered OCR, cross-document validation, and industry standards mapping.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Debt Financing $72M–$550M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Splend — Change the way you own your rideshare vehicle for good with Splend. All-Inclusive vehicle packages for your Uber journey, in one easy weekly payment.
- Openpay — Openpay is a cutting-edge in-store, in-home and online payments solution that features a buy now and pay later service, interest-free. Openpay allows customers to make in-store and online purchases, and effectively split the payment for these purchases into multiple repayments over time. The company generates revenue from fees charged to merchantsand customers in exchange for the use of its payments platform.Openpay is available across Australia and New Zealand in many industries including retail, medical, automotive, home improvement, and more.
- Master Plastics — Discover innovative, sustainable packaging solutions for protecting and preserving agricultural and food products from farm to table with Master Plastics.
The BridgeLane Group is a privately-owned asset management firm specialising in the agricultural, real estate and innovation sectors. A significant global player in agriculture with a multi-decade record in large scale farming, the Group has a proud history in residential property development, comme
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- Industry: Software, Real Estate, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $673k–$4.2M; Series A $3M–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MadeComfy — Award-winning Airbnb management service in Australia and New Zealand. MadeComfy is a selected official partner of Airbnb. Find out how we earn you higher returns with short-term rentals.
- Futurerent — Futurerent is a tool that offers solutions to residential property investors for investment capital and cashflow needs.
- Evrima Technologies — Our clinical trial recruitment and management services put participants first. Trusted, timely clinical trial results are a good thing - for everybody.
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: 337
- Round size: Seed $34k–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.7M; Series A $3.4M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Vow — Vow is crafting a new category of food
- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
- 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
Chain Capital was established in April 2015. The teams covered in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Moscow, London and Shanghai. The core members are the industry experts from Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Mangament, Facebook, Qudian, Ogilvy, ShopEx and others. Chain Capital specializes in investing blockchain projects, discoverand help the outstanding teams to better use blockchain technology in order to make the world better.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: Singapore, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Initial Coin Offering $5.5M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HodlHer — HodlHer.ai is an AI-powered Web3 platform with an emotional AI companion for smarter trading, portfolio management tools and data.
- Metafyed — Unlocking real-world assets #RWA for everyone. Private credit, tokenized and compliant.
- Kyuzo’s Friends — Kyuzo’s Friends focuses on user growth and player engagement.
Tank Stream Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in strong teams solving core human problems!. We support founders with an almost obsessive vision to disrupt existing industries, create new ones and improve lives through technology.We like Founders with a problem solving vision as opposed to a solution driven one. We seetechnology as an enabler rather than an end in itself.We like to get involved as early as we can and are flexible in terms of geography – we’ve made investments from Hobart to Stockholm, with a strong concentration in Australia and the US.Through Tank Stream Labs, Australia's leading entrepreneurial community and co-working space, we are surrounded by entrepreneurs, thought leaders and ingenious opportunities every single day.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $673k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Biteable — Biteable is an online, web-based, video builder. Regardless of budget and skills, Biteable helps you create professional videos in minutes. Our easy to use software empowers millions of businesses, schools, organizations, professionals, and individuals across the globe. Biteable's mission is to help anyone put their message in motion. If youcan make a Powerpoint presentation, you can make a Biteable.
- Flare — Flare is a free HR software. It's Australia's largest benefits platform offering pre- and post-tax employee benefits for your workplace.
- YourGrocer — YourGrocer operates an online fresh food market for busy people. It offers fresh produce, bakery, meat, seafood, deli and grocery, organic, and coffee products. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Brunswick East, Australia.
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