AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund
Sydney, Australia
AfterWork Ventures is a growing entrant in its early stages. Their investment process is infused with a deep appreciation for the founders' time, intelligence, and courage. Founders are commonly exposed to torturous, time-consuming due diligence processes, only to be unceremoniously rejected despite their efforts. They committed to showing upfor founders and created a transparent process that adds value at every step.
- Total investments:
- 86
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
Last updated:
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Industries AfterWork Ventures invests in
Stages AfterWork Ventures invests in
Countries AfterWork Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $367k–$3.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $410k–$2.2M
- Series A
- $5M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 23 (27%)
- FinTech 9 (10%)
- Financial Services 8 (9%)
- Information Technology 8 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 38 (44%)
- Pre-Seed 17 (20%)
- Series A 6 (7%)
- Series B 4 (5%)
- Funding Round 3 (3%)
Country
- Australia 35 (41%)
- United States 12 (14%)
- New Zealand 6 (7%)
- Singapore 2 (2%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adrian Petersen
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Annabel Acton
Creative Director
|
Creative Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Arthur Wong
Fellow
|
Fellow | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Mike Forster
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Niamh Mooney
Fellow
|
Fellow | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Enrola
|
Enrola provides AI sales agents that engage leads through personalized SMS conversations. The platform qualifies, nurtures, and follows up with leads, handles objections, books calls, and syncs conversation data and lead statuses with existing CRM systems. It also provides lead alerts, conversation summaries, and sales recommendations forfollow-up. | $2.1M / Seed / Aug 07, 2026 | |
OneMRI
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OneMRI is a provider of comprehensive whole-body MRI scans that are radiation-free, clinically reviewed by radiologists, and explained by doctors. | $1.6M / Seed / Aug 18, 2025 | |
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. | $1.5M / Seed / Jul 03, 2025 | |
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. | $5M / Seed / Jun 03, 2025 | |
PropHero
|
Our mission is to make property investment simple, stress-free and data-driven. PropHero helps you find, buy and manage the best investment properties using an online platform and propriertary AI algorithms. | $15.9M / Series A / Feb 19, 2025 | |
|
Enrola
|
Enrola provides AI sales agents that engage leads through personalized SMS conversations. The platform qualifies, nurtures, and follows up with leads, handles objections, books calls, and syncs conversation data and lead statuses with existing CRM systems. It also provides lead alerts, conversation summaries, and sales recommendations forfollow-up. | $800K / Pre-Seed / Oct 04, 2024 | |
Matilda Migration
|
Matilda Migration's belief that there is room for improvement in the visa application process is the driving force behind Matilda. Matilda migration agencies won't charge you a little for vague advice, bland checklists, or ineffective communication. Fortunately, Matilda has saved you from paying. | $690.6K / Pre-Seed / Sep 24, 2024 | |
Primary
|
Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways. | $2.4M / Seed / Sep 18, 2024 | |
Switchboard
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Switchboard mission is to simplifies supply chain operations with fast, easy, affordable integrations, and to support modern supply chains. | $999.5K / Seed / Jun 12, 2024 | |
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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. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Feb 21, 2024 | |
| See all 86 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does AfterWork Ventures invest in?
AfterWork Ventures invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 86 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is AfterWork Ventures's check size?
AfterWork Ventures typically joins rounds of $367k–$3.1M at Seed, $410k–$2.2M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$22M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds AfterWork Ventures participates in.
How do I contact AfterWork Ventures?
Public channels for AfterWork Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at AfterWork Ventures?
The team at AfterWork Ventures includes Adrian Petersen (Co-Founder), Annabel Acton (Creative Director) and Arthur Wong (Fellow), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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