Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in Australia (July 2026)
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Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
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32 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $34k–$35M |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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17 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $40k–$15M |
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Main Sequence Ventures
VC Fund
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17 | Australia, United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing | $1M–$73M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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15 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $108k–$28M |
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Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund
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14 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $120k–$11M |
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Investible
VC Fund
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14 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $250k–$20M |
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Uniseed
VC Fund
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13 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing | $471k–$22M |
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OIF Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $1.3M–$23M |
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Sydney Angels
VC Fund
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10 | Australia, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $120k–$1.5M |
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Airtree Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $800k–$50M |
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Skalata
VC Fund
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9 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Education, Information Technology | $129k–$2.3M |
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Significant Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Australia | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Software, Health Care | $67k–$8.2M |
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Tidal Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $508k–$15M |
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Skip Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Australia, United States, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.7M–$94M |
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Uniseed Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing | $381k–$16M |
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EVP
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $942k–$5.4M |
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Right Click Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Australia, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $200k–$16M |
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Carthona Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $404k–$50M |
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Reinventure
VC Fund
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6 | Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $800k–$54M |
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Rampersand
VC Fund
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6 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1M–$10M |
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Paspalis
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Aerospace, Manufacturing, Space Travel | $500k–$20M |
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TEN13
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $808k–$46M |
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Breakthrough Victoria
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology | $600k–$30M |
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In-Q-Tel
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Acorn Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Jelix Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $616k–$26M |
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Larsen Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Education, SaaS | $457k–$31M |
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AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $367k–$21M |
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Ellerston Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $850k–$23M |
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Qualgro VC
VC Fund
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4 | Singapore, Australia, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $979k–$25M |
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Folklore Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $500k–$21M |
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NAB Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, India, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.4M–$35M |
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Black Nova Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $330k–$3.3M |
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Nightingale Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $275k–$3.5M |
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Archangel Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$22M |
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Stoic VC
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care | $600k–$16M |
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Salus Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, AgTech | $1.3M–$26M |
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Macdoch Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, SaaS | $400k–$7.3M |
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Taronga Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Construction, Information Technology | $962k–$27M |
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Clean Energy Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt | Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate | $5M–$719M |
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Australia Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Australia | Private Equity, Series B | Cloud Data Services, Sales, Water | $8.1M–$11M |
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Side Stage Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $681k–$3.5M |
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Upswell Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Developer Tools, Apps | $539k–$13M |
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Square Peg Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $875k–$72M |
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ANU Connect Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States | Series A, Angel | Water, EdTech, Medical | $2.1M–$8.2M |
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Aura Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, Denmark | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Financial Services, Software | $1.1M–$12M |
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OneVentures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, Israel | Series A, Debt Financing | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | |
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Saniel Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Construction | |
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MA Growth Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Series B, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $616k–$44M |
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Hostplus
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Biotechnology, Semiconductor | $6.3M–$111M |
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Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 324
- Round size: Seed $34k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.7M; Series A $3.4M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
- Foundry Lab — Foundry Lab is pioneering Digital Metal Casting. This new form of additive manufacturing allows users to cast metal parts - without pouring molten metal - in the safety of their own office. This fully automated system is incredibly fast - CAD file to 50+ metal parts in just 8 hours.
- 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
Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 246
- Round size: Seed $135k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Vaulta — Discover Vaulta's high-performance batteries for sustainable energy solutions. Revolutionising power with easy installation, maintenance, and recycling. Join the Australian-made energy revolution today!
- Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
- Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $4.5M–$29M; Series B $13M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $303M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Swoop Aero — Transforming how the world moves by making access to the skies seamless. Kite Aero is the only end-to-end drone logistics platform on the planet. We unlock the potential of the sky, for the good of us all. Currently we serve over 4.5 million people in 6 continents. By 2030, our reach will extend to 1 billion.
- Loam Bio — Loam has designed farmer-focused carbon projects that support farmers to build stable soil carbon in cropping and mixed farming systems.
