# Cardinia Ventures

> Cardinia Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cardiniavc
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/cardiniavc
- Website: https://www.cardiniaventures.com

Cardinia Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Cardinia Ventures supports and invests in software and hardware companies throughout a wide range of sectors from Pre-seed to Series A across Australia and the US. The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $726k–$1.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 42% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |
| EdTech | 2 | 17% |
| Database | 2 | 17% |
| Analytics | 2 | 17% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 6 | 50% |
| United States | 5 | 42% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Edward Hooper | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-hooper |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cadmus | Vericus develops a teaching and learning software tool that assures authenticity in written assessment called Cadmus. | $600K | Venture - Series Unknown | May 08, 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 |  |
| Edrolo | At Edrolo, our mission is simple: to improve education. We're an Australian, venture-backed edtech startup with global ambitions. We are all passionate about our mission and building a culture where we can all do the best work of our lives.Our belief is that all students should have access to the greatest teachers, people who bringsubjects to life and inspire learning and passion. We believe students should have access to this regardless of where they live or what school they attend. Additionally, all schools should have access to powerful data to drive school improvement, which is accessible via our platform. | $28.9M | Series B | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| OpenObserve | OpenObserve provides an open-source observability platform for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces in a unified system. The company develops software that supports data ingestion, querying, visualization, and alerting, helping teams analyze system performance and troubleshoot issues across distributed applications. Its platform is built on acolumnar storage architecture and integrates with standards such as OpenTelemetry, allowing compatibility with existing infrastructure and data pipelines.OpenObserve also includes capabilities for dashboards, real user monitoring, and incident management, supporting both development and operations workflows. The system can be deployed in self-hosted or cloud environments and is designed to scale across large data volumes using stateless architecture and distributed processing. | $3.6M | Seed | May 19, 2022 |  |
| Athyna | Athyna connects ambitious teams with world-class talent in engineering, data science, product, design, GTM, finance and more. We help companies build without borders: whether that’s scaling your team with top global professionals or exploring what’s next in AI.What we do:Athyna helps you find exceptional talent across the globe. Think of us asyour partner in building a team that actually gets it done, wherever they are in the world.Athyna Intelligence is our new initiative matching expert talent for AI post-training with AI labs and teams developing the next generation of models.Whether you’re scaling your team or pushing the AI frontier, we’re here to build it with you. | $500K | Seed | Apr 30, 2022 |  |
| Style Sourcebook | Style Sourcebook provides digital platform that allows users to create mood boards for interior design ideas using images of items that are available for purchase from independent retailers .Style Sourcebook brings together all the tools, people and ideas to help you create your perfect space. | $673K | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Style Sourcebook | Style Sourcebook provides digital platform that allows users to create mood boards for interior design ideas using images of items that are available for purchase from independent retailers .Style Sourcebook brings together all the tools, people and ideas to help you create your perfect space. | $726.1K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Spice AI | Spice AI is creating technology to make artificial intelligence and machine learning more accessible to developers. Building intelligent apps that leverage AI is still way too hard, even for advanced developers. Spice AI's mission is to make this as easy as creating a modern web page. This mission is in service of our vision to makequality-of-life improving AI accessible to all.Founded in June 2021, Spice AI, Inc. is a Seattle, Washington headquartered technology startup building developer-focused AI. Spice AI was founded by ex-Microsoft and GitHub engineers, with over 20 years of combined experience in distributed and cloud computing. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Oct 14, 2021 |  |
| Alariss Global | Alariss Global is the premier international expansion marketplace, connecting international companies with top local sales & BD talent. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 04, 2021 |  |
| Select Star | Select Star is a modern data governance platform that helps organizations manage and understand their data at scale – enabling AI, analytics, and self-service across the business. It automatically catalogs datasets, traces end-to-end lineage, and builds a shared business glossary and semantic layer, so teams can confidently work with trusted data.With a user-friendly data portal and built-in automation, Select Star supports use cases including data democratization, data governance, semantic layers, and cloud data migrations—serving as a foundational layer for enterprise AI and data initiatives. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 24, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Cardinia Ventures invest in?

Cardinia Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Cardinia Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.6M at Seed and $726k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cardinia Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Cardinia Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Cardinia Ventures?

The team at Cardinia Ventures includes Edward Hooper (Investor). 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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