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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Australia (November 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Australia Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Australia Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
38 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $36k–$45M
Artesian VC
VC Fund
35 Australia, United States, China Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $29k–$17M
Main Sequence Ventures
VC Fund
23 Australia, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1M–$72M
Antler
VC Fund
22 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Airtree Ventures
VC Fund
19 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $894k–$54M
Investible
VC Fund
17 Australia, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $300k–$20M
OIF Ventures
VC Fund
15 Australia, New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech $1.1M–$72M
Uniseed
VC Fund
15 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care $566k–$22M
Skip Capital
VC Fund
14 Australia, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.4M–$94M
SOSV
VC Fund
14 United States, China, Canada Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $25k–$5M
Qualgro VC
VC Fund
13 Singapore, Australia, India Series A, Series B, Seed SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$25M
Right Click Capital
VC Fund
12 Australia, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$16M
Skalata
VC Fund
11 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $129k–$2.3M
Clean Energy Finance Corporation
VC Fund
10 Australia, United Kingdom, United States Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate $3.9M–$719M
Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund
10 Australia, New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $120k–$11M
Significant Ventures
VC Fund
9 Australia, United States Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Health Care $77k–$8.2M
EVP
VC Fund
8 Australia, New Zealand, United States Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Information Technology $998k–$10M
Tidal Ventures
VC Fund
8 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $596k–$15M
Sydney Angels
VC Fund
8 Australia, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $120k–$1.5M
Uniseed Ventures
VC Fund
7 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing $381k–$94M
SOSV HAX
VC Fund
7 United States, Canada, China Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Robotics, Software, Manufacturing $25k–$4.5M
Salus Ventures
VC Fund
7 Australia, Israel, United States Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Aerospace $1.3M–$72M
TEN13
VC Fund
6 Australia, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, FinTech $877k–$46M
Carthona Capital
VC Fund
6 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $469k–$50M
Reinventure
VC Fund
6 Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $800k–$55M
Jelix Ventures
VC Fund
6 Australia, New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $653k–$20M
Nightingale Partners
VC Fund
6 Australia, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $275k–$3.5M
Taronga Ventures
VC Fund
6 Australia, United States, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Real Estate $535k–$27M
Brisbane Angels
VC Fund
5 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $120k–$2.8M
Stoic VC
VC Fund
5 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care $600k–$24M
CP Ventures
VC Fund
5 Australia, United States, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $150k–$12M
Folklore Ventures
VC Fund
5 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $698k–$18M
Rampersand
VC Fund
5 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $1M–$14M
Acorn Capital
VC Fund
5 Australia, United States, India Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Financial Services, FinTech $5.9M–$33M
Ellerston Capital
VC Fund
5 Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $850k–$35M
Breakthrough Victoria
VC Fund
5 Australia, United States, Philippines Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology $500k–$35M
Paspalis
VC Fund
5 Australia, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Aerospace, Space Travel, Manufacturing $500k–$20M
In-Q-Tel
VC Fund
5 United States, Australia, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Didier Elzinga
Angel
5 Australia Series A, Seed SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Software $2.7M–$63M
John Clifford
Angel
5 Australia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Energy, Software, Solar $500k–$9.3M
Australia Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
4 Australia Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B E-Commerce, Beauty, Textiles $4M–$15M
Larsen Ventures
VC Fund
4 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Education, SaaS $457k–$31M
Greta Bradman
Angel
4 Australia Series A, Seed SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $4.4M–$15M
Archangel Ventures
VC Fund
4 Australia, United States, Philippines Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $100k–$23M
Melbourne Angels
VC Fund
4 Australia, New Zealand, United States Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology $44k–$1.5M
Macdoch Ventures
VC Fund
4 Australia, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $400k–$7.3M
IP Group Australia
VC Fund
4 Australia, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy $811k–$30M
AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund
4 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $410k–$22M
Boost VC
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$8.9M
Hostplus
VC Fund
4 Australia, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Biotechnology, Semiconductor $6.3M–$111M
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Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 38 investments in Australia Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 405
  • Round size: Seed $36k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $51k–$2.7M; Series A $3.8M–$45M
  • 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.
  • General Compute — General Compute provides an ASIC-based cloud inference platform focused on running AI inference workloads. The company offers an OpenAI-compatible API that allows users to access hosted large language models and switch from existing GPU-based providers by changing the base URL and API key. It supports deploying both its own supported models andcustomer-supplied models on its infrastructure, emphasizing high token throughput and low time to first token. General Compute also offers dedicated custom deployments with service-level agreements, custom scaling, and guaranteed capacity for production workloads. Its infrastructure targets use cases such as AI agents, coding assistants, and real-time voice applications that require low-latency, high-throughput inference.
  • 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
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Artesian VC
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 35 investments in Australia Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Australia, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 659
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $29k–$535k; 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.
  • Coherence Neuro — Opto Biosystems specializes in the development of innovative healthcare technologies that bridge the gap between cancer neuroscience and bioelectronics. The company focuses on creating smaller, softer, and wireless biological interfaces designed to offer a new treatment modality. By leveraging advancements in neural engineering and bioelectronics,Opto Biosystems is dedicated to building new tools that interface with the body, aiming to improve patient outcomes in the healthcare sector. Their work includes exploring the stability of thin-film electrodes for neuromodulation, highlighting their commitment to advancing medical technology.
  • Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
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Main Sequence Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 23 investments in Australia Hardware startups