- Castlepoint Systems — Startux X is the perfect multi-purpose Startup Webflow Template. Get it today and design a state-of-the-art website for your technology startup or company in record time.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1821
- Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$755k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Deja — Modern Rituals & Natural Products from the Ancient Science of Ayurveda
- Enoki Inc — Multiplayer-enabled tools for developers. Enoki has 18 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
- Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $992k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $649k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Operata — Continuously measure performance to deliver the best possible customer experience.
- SPEC Toolbox — CLT Toolbox offers sustainable design of structural materials, using software to clear through the clutter and make design simple. CLT Toolbox is building structural design software to make mass timber as easy as concrete or steel.
- Mass Dynamics — Mass Dynamics exists to enable more life scientists to accelerate their studies using Mass Spectrometry (MS). It's our contribution towards enriching lives and freeing humanity and society from the burden of disease. Mass Dynamics includes Enrichment Analysis based on GSEA algorithms and utilises Gene Ontology (GO) and Reactome knowledge bases.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- fileAI — Automate and analyze any file with AI. fileAI builds proprietary AI components for complex agentic workflow automation.
- VoiceByte — VoiceByte is an application platform that allows its users to record and share their voice either privately or on social networks.
- GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.
Uniseed was established in October 2000 as a $20 million joint venture between the University of Melbourne (UM) and the University of Queensland (UQ). This proof of concept fund (Fund-1) operated with significant input and support from the commercialization offices of the two universities (UniQuest and Melbourne Ventures Limited), with staff ofthese organizations making up the majority of the Investment Committee and leading due diligence and management of most investment opportunities. Over 20 investments, typically of $250,000 - $500,000 were made from this fund.A new $40 million venture fund (Fund-2) ran from 2005-15, with the addition of a third leading university, the University of New South Wales, and a major private institutional investor, the Westscheme superannuation fund. The founding universities (UQ & UM) also committed further funds. Australian Super took over Westscheme's essets and commitments in July 2011.With the start of Fund-2, an independent management team was established, consisting of the CEO and three Investment Managers; one at each university catchment. The Investment Committee was restructured, with dedicated committees established for biotechnology or other technologies. The nominal investment limit was increased to $2.5 million to allow participation in follow-on funding rounds so as to preserve Uniseed's equity position.On 1 November 2015, Uniseed started its third and largest fund (Fund-3) with the addition of the University of Sydney and the CSIRO to the Universities of Queensland, Melbourne and NSW. This followed three high profile exits in the preceding 14 months (Fibrotech; Spinifex & Hatchtech). Each of the five partners committed $10 million over 10 years to the new fund (total fund $50 million).Uniseed’s partner research organisations spent nearly $4 billion on research, making up over 40% of the total research spend at 67 research organisations in Australia. Together, these organisations accounted for nearly 500 invention disclosures (34% of total) and 500 new registered IP rights filed (45% of total) over the same period(2013 National Survey of Research Commercialisation). Unlike private venture capital funds, Uniseed is dedicated to the needs of its research partners, and committed to servicing them consistently over the long term, irrespective of the short term conditions in external capital markets. It works in very close partnership with the research partner commercialisation companies and staff, providing a valuable adjunct to the capabilities these companies and staff provide. They in turn provide a best-practice commercialisation service tailored to their respective organisations. These companies are able to leverage to great effect the scale of operation and expertise of the Uniseed network.The fund is run with commercial discipline, ensuring independence and financial rigor in its investment decision-making processes. Success is measured by a balance of return on investment (including the flow of funds for research to further the commercialisation of intellectual property generated within the research partner catchments), the establishment of viable start-up companies, the generation of research income for research partners and the improvement of partner commercialisation processes.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.5M; Series A $1.6M–$16M; Series B $471k–$22M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- DeteQt — Semiconductor chip-based quantum magnetic field sensors using diamond - navigation, mining, medical imaging
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- Analog Quantum Circuits — Analog Quantum Circuits develops analog components for solid-state quantum computers.
OIF is a venture capital firm focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs building businesses.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Series A $2.6M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Bridgit — Bridgit is an Australian privately owned non-bank lender. At Bridgit, it is our mission to revolutionise property financing and offer Australians a solution that helps them progress in life, without any of the red tape. When it comes to buying property it can be very competitive and difficult to find the perfect home, a Bridgit loan is a greatoption for homeowners who want to buy on their terms by finding their next home without having to sell first. Through the use of technology we make it easy, with a 5 minute online application, same day approval and no monthly repayments you can focus on the important things.It is all about giving hard working Australians the opportunity to make progress in their lives, without the hold backs.
