# Aura Ventures

> Aura Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney backing SaaS and Software. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Fund size: $24M
- Last fund: Oct 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aura-group-co/
- Website: https://www.aura.vc/

Aura Ventures is a venture capital firm backing the creators of category-defining technology companies. They provide wealth, funds management, and corporate advisory solutions to their clients.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Aura Ventures. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Aura Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/aura-venture-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$4.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $468k–$2M |
| Series A | $2M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 6 | 16% |
| Software | 6 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 11% |
| FinTech | 3 | 8% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 41% |
| Series A | 7 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 22 | 59% |
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| Denmark | 1 | 3% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Calvin Ng | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calvin-ng-2 |
| Charles Wong | Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-wong-2 |
| Eric Chan | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-chan-6 |
| Mark Esterhuizen | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-esterhuizen-7066 |
| Tristan Terry | Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tristan-terry |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Haast | Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services. | $12M | Series A | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| Isaacus | Isaacus is an AI research company building legal superintelligence.Isaacus currently offers a suite of state-of-the-art information retrieval, classification, extraction, and enrichment models that help supercharge legal AI applications.As proud supporters of open research, Isaacus maintains popular open-source datasets and libraries such asthe Massive Legal Embedding Benchmark (MLEB), Legal RAG Bench, Open Australian Legal Corpus, and semchunk.Isaacus is based in Melbourne, Australia, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but operates internationally, serving law firms, enterprises, and governments in the US, UK, Canada, Europe, India, and elsewhere. | $468.2K | Pre-Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Haast | Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services. | $3.9M | Seed | May 07, 2025 |  |
| Scannable | Safety Equipment Management System | $3M | Seed | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| JigSpace | JigSpace develops an AI-powered 3D visualization and augmented reality platform that enables businesses to create and share interactive “Jigs” for explaining complex products and processes. The company provides tools for spatial presentations, product demonstrations, training, and sales enablement, helping organizations improve understanding,engagement, and communication. | $13M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 12, 2024 |  |
| Tutero | Tutero is an Australian EdTech startup that offers educators a suite of products to help plan their teaching using student knowledge data. Tutero provides free classroom tools for teachers and personalised online tutoring services for students. | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 21, 2024 |  |
| SynergyXR | SynergyXR is a powerful B2B, SaaS platform that lets companies build their own Corporate Metaverse without having to be a tech wiz. | $2.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 06, 2024 |  |
| Hatch | Hatch is a recruiting platform that allows businesses to recruit people in a variety of professions. They assist individuals and teams in presenting their true selves so that they may discover their actual match and connect from the start. Hatch simplifies best practice, unbiased hiring so that every candidate has a fair chance.Hatch isheadquartered in Australian Capital Territory, Australia and was founded in 2017. | $4.6M | Seed | Feb 18, 2024 |  |
| Sahha | Predictive Mental Health Technology | $1.1M | Seed | Oct 22, 2023 |  |
| VycoLend | VycoLend is a decentralized non-custodial lending protocol service provider created for Layer 2 networks in order to develop a fast market for more conventional crypto asset lending services. Users can take part in autonomous lending pools as lenders or borrowers. | $500K | Seed | Apr 17, 2023 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Black Sheep Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-sheep-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Common Sense Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/common-sense-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [EVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equityventure-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Investible](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investible) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Rampersand](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rampersand) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Aura Ventures invest in?

Aura Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 37 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Aura Ventures's check size?

Aura Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4.6M at Seed, $468k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $2M–$12M 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 Aura Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Aura Ventures?

Public channels for Aura Ventures include LinkedIn 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 Aura Ventures?

The team at Aura Ventures includes Calvin Ng (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Charles Wong (Partner) and Eric Chan (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), 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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