We work with inventors who are building something hard from their unique expertise in science. These inventors are building the industries that will thrive for the decades to come. We have a unique working model to accelerate a company's pathway to scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $4.8M–$35M; Series B $14M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $305M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Diraq — Diraq is building quantum computers using modified silicon transistors, the technology best suited to reaching utility scale, where value outweighs cost.
  • Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
  • 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
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 22 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2394
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$611k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
  • ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Plouton AI —
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Airtree Ventures
VC Fund · Paddington, Western Australia, Australia · 19 investments in Australia Hardware startups, 19 in the past 12 months

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 226
  • Round size: Seed $894k–$10M; Series A $3.4M–$35M; Series B $5M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $320M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cuttable — Create on-brand AI ads that learn from your results. Cuttable helps eCommerce teams plan, build, edit and publish ad creative at scale.
  • HEO — HEO delivers on-demand, high-frequency images on satellites and actionable insights using the world's largest non-Earth imaging dataset and sensor network.
  • Gridsight — Gridsight helps electrical utilities transition to a decentralised grid by creating 90%-accurate, AI-powered load flow models. These models enable utilities to safely and efficiently support more residential solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Based on CEO Brendan Banfield's PhD research, Gridsight was founded in 2020 to accelerate the transition to renewables.
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Investible
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 17 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 249
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Apate.AI — Is the next generation of scam prevention and intelligence. We deploy advanced conversational AI bots combined with real-time insights to protect businesses, governments and communities globally.2
  • Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
  • GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.
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OIF Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 15 investments in Australia Hardware startups

OIF Ventures is a leading Australian venture capital firm that champions exceptional founders, driven by purpose, who add material value to their customers, markets, and communities. They invest in early stage companies with innovative, high-growth and disruptive technologies and have deep conviction in the power of technology founders and give their all to make them succeed. Founded in 2016, OIF Ventures is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.6M; Series A $2.6M–$23M; Series B $1.7M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
  • Rosterfy — Connect to your volunteers with a comprehensive & user-friendly platform where you can recruit, retain, reward and train your volunteers.
  • Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
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Uniseed
VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 15 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Uniseed is Australia's first, and longest running, university owned venture fund. Established in 2000, we are owned by 9 universities plus CSIRO (behind over 60% of Australia's research) and fund deep-tech spinouts through to global scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $670k–$3.5M; Series A $1.6M–$16M; Series B $566k–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • DeteQt — Semiconductor chip-based quantum magnetic field sensors using diamond - navigation, mining, medical imaging
  • R2Crete — R2Crete is an engineering startup developing a process to recycle waste concrete into supplementary cementitious material (SCM) and high-quality aggregates for new concrete production. As cement is the most emissions-intensive component of concrete production, every tonne replaced by SCM directly reduces carbon impact. R2Crete's eco-friendly supplementary cementitious material (SCM) and aggregates are high performance, cost-competitive and can provide significant environmental benefits.
  • Facet Amtech — Facet Amtech develops and produces ammonia from water and air.
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Skip Capital
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 14 investments in Australia Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Skip Capital is a private investment fund investing in technology and infrastructure

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.5M; Series A $4.4M–$54M; Series B $14M–$94M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MAKO — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
  • Alloy — AI agents that investigate every issue across your fleet, built on a robotics data platform that captures, stores and queries every mission.
  • August Robotics — August Robotics creates robots to automate "dirty, dangerous and dull" workflows across the B2B economy. The company's first robot, Lionel, automates the dull and labour intensive task of floor-marking for the global exhibition industry. Lionel has been used as a critical part of the trade show setup process by the world'slargest exhibition companies in Europe and USA. August Robotics' second robot, Diego, automates the dirty and dangerous task of disinfecting high-traffic public areas, such as hotels, offices and aged care centers, optimizing hygiene and reducing the risks of infection. The company is also working on a number of other robots, each leveraging August Robotics' industry leading proprietary mobile robotics platform, which enables August Robotics to generate new robots for new cases far more quickly and cheaply than other robotics companies. The physical world is ripe for disruption by robots, and August Robotics is leading the charge to do this in the B2B segment
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 14 investments in Australia Hardware startups

SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3821
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$5M; Pre-Seed $25k–$1.5M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
  • Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
  • Samphire Neuroscience — Samphire Neuroscience builds clinically validated neurotechnology to support women across their lives. Our wearable devices, Nettle™ and Lutea™, are built on the same underlying brain-stimulation technology, targeting neural pathways involved in pain, mood, stress, and sleep regulation. - Lutea™ is available globally as a wellness device. Itstimulates the same regions of the brain to support stress regulation, sleep, and recovery - key drivers of readiness and long-term performance - allowing athletes and teams to move beyond wellbeing education alone to practical, evidence-based intervention. - Nettle™ is a CE-marked (EU and UK regulated), drug- and hormone-free device that has been clinically shown to improve pain, mood, functionality, and the ability to train during the menstrual cycle, with measurable benefits after one month of use - supporting athletes to maintain training intensity and movement quality during their period. - The Samphire App is the platform controlling all Samphire hardware products with the use of CycleSync™ AI technology: the only one of its kind to support personalized neurotechnology use for women.
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Qualgro VC
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 13 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Qualgro is a venture capital (VC) fund based in Singapore that provides funding to tech startups across Southeast Asia, in areas like Data, Software, and AI.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.9M; Series A $1.6M–$20M; Series B $7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • SynaXG — Empower your network with SynaXG's hyperconverged AI-RAN platform. We deliver AI-first, open, and energy-efficient 5G infrastructure solutions tailored for mobile operators and enterprises.
  • Accredify — Issue Verifiable Credentials anyone can authenticate in seconds, and verify the ones you receive. Tamper-proof Verifiable Credentials, verified across borders.
  • Supermom — Supermom is the digital platform designed by and for moms, providing recommendations on products and services through a community of moms. lt...
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Right Click Capital
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 12 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$3M; Series A $3.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • black.ai — Build smarter spaces with Black.ai
  • Tability — Automate the boring parts of OKRs to cut the waste and spend more time doing what really matters.
  • Nomad Atomics — At Nomad Atomics, we develop innovative quantum sensors to solve outstanding problems in mining, underground resources and navigation
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Skalata
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 11 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $135k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $129k–$406k
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
  • Paperly — Paperly is an mobile app that provides modules for school management system and learning management system.
  • Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
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Clean Energy Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 10 investments in Australia Hardware startups

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation invests using a commercial approach to overcome market barriers and mobilize investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and low emissions technologies. They seek to catalyze and leverage private sector funding for the commercialization and deployment of clean energy technologies necessary for the transition to a carbon-constrained economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Series B $3.9M–$77M; Post-IPO Debt $41M–$719M; Debt Financing $12M–$329M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $72M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenobe Energy — Zenobe Energy ( formerly known as Battery Energy Storage Solutions Limited) is the largest independent owner and operator of battery storage in the UK. We transform the way grid operators and businesses use power to reduce costs, improve reliability and benefit the environment.
  • Renewable Metals — Renewable Metals' unique alkali recycling process recovers critical minerals from old batteries so they can be used again and again.
  • Agile Energy — Empowering Australian businesses with solar, power purchase agreement, batteries, carbon offsets & renewable energy. Save costs, cut emissions, and start your sustainability journey today!
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Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 10 investments in Australia Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $662k–$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 — Design CLT, glulam and connection details to AS1720.1 in minutes, with certified AU/NZ supplier data built into every SPEC Toolbox calculator.
  • Teacher’s Buddy — Create lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, and more in minutes. AI-powered tools designed for educators.
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Significant Ventures
VC Fund · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia · 9 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Significant Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing transformative technologies and the ambitious founders behind them.Founded by the Hindmarsh family, Significant Ventures invests in deep tech, applied science and research-driven innovation emerging from Australia’s leading universities and research institutions. The fundcombines capital with active, hands-on support—helping early-stage companies shape their strategy, attract talent, and access follow-on funding.With a network of expert operators, advisors and institutional partners, Significant Ventures focuses on turning high-potential ideas into globally scalable businesses. The team works closely with founders across sectors including life sciences, climate tech, AI, education and advanced manufacturing.Driven by a commitment to impact, collaboration and long-term value creation, Significant Ventures exists to build the next generation of high-growth companies that will lead Australia’s innovation economy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $77k–$4.8M; Series A $4.5M–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
  • Hearables 3D — Scale your custom-fit volumes and solve dental lab technician shortage with AI and automation solutions.
  • Visionary Machines — Superior perception for next-generation autonomy
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EVP
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 8 investments in Australia Hardware startups

EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages. Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnostic and have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies. Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $998k–$3.5M; Series A $1.2M–$5.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Practifi — The only intelligent CRM built specifically for wealth management firms, Practifi combines native AI functionality with purpose-built capabilities.
  • HotelClub — Find cheap hotels and discounts when you book on Hotels.com. Compare hotel deals, offers and read unbiased reviews on hotels.
  • Fergus — Fergus is a smart field service management software for service businesses. Make job management easy and carry out work better with our all-in-one solution.
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Tidal Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 8 investments in Australia Hardware startups