- Rosterfy — Connect to your volunteers with a comprehensive & user-friendly platform where you can recruit, retain, reward and train your volunteers.
- Circle In — Support your caregiver employees and create a family-inclusive business culture utilizing our data-backed research, processes, and tools.
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 companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies 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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $130k–$890k; Pre-Seed $337k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% 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.
- ExtrasJar — Swap health insurance premiums for balanced investments and get access to your funds when using health services.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 191
- Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $3.4M–$35M; Series B $4M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $288M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- LawVu — Our all-in-one connected platform enables your legal team to manage all legal matters, contracts, spend and legal operations. Book your free demo now.
- Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $135k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $129k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $18M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $67k–$4.6M; 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
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $508k–$2.3M; Series A $1.7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Orkestra — Orkestra is a renewable energy software platform that provides tools to assist energy companies in the planning, selling, and optimization of new energy deployments.
- Checkbox — Checkbox is an award-winning no code platform which allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.
Skip Capital is a private investment fund investing in technology and infrastructure
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$8M; Series A $4M–$50M; Series B $10M–$94M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
- WORK180 — WORK180 is a global jobs network that operates at the forefront of a new workplace revolution. Our function is twofold.As an advocate for working women, we provide job applicants with a transparent directory of endorsed employers who support diversity, inclusion and equality.We share information around pay equity, flexible working, paidparental leave, equal opportunities and a range of other important criteria. Before an employer comes on board, we put them through a pre-screening process and on average, about 80% of companies who apply to work with us, pass our criteria.
- MAKO — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
Uniseed was established in October 2000 as a $20 million joint venture between the University of Melbourne (UM) and the University of Queensland (UQ). This proof of concept fund (Fund-1) operated with significant input and support from the commercialization offices of the two universities (UniQuest and Melbourne Ventures Limited), with staff ofthese organizations making up the majority of the Investment Committee and leading due diligence and management of most investment opportunities. Over 20 investments, typically of $250,000 - $500,000 were made from this fund.A new $40 million venture fund (Fund-2) ran from 2005-15, with the addition of a third leading university, the University of New South Wales, and a major private institutional investor, the Westscheme superannuation fund. The founding universities (UQ & UM) also committed further funds. Australian Super took over Westscheme's essets and commitments in July 2011.With the start of Fund-2, an independent management team was established, consisting of the CEO and three Investment Managers; one at each university catchment. The Investment Committee was restructured, with dedicated committees established for biotechnology or other technologies. The nominal investment limit was increased to $2.5 million to allow participation in follow-on funding rounds so as to preserve Uniseed's equity position.On 1 November 2015, Uniseed started its third and largest fund (Fund-3) with the addition of the University of Sydney and the CSIRO to the Universities of Queensland, Melbourne and NSW. This followed three high profile exits in the preceding 14 months (Fibrotech; Spinifex & Hatchtech). Each of the five partners committed $10 million over 10 years to the new fund (total fund $50 million).Uniseed’s partner research organisations spent nearly $4 billion on research, making up over 40% of the total research spend at 67 research organisations in Australia. Together, these organisations accounted for nearly 500 invention disclosures (34% of total) and 500 new registered IP rights filed (45% of total) over the same period(2013 National Survey of Research Commercialisation). Unlike private venture capital funds, Uniseed is dedicated to the needs of its research partners, and committed to servicing them consistently over the long term, irrespective of the short term conditions in external capital markets. It works in very close partnership with the research partner commercialisation companies and staff, providing a valuable adjunct to the capabilities these companies and staff provide. They in turn provide a best-practice commercialisation service tailored to their respective organisations. These companies are able to leverage to great effect the scale of operation and expertise of the Uniseed network.The fund is run with commercial discipline, ensuring independence and financial rigor in its investment decision-making processes. Success is measured by a balance of return on investment (including the flow of funds for research to further the commercialisation of intellectual property generated within the research partner catchments), the establishment of viable start-up companies, the generation of research income for research partners and the improvement of partner commercialisation processes.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $381k–$4.2M; Series A $1.3M–$16M
- 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 is a fast-growing wireless integrated circuit solutions company that is reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company was founded by Wi-Fi pioneers and innovators, Michael De Nil and Andrew Terry, joined by the original Wi-Fi inventor Prof. Neil Weste and wireless industry veterans, whose teams designed Wi-Fi chipsinto billions of smartphones. Headquartered in Australia with offices in China and the U.S., Morse Micro’s strong and diverse system team, portfolio of IP and patents, enables Wi-Fi HaLow connectivity across the complete IoT ecosystem, from surveillance systems and access control to industrial automation and mobile devices, allowing connected devices to reach farther. www.morsemicro.com
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 agnosticand 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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $942k–$3.5M; Series A $1.3M–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Practifi — The leading wealth management CRM purpose-built for advisors, Practifi transforms how financial professionals connect with and grow their client base.
