Top 10 Crowdfunding VC Funds & Investors in Australia (October 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, China | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $40k–$17M |
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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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BridgeLane Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Real Estate | $800k–$15M |
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Colinton Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Grant | CRM, SaaS, Sensor | $1.9M–$70M |
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CVC Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Spain | Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Secondary Market | Software, Retail, Financial Services | $50M–$1.3B |
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Investec
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, Energy | $1M–$550M |
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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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Chain Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, United States, China | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, 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, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $673k–$19M |
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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, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 643
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $42k–$553k; Venture - Series Unknown $650k–$17M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Vaulta — Vaulta is a battery casing technology company based in Brisbane, Australia. Using advanced composite materials and smart, streamlined design, Vaulta has developed a lighter and smaller battery case with fewer parts, creating scalable efficiencies and opportunities for manufacturers. Vaulta founder and director Dominic Spooner has over 12 yearsexperience as a design engineer, and has worked in a range of industries, including renewables and batteries, defence and aerospace, consumer products, commercial products and startups. While working in battery design, Dominic saw firsthand that opportunities for growth were being overlooked in favour of continuing with the status quo – and that’s when the idea for Vaulta was born.Vaulta’s world-first no-weld design means modules can be easily assembled and disassembled, cells reused and recycled, and new cells added as battery technology continues to evolve.From stationary storage and electric vehicles to defence, aerospace and beyond, Vaulta’s battery case technology works wherever batteries do.
- TerraBlaster — TerraBlaster is a cutting-edge agricultural technology firm focused on transforming sustainable agriculture through enhanced automation and precise technologies.
- Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
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 — Explore JuniGo information for people and businesses working across borders.
- 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.
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, E-Commerce, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4.6M; Series A $3M–$6.1M; Series B $5M–$15M
- 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 — With Futurerent, property investors can get up to $100,000 in a seamless, loan-free experience that's so simple, banks can only dream of it.
- Evrima Technologies — Our clinical trial recruitment and management services put participants first. Trusted, timely clinical trial results are a good thing - for everybody.
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, SaaS, Sensor
- Stage:Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Grant
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Private Equity $20M–$70M; Post-IPO Equity $1.9M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% 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 — Alexium develops phase change, flame retardant, and humidity-management chemistries that transform how the world's most demanding products perform.
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, Secondary Market
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Private Equity $50M–$1.3B; Post-IPO Equity $145M–$855M; Secondary Market $293M–$585M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $3.4B in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Rayner Surgical Group — Rayner is a British manufacturer of ophthalmic medical products, including intraocular lenses (IOLs) and eye drops to support ocular health
- International Schools Partnership — The International Schools Partnership is an ever-growing global education family of only the best independent schools.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Debt Financing $72M–$550M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Tripco — The Tripco team is passionate about delivering the best travel experiences, enabled by technology and industry-leading customer service. In the online accommodation-booking space, Tripco owns South Africa's leading locally owned site, LekkeSlaap.co.za, as well as TravelGround.com and Viya.co.za.
- AtlasEdge — AtlasEdge Data Centres is one of the fastest growing data centre providers in Europe. Find out more about us!
- Master Plastics — Discover innovative, sustainable packaging solutions for protecting and preserving agricultural and food products from farm to table with Master Plastics.
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: 396
- Round size: Seed $34k–$7M; 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 develops an ambient AI medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation and related tasks. It listens to patient-clinician conversations, transcribes key highlights, and then produces structured notes, referral letters, patient summaries, billing codes, and other downstream documents. The system supports customizable templates, allows editing during sessions, and integrates with various EHR systems while offering compliance with privacy and security standards. Clinicians in multiple specialties and care settings use Heidi to reduce administrative burden, improve focus on patient care, and streamline workflows.
- 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, Venture - Series Unknown, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: Singapore, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Initial Coin Offering $5.5M–$80M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$44M
- 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 — Metafyed is a full-service tokenization AI Platform, empowering companies to create a market of their shares through blockchain technology.
- 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, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $800k–$3M; Series A $673k–$19M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2013
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.
- Meetingbird — Front is the modern customer service platform that helps companies delight their customers, engage their teams, and build stronger businesses.
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