Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in Oceania (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Icehouse Ventures
VC Fund
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23 | New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $650k–$19M |
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Main Sequence Ventures
VC Fund
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16 | Australia, United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing | $1M–$72M |
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K1W1
VC Fund
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15 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence | $520k–$18M |
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Investible
VC Fund
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14 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $300k–$20M |
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Clean Energy Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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13 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt | Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate | $3.9M–$719M |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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12 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $70k–$15M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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10 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Pacific Channel
VC Fund
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10 | New Zealand, Australia, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology | $511k–$5.5M |
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Virescent Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Australia, Philippines, New Zealand | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed | Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar | $304k–$35M |
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Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $34k–$35M |
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NOAB Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Energy, Battery, Manufacturing | $493k–$15M |
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Uniseed
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care | $471k–$22M |
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Melt Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Australia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Energy | $841k–$12M |
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Grok Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Renewable Energy, Energy, Software | $808k–$151M |
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Tenacious Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology | $896k–$49M |
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CP Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Australia, United States, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $350k–$12M |
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John Clifford
Angel
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6 | Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Energy, Software, Solar | $500k–$9.3M |
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New Zealand Green Investment Finance
VC Fund
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6 | New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar | $372k–$49M |
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Giant Leap Fund
VC Fund
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6 | Australia, United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $897k–$25M |
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Enterprise Angels
VC Fund
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5 | New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $229k–$4.3M |
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New Zealand Growth Capital Partners
VC Fund
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5 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Medical Device | $435k–$17M |
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Uniseed Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing | $381k–$16M |
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Soul Capital
VC Fund
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5 | New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Recycling | $608k–$12M |
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Electrifi Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Machinery Manufacturing | $665k–$3M |
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Brisbane Angels
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $200k–$19M |
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Tidal Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $596k–$15M |
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Climate Venture Capital Fund
VC Fund
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5 | New Zealand, Australia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Manufacturing, Sustainability, Renewable Energy | $968k–$3M |
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Melbourne Angels
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Angel | Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology | $34k–$1.3M |
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GD1 (Global From Day One)
VC Fund
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5 | New Zealand, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $600k–$16M |
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EVP
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1M–$6M |
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Movac
VC Fund
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4 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $1.4M–$16M |
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Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Renewable Energy, Energy, Clean Energy | $539k–$3M |
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Antler Australia
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, Sweden, Philippines | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $135k–$2.7M |
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Motion Capital
VC Fund
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4 | New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Sustainability, Energy, Chemical | $924k–$4.9M |
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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–$3.4M |
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Airtree Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $800k–$60M |
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Alberts Impact Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, Music | $1.2M–$5.9M |
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DCVC
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.5M–$139M |
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Nicholas Assef
Angel
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4 | Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Renewable Energy, Energy, Battery | $100k–$125k |
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Sprint Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $655k–$10M |
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Southern Cross Venture Partners
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Series B, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Energy | $2M–$13M |
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IP Group Australia
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy | $811k–$30M |
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AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $367k–$21M |
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Ocean Impact Organisation
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant | Aquaculture, AgTech, Robotics | $65k–$1.7M |
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Vulpes Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Singapore, Vietnam, Australia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Real Estate, Internet, Software | $1M–$12M |
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Uniservices
VC Fund
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3 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Medical Device, Manufacturing | $1M–$4M |
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BetterLabs Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Grant | Education, FinTech, Software | $915k–$11M |
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Kurt Alexander
Angel
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3 | Australia | Seed | Mining, Retail, Medical | $37k–$269k |
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Common Sense Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Software, Wellness | $673k–$7M |
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Peter Los
Angel
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3 | Australia | Seed, Series A | Solar, Energy, Energy Storage | $6.5M–$9.3M |
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Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 252
- Round size: Seed $650k–$4.9M; Series A $2.5M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $69M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
- Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
- Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
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: 130
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $13M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $303M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Varden — FILM-FREE BARRIER COATING
- 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
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $734k–$4.1M; Series A $520k–$18M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linca — Critical metals for a circular battery supply chain
- Hyades — Hyades is an AI-powered hyperspectral intelligence platform that offers soil and land insights.
- 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.
