Top 50 Impact VC Funds & Investors in Australia (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Main Sequence Ventures
VC Fund
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13 | Australia, United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing | $1M–$73M |
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Clean Energy Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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11 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Series B | Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate | $5M–$333M |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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9 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $40k–$15M |
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Investible
VC Fund
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9 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $250k–$20M |
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Tenacious Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, AgTech, Farming | $942k–$49M |
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Grok Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Renewable Energy, Software, Biotechnology | $808k–$150M |
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Uniseed
VC Fund
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7 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing | $471k–$22M |
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Melt Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Australia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing | $3.8M–$12M |
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Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $34k–$35M |
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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 | $875k–$23M |
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Virescent Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Australia, Philippines, New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Renewable Energy, Energy, Clean Energy | $4M–$33M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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5 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $104k–$29M |
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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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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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Electrifi Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Machinery Manufacturing | $673k–$3M |
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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 | $750k–$48M |
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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–$29M |
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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 | $128k–$2.7M |
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Brisbane Angels
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Machine Learning | $120k–$1.3M |
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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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Melbourne Angels
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Angel, Seed | Biotechnology, Information Technology, Energy | $34k–$1.3M |
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Common Sense Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, CleanTech, Sustainability | $673k–$7M |
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Black Nova Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $330k–$3M |
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Transmedia Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Mobile, Internet | $1M–$14M |
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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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Carthona Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $404k–$50M |
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Alberts Impact Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia | Seed, Series A | Energy, Music, Renewable Energy | $979k–$5.4M |
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Rio Tinto
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Australia | Seed, Series B, Convertible Note | Manufacturing, Energy, Mining | $2.3M–$198M |
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Pacific Channel
VC Fund
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3 | New Zealand, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Medical Device, Biotechnology | $1.1M–$5M |
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Taronga Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Construction, Information Technology | $962k–$27M |
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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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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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Capitor
VC Fund
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2 | Australia | Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Sustainability | |
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Day One Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | |
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Grantham Foundation
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Environmental Consulting, Agriculture | |
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Stellar Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Aerospace, Software, Manufacturing | |
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NAB Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, India, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | |
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Tidal Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | |
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Defence Trailblazer
VC Fund
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2 | Australia | Seed | Mining, Manufacturing, Precious Metals | |
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Skalata
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Marketplace | |
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Black Sheep Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $34k–$13M |
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Icehouse Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | |
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Rampersand
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Stoic VC
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care | $600k–$16M |
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Dolby Family Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Austria, Switzerland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics | |
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Autodesk Foundation
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Uganda | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy | |
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Sprint Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, B2B, FinTech | |
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Sumitomo
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series B, Corporate Round | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $3.6M–$241M |
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Ellerston Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | |
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UniQuest
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom | Series B | Medical, Biotechnology | |
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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: 125
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.1M; Series A $4.5M–$29M; Series B $13M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $303M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Endua — Endua is building the next generation of clean energy deep storage to power communities, remote industries and off-grid infrastructure at the flick of a switch - all day and night
- Arlula — Arlula provides a single integration point for a global network of satellite imagery. Sign up today and get BETA access to our API.
- QuintessenceLabs — Quantum cyberattacks can break current encryption in minutes! Get protected with QuintessenceLabs quantum key distribution, generation, and management.
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
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Series B $5M–$71M; Debt Financing $13M–$333M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $62M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
- Wattwatchers — Be more energy efficient and maximise your renewable energy to save money, and the environment.
- Renewable Metals — Renewable Metals' unique alkali recycling process recovers critical minerals from old batteries so they can be used again and again.
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: 227
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; 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
- CUZIN — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
- 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.
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: 169
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $404k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
- Directo — Directo operates as an independent B2B e-commerce pharmacy marketplace.
- EdenFarm Indonesia — EdenFarm Indonesia merupakan Start Up B2B, Pemasok bahan makanan mulai dari produk segar hingga sembako untuk restoran, warung nasi, hingga toko grosir.Menjual berbagai bahan pangan untuk usahamu mulai dari restoran hingga warung nasi
Tenacious Ventures - Australia's first and only dedicated agrifood tech VC firm.
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- Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $992k–$10M; Pre-Seed $942k–$2.2M; Series A $3.6M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cecil — From nature-based offset projects to biodiversity inventories, we simplify natural asset management for project developers, intermediaries, asset managers and investors.