- Calcs.com — ClearCalcs makes structural engineering calculations easy with 100+ ready-to-use calculator library to US, CA, AU, NZ, and Eurocode standards.
- 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.
Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $200k–$3.6M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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
Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $404k–$4.7M; Series A $3.3M–$17M; Series B $9.8M–$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.
- Qlarifi — Consumer lending decisions transformed with real time, comprehensive data.
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4.7M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $8.1M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M 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!
We back ambitious ANZ tech founders from inception to seed, with proven support, no empty promises, and a track record of helping startups scale smarter.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.5M; Series A $2.9M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised 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 — The AI ad creative production system for high-growth DTC brands. Scale Meta ad volume and variation without scaling headcount. Built for performance teams.
- Parachute —
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Browse database — It's Free!Paspalis is a leading venture capital investor in Northern Australia. We invest in innovative companies, both locally and globally, looking to do business in the Northern Territory.
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- Industry: Aerospace, Manufacturing, Space Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $500k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% 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.
- Atomionics — Atomionics is building atomic sensors for navigation and resource exploration. Sensing technology is severely inadequate for a lot of applications navigation and positioning, pinpointing oil and gas reserves, tunnel detection etc. Atomionics builds atomic sensors harnessing quantum mechanical properties of the atoms. This enables measurement ofparameters like gravity, acceleration and rotation with 1000x higher precision and accuracy than the current state of the art, leading to a completely new way of global positioning, and resource exploration.
TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $999k–$8M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.2M; Series A $3.7M–$46M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flyweel — Flyweel is agentic fintech for businesses that depend on ads for their growth. It connects spend, cash, and revenue, then acts on them in real time, shifting budget to the ads that work, drawing capital when the numbers justify it, and easing off when cash runs low, all without anyone in the loop.
- Appetise — MenuAid is a cheaper, flexible and more sustainable alternative to meal-kit delivery providers. We provide Kiwis with a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes and a list of ingredients that can either be self-shopped or collected/delivered from your favourite supermarkets.
- Clipchamp — Create videos with royalty-free music and stock footage, use video templates, and export in up to 4K video resolution. Get started in-browser or download the Windows app.
The Breakthrough Victoria Fund is a $2 billion investment by the Victorian Government to drive investment in research and innovation.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $708k–$6.8M; Series A $1.7M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $600k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DeepDerm — DeepDerm is developing AI-enabled cameras that detect skin cancer without the need for painful biopsies.
- AlleSense — AlleSense develops a label-free optical imaging technology designed to enhance disease diagnosis by manipulating light-tissue interactions at the nanoscale. It's Mission is to Reimagining the standard microscope slide to make digital pathology faster, more accurate, and accessible without complex chemical staining.
- Deftbiotech — Deftbiotech is a biotech startup developing peptide-based antifungal treatments for nail and skin infections.
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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- 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
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ImmVirX — ImmVirX is an Australian company founded in 2019 with a mission to improve outcomes for patients with cancer types in which immunotherapy treatments have limited effect.
