Carthona Capital
VC Fund
Sydney, Australia
Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.Carthona Capital was founded in 2014 when a group of like-minded venture investors came together to invest on a deal-by-deal basis. Since then, Carthona Capital has shifted to a more traditional venture capital fundstructure, and is now deploying its third fund with approximately $400m in funds under management from a mix of Institutional (Superannuation), Family Office and High Net-worth investors.Carthona Capital likes to invest very early - their initial investment into a business is usually at the Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A stages. Carthona then likes to follow-on strongly and continue to deploy larger amounts of capital as a business matures.
- Total investments:
- 127
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
- Fund size:
- $100M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Carthona Capital invests in
Stages Carthona Capital invests in
Countries Carthona Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $469k–$5M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$17M
- Series B
- $10M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 19 (15%)
- Financial Services 13 (10%)
- FinTech 9 (7%)
- Information Technology 8 (6%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 40 (31%)
- Series A 21 (17%)
- Series B 12 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (5%)
Country
- Australia 38 (30%)
- United States 22 (17%)
- United Kingdom 3 (2%)
- Latvia 1 (1%)
- New Zealand 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dean Dorrell
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 38 | Find email | |
Brad Shofer
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Dave Gardiner
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
James Synge
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
Jonathan Chow
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| LendUs caters for all different types of home loan requirements for consumers. The platform is designed to provide a simple home loan experience, completing much of the application preparation. | $5M / Seed / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| PREVE seems to be focused on enhancing the physio experience through technology. PREVE is the leveraging AI, you're likely streamlining processes, improving communication, and personalizing care. | $2.2M / Seed / May 23, 2025 | ||
| Qlarifi is the first real-time BNPL consumer credit database. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| Ajust is a developer of a complaint redressal platform designed to facilitate consumer complaints in the banking, telecom, and energy industry. | $2M / Seed / Nov 29, 2024 | ||
| Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will | $11M / Series B / Nov 25, 2024 | ||
| BuildPass is a platform that uses AI to make construction sites more efficient. It combines all critical workflows of a construction site into a single platform, connecting all stakeholders and ensuring projects are delivered on time, built to a high quality and workers are kept safe. | $7.5M / Seed / Oct 24, 2024 | ||
| InDebted develops a cloud-based debt collection software designed to offer tailored debt management tools. Its cloud collections platform leverages machine learning to understand consumer preferences for servicing overdue accounts and provides application programming interfaces (APIs) to link to customer account systems, enabling small and mediumbusinesses to get flexible payment options.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in North Sydney, New South Wales. | $41.4M / Series C / Sep 24, 2024 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Cherre gives clients direct control over moving and managing their data, while providing the visibility, observability, and validation tools needed to improve data quality, support governance strategies, and establish data lineage for the rapidly changing regulatory environment. With Cherre, clients can automate workflows, optimize processes,maximize efficiencies, reduce risks, and identify opportunities to increase profitability by making smarter decisions with confidence. Cherre partners with the largest data providers, applications, and solution and service providers in the industry, creating a full ecosystem that supports clients across all their data needs. | $30M / Series C / Sep 18, 2024 | ||
| Aption provides equity pooling solutions for founders, executives and early employees to protect startup equity value. | $2.4M / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| See all 127 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Carthona Capital invest in?
Carthona Capital invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 127 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Carthona Capital's check size?
Carthona Capital typically joins rounds of $469k–$5M at Seed, $3.3M–$17M at Series A and $10M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Carthona Capital participates in.
How do I contact Carthona Capital?
Public channels for Carthona Capital 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 Carthona Capital?
The team at Carthona Capital includes Dean Dorrell (Partner), Brad Shofer (Venture Partner) and Dave Gardiner (Co-Founder), among 8 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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