Acorn Capital
VC Fund
Melbourne, Australia
Acorn Capital is a boutique investment manager that manages active VC and micro funds. It defines the public or listed microcap sector as those listed public companies that have market capitalizations less than the 250th largest company on the ASX. Acorn Capital’s research-driven investment process has been designed to take advantage ofinefficiencies that can exist in the microcap sector arising from poor information flows and the lack of liquidity. In contrast to the largest companies listed on the ASX, where there is a wealth of research and information, there is a relative lack of information on microcaps.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 35%
- Fund size:
- $64M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Acorn Capital invests in
Stages Acorn Capital invests in
Countries Acorn Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $6.4M–$25M
- Series B
- $5.9M–$33M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $7.1M–$27M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (22%)
- Financial Services 4 (17%)
- FinTech 3 (13%)
- Health Care 3 (13%)
- Manufacturing 3 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (26%)
- Series A 4 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (17%)
- Series C 3 (13%)
- Series D 1 (4%)
Country
- Australia 11 (48%)
- United States 2 (9%)
- India 1 (4%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Ben Dalling
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
|
Robert Routley
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vetic is a network of cutting-edge clinics with an emphasis on providing comprehensive pet health care. | $26.2M / Series C / May 10, 2025 | ||
| Conflux Technology is a new generation of heat exchangers made by metal additive manufacturing (3D printing). | $11M / Series B / Oct 21, 2024 | ||
| RDC is driven by its purpose to increase global access to inclusive, fair, and sustainable credit. Passionate about AI, RDC are continuously developing new techniques, and enhancing their Decisioning as a Service (DaaS) platform to leverage traditional and alternate data to make better credit decisions across the lending lifecycle. RDC’s philosophyis to build the supporting lenders to transform the origination and management of credit. RDC DaaS has been leveraged by leading lenders in different markets. | $5.9M / Series B / Aug 05, 2024 | ||
| Liquid Instruments develops software-defined test and measurement systems that enable engineers and scientists to perform complex experiments and signal analysis using a single, reconfigurable hardware platform. The company’s core offering is the Moku product line, which integrates multiple laboratory instruments, such as oscilloscopes, spectrumanalyzers, waveform generators, and lock-in amplifiers, into one device that can be configured and updated through software. Its platform is built on field-programmable gate arrays, allowing users to dynamically switch between instrument functions or combine multiple tools within the same system depending on testing requirements. This approach replaces traditional setups that rely on multiple standalone instruments, reducing equipment complexity, cost, and physical space while enabling customized configurations for different applications. | $8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 19, 2024 | ||
| Genero augments your agency and in-house resources with access to the world’s largest professional creative and content production network, at your fingertips.Our purpose-built production platform and streamlined end-to-end workflow replace inefficient manual processes, from the brief and creative ideation to production and storage. And Genero’sexpert team supports you at every step.It’s a creative and production solution unparalleled in speed, cost, quality and efficiency. | $3.3M / May 05, 2024 | ||
| ImmVirX hopes to advance a new generation of cancer treatments,By developing a novel oncolytic immunotherapy that targets cancer indications with high unmet need | $25M / Series B / Jun 05, 2023 | ||
| CurveBeam AI develops, manufactures, operates, and sells artificial intelligence tools for bone analysis. | $25M / Private Equity / Feb 02, 2023 | ||
| me&u is an online ordering and payment application designed to order meals. They provide communication technology to order and pay through mobile phones at restaurants. Their process of ordering with waiters and splitting bills that enable users to order their food and pay bills through a digital payment platform. | $30M / Series C / Dec 01, 2022 | ||
| Liquid Instruments develops software-defined test and measurement systems that enable engineers and scientists to perform complex experiments and signal analysis using a single, reconfigurable hardware platform. The company’s core offering is the Moku product line, which integrates multiple laboratory instruments, such as oscilloscopes, spectrumanalyzers, waveform generators, and lock-in amplifiers, into one device that can be configured and updated through software. Its platform is built on field-programmable gate arrays, allowing users to dynamically switch between instrument functions or combine multiple tools within the same system depending on testing requirements. This approach replaces traditional setups that rely on multiple standalone instruments, reducing equipment complexity, cost, and physical space while enabling customized configurations for different applications. | $28.5M / Series B / Sep 13, 2022 | ||
| mx51 partners with acquirers and payment providers to deliver exceptional merchant experiences. mx51's bank-grade payments as a service platform and scalable cloud-based technology seamlessly connects the world of commerce into payments. mx51 was established in 2016 in Sydney, New South Wales by Magnus Hsu. | $32.5M / Series B / Jul 19, 2022 | ||
| See all 23 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Acorn Capital invest in?
Acorn Capital invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Acorn Capital invest in?
Acorn Capital typically joins rounds of $6.4M–$25M at Series A, $5.9M–$33M at Series B and $7.1M–$27M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Acorn Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Acorn Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at Acorn Capital?
The team at Acorn Capital includes Ben Dalling (Investment Director) and Robert Routley (Chief Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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