Top 10 eSports VC Funds & Investors in Australia (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Adi Dassler International Family Office
VC Fund
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2 | Australia | Gaming, Sports, eSports | ||
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Aura Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Denmark | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Financial Services, Software | $1.1M–$12M |
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Euphemia
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, Malaysia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Sports, Apps, Gaming | $148k–$1.5M |
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Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $120k–$11M |
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Alium Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, Apps | $500k–$465M |
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Cerro Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Series A, Series B | Sports, Content, eSports | |
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Elysian Park Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series A, Seed | Sports, Software, Health Care | $100k–$42M |
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Powerhouse Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Gaming, Media and Entertainment, Audio | $1.2M–$88M |
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Eleanor Venture
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Education, Software, Marketing | $612k–$1.4M |
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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 | $40k–$15M |
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- Industry: Gaming, Sports, eSports
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GGWP Academy — AI and social listening driven marketplace, backed by education to create #SmarterInfluence and drive ROI for brands in esports and gaming.
Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies
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- Industry: SaaS, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.6M; Series A $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- TradeGecko — Powerful Automated Inventory Management Software for Wholesale and Multichannel eCommerce with a B2B Ordering Platform, and Mobile plus Shopify, WooCommerce and Amazon Integrations.
- Catapult — Discover Catapult. The cutting-edge sports technology, data analytics, and insights that will unleash your team's and athletes' potential.
- Integrated Portfolio Solutions — Integrated Portfolio Solutions is an independently owned and operated administration platform, built by advisors for advisors.Through incorporating the technology and market reach of our key business partners, IPS provides an end-to-end solution that removes the complexities of dealing with numerous organisations to make the integration betweeninvestment execution and portfolio administration a seamless experience.What you will notice with IPS compared to institutionally owned platforms is a personalised service, a desire to embrace change and take advantage of new technology and a team focused on the efficient administration of advisor portfolios.We understand different advice businesses have different needs and we retain the flexibility to tailor our platform to suit the specific needs of different organisations. The result is an extremely cost effective platform that is unique to the Australian market at this time.IPS was designed with two key drivers in mind. To develop a leading edge platform to help financial advisors run their business more efficiently by removing all client portfolio administration from their workload. Secondly, being mindful of the margin pressures faced by financial advisors, and therefore keeping fees to a minimum and market leading level.IPS offers a truly integrated portfolio administration solution through the incorporation of administration, reporting, SMSF, research, CRM functionality, and instruction management to give advisors, staff and clients a cohesive, branded, genuine fee-for-service solution.
Euphemia
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- Industry: Sports, Apps, Gaming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Pre-Seed $148k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Heatseeker — Determine how successful your business, product or campaign will be before launching by testing your products and messaging with AI-powered digital campaigns.
- Zena Sport — The most advanced Female Chest Protectors for Contact Sports. Using a patented design developed after 3 years of research and testing, Zena Sport Chest Protectors are ultimate essential to elevate your performance on game day. Reduces your risk of injury, wear Zena Sport and play fearlessly!
- GGWP Academy — AI and social listening driven marketplace, backed by education to create #SmarterInfluence and drive ROI for brands in esports and gaming.
Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $992k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $649k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Operata — Continuously measure performance to deliver the best possible customer experience.
- SPEC Toolbox — CLT Toolbox offers sustainable design of structural materials, using software to clear through the clutter and make design simple. CLT Toolbox is building structural design software to make mass timber as easy as concrete or steel.
- Mass Dynamics — Mass Dynamics exists to enable more life scientists to accelerate their studies using Mass Spectrometry (MS). It's our contribution towards enriching lives and freeing humanity and society from the burden of disease. Mass Dynamics includes Enrichment Analysis based on GSEA algorithms and utilises Gene Ontology (GO) and Reactome knowledge bases.
Alium Capital focuses on listed and unlisted technology investments to generate out-sized returns. The company invests in technology, innovation, and early-stage businesses, all the way through to publicly listed assets. It specializes in the fields of finance, investing, innovation, and capital.Alium Capital was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $4.5M–$10M; Series A $500k–$13M; Series B $2M–$465M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $72M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Academy Xi — At Academy Xi, we help APAC's largest and most sophisticated organisations optimise performance with concise, actionable training solutions.
- DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,328,201 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
- York Street Brands — York Street Brands, formed by the merger of Boost Lab and tbh Skincare specializes in serums that target a range of skin concerns.
Cerro Capital is a sports investment firm that invests globally in premium and emerging IP and content that connects consumers to the culture of sports. Cerro invests in and builds lasting terminal value through unique intellectual property: (a) sports leagues and teams, (b) original content, and (c) related media rights and technology.Cerro's portfolio includes Religion of Sports, GAMURS Group, and the X Games.
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- Industry: Sports, Content, eSports
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GAMURS Group — GAMURS Group is a leading gaming, esports, and entertainment media network - we own and operate a network of digital publications and social media communities.
- Religion of Sports — Religion Of Sports is a full service studio based in Los Angeles. We believe in something greater.
We invest where sports intersect with life.
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $100k–$8M; Series A $5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Diamond Kinetics — Helping players get better - and have more fun while doing it. Experience baseball and softball like never before with the Diamond Kinetics Bat Sensor and App.
- The Realest — The first dedicated marketplace and authentication standard for physical memorabilia.
- International Dance League —
Consumer Media & Technology Fund
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- Industry: Gaming, Media and Entertainment, Audio
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $4M–$32M; Series B $10M–$88M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lil Snack — New pop-culture games & puzzles every day!
- Spuree — Cheehoo is an AI-powered animation platform designed to accelerate animation production for various users, including artists, brands, and studios.
- Five Iron Golf — Five Iron offers a unique indoor golf experience for golfers and non-golfers alike. Enjoy golf simulators, lessons, a sports bar, and more.
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- Industry: Education, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $612k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Multitudes — Multitudes provides data-led insights and recommendations so your software engineering teams can work better together.
- Driven — Driven provides scientifically proven resilience assessment, research and training programs that are designed for individuals and organisations.
- GGWP Academy — AI and social listening driven marketplace, backed by education to create #SmarterInfluence and drive ROI for brands in esports and gaming.
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: 246
- Round size: Seed $135k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Vaulta — Discover Vaulta's high-performance batteries for sustainable energy solutions. Revolutionising power with easy installation, maintenance, and recycling. Join the Australian-made energy revolution today!
- 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.
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