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, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Shore Trade — Buy Wholesale Seafood Directly from the Best Fisheries
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: 137
- Round size: Series B $3.9M–$77M; Post-IPO Debt $42M–$719M; Debt Financing $18M–$511M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $62M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- FlexiGroup — At FlexiGroup, we love to connect customers with things that will help them work and play. FlexiGroup is a diversified financial services group. Through a network of over 16,000 retail and business partners we provide a wide range of innovative finance products and payment solutions to consumers and businesses. From supporting education, toequipping a home, to building a business – we have a wide range of solutions to help. This includes interest free cards and no interest ever payment plans; consumer and business leasing solutions; and mobile and broadband plans. FlexiGroup operates in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, and is offered at more than 16,000 locations including Harvey Norman, Escape Travel, IKEA, Domayne, Joyce Mayne, King Living, Nick Scali, Australian Outdoor Living, JB Hi-Fi, AGL Solar, The Good Guys Kitchens, Noel Leeming, Husqvarna, and the Fantastic Group.
- Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
- Quintessential Equity — Owner-operator discipline across acquisition, improvement and operations. Tenant-first execution, governed decision-making and clear reporting for wholesale and professional investors. Explore the portfolio, capabilities and how we invest across cycles.
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: 407
- Round size: Seed $101k–$5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$1M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- LivedCX® — LIVEDCX: Advanced AI technology for contact centre leaders who must simplify complexity to create growth.
- 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.
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: 2216
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Praktiki — Praktiki is building the "Decision Layer" for medicine.While medical knowledge doubles every 73 days, frontline clinicians struggle to translate guidelines into practice. Current AI search tools excel at surfacing public data from clinical trials, but fail to capture "how" experts apply that evidence in real-world scenarios.Praktiki fills this gap. We utilise an AI Agentic Creator Engine to capture tacit specialist reasoning and fuse it with public evidence. This feeds a proprietary Expert Knowledge Graph that powers: 1) Microlearning: Case-based modules created 10x faster and which are 170% more effective than traditional education 2) AI Expert Guidance: Real-time decision support synthesising evidence with expert implementation strategies.2025 Traction - our MVP proved that solving the expertise gap drives high engagement: - Registered >10% of UK GPs - 60,000+ modules completed with an 85% completion rate - 51% month-over-month growth - Market-leading NPS of 83We are building a compounding data moat to expand beyond education into clinical intelligence and healthcare data solutions.
- Mast — Mast is the cloud-native, fully configurable loan origination platform empowering lenders to process applications faster and smarter. We make lending better, smoother and faster.
- Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $900k–$5M; Pre-Seed $511k–$1.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.2M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Regen — We send daily recommendations to our farmers' phones based on their own farm data, so NZ can farm smarter.
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- Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.
Virescent Ventures invests in founders, technologies, and businesses that can help achieve zero emissions and beyond.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, Philippines, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $3.9M–$6.8M; Series A $11M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $304k–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MAKO — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
- Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.
- IND Technology — IND Technology is a data security and quality improvement.
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: 337
- Round size: Seed $34k–$7.6M; 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
- Vow — Vow is crafting a new category of food
- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
- 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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- Industry: Energy, Battery, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.4M; Pre-Seed $493k–$860k; Series A $4.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UNIGRID — At UNIGRID, we are dedicated to exploring sodium chemistries that are safe, sustainable, and affordable, for stationary energy storage and e-mobility applications.
- Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.
- Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
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, Manufacturing, Health Care
- 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
- Ferronova — Ferronova is a medical device company that offers imaging and surgery products.
- Plasmaleap — Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries.
We provide venture capital, expertise and advice to advanced manufacturing-focused Australian startups with global ambitions.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $841k–$5M; Series A $3.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MGA Thermal — MGA Thermal, specialists in thermal energy storage technology. Renewable, high-power, economical, modular, safe and sustainable thermal storage solutions.
- Mynu Energy — Battery energy storage systems from MyNu Energy deliver fast, flexible power across Australia. Enquire today.
- Allegro Energy — Our mission is to radically accelerate the transition to a world powered by plentiful, cheap, clean energy. Talk to us today about your project to find out how our technology can help you reach your energy goals.
