# Dominic Pym

> Dominic Pym is a seed investor at Ferocia (Melbourne) backing Financial Services and Finance. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ferocia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ferocia)
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dompym
- Website: https://x.com/dompym

Dominic Pym is a seed investor at Ferocia in Melbourne focused on Financial Services and Finance. Dominic Pym is the Co-Founder and Advisory Board member at Ferocia, Co-Founder at Pin Payments, Co-Founder and Director at Euphemia, Director of FinTech Australia, and Co-Founder of Up. Dominic attended RMIT University, QUT (Queensland University of Technology), and Leeds Beckett University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $366k–$5.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $406k–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 33% |
| Finance | 2 | 17% |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Venture Capital | 2 | 17% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 8 | 67% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Heatseeker | Heatseeker offers Growth Hacking Services and helps startups in testing and learning in the market. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| WhyHive | WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses. | $406.4K | Pre-Seed | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| Heatseeker | Heatseeker offers Growth Hacking Services and helps startups in testing and learning in the market. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 18, 2024 |  |
| JustFund | JustFund is a finance firm that connects clients and lawyers in family law matters and offers flexible ways to manage legal fees. | $5.7M | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Birchal | Birchal is a crowd-sourced funding (CSF) platform that makes fundraising easier for forward-thinking businesses so they can focus on shaping the future. It facilitates founders' interactions with new stakeholders and investors. And it alters how investors discover and invest in the brands and businesses they value. | $799.9K | Equity Crowdfunding | Dec 13, 2023 |  |
| Bloom Impact Investing | Bloom Impact Investing is an app that makes it easier for retail investors to make impact investments. | $365.7K | Seed | Jan 16, 2023 |  |
| Aussie Angels | Aussie Angels is a group of investors who invest together as one entity on a cap table. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 11, 2023 |  |
| Aussie Angels | Aussie Angels is a group of investors who invest together as one entity on a cap table. |  | Seed | Jan 11, 2023 |  |
| Buildkite | Buildkite helps you ship your software faster and more reliably, with testing and deployment tools that work for all of your software projects – whether you build mobile apps, backend applications, or custom hardware. | $21M | Series B | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Birchal | Birchal is a crowd-sourced funding (CSF) platform that makes fundraising easier for forward-thinking businesses so they can focus on shaping the future. It facilitates founders' interactions with new stakeholders and investors. And it alters how investors discover and invest in the brands and businesses they value. | $3M | Equity Crowdfunding | Apr 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Archangel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archangel-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aussie Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aussie-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capital F](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-f) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eastend Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eastend-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Even Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/even-capital-cbe3) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Ferocia

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Ferocia.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dominic Pym | Co-Founder / Advisory Board member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominic-pym |

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## FAQ

### What does Dominic Pym invest in?

Dominic Pym invests primarily in Financial Services, Finance and Internet 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 Dominic Pym's check size?

Dominic Pym typically joins rounds of $366k–$5.7M at Seed and $406k–$1.5M 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 Dominic Pym participates in.

### When did Dominic Pym last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dominic Pym closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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