- RapidAIM — RapidAIM is addressing the lack of information of pest threats to food crops. The company’s platform technology of low-power novel sensors plus edge computing offers a service to the agriculture industry of regional pest surveillance, crop border security, and pest forecasts.
- SwarmFarm Robotics — Global crop protection specialists ADAMA and Australian ag-tech company.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $808k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$63M; Series B $12M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Spriggy — Spriggy is a mobile app with a linked prepaid card that helps kids learn the concept of digital money.
- Airwallex — Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a global payments fintech that enables businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.In today’s fast-changing digital era, Airwallex's purpose is to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders, and by doing so, contribute to the global economy. With technology at its core, Airwallex builta proprietary global financial infrastructure platform to help businesses transact, collect and pay in any foreign currency across 130+ countries and 50+ currencies, without the constraints of the traditional global financial system.
- August Robotics — August Robotics creates robots to automate "dirty, dangerous and dull" workflows across the B2B economy. The company's first robot, Lionel, automates the dull and labour intensive task of floor-marking for the global exhibition industry. Lionel has been used as a critical part of the trade show setup process by the world'slargest exhibition companies in Europe and USA. August Robotics' second robot, Diego, automates the dirty and dangerous task of disinfecting high-traffic public areas, such as hotels, offices and aged care centers, optimizing hygiene and reducing the risks of infection. The company is also working on a number of other robots, each leveraging August Robotics' industry leading proprietary mobile robotics platform, which enables August Robotics to generate new robots for new cases far more quickly and cheaply than other robotics companies. The physical world is ripe for disruption by robots, and August Robotics is leading the charge to do this in the B2B segment
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: 84
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.5M; Series A $1.6M–$16M; Series B $471k–$22M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Lucia Bio — Lucia Bio is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing Syk inhibitors that help in the treatment of immunological diseases.
- Tiny Bright Things — Melbourne-based company Tiny Bright Things was cofounded in 2020 by long-time research collaborators Ray Dagastine and Chris Bolton. We invented Halo microscopy to transform the way researchers and manufacturers look at small or transparent things. This helps manufacturers in areas like agrichemicals and pharmaceuticals (where the size and shape ofpowders are critical) and researchers at every stage of discovery— particularly in nanotechnology (where samples are especially tiny) and life sciences (where samples are often also transparent).
- Kinoxis Therapeutics — Developing novel therapeutics for social dysfunction and substance use disorders.
We provide venture capital, expertise and advice to advanced manufacturing-focused Australian startups with global ambitions.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $3.8M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Refilled — Refilled is an eco-friendly company that offers smart drink dispenser vending machines to eliminate single-use plastic bottles.
- Mynu Energy — Mynu Energy provides modular battery storage systems using repurposed EV batteries for commercial and industrial applications.
- 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.
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: 311
- Round size: Seed $34k–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3M; Series A $3.4M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
- Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.
- 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
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: 46
- Round size: Seed $875k–$4.2M; Series A $2.8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.7M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Ovum — Meet Ovum, the intelligent health journal mobile app designed for womankind.
- 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.
- Clean Slate Clinic — Clean Slate Clinic is a telehealth company that provides alcohol detox program who are struggling with alcohol.
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Browse database — It's Free!Virescent Ventures invests in founders, technologies, and businesses that can help achieve zero emissions and beyond.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Clean Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Philippines, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $4M–$7.1M; Series A $11M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
- 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.
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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: 1205
- Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Carble — We provide carbon insetting technology to tropical commodity buyers and cash incentives to farmers that protect the forest. Our satellite-powered platform monitors carbon emissions, allowing for deforestation-free farming to be rewarded at scale.
- Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
- One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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
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.
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 $673k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- MGA Thermal — MGA Thermal, specialists in thermal energy storage technology. Renewable, high-power, economical, modular, safe and sustainable thermal storage solutions.
- National Renewable Network — National Renewable Networks - Leading the future of renewable energy across Australia
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: 184
- Round size: Seed $750k–$10M; Series A $2.8M–$35M; Series B $4M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $288M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- TrueState — Accelerate your AI adoption with TrueState's library of high-impact AI solutions, infinitely customisable for your unique business context.
- Sauce — AI customer insights for product teams
- SafetyCulture — Digitize & improve elements of your operations. Give your teams the knowledge, tools & confidence to work safely & meet higher standards.