Backing a better tomorrow
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $808k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$63M; Series B $26M–$151M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Endolith — Endolith is a biotech company transforming sustainable mining by leveraging microbes, synthetic biology, and cloud computing to extract more critical minerals like copper from low-grade ores. Working with the many of the leading mining companies, Endolith is advancing its innovative technology to commercial scale. Recognized as a finalist in theBHP Unearthed BioMetals cohort and a member of the Alaska Critical Minerals Collaborative, Endolith is driving the future of mining with sustainable, efficient, and responsible solutions for the clean energy transition.
- MAKO — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
- Asterix Foods — Asterix Foods is a biotechnology company designed to build protein production using plant-cell culture techniques. The company's platform is developing and growing bioactive proteins for food that are scalable, functional, and complex, enabling users with plant cell-cultured and animal-free proteins.It was founded in 2022 and is located inTel Aviv, Israel.
Tenacious Ventures - Australia's first and only dedicated agrifood tech VC firm.
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- Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $896k–$2.2M; Series A $5.9M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nbryo — Contact Us for interest: contact@nbryo.com
- Agovor — Agovor - Robotic towing machines to boost productivity while reducing your environmental footprint.
- SwarmFarm Robotics — Global crop protection specialists ADAMA and Australian ag-tech company.
The CP Ventures Fund invests in early-stage technology companies that are highly scalable, at the forefront of breakthrough technologies, and driven by the fourth industrial revolution.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $417k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $350k–$900k; Series A $5.9M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LeadStory — Watch breaking news from around the world and stay up to date with current events. Follow topics that matter to you from providers you can trust. See whats happening nearby or in places you care about.
- Greenfly — Greenfly's short-form media orchestration software platform captures, collects, organizes & distributes videos & photos to drive fan engagement and boost revenue for sports and entertainment organizations.
- Skylark Labs — Skylark Labs develops continuously evolving and customizable threat detection systems for enhanced physical security. Our clients (CCTV or Drone companies) can customize our proprietary AI solutions at the time of deployment or continuously evolve them if needed after deployment making them preferable to other comparable market solutions.
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- 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
- 3E Group —
- 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.
New Zealand Green Investment Finance provides support to the growth of innovative energy and carbon management.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$7.6M; Debt Financing $644k–$49M; Venture - Series Unknown $372k–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ESP — ESP is an energy solution provider.
- Carbn Group — Carbn Group is a car fleet management company that makes car fleet services sustainable and accessible to more users.
- Ruminant BioTech — Ruminant BioTech is a company that creates slow-release devices for long-term controlled-release methane mitigation.
Giant Leap is Australia's first venture capital fund to be 100% dedicated to investing in exceptional, rapidly scalable impact businesses.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $897k–$6.5M; Series A $2.8M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.7M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Indi — Indi supports parents’ mental well-being and helps them advocate for their children’s health.
- Ovum — Meet Ovum, the intelligent health journal mobile app designed for womankind.
- Clean Slate Clinic — We are a for-purpose healthcare company focused on helping Australians keen to detox from alcohol, safely from home.
Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $306k–$4.3M; Angel $229k–$651k
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Linca — Critical metals for a circular battery supply chain
- Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
- Scanabull — Scanabull is a 3D vision to measure cattle live weight quickly and accurately, reducing handling stress and giving farmers, agents, and processors clear, real‑time weight data. It makes weighing easy, analysis simple, and sharing seamless for everyone who relies on live weight or carcass weight decisions.
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Browse database — It's Free!The New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (formerly New Zealand Venture Investment Fund) was established to support early-stage technology companies and to stimulate private investment into this space.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $694k–$4.9M; Series A $3.5M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $435k–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linca — Critical metals for a circular battery supply chain
- Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
- Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
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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- 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
Soul Capital is an impact investment organisation working towards a more inclusive and sustainable economy.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Recycling
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $830k–$3M; Venture - Series Unknown $608k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cogo — At Cogo we are on a mission to empower hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses world-wide to become conscious consumers by taking action to measure, reduce and compensate for their impact on the world. Cogo enables everyone to join together to create a fairer and more sustainable world. Talk to us now or see our website for details.
- Staples VR — Staples Rentals is a Film/Video & Stills equipment rental house based in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Teacher’s Buddy — Create lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, and more in minutes. AI-powered tools designed for educators.
Sparking change, igniting impact: Electrifi Ventures is powering the future of climate tech by bringing together inspiring founders with impact investors.