We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $596k–$2.3M; Series A $1.2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • RedOwl AI — RedOwl leverages the power of generative AI to empower of the office of the CFO to make error-free and compliant pre-transactional decisioning.
  • SecurePII — SecurePII provides a cloud-based platform that enables organisations to reduce exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) across voice, chat, and AI training channels. The service includes call-by-call redaction of credit-card and other sensitive data via its SecureCall component, enabling businesses to offload PCI-DSS complianceobligations while still retaining customer-facing interactions. SecurePII also empowers companies to process conversation data more safely, by filtering or anonymising PII in real time, to enable AI, analytics, and automation initiatives without compromising customer privacy. The platform integrates with existing payment gateway and communications infrastructure to support both contact centres and unified communications environments.
  • Checkbox — Checkbox is an award-winning no code platform which allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.
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Sydney Angels
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 8 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companies They believe that encouraging smart investment in startup companies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy. They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$1.5M; Angel $130k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $357k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Keeyu — keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences.
  • iiShield — iiShield aims to improve patient outcomes and surgeon training in transplant surgery by providing effective organ heat protection.
  • Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
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Uniseed Ventures
VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 7 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Uniseed is Australia's first, and longest running, university owned venture fund. Established in 2000, we are owned by 9 universities plus CSIRO (behind over 60% of Australia's research) and fund deep-tech spinouts through to global scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $381k–$4.6M; Series A $1.3M–$16M; Series B $471k–$94M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • BioScout — Welcome to BioScout, your partner in revolutionizing the agriculture industry with cutting-edge automated disease detection technology for crop growers and viticulture.
  • Ferronova — Ferronova is a medical device company that offers imaging and surgery products.
  • Morse Micro — Morse Micro's Wi-Fi HaLow combines long-range, strong signal penetration, low power, and high throughput in one wireless protocol, delivering connectivity to more devices, at distance, with greater reliability.
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SOSV HAX
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in Australia Hardware startups, 8 in the past 12 months

HAX is a program for Hard Tech startups taking their first steps towards commercialization. We provide hands-on support and investment as part of SOSV, a $1B AUM multi-stage venture firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 699
  • Round size: Seed $38k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2M; Convertible Note $100k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 5QXT — 5QXT is a mining technology company that provides the design, development, and implementation of metal extraction processes.
  • XFuel — XFuel is a fuel company that provides green and clean fuels to distributors and consumers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palma de Mallorca, Baleares.
  • Cortysis — Cortysis develops brain stimulation device for rapid spatial and temporal modulation of cortical networks
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Salus Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 7 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Building the future through strategic technology investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Aerospace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Australia, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.7M; Series A $2.2M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.2M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkeus — Arkeus is a leader in the fusion of optics and autonomy. Our wide area autonomous optical systems are deployed to conduct Search, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in a range of operating environments.
  • Syenta — Syenta is transforming the electronics manufacturing sector. Our patented fabrication method enables the 3D printing of multi-material electronics with fewer steps and less waste.
  • HEO — HEO delivers on-demand, high-frequency images on satellites and actionable insights using the world's largest non-Earth imaging dataset and sensor network.
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TEN13
VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 6 investments in Australia Hardware startups, 9 in the past 12 months

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $999k–$8M; Pre-Seed $877k–$2M; Series A $4M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arintra — Arintra is an AI-powered autonomous coding technology that delivers significant efficiency and accelerates your revenue cycle business performance.
  • Pearler — Kickstart or continue your long term investment journey with Pearler, a simple alernative for those who crave boring investing.
  • HEO — HEO delivers on-demand, high-frequency images on satellites and actionable insights using the world's largest non-Earth imaging dataset and sensor network.
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Carthona Capital
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 6 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Seed $469k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$17M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • PREVE — Supporting back-to-back physios with their daily caseload, simplifying admin whilst making the patient experience more enjoyable. Preve does the admin work for practitioners. One click clinical notes, treatment plans, home rehab and documents.
  • LendUs — LendUs caters for all different types of home loan requirements for consumers. The platform is designed to provide a simple home loan experience, completing much of the application preparation.
  • Hubble Network — Connect a Bluetooth device to a global satellite network, delivering affordable, low-power tracking and monitoring for diverse industrial and commercial applications.
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Reinventure
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 6 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally. With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner, Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$4.9M; Series A $3.1M–$15M; Series B $9.2M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Kasada — Kasada stops automated threats and bot attacks from the very first request across web, mobile apps, and APIs. Real-time bot mitigation with no rules to manage.
  • Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
  • Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
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Jelix Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 6 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $653k–$5.9M; Series A $1.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Syenta — Syenta is transforming the electronics manufacturing sector. Our patented fabrication method enables the 3D printing of multi-material electronics with fewer steps and less waste.
  • PropHero — Invest wisely in real estate There is an easier way to invest in real estate. Whether you are just getting started or already on your investment journey, at Pro
  • Bitwise Agronomy — Bitwise Agronomy uses AI to analyze crop video footage and provide growers with insights into crop health, growth, and yield potential.
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Nightingale Partners
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 6 investments in Australia Hardware startups

