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

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

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

Investor	eSports Australia investments
Aura Ventures	2
Alium Capital	2
Powerhouse Capital	1
Adi Dassler International Family Office	1
Artesian VC	1
Cerro Capital	1
Elysian Park Ventures	1
Eleanor Venture	1
Euphemia	1
Flying Fox Ventures	1

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Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Beforepay — Beforepay understands that traditional pay cycles are a form of financial stress. So we set out to find a better way, giving Australians the control and confidence that comes with managing your own money, on your terms.That’s why we created Pay On Demand™ - a service that allows you to access the money you have earned at work, when you choose todo so. After all, it is yours!The app also automatically predicts when your bills are due, shows you how much is OK for you to spend, and automatically creates budgets for you, effortlessly.
Academy Xi — At Academy Xi, we help APAC's largest and most sophisticated organisations optimise performance with concise, actionable training solutions.
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Consumer Media & Technology Fund

Investment focus

Gaming, Media and Entertainment, Audio
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Betty — Betty is a mobile gaming entertainment company that develops the intersection of casual mobile gaming and real money online casinos.
Cheehoo — Cheehoo is an AI-powered animation platform designed to accelerate animation production for various users, including artists, brands, and studios.
Closing Theory — Closing Theory is a studio for mobile game development.

As a MFO, we provide our clients and families with Best-In-Class solutions, family office advice.

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, eSports
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.

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.

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.