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- Industry: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Machinery Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $665k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SPEC Toolbox — Structural timber design software for Australian engineers. Design CLT, GLT, and connections to AS1720 standards. Start your free trial and automate today.
- Hachiko — Hachiko is a software building platform that aims to help the battery portfolio owners, also the firm is for energy trading.
- National Renewable Network — National Renewable Networks - Leading the future of renewable energy across Australia
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 toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.4M; Series A $2M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Giftbee — Giftbee reshapes gifting for businesses and consumers. Send gifts with flexibility to accept, swap, or give forward. Manage gifting programs, reduce waste, and create meaningful impact.
- Indi — Indi supports parents’ mental well-being and helps them advocate for their children’s health.
- Ovum — Meet Ovum, the intelligent health journal mobile app designed for womankind.
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: 62
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $596k–$2.3M; Series A $1.2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Search.io — Add search and discovery powered by machine learning to your website, e-commerce store, or app in minutes. Fully-hosted, free 14-day trial.
- 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.
Climate Venture Capital Fund invests in disruptive New Zealand climate-tech companies driving decarbonisation and returns. Acceptable Managed Fund for AIP Visa investors.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $968k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mara Bio — We are a New Zealand based biotech start up passionate about food, health and the environment. We are re-imagining how energy and nutrient rich food production side streams are handled by giving them a new life in the form of protein rich, fibre rich, functional ingredients and bioactives for food, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical applications.
- Hot Lime Labs — The Hot Lime Labs CO2 capture system converts wood waste biomass into clean CO2 for commercial greenhouses, increasing crop productivity and growth.
- Dot Ingredients — Dot Ingredients operates a surfactant company designed to offer commercially viable particle surfactants. It produces cellulose from wood pulp, makes sustainable emulsifiers from renewable cellulose, and is able to not only cleanse hands, clothes, surfaces, and cars, but also protect crops, enhance food, color textiles, and flow into the oceans andsoil.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $34k–$1.3M; Angel $219k–$918k
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% 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.
GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $600k–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $860k–$11M; Series A $1.8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
- Caruso — AI-native fund administration for private markets. Trusted by 900+ real estate, private credit, and PE funds to save time and grow AUM.
- Outlier Space — Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits.
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: 119
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $1.3M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Modii — Leading the shift toward smart parking and mobility solutions to help create smarter, greener, and safer cities, universities and communities around the world.
- Lumary — Built on and invested in by Salesforce. Lumary software optimizes operations to increase revenue with advanced scheduling and billing functionality.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Movac is New Zealand's most experienced technology investor and is deeply integrated into the Kiwi tech sector. We've been actively investing since 1998.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.9M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $125M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
- 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.
- Migco Pharmaceuticals — Migco Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on designed to develop new drug therapies for migraine headache.
Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund The Fund makes seed & follow-on investments in clean energy focused startups from approved accelerators, incubators, university programs & angel
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Clean Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $539k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enosi — Enosi traces ‘your’ energy – matching site-specific, half-hourly energy demand with site-specific, half-hourly generation data – across the grid. From this Enosi: - Allocates, sorts and prioritizes settlements of that energy supply amongst a defined “community” - Delivers price and usage data to that community’s common retailer for easysettlement on monthly retail bills
- Oxamii — Oxamii is a peer-to-peer marketplace that allows businesses to purchase renewable energy from local producers.
- BlockTexx — BlockTexx is an early stage clean technology company that recovers polyester and cellulose from textiles and clothing.Through an Australian developed patent pending process that combines chemical recovery technology and advanced manufacturing to produce high quality recycled materials of rPET pellets and cellulose powder from textile waste.BlockTexx is positioned at the end of the value chain, where raw materials and end-of-use solutions have the highest environmental impact and revenue potential.
Australia's only truly global early stage VC, we believe in and back the most ambitious founders from the earliest stage.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Sweden, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $143k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $135k–$200k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Accord — Accord turns millions of conversations into structured, actionable insights for game teams.
- ReFresh — ReFresh is the psychosocial operating system that gives safety and people leaders their time back. Risk intelligence, safety orchestration, and governance evidence in one OS.
- 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.
Motion Capital is a hands-on venture capital fund investing in founders doing good business by helping the world decarbonise.
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- Industry: Sustainability, Energy, Chemical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $924k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linca — Critical metals for a circular battery supply chain
- Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.