First established in London in 1985, our private equity firm was founded on one word. Patience. Now headquartered in Australia and with offices in Sydney and Hong Kong, patience still is, and always will be, our guiding principle and how we achieve superior long-term returns for our stakeholders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $369k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $275k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bilby — Artificial Intelligence RegTech Platform
  • Fabulate — Fabulate combines creator intelligence with AI-powered workflows to help brands discover creators, manage campaigns, and measure influence. Trusted by leading brands.
  • Aerologix — Draw your site on a map, pick what you need and see the price before you commit. Eighteen drone products with published prices, flown by licensed and insured pilots across Australia.
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Taronga Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 6 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business. Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Real Estate
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $535k–$7M; Series A $4.5M–$14M; Series B $8.4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • DryFlow Magnetics — DryFlow Magnetics is an industrial technology company that specialises in waterless mineral processing.
  • Rebound Technologies — An agile cold chain solution that boosts revenues, preserves product quality and ensures food safety, all while offering proven energy cost reductions.
  • Future Maintenance Technologies — Future Maintenance Technologies (FMT) develops autonomous robotics and AI-powered inspection solutions for rail and aviation. Trusted by global leaders including Hitachi and Rio Tinto.
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Brisbane Angels
VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding to investee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $543k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Indi — indi keeps every observation, document and reminder about your child organised in one place, ready to share with the clinicians and family supporting them.
  • Ovum — Meet Ovum, the intelligent health journal mobile app designed for womankind.
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Stoic VC
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Stoic VC is an early-stage venture fund backing founders at the forefront of University Innovation. We partner with Uniseed to accelerate the commercialisation of university research across the ANZ.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4.6M; Series A $8.3M–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ena Respiratory — Ena Respiratory is a biotechnology company seeking to transform the treatment and prevention of respiratory infections and the effectiveness of vaccines.Ena Respiratory novel, synthetic Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) receptor agonists have been shown to activate the innate immune system in the respiratory tract and prevent viral and bacterialdissemination to the lungs.
  • Lenexa Medical — Lenexa Medical is an Australian based MedTech company.
  • Kinoxis Therapeutics — Developing novel therapeutics for social dysfunction and substance use disorders.
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CP Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Two top decile funds, both fully deployed. Pre-seed and seed technology companies, backed again as they grow. Sydney, since 2018.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $150k–$900k; Series A $3.8M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RedOwl AI — RedOwl leverages the power of generative AI to empower of the office of the CFO to make error-free and compliant pre-transactional decisioning.
  • LeadStory — Watch breaking news video from providers you can trust. Follow the topics you care about and see whats happening near you or anywhere in the world.
  • Greenfly — Greenfly is an enterprise SaaS company and the leader in advocacy marketing. The Greenfly digital media exchange platform enables organizations to fuel brand love by tapping the social media power of their advocates. Emotional connection is the key to building a brand that people love. You can’t buy it – brand love is earned through genuineinteractions, personal connections and real word-of-mouth. Sports, media, entertainment, social causes, and agent-driven organizations depend on Greenfly’s advocacy marketing platform to easily share short-form media. When advocates share great photos and videos on their social profiles, it creates personal engagement with the brand’s customers. Organizations can extend their organic social media reach by 1,000% or more, and brand advocacy can be more effective and much less expensive than social advertising.Greenfly started helping sports and entertainment brands in 2014, and has been named one of the fastest-growing organizations in California by Inc. magazine. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Greenfly has sales offices across the U.S. and Europe.
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Folklore Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Folklore is a team of investors, founders, and builders committed to supporting Australian and New Zealand tech founders. We are a first cheque to forever investment firm, and we believe in the power of founder vision and the potential of teams, right from the start.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $698k–$5.5M; Series A $1.2M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $751k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkeus — Arkeus is a leader in the fusion of optics and autonomy. Our wide area autonomous optical systems are deployed to conduct Search, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in a range of operating environments.
  • Sphere — Live courses led by vetted experts for professionals who want to advance their careers
  • Octopusbot — Accurate AI Forecasts for Wheat, Corn, Grains, and Oilseeds | Global Production Insights, Supply & Demand Analysis, and Future Price Scenarios to Maximize Profit and Mitigate Risks.
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Rampersand
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Rampersand is an early-stage venture capital firm. We invest in the best Australian technology founders, teams and companies and are committed to helping them become major national, regional and global leaders. The rampersand team has worked with successful startups and technology firms in Australia, Silicon Valley, Israel, Europe and Asia. Our partners have seen numerous companies from the early stages through to successful exits including BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle for US$7.2bn), Jajah (acquired by Telefonica), Snaptu (acquired by Facebook), Onavo (acquired by Facebook), StepStone (acquired by Axel Springer) and Amobee (acquired by Singtel for over US$300m). As you can see, we have done it before and know that companies need more than just capital to succeed.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.5M; Series A $3.1M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
  • Cuttable — Create on-brand AI ads that learn from your results. Cuttable helps eCommerce teams plan, build, edit and publish ad creative at scale.
  • Parachute — Parachute catches the weight of research and drafting so you can focus on the work that matters. Stop writing off billable hours and scale your firm's output.
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Acorn Capital
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Acorn Capital Specialist Emerging & Microcap Investment Management. We research and invest in the most attractive Australian based emerging or microcap companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Australia, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Series A $6.4M–$25M; Series B $5.9M–$33M; Venture - Series Unknown $7.1M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $64M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Vetic — Vetic Pet Clinic provides human-grade pet healthcare across 65 clinics & 11 cities in India. Pet grooming, consultation, pet surgeries, pet supplies at Vetic.
  • Conflux Technology — Conflux Technology is a new generation of heat exchangers made by metal additive manufacturing (3D printing).
  • RDC.AI — RDC.AI is an agentic and predictive intelligence platform for business and commercial banking. Built on Glass Box AI for explainability in regulated industry.
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Ellerston Capital
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$16M; Series A $2.6M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $4M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Willed — Write your Will and Powers of Attorney online with Willed. Get probate help through Willed Law, or arrange a funeral service, direct cremation or prepaid funeral plan.
  • Sleek — All-in-one business finances and admin for business owners, SMEs and investors in Singapore. Get started with our 100% online platform.
  • Firmus Technologies — Firmus Technologies creates the most efficient AI infrastructure: AI Factories designed to operate at the max-q of AI token generation and profitability. With advanced liquid-everywhere data center technology at its core, Firmus innovates across all layers of the AI Factory, from energy grid management and thermal innovations to GPU and networkingtelemetry and control. This holistic approach creates AI Factories that operate at peak efficiency, delivering high uptime, throughput, and profitability with future-proofed designs.At the heart of this infrastructure is AI FactoryOS, Firmus’ pioneering operating system that integrates data intelligence and control across the physical AI Factory.SMC, Firmus' AI-native cloud platform, leverages SHARP-enabled networking and NCP reference architecture, benefiting from the efficiency of our AI Factory infrastructure. SMC empowers customers to train faster, deploy smarter, and scale globally, while maximizing the value of every token generated.
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Breakthrough Victoria
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