- Conflux Technology — Conflux Technology is a new generation of heat exchangers made by metal additive manufacturing (3D printing).
- Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms
Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $616k–$5.7M; Series A $1.9M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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.
Larsen Ventures is a lean, driven and strategic venture investment firmWe 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 society2/3 of our time is spentlearning 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 EverythingWe have patient capital that engages & contributes to your Journey Accelerate your business with our portfolios' intellectual capital
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- Industry: Software, Education, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $457k–$8M; Series A $500k–$15M; Series B $4.4M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
- IPEX — IPEX is an online payment platform that secures funds for a project, protecting developers, and sub-contractors.
- Seedflex Technologies — Pay-As-You-Sell Advance for Merchants; A frictionless way for merchants to stay in control of their business, capital, and growth
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $367k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $410k–$2.2M; Series A $4.2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
- 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.
- Samphire Neuroscience — Samphire Neuroscience provides solutions that specialize in women's health. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.
Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $850k–$16M; Series A $2.4M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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 —
- Prospection — Helping pharmaceutical brand teams unlock patient-centric intelligence to drive better patient care outcomes and capture market share opportunities.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $979k–$4.7M; Series A $1.6M–$20M; Series B $7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% 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.
- Supermom — Supermom is the digital platform designed by and for moms, providing recommendations on products and services through a community of moms. lt...
- Furhat Robotics — Furhat Robotics is a humanoid robotics and conversational AI company, building the next generation of humanoid robots with with human-level conversational and social skills. We believe that face-to-face interaction is a basic human need. Even a driver for quality of life and mental health. We believe that technologies like robots need to interact with people on human terms.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $725k–$5M; Series A $500k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise 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.
- Hullbot — Hullbot is a developer of a robotic in-water cleaning system designed to inspect, map, and clean the hull of a boat without a human operator present. They offer design, development, and deployment of autonomous drones, delivering solutions to stop the growth of marine organisms, improve performance, and extend the time between haul-outs. Theirembedded intelligence enables their robots to interact with the environment on-the-fly.
- Sphere — Live courses led by vetted experts for professionals who want to advance their careers
NAB Ventures is an Australian Venture Capital fund backed by National Australia Bank (one of the largest 20 banks globally).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.1M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $9.3M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $62M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Veem — Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. Itconverts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient.Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Zodia Custody — Crypto Custody, Without Compromise. Empowering global institutions to navigate the digital asset landscape simply, safely, and without compromise.
- Greatland Gold — Greatland Gold plc engages in the exploration and development of natural resources. It explores for gold, nickel, and cobalt deposits.
Championing the next generation of B2B technology startups.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $457k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $330k–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Enaxiom — Enaxiom develops sustainable cooling technology that reduces energy and water use for AI data centres & industry.
- Prefactor — User Management platform seamlessly combining authentication, authorisation and audit via our unique Domain Specific Language. We enable engineers to build user workflows in our language, their way
- Cable — Cable Energy provides structurally cheaper power for Australian SMEs.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $337k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $275k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bilby — Artificial Intelligence RegTech Platform
- PayOK — PayOK's API driven solution delivers real-time dual account validation between Australian banks which can reduce mistaken or fraudulent payments, protecting and giving confidence to your customers.
- Aerologix — Free access to the largest qualified drone pilot network in the southern hemisphere via one platform.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.5M; Series A $3.3M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
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.
- Fluency — Experience real-time visibility into how work happens. Measure ROI on GenAI initiatives, tie execution directly to KPIs, and automatically discover and optimize workflows. All without heavy integrations.
- Hachiko —
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.2M; Series A $7.6M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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.
Building the future through strategic technology investments
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.7M; Series A $7.7M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% 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.
- Visionary Machines — Superior perception for next-generation autonomy
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 currentthesis 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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $400k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.2M; Series A $1.4M–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CUZIN — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
- Vinex — Vinex is a global supplier of digital wine services, like supply management tools, early payments, and a B2B wine marketplace.
- Scala Med — ScalaMed has created the most transformative piece of real-estate in healthcare that embeds into any health App (B2B/SaaS), utilizing prescription fulfillment as the gateway of patient access & engagement.
Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business. Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia.
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- Industry: Software, Construction, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $962k–$7M; Series A $4M–$10M; Series B $8.7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
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 delivers AI-enabled robotics and digital systems that automate inspection and maintenance of rail and other critical assets. The company develops solutions such as the Automated Rail Infrastructure Inspection System (ARIIS), which captures and analyses infrastructure data to support condition monitoring and defectdetection. Its platforms integrate sensors, machine vision and analytics to reduce manual track walks and improve maintenance planning. Service offerings include asset management consulting, implementation of digital maintenance systems, and support for global automated maintenance programs. Future Maintenance Technologies collaborates with rail operators and infrastructure owners to embed robotics into existing workflows, helping transition from reactive to predictive maintenance strategies.
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 thetransition to a carbon-constrained economy.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 126
- Round size: Series B $5M–$77M; Post-IPO Debt $42M–$719M; Debt Financing $18M–$329M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $62M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- FlexiGroup —
- Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
- Quintessential Equity —
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- Industry: Cloud Data Services, Sales, Water
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Private Equity $8.1M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 89% lead, 11% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $72M 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.
- Derwent Industries — Derwent Industries Manufactures Ductile Iron Fittings, Valves and 316 SS Clamps and Couplings as well as supplies products for Civil - Water & Waste Water, Irrigation, Fire and Mining.
- 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.
Side Stage Ventures is a founder-led seed fund backing outlier founders in Australia. We write the first cheque into the best early stage companies. Then we lean in to help the founders build & scale.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $681k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Leonardo.Ai — Transform your projects with our AI image generator. Generate high-quality, AI generated images with unparalleled speed and style to elevate your creative vision
- Outstaffer — Find & hire talent from around the world. We handle payroll, benefits, tax, compliance, HR & provide WorkFromAnywhere tech to safeguard your IP & productivity.
- Arca Climate Technologies, Inc. — Carbin Minerals unlock the enormous carbon dioxide removal potential of mine waste.
We're an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies at the Seed and Series A stage.
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- Industry: Software, Developer Tools, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $539k–$5M; Series A $5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Predelo — Streamline workflows and optimize operations with Predelo's AI-driven automation. Discover the benefits of our solutions and stay ahead!
- Loopit — Loopit is the complete end-to-end software & professional services platform solution for car subscription to boost dealership & profitability.
- Circle In — Support your caregiver employees and create a family-inclusive business culture utilizing our data-backed research, processes, and tools.
Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 181
- Round size: Seed $875k–$14M; Series A $2.7M–$35M; Series B $10M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
- LimitlessCNC — Limitless CNC is an AI-powered technology intended to improve CNC machining operations. It offers an AI CAM agent that works with NX-CAM to give industry-specific strategies and operations.
- Excelero Storage — Founded in 2014 by a team of storage veterans and inspired by the Tech Giants’ shared-nothing architectures for web-scale applications, the company has created a Software-Defined Block Storage solution that meets performance and scalability requirements of the largest web-scale and enterprise applications.With Excelero’s NVMesh, customers canbuild distributed, high-performance Server SAN for mixed application workloads. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage TCO. The solution has been deployed for hyper-scale Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and massive-scale simulation visualization.
ANU Connect Ventures manages two funds: The Discovery Translation Fund, which aims to support emerging businesses in undertaking crucial proof-of-concept work; and the $27 million Seed Investment fund for ANU-MTAA Super Venture Capital Partnership.Both funds have been established with the support of the ACT Government to invest in promisingcommercial opportunities arising out of the ANU research, other ACT-based research institutions and local R&D companies. More information regarding our investment funds and their criteria can be found in the Investment section.
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- Industry: Water, EdTech, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Angel
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$8.2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Instaclustr — Instaclustr Managed and supported platform for open source technologies. Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Nexus eWater — Nexus eWater unlocks the greywater to provide unprecedented benefits to developers, public utilities, and homeowners. The platform has developed groundbreaking technology and is commercializing the world's first integrated water and heat reCycler. Using patent-pending processes, reCycler offers, for the first time, an affordable, reliablesolution to onsite domestic water recycling and wastewater heat recovery.It was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
- Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms
Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies
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- Industry: SaaS, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.6M; Series A $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- TradeGecko — Powerful Automated Inventory Management Software for Wholesale and Multichannel eCommerce with a B2B Ordering Platform, and Mobile plus Shopify, WooCommerce and Amazon Integrations.