- Hachiko — Hachiko is a software building platform that aims to help the battery portfolio owners, also the firm is for energy trading.
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: 47
- Round size: Seed $640k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $330k–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Zabidou — Zabidou develops laser-based sensing systems that give machines real-time perception to separate materials and improve sorting efficiency.
- Prefactor — Make AI Agents Enterprise Ready.
- Cable — Cable Energy helps Australian SMEs save 20-40% on power. Free smart battery, flat 24/7 rate, guaranteed for 3 years. No upfront cost.
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: 206
- Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $3.4M–$35M; Series B $4M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $288M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Outlier Space — Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits.
We back pioneers who share our vision for a better tomorrow.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Music
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.6M; Series A $1.7M–$5.9M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
- Harvest B — Plant-based meat startup that develops plant-based ingredients for plant-based meat producers by leveraging a smart ingredient system
- 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.
We are deep tech venture capital.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 404
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.1M; Series A $5.8M–$50M; Series B $15M–$139M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Sabanto — Sabanto brings autonomy to agriculture with retrofit kits that transform existing tractors into fully autonomous machines. Boost efficiency, reduce labor, and farm 24/7 with the Sabanto Autonomy System. Book a demo today.
- CH4 Global — CH4 Global is an aquaculture solutions provider dedicated to urgently impacting climate change at scale. Lead by a world-class team of senior business builders, scientists and entrepreneurs, the company is initially leveraging proven science and technology for growing seaweed into innovative new livestock supplement that reduces methane produced bycows by up to 90%. Among early investors are a select group of prominent family offices and private investors. CH4 Global have also received non-dilutive capital support from government organizations from around the world. CH4 Global is a Delaware corporation based in Henderson, NV.
- Tradeshift — Tradeshift is a supply chain network, Tradeshift is a market leader in e-invoicing and accounts payable automation and an innovator in supplier financing and B2B marketplaces.
Investment banker, founder, angel capitalist. FOcussed on industrial technology applications including renewable energy and recycling technology.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Battery
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $100k–$125k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Battery Pollution Technologies — Battery Pollution Technologies is establishing a national circular economy for lithium-ion batteries. Our comprehensive technology encompasses the entire lifecycle, from safe end-of-life management to eco-friendly repurposing and novel chemical recovery of critical battery materials.
- Dumaresq Solar Farm — Large Scale Solar Farm & Battery Storage Development based in northern NSW, Australia
Early stage Venture Capital firm based in Brisbane that's investing in next generational Australian companies that are building a better future.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $655k–$2.4M; Series A $1.9M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Radian — Radian is an energy company that designs and installs solar and storage systems.
- Umps Health — Umps offers a 24/7 personal alarm that helps you live independently with peace of mind. Easy to use, always connected.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Southern Cross Venture Partners was launched in 2006 by veteran venture capitalists who have managed and operated companies themselves. Southern Cross Venture Partners assist early stage technology companies that demonstrate the potential for exceptional growth and market leadership build significant businesses. The founding principle of SouthernCross is partnership -- they are passionately committed to doing everything they can to help their portfolio companies succeed. Their team has a strong record of utilizing their start-up and management experience, industry knowledge, network of business/customer relationships, and recruiting skills to assist in building significant shareholder value.Southern Cross is currently investing in companies that fit their investment criteria. They prefer to act as lead or co-lead in the early stages where they have experience that can help build value rapidly. They do not have a minimum investment amount, however, a typical initial investment will be $2 million to $5 million with an ability to invest more money in later rounds.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Energy
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Series A $2M–$5M; Series B $5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $145M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- Sunman — Sunman Energy is a technology company founded by a group of industry veterans delivering the future of Solar. Through the research and development of composite materials, Sunman has successfully commercialized the world’s first glass-free, lightweight and flexible Panel – eArc. Replacing glass completely, eArc brings solar power to markets andapplication scenarios that were previously impossible.
