Top 10 Crowdfunding VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Crowdfunding startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Crowdfunding companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Crowdfunding VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in May 2025

Investor	Crowdfunding Australia investments
Artesian VC	1
Colinton Capital Partners	1
Telstra Foundation	1
CVC Capital Partners	1
Tank Stream Ventures	1
BridgeLane Capital	1
GTR Ventures	1
Chain Capital	1
Investec	1
Blackbird Ventures	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Strong Room AI — Software that enables high-strength care through streamlined workflows, continuous analytics, surfaced insights and safeguarded data.
Modern Synthesis — Combining biology, material science, engineering and human ingenuity, we create textiles that are circular by nature, and customisable by design.
Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.

We are an Australian private equity investment group that helps realise the potential of great businesses - Colinton Capital Partners

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Financial Services
Private Equity
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Moneytech — Moneytech Offers funding against Invoices for both sales on credit terms & Trade Purchases, Secured Term Loans as well as Asset Finance with the ability to fund
FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

Telstra Foundation has committed to helping 1 million children and young people to be more included, empowered, and connected by 2030.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Crowdfunding, Funding Platform
Seed
Australia

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.

CVC has seven complementary strategies across private equity, secondaries and credit, through which we invest on behalf of pension funds and other leading institutions

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Retail
Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Odevo — We are on a mission to become the leading force within property management and residential services through the combined power of people and technology. Join us.
Hempel — We help you protect your most valuable assets with our high-quality coatings
DealStack — Dealstack is the operating system for private capital, built for private capital, by private capital professionals.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Biteable — Make on-brand videos with the leading online video maker. Biteable is the leading solution for creating concise, engaging, on-brand video content.
Flare — Flare is a free HR software offering paperless onboarding, employee benefits, and employee management. Level up your operations and book a free demo today.
YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Australia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Agerris — Agerris is a field robotics and AI start-up for the agriculture industry, based on technology created at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, the University of Sydney, where they have been developing air and ground robotic solutions for the agriculture industry since 2005.
Sprout Stack —
Evrima Technologies — Our clinical trial recruitment and management services put participants first. Trusted, timely clinical trial results are a good thing - for everybody.

GTR Ventures is the world’s first investment platform dedicated to trade and supply chain.In exclusive partnership with Global Trade Review (GTR), the world’s leader in global trade and trade finance intelligence, publishing, news and events, GTR Ventures enjoys a presence in London, Singapore, and Hong Kong. GTR has a proprietary network of over25,000 decision makers in trade finance, treasury and insurance.Our vision: to pioneer investments in fintechs for trade and champion trade finance as an alternative asset class that has been shown to be low risk, stable, and liquid. Leveraging our trusted brand, influence and global platform of over 20 events across 6 continents, innovative companies in trade finance (or #tradetechs) who join GTR Ventures as our partners and portfolio are able to engage the world’s most powerful trade finance community, as well as investors who appreciate trade finance as an asset class.With this vision in mind, we have defined four promising areas investors can consider looking into, namely: Trade Finance, Trade Insurance, SME Finance and Supply Chain Finance, and Physical Trade.GTR Ventures engages key public and private sector stakeholders in the trade universe. Together we champion trade and trade finance as an asset class and mobilise private capital into trade. Trade just got smarter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

Octet — Octet's flexible working capital solutions, including Trade and Debtor Finance help to power your business growth. You can also pay your suppliers in Australian Dollars & up to 15 global currencies.
Havona Technology — Havona Technology is a post-trade platform designed initially for participants within the US$5 trillion global commodities services market. Its platform facilitates fully end-to-end digital trade from T+0 through to settlement. The principle product empowers principal parties, their counterparts and collaborators, including financial institutions,to exchange legally compliant, cryptographically secure electronic transferable records from T+0 through to trade settlement. Made by traders for traders, to derisk complexities of post-trade transactions, especially for physical, soft commodity trades.
XDC Trade Network — XDC Trade Network is a cutting-edge blockchain technology company that provides trade document digitization and liquidity solutions for traders to allows borrowers to raise capital with the trade documents.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Metale Protocol — Read2N is a Web3 reading application and content copyright platform.
AiGO — AiGO Network is dedicated to developing a comprehensive go-to solution for all mobility situations directing urban planning and improving traffic efficiency, automobiles, and navigation in the twenty-first century, ultimately creating a more livable and sustainable planet.
Marquee — Marquee - Defi2.0 Insurance & DAO Platform.

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Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Energy
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Qwello — Qwello is an Electric Vehicle charge point developer and operator with operations in Europe. Qwello deploys charging infrastructure across major European cities by partnering with local municipalities through public concession contracts, providing both infrastructure and charging services.
Voltera — Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. They are challenged by the fact that charging infrastructure does not exist in the right place, at the right time, or of the right type necessary to support planned EV deployments. They're also challenged by the complexity of siting, building, owning, andoperating EV charging infrastructure without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital.
Onyx Renewable Partners — Onyx guides your every step toward a cleaner future. Established in 2014, Onyx offers clean energy, solar, and decarbonization solutions throughout the United States.

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.