The Breakthrough Victoria Fund is a $2 billion investment by the Victorian Government to drive investment in research and innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $708k–$6.8M; Series A $4M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AlleSense — AlleSense has developed a unique and novel solution to label-free imaging, the NanoMslide.
  • Mental Jam — We are a games studio dedicated to ​creating impactful experiences that ​explore mental health.
  • Deftbiotech — Deftbiotech is a biotech startup developing peptide-based antifungal treatments for nail and skin infections.
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Paspalis
VC Fund · Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Deep-tech Venture Capital Australia - Paspalis Capital is an APAC investor backing deep-tech companies solving hard problems in global markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Aerospace, Space Travel, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arlula — Arlula provides a single integration point for a global network of satellite imagery. Sign up today and get BETA access to our API.
  • Polybee — Polybee develops autonomous drone systems designed for agricultural applications. They focus on automating yield forecasting and pollination using drones, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Their technology aims to reduce uncertainty in agriculture by providing solutions for seed companies, vertical farming operations, and greenhousecooperatives. Polybee's innovations are particularly useful in environments.
  • HEO — HEO delivers on-demand, high-frequency images on satellites and actionable insights using the world's largest non-Earth imaging dataset and sensor network.
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In-Q-Tel
VC Fund · Arlington, Virginia, United States · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups, 16 in the past 12 months