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 $938k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $811k–$942k; Series A $3M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
- 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.
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 $128k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $128k–$627k
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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.
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
- Blakthumb — Blakthumb is an Operating System software for cannabis and food producers. We make your operations so simple and intuitive, it's like running on autopilot.
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, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $337k–$629k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Giftbee — Giftbee is a B2B gifting marketplace with smart, eco-friendly solutions that enhance value and experience.
- 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.
- The Laundry Lady — The Laundry Lady is a mobile laundry service company that offers washing, ironing, pickup, and delivery services.
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
- Nitero — Nitero is a fabless semiconductor company with offices in Austin, Texas and Melbourne Australia. They are designing an ultra-low power 60 GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi solution that performs at speeds up to 10X faster than even the very latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions – all that with close to zero latency.They spun out in 2011 from National ICT Australia(NICTA) and have benefited from years of their 60GHz commercial-focused research. In the past two years they put together a world class team and are aggressively developing a unique mobile-60GHz product.They are growing rapidly and seeking more world changers to join the effort. If you are looking for a challenging opportunity, check out their careers page and drop us a line.
- Quantenna Communications — Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensionalapproach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.
- Precise Light Surgical — Precise Light Surgical creates less invasive surgical resection solutions, preserving critical anatomy to improve patient outcomes.
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Browse database — It's Free!Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Energy
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $34k–$1.3M; Angel $219k–$918k
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Emanda — Emanda App helps business advisory firms and companies determine business value, auto-generate data rooms, set goals, and track progress daily via AI-driven tools.
- 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.
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, CleanTech, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $673k–$7M; Pre-Seed $673k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sherlok — Built by brokers for brokers, Sherlok is Australia’s first automated repricing and refinancing tool. In this session we invite Adam Grocke in to discuss what Sherlock is doing to help brokers manager their clients ongoing service experience. With Sherlok, brokers can:Reprice loans automatically • Sherlok predicts when a client will leave abroker, monitors interest rates, detects when homeowners could be on a lower rate with their current lender, and automatically reprices the home loan on the brokers behalf.Generate refinancing leads • Sherlok compares clients’ rates against other lender rates, identifies valuable refinancing opportunities from the broker’s existing trail book, and sends these leads straight to the broker’s inbox.
- 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.
- Clayful — Clayful partners with K-12 schools and districts to support student mental wellness through on-demand coaching, responsive curriculum, & actionable data trends.
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: 43
- Round size: Seed $457k–$3M; Pre-Seed $330k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- 8seats — 8seats offers a secure, effortless messaging app for teams! Boost productivity with real-time chat, team collaboration for businesses of any size. Get started for free!
- Nullify — Nullify performs product security tasks alongside your developers.
- Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
Transmedia Capital is a top performing technology venture fund providing deep domain expertise, operating experience, and advisory relationships.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.2M; Series A $2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
- Greywing — Make better decisions and give time back to your team with Generative AI.
- Armstrong Robotics — Armstrong is building general-purpose robots for kitchens, starting with dishwashing. Our robots already wash over a million dishes a year, and can install in a new restaurant in hours.
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 $4M–$10M; Series B $3.1M–$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.
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: 111
- Round size: Seed $404k–$4.2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M; Series B $9.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
- CoverRight — Use CoverRight's tools to find a personalized Medicare plan and get the best coverage for your situation! Compare and enroll in Medicare Advantage, Medigap, and Prescription Drug Plans, all in one place.
- Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.
We back pioneers who share our vision for a better tomorrow.
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- Industry: Energy, Music, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $979k–$5.4M; Series A $1.8M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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
- Circle In — Support your caregiver employees and create a family-inclusive business culture utilizing our data-backed research, processes, and tools.
Rio Tinto is a mining and exploration finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. Steel is made from iron ore. Aluminum with a low carbon footprint for electric vehicles and smartphones. Copper is used in wind turbines, electric cars, and water pipes in our homes. Borates, which aid crop growth, and titanium, which is used inpaint.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Mining
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5M; Series B $30M–$198M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vycarb — Vycarb is a Brooklyn-based firm that enables decentralized carbon removal through real-time, autonomous, and direct detection of CO2 in water.
- Terra AI — Accelerate and improve resource exploration
- ElectraLith — The cleanest, most versatile and most cost-efficient method of extracting and refining lithium, the primary element of a sustainable future.
Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.
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- Industry: Software, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bovonic — Bovonic is an agriculture software developer that helps dairy farmers to enhance the productivity and profitability of their animals.
- Mars Bioimaging — MARS portable CT imaging systems bring diagnostics closer to patients with unprecedented spectral resolution and extremely low radiation doses.
- Quantifi Photonics — Quantifi Photonics is a critical supplier of photonics test and measurement instruments to the world's leading photonics manufacturers, universities and research organizations.
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: 32
- Round size: Seed $962k–$7M; Series A $4M–$10M; Series B $8.7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ampd Energy — A state of the art battery system with high output power electronics powers the most demanding of loads. Enabling the use of zero or low carbon energy sources.
- Xandar Kardian — FDA-cleared, contactless Remote Patient Monitoring radar sensor enabling proactive health care through continuous vital sign monitoring.
- Hubble.Build — Build better, faster, safer and cost-effective with our construction management software. Learn how to digitise and automate your construction worksite workflows.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 82
- Round size: Seed $367k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $410k–$2.2M; Series A $4.2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% 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.
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.
An international boutique consultancy group and family office providing comprehensive advisory and administrative support with financial, security and lifestyle affairs. We speak English, Spanish, German, Italian and Afrikaans.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Sustainability
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Khloro — Khloro is a disruptive two-sided marketplace focused on a sustainable future by facilitating the growth of alternative proteins.
Day One Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications. This enables the Day One team to become actively involved in its portfolio companies and plays a real, tangible role in helping them grow. The firm invests across industries from pre-seed to seed - and occasionally series A, andinvests between $100k and $5 million.Day One Ventures was founded by Masha Drokova, who is an angel investor, entrepreneur, communications executive, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Filed — Filed renders digital marketing, social marketing, campaign optimization, retargeting, facebook advertising and social media services.
- Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.
- Root — Root is a next-generation social platform that combines communication tools with a customizable app framework, allowing communities to organize, coordinate, and extend their functionality through apps.
Grantham Foundation seeks to protect and improve the health of global environmental issues and supports individuals and organizations. It also supports communication and collaboration in environmental protection, with an emphasis on climate change.The foundation focuses on communications to enable the general public to understand that climatechange represents the world’s primary environmental threat today and that mitigating and adapting to a changing climate will lead to a more sustainable and prosperous future.Grantham Foundation was founded in 1997 by Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Environmental Consulting, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Total investments: 71
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Paebbl — Captured carbon re-stored into raw materials. We put CO2 to good, permanent use in carbon-negative minerals through the process of CO2 mineralisation.
- Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.
- Hephae Energy Technology — Enabling Next-Generation Geothermal with Ultra High Temperature Robotics to support the life cycle of the geothermal energy transition.
Stellar Ventures is a women led venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Aerospace, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, Australia
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- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Solestial — Delivering cost-effective, reliable and safe solutions to power the new space economy.
- Firehawk Aerospace — Firehawk Aerospace builds hybrid rocket engines that throttle by 3D printing rocket fuel improving safety, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
- Esper Satellite Imagery — Esper is building and launching the world's most versatile satellite imagery network for mineral exploration, agronomy, and national security. Order imagery now.
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: 38
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.
- Archistar.ai — Archistar's world-first artificial intelligence helps property professionals find profitable land development sites, assess for feasibility and generate dozens of architectural design strategies - all within a few minutes
- Zodia Custody — Crypto Custody, Without Compromise. Empowering global institutions to navigate the digital asset landscape simply, safely, and without compromise.
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: 47
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tendl — Write tenders faster with Tendl's AI tool. Keep your data private and secure. Easy installation, no sharing. Boost productivity and streamline your contract opportunities.
- 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.
- Refold AI — Cobalt is an embedded iPaaS for SaaS apps. Ship 10x faster with native API connectors. No infrastructure worries, just seamless embedded integrations for devs.
Transforming defence innovation through strategic partnership between the University of Adelaide (UoA), the University of NSW (UNSW) and industry partners, with support from the Australian Government Department of Education.
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- Industry: Mining, Manufacturing, Precious Metals
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
- ADR (Australian Droid + Robot) — Industrial robotics and automation. We provide robot and drone solutions to solve problems. At Australian Droid and Robot our motto is 'Safety by Separation' - our robots are built for hazardous environments - humans are not.