- Catapult — Discover Catapult. The cutting-edge sports technology, data analytics, and insights that will unleash your team's and athletes' potential.
- Integrated Portfolio Solutions — Integrated Portfolio Solutions is an independently owned and operated administration platform, built by advisors for advisors.Through incorporating the technology and market reach of our key business partners, IPS provides an end-to-end solution that removes the complexities of dealing with numerous organisations to make the integration betweeninvestment execution and portfolio administration a seamless experience.What you will notice with IPS compared to institutionally owned platforms is a personalised service, a desire to embrace change and take advantage of new technology and a team focused on the efficient administration of advisor portfolios.We understand different advice businesses have different needs and we retain the flexibility to tailor our platform to suit the specific needs of different organisations. The result is an extremely cost effective platform that is unique to the Australian market at this time.IPS was designed with two key drivers in mind. To develop a leading edge platform to help financial advisors run their business more efficiently by removing all client portfolio administration from their workload. Secondly, being mindful of the margin pressures faced by financial advisors, and therefore keeping fees to a minimum and market leading level.IPS offers a truly integrated portfolio administration solution through the incorporation of administration, reporting, SMSF, research, CRM functionality, and instruction management to give advisors, staff and clients a cohesive, branded, genuine fee-for-service solution.
OneVentures is one of Australia’s leading venture capital firms, with over $330M in funds under management. But they do more than invest. They take companies to that all important next stage, by actively shaping their future. They apply their years of international experience, operational and executional expertise to accelerate the growth of theirportfolio companies. A global growth focus drives their investment selection with their current portfolio including companies with truly innovative products tackling multi-billion-dollar problems, from needle-free vaccinations to virtual communications to adaptive e-learning.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Debt Financing
- Geography: Australia, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.
- StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
- Employment Hero — Recruitment, HR, Payroll & Benefits in one place - designed for small & medium businesses to be efficient, compliant & cost-Effective. Book a demo today!
Helping passionate founders build the future Saniel Ventures is a private investment group supporting high growth technology companies. Get in touch We invest in people first Smart, passionate, resilient founders building the future We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect that you are humble enough to know
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
- Arca Climate Technologies, Inc. — Carbin Minerals unlock the enormous carbon dioxide removal potential of mine waste.
- Matrak Industries — Matrak is automating global construction - combining AI takeoff with agentic supply-chain, manufacturing, logistics, quality and more.
MA Financial Group's Asset Management division manages investments for institutional & wholesale investors across real estate, credit, private equity & venture capital.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $616k–$17M; Series A $2M–$8.1M; Series B $4.6M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sonder — Sonder's employee care platform is the future of workforce health, medical, safety and wellbeing. One platform. All the support. Learn more.
- Apera Hotels — Apera Hotels is a platform designed to provide accommodations in hotels that cater to the mid-range market.
- Avena Communities — Avena Communities provides a platform for communities, offering diverse property options for both permanent and holiday living.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Semiconductor
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Australia, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Series A $6.3M–$49M; Series B $20M–$111M; Series C $13M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gradiant — Gradiant deploys advanced water treatment solutions and technologies to solve the toughest water challenges for the world's critical industries.
- First Light Fusion — First Light Fusion was spun out from the University of Oxford and focuses on researching energy generation by inertial confinement fusion. Its platform explores a number of alternative research directions that harness fundamental physics focusing on power generation and theoretical analysis, detailed numerical simulation, and experimentalvalidation that helps clients to discover a new source of energy. The company directly employs a team of engineers and physicists and collaborates closely with a number of academic organizations, including the University of Oxford, Warwick University, UCL, and Imperial College, London.The company was founded by Professor Yiannis Ventikos and Dr. Nicholas Hawker and is based in Yarnton, Oxfordshire.
- 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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