- SBA Materials — SBA Materials is dedicated to the development of functional porous inorganic and inorganic/organic hybrid materials for a wide range of technologies. Different synthesis and processing conditions allow for a variety of material compositions, structures, and applications. They can be fabricated as thin and thick films, powders, fibers, and evenoptically clear solid monoliths all consisting of highly ordered mesoporous networks. The resulting surface area is extraordinarily high and can be chemically functionalized, e.g. with organic dyes, quantum dots, magnetic materials, or biomaterials enabling applications ranging from electronics and optics to sensors, catalysts.SBA Materials is located in Albuquerque, NM, at the Science and Technology Park, adjacent to the University of New Mexico and the Sandia National Laboratories Materials Research Center. The facility includes R&D laboratories, offices, and meeting space.
- Wave Computing — The future of high-tech in online casino is a bright one. For example, RFID technology will help casinos track and identify stolen chips. In addition, these systems can also predict player behavior and betting patterns. The latter are especially useful if a player is caught while he is trying to switch out his cards. These ... Read more
Ip Group Australia build and support outstanding intellectual property-based companies.
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- 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
- MGA Thermal — MGA Thermal, specialists in thermal energy storage technology. Renewable, high-power, economical, modular, safe and sustainable thermal storage solutions.
- Additive Assurance — Additive Assurance offers quality assurance for metal additive manufacturing.
- Jetra Therapeutics — Jetra Therapeutics develops new treatment for obesity-related liver disease designed to reduce stress in liver cells.
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.
Ocean Impact Organisation’s purpose is to transform ocean health through inspiration, innovation, and good business.
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- Industry: Aquaculture, AgTech, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $65k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $67k–$832k
- Lead/follow: 87% lead, 13% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aquit — Aquit develops preventive treatments for infections in fish that replace antibiotics, improve survival rates, and boost natural immunity.
- Pinpoint Earth — Pinpoint Earth is revolutionizing the fishing and transportation industries with its cutting-edge satellite and cellular communications technologies and GPS asset tracking.
- Blue Carbon — Blue Carbon focuses on ensuring environmental security for future generations by solving both the climate and biodiversity problems.
Uninhibited Venture Investing Southeast Asia & Australia-New Zealand
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- Industry: Real Estate, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Singapore, Vietnam, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $3.5M–$10M; Series B $3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Citics — Citics is to build a comprehensive real estate data platform in Vietnam by digitizing and centralizing data sources to help in real estate transactions, including real estate valuation, sales-purchase, lease, mortgage, among others.
- NoneAway — Find your happy place
- ZUZU Hospitality — Maximize revenue for your independent hotel with our expert Revenue Management service, Channel Manager, and PMS. No fixed costs. Start risk-free today.
Auckland University's commercialisation arm
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.2M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RosterLab — RosterLab goal is to automate every part of the rostering process for healthcare.
- Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
BetterLabs is an early-stage venture capital fund and venture studio based in Perth, Australia. Backed by RAC the fund invests in technology and opportunities that impact next-generation insurance, clean technology, mobility, work and money. The studio creates ventures to solve challenges in these domains and we also invest in them.
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- Industry: Education, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Grant
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $915k–$5M; Series A $7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- upcover — upcover is Australia's award winning Online business insurance provider for All type of business owners, startups, consultants, freelancers and gig economy workers in Australia. Get a quote online today.
- WeMoney — WeMoney is focused on obtaining an Open Banking license so that the Fintech firm can gain access to customer banking data, which may be used to improve the quality of services offered to them.WeMoney’s platform lets users keep track of their pending utility bills and other recurring payments. The platform also aims to help customers with managingtheir savings and monitoring their monthly income. Joveski revealed that his company is also developing features that will use behavioral science and AI to help users make better or more informed financial decisions.
- The Volte — Dress hire grows your wardrobe with over 60,000 new, chic designer options. We help women get the perfect dress for every event on their calendar.
Kurt Alexander
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- Industry: Mining, Retail, Medical
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $37k–$269k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Common Sense Ventures is an Australian family office backing early-stage, fast-growing businesses. We partner with ambitious managers looking to solve problems that will help the world.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $673k–$7M; Pre-Seed $673k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tutero — Tutero is an Australian EdTech startup that offers educators a suite of products to help plan their teaching using student knowledge data. Tutero provides free classroom tools for teachers and personalised online tutoring services for students.
- Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.
- Loopit — Loopit is the complete end-to-end software & professional services platform solution for car subscription to boost dealership & profitability.
Peter Los is a Founder, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager at Eye Management.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Energy Storage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $6.5M–$9.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
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