- Advanced Alloy Holdings — Tailored alloy solutions for advanced applications
Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- TALY — TALY is a platform that is designed to find, manage and retain employees from both perfromance and personality for business development.
- Viewa — Viewa is an augmented reality(AR) content publishing platform that brings print media such as magazines to life in 3D.
- Termina — Termina operates as an energy tech startup.
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Browse database — It's Free!Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $34k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $539k–$1.5M; Series A $1.2M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
- TokenOne — TokenOne is a Cyber Security software company that makes it easy to replace passwords, tokens and other forms of authentication with a more secure solution.
- ProfitPeak — Unify marketing performance, margin clarity, and inventory risk for profitable growth.
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: 157
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Foxglove — Foxglove is visualization and management for temporal and multimodal data. It's used by robotics companies to scale and accelerate development.
- Antioch — Antioch is the development and simulation platform for autonomy teams to accelerate timelines, rigorously evaluate autonomous systems, and deploy with confidence.
- HealthNow — HealthNow provides accessible healthcare services that give you control of your health. Manage how you access care, when you need it.
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, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
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- Total investments: 57
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
- 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 — Turn your existing content and products into agency-grade Meta ads in minutes. Cuttable's AI advertising platform combines decades of advertising expertise with cutting-edge technology to help ecommerce brands create high-performing ads at scale - without the agency price tag.
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.
Investing in early-stage companies solving the biggest science and engineering challenges since 2014.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- NeuroBionics — NeuroBionics aims to advance neurotech and human health through bioelectronic medicine, by developing devices that seamlessly integrate with the human body.
- Montara Therapeutics — Montara Therapeutics is a precision-medicine neuroscience biotech startup improving safety and efficacy of therapies for people with neurological diseases
- Esper Satellite Imagery — Esper is building and launching the world's most versatile satellite imagery network for mineral exploration, agronomy, and national security. Order imagery now.
Autodesk Foundation is the first foundation to focus investment exclusively on the people and organizations using design for impact.
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- Industry: Energy, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
- Last Energy — Last Energy is creating a new system for the development and delivery of small modular nuclear power plants. Combining proven reactor technology with a first-of-its-kind delivery model and fully modular plant design, Last Energy aims to decarbonize energy production and increase access to clean, affordable power.
- Found Energy — Found Energy's aluminum-thermal power systems extract renewable energy from aluminum at double the energy density of diesel and at a competitive cost. Compact, modular, safe, and carbon-free, our technology makes industrial decarbonization practical.
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, B2B, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Avarni — Smart carbon emissions management tool designed for complex supply chains. Turn your raw data into meaningful emissions insights and bolster your carbon strategy.
- Paypa Plane — Future-focused payment systems that deliver benefits to banks, enterprises and payers. Working with existing systems to elevate legacy payment structures - Paypa Plane is ready to move the payment ecosystem forward.
- Music Health — Music Health is a music technology company developing Ai-driven music-based interventions for better brain health management
Welcome to the official website of Sumitomo Corporation, a leading integrated trading company engaged in diverse businesses based on its global network.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Series B $6.3M–$142M; Corporate Round $3.6M–$241M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monogusa — Monoxer is a Information Technology.
- Loop — Loop provides integrated solutions across strategy, compliance, and execution to help mining operators reduce emissions, capture fugitive gas, and create value through beneficial reuse.
- Pharos — Pharos incorporates effective blockchain technology into real-world asset verticals and decentralized finance. Pharos Network is promoting trustless innovations that benefit asset markets and underprivileged communities, bolstering the global economy of the future and facilitating the widespread use of Web3 technologies.
Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Data Zoo — Authoritative global data that makes onboarding fast, accurate and compliant for tech-forward enterprises and identity providers.
- Aerologix — Free access to the largest qualified drone pilot network in the southern hemisphere via one platform.
- EcoJoule Energy — EcoJoule Energy delivers intelligent, Australian-made power management systems that improve energy quality, reliability, and efficiency.
UniQuest is a university commercializing and technology transfer company.
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- Industry: Medical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- PERKii — PERKii Targeted Release Probiotics are naturally micro-shielded to resist stomach acid up to 10,000x stronger than non micro-shield probiotics. For a targeted release in your gut and a difference you can feel. PERKii Probiotic Drinks are bottled with one billion or more probiotics per serve.
- Vicebio — [...]Read More... from Home
- 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
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