In-Q-Tel identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cortical Labs — Cortical Labs are creators of the dishbrain that fuses living brain cells onto computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence
  • Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
  • High Earth Orbit Robotics — HEO Robotics provides on-orbit inspection services for satellites, using a network of space-based sensors. The high quality image data and insights allow satellite operators to conduct predictive maintenance and diagnose issues with their assets
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Didier Elzinga
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Didier Elzinga is based out of Melbourne, Victoria and is the Founder / Executive Chairman of Culture Amp. Didier previously worked at Tourism Australia as a Non Executive Director. Didier Elzinga attended the University of Adelaide. Didier Elzinga has been received the Technical Academy Award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5M; Series A $4.4M–$63M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reejig — Reejig is the Work Operating System for AI-powered work. Critical infrastructure for AI-powered work. The platform enterprises use to see how work runs, build AI workflows, orchestrate agents, and drive adoption.Reejig unifies work architecture, work context, and AI orchestration on one enterprise-grade system. Architects use Reejig to design amodern foundation for jobs, tasks, and skills built for humans and agents. Builders use Reejig to deploy AI into real workflows, track agent performance, and deliver every employee their upgraded way of working. Both run on the same system.Work architecture out of the box. Day one. Agent-agnostic by design, Reejig orchestrates any enterprise agent stack.Reejig runs inside Fortune 50 enterprises. Architects design the house. Builders make it real. We build the way the world works.
  • Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.
  • Dovetail — Make sense of all kinds of customer research in one intuitive, collaborative, and searchable research repository.
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John Clifford
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 5 investments in Australia Hardware startups

John Clifford

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Solar
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$2.3M; Series A $6.5M–$9.3M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
  • Gridcog — Gridcog provides holistic software to plan, track, and optimize your transition to a decentralized and decarbonized energy future.
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Australia Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Australian Business Growth Fund (ABGF) is a middle market private equity fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Beauty, Textiles
  • Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Private Equity $6.8M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $4M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $68M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • MAPTO — Bringing industries together since 2008, Mapto.com stands as the premier platform for a global business directory. Serving millions of companies and suppliers worldwide.Mapto, the “Business Development Guide,” has been specially designed to offer an e-commerce solution that brings together all companies in the world and provides an excellent B2Cuser experience without sacrificing B2B functionality. The most significant difference from other marketplaces is that it is customer-supported!In today’s world, product, manufacturer, and communication demands are the basis of e-commerce searches on the internet. It restructures the “roadmap of e-commerce” by bringing all these demands together and making them accessible to users.
  • Solbari — Solbari offers UPF50+ sun protective clothing, sun hats and accessories designed to protect your skin from harmful UV exposure.
  • Consolidated Linen Service — Our family owned and operated company supplies and launders linen and garments to the Hospitality, Aged and Heath Care Sectors across regional Queensland.
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Larsen Ventures
VC Fund · Perth, Western Australia, Australia · 4 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Larsen Ventures is a lean, driven and strategic venture investment firm We believe in alignment, long-term thinking & investor due diligence
 We like metrics, traction & perseverance
 We invest in people
 1/3 of our focus is on Health and Education; 
We like the thematic & overall gains for society 2/3 of our time is spent learning from peers, digging into research, 
chasing leads & hanging out on caffeinated zooms in the endless search for; Founders with Traction 
Founders with Insight
 Founders with Perseverance and Courage 
Founders with an innate ability to question Everything We have patient capital that engages & contributes to your Journey 
Accelerate your business with our portfolios' intellectual capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$8M; Series A $500k–$15M; Series B $4.8M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
  • IPEX — Protect your construction projects with IPEX's secure payment solutions, offering builder insolvency protection and efficient project bank account management in Australia.
  • Seedflex Technologies — Pay-As-You-Sell Advance for Merchants; A frictionless way for merchants to stay in control of their business, capital, and growth
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Greta Bradman
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 4 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Greta Bradman

