Commencer Capital
VC Fund
Commencer Capital is a capital partner for founders and their emerging companies in Australia and New Zealand.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Commencer Capital invests in
Stages Commencer Capital invests in
Countries Commencer Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $4.8M–$25M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.3M–$8.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 3 (30%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (30%)
- Digital Media 2 (20%)
- SEM 1 (10%)
- SEO 1 (10%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (40%)
- Series A 3 (30%)
- Seed 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Phillips
Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer
|
Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| MadeComfy provides a platform for the short-term rental industry to facilitate its professional stakeholders while providing a consumer-facing brand to guests seeking both the uniqueness of short-term rentals and consistency in experience. MadeComfy is one of the fastest growing and most recognized short-term rental brands in the world, havingwon multiple awards like the Shortyz in 2020 and 2021 in London, Startcon "Best Startup 2018", AFR Fast Starters and most recently, AFR BOSS 4th Best Place to Work in Travel and Hospitality in 2022. | $10M / May 04, 2023 | ||
| Presien is a tool for industrial AI standardization, protecting effortlessly workers in a dynamic environment. | Seed / Dec 20, 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 | ||
| Vitable is a D2C company that helps individuals maintain a healthy and balanced diet through an innovative approach. Customers receive personalized vitamin boxes via a flexible subscription model, tailored to their goals, health, and lifestyle: no more standing and guessing in front of hundreds of bottles from the shelf. | Series A / May 27, 2022 | ||
| inkl works with the world's top publishers, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, Bloomberg, Washington Post and others - to create the world's most efficient news experience - without paywalls, clickbait or ads.We created inkl for people who need to know what's happening around the world but eitherdon't have the time to visit multiple news sites, or don't want to buy multiple news subscriptions. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 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. | $25M / Series A / May 24, 2021 | ||
| Our agents extract meaningful information from visual inputs - whether from live cameras, uploaded photos, or archived footage and convert it into structured, actionable data.This enables businesses to automate visual tasks, improve quality control, and generate insights from the physical world - without relying on barcodes, QR codes, or manualchecks.Tiliter’s Vision Agents can recognise products, parts, packaging, and behaviours across industries like retail, logistics, and manufacturing. They work in real time or retrospectively, using existing visual data to detect anomalies, verify outcomes, or streamline operations.Cloud-first and designed for ease of integration, our agents are fast to deploy, hardware-agnostic, and scalable. We make it possible for businesses of any size to implement computer vision without needing in-house AI teams or complex infrastructure.Our mission is to make computer vision easy to use and accessible for everyone. | $4.8M / Series A / Oct 20, 2020 | ||
| Longtail UX patented technology makes AI-optimised content discovery achievable for every website - for better user experience and higher conversion rates from the Search channel (SEM & SEO):The users’ specific search queries can be answered comprehensively on the first landing page, with the most relevant content from anywhere on yourwebsiteNow businesses can show users exactly what they were looking for in one click, for 1,000s of search query variations:- The best matching products- The closest store locations- The most relevant articles and reviewsMaking SEO management as simple and powerful as AdWords for SEM, with ROI directly measurable in the clients own web analytics, Longtail UX has never delivered less than 50% uplift on revenue from generic keyword SEO.For SEM, Longtail UX provides the missing link between ultra-targeted Ad and Keyword targeting and the current limitations of static website structures and delivers 20-30% in ROAS from Paid Search through higher conversion rates and superior landing page quality score.Longtail UX landing pages are highly scalable and don't require any changes to the existing website structure.Patent ‘Improvements in website traffic optimization’: AU 2014299245; Patent pending in US, EU and further markets. “Improvements in landing page generation”, Patent pending in AU, US, EU, among others.Longtail UX was founded in 2013 and is Australian-owned and based in Sydney. | $2.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 14, 2020 | ||
| Vamp is a global influencer marketing and content creation platform that connects brands like Adobe, Estée Lauder and Nestlé to its vetted community of creators, for beautifully effective campaigns. A trusted Business Partner of Facebook, Creative Marketing Partner of TikTok and Creative Partner of YouTube, Vamp provides brands with anomni-channel, self-serve solution for reaching their customers on social media. Vamp’s creators deliver premium, mobile-first content, turning marketing goals into reality. Whether it’s published in social feeds, transformed into ad-ready units or placed into targeted paid media campaigns, their content outperforms industry standards.Founded in Australia in 2015, Vamp now has global presence having completed campaigns in 65 countries. It has teams in Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, London, Jakarta and Tokyo. | $8.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 28, 2020 | ||
| They are on a mission to bring high-quality, sustainably-made prescription glasses to anyone in the world, no matter where they live and how much money they have. Their goal is to transform people’s lives through better vision – enabling them to learn, work and be independent. | $4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 11, 2018 |
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FAQ
What does Commencer Capital invest in?
Commencer Capital invests primarily in E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Media startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 Commencer Capital invest in?
Commencer Capital typically joins rounds of $4.8M–$25M at Series A and $2.3M–$8.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Commencer Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Commencer Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at Commencer Capital?
The team at Commencer Capital includes David Phillips (Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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