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $4.4M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bardee — Transforming food waste into insect protein and fertiliser
  • Reejig — Reejig is the Work Operating System for AI-powered work. Critical infrastructure for AI-powered work. The platform enterprises use to see how work runs, build AI workflows, orchestrate agents, and drive adoption.Reejig unifies work architecture, work context, and AI orchestration on one enterprise-grade system. Architects use Reejig to design amodern foundation for jobs, tasks, and skills built for humans and agents. Builders use Reejig to deploy AI into real workflows, track agent performance, and deliver every employee their upgraded way of working. Both run on the same system.Work architecture out of the box. Day one. Agent-agnostic by design, Reejig orchestrates any enterprise agent stack.Reejig runs inside Fortune 50 enterprises. Architects design the house. Builders make it real. We build the way the world works.
  • Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.
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Archangel Ventures
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 4 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $981k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.5M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sophiie — Sophiie is an AI receptionist and office management platform designed for trades and service businesses. It handles phone calls, customer inquiries, job bookings, scheduling, quotes, invoices, payment reminders, follow-ups, and customer records. The platform integrates with tools such as ServiceM8, Xero, QuickBooks, and Google Calendar and supportsbusinesses including electricians, plumbers, HVAC contractors, builders, painters, landscapers, and cleaners.
  • Fluency — See how work actually happens across your enterprise. Fluency maps every process in real time and shows where AI and automation will land.
  • ReFresh — ReFresh is the psychosocial operating system for safety and people leaders. Risk intelligence, safety orchestration and governance evidence in one OS.
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Melbourne Angels
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 4 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Melbourne Angels is the most active startup investor in Victoria, one of the most active in Australia. Investing in start-ups since 2007, Melbourne Angels is committed to helping innovative founders build the next generation of our economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $44k–$1.5M; Angel $200k–$918k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Emanda — Thinking about selling your business in Australia? Emanda guides you through every step: business valuation, health check, corporate compliance, and sale process. Start with a business valuation.
  • Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.
  • Bitwise Agronomy — Bitwise Agronomy uses AI to analyze crop video footage and provide growers with insights into crop health, growth, and yield potential.
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Macdoch Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Our mission is to support Australia & New Zealand’s late seed stage founders. Since 2011, we have partnered with extraordinary founders building companies using technology to build a better future. We are looking for late seed stage founders who have a product and paying customers, in businesses across Australia & New Zealand. Our current thesis surrounds networked businesses (like platforms and marketplaces) and select SaaS, but we do engage more broadly. We have been active seed investors since 2011. We invested in Cliff, Mel and Cameron when Canva was just starting to offer paid subscription plans. We partnered with Dylan and Mark at Qwilr based on their first public beta. Peter and Tony at Mable had 350 carers on their Sydney-based marketplace when we first partnered with them.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.2M; Series A $1.4M–$7.3M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
  • Flagship — Flagship provides retailers with a centralized Visual Merchandising platform that enables the creation, execution and review of Visual Merchandising directives.
  • All Aboard — All Aboard is a community of investors working together to address climate tech's most difficult challenge: bridging the finance gap during the scale-up stage.
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IP Group Australia
VC Fund · Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Ip Group Australia build and support outstanding intellectual property-based companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $811k–$896k; Series A $3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ElectraLith — The cleanest, most versatile and most cost-efficient method of extracting and refining lithium, the primary element of a sustainable future.
  • MGA Thermal — MGA Thermal, specialists in thermal energy storage technology. Renewable, high-power, economical, modular, safe and sustainable thermal storage solutions.
  • Atisama Therapeutics — Atisama Therapeutics is an Australian biotech company pioneering splice-switching oligonucleotide (SSO) therapies that restore normal gene transcription pathways to treat disease at the molecular level.
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AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in Australia Hardware startups

We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $624k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $410k–$2.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
  • Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
  • BarterAds Pty Ltd — BarterAds is a programmatic advertising exchange that enables businesses to acquire customers without cash spend by converting unused ad inventory into a tradable asset. Instead of paying in fiat, companies earn and spend a proprietary internal currency called Barter Dollars, which are issued when they display ads on their owned media propertiessuch as websites, apps, or platforms.The platform operates as an auction-based exchange, similar to traditional ad networks, where advertisers bid for impressions using Barter Dollars. Inventory is matched contextually and priced dynamically through real-time bidding, ensuring efficient allocation of supply and demand across the network. This allows both advertisers and publishers to maximize the value of otherwise underutilized inventory.BarterAds primarily targets startups, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, gaming companies, and content publishers that have traffic but are constrained by rising customer acquisition costs. By removing the need for upfront cash spend, the platform provides a capital-efficient growth channel, particularly for small and mid-sized businesses.The system includes controls for brand safety, fraud prevention, and inventory quality through business verification, campaign approvals, and continuous monitoring. Barter Dollars are non-transferable and expire periodically, preventing hoarding and ensuring continuous circulation within the ecosystem.BarterAds is designed as a hybrid between barter networks and modern ad exchanges, combining the scalability and automation of programmatic advertising with a closed-loop, cashless economy. The company is headquartered in Australia and is focused on building a global network of advertisers and publishers who both contribute inventory and run campaigns within the platform.
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Boost VC
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 4 investments in Australia Hardware startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 448
  • Round size: Seed $195k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $620k–$8.9M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $88M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • SkinBit — SkinBit is a healthtech company that develops AI-powered skin cancer detection, digital mapping, and health monitoring solutions.
  • heXem bio — heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity.
  • Elita — Store your dog's stem cells with Elita. One-time opportunity to protect their future health and avoid costly surgeries later in life.
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Hostplus
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 4 investments in Australia Hardware startups

Join our leading Australian superannuation fund, committed to putting our members first, with a low admin fee and strong returns. Become a member today!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Semiconductor
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Series A $6.3M–$84M; Series B $20M–$111M; Series C $13M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Emesent — Solutions for GPS-denied environments - delivering revolutionary efficiency, safety and operational insights to underground mining and other industries.
  • Universal Quantum — Universal Quantum is building quantum computers to tackle real-world problems that would take today’s fastest supercomputers billions of years to solve.
  • 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
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Hardware Investor funding in Australia at a glance

Stats across 932 deals from 887 investors.

887
investors
in Australia Hardware startups
932
deals
in Australia Hardware startups
$1.8M
median round
in Australia Hardware startups
40%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage
84/16
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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