# Paloma Ventures

> Paloma Ventures is a VC fund in Darlinghurst backing FinTech and Payments. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Darlinghurst, Australia
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://dovetailstudios.com/dovetail-ventures/

Paloma Ventures is a VC fund in Darlinghurst focused on FinTech and Payments. Dovetail Ventures is investing in seed and early-stage companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $831k–$1.4M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $3.4M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 25% |
| Payments | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Supply Chain Management | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 38% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 6 | 75% |
| New Zealand | 2 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ash Fogelberg | general partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ash-fogelberg-8bec |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marmalade | Marmalade is an invoice payments platform that empowers businesses to take complete control of their cash flow. | $10.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Taper | Taper is a business management software solution that provide tools to support brands to launch, manage and grow their supply chain. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Spinaway | Spinaway is a developer of a laundry application platform designed to offer on-demand laundry services. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Sherlok | Built by brokers for brokers, Sherlok is Australia’s first automated repricing and refinancing tool. In this session we invite Adam Grocke in to discuss what Sherlock is doing to help brokers manager their clients ongoing service experience. With Sherlok, brokers can:Reprice loans automatically • Sherlok predicts when a client will leave abroker, monitors interest rates, detects when homeowners could be on a lower rate with their current lender, and automatically reprices the home loan on the brokers behalf.Generate refinancing leads • Sherlok compares clients’ rates against other lender rates, identifies valuable refinancing opportunities from the broker’s existing trail book, and sends these leads straight to the broker’s inbox. | $3.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 28, 2023 |  |
| Authsignal | Authsignal is a B2C consumer authentication and orchestration platform. Built to deliver enterprise and mid-market teams' rapid capabilities to deploy omnichannel authentication and verification flows.Engineered to drop into existing architecture, Authsignal delivers the world's fastest path to uplifting and implementing passkeys andrisk-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) flows without the need to overhaul your current identity stack, with seamless integrations for best-in-class identity platforms, such as AWS Cognito, KeyCloak, Azure AD B2C, and Identity Server. Integration has never been this fast.Deploy with lightning speed, utilizing pre-built authentication flows or create customized UI experiences, leveraging Authsignal's React Native UI components, headless APIs, and mobile SDKs for iOS and Android.Optimizing user experience and balancing security is a breeze with Authsignal. With our No-code rules engine, create and deploy strong customer authentication flows in minutes. A drag-and-drop interface enables product and risk teams to easily secure customer accounts and enable seamless login experiences.Key Features:- Enterprise & consumer-tuned Passkey deployments. - Secure passwordless authentication with enterprise-grade passkey support. - Risk-based MFA that adapts to user behavior and threat signals. - Visual no-code rules and policy engine to build risk-based authentication flows. - Developer-friendly APIs and SDKs for rapid implementation. - 360-degree observability dashboards, conversion, and completion analytics. - Reporting suite with full audit trails and analysis. - Real-time rule analysis and anomaly detection across all user touchpoints. - Biometric authentication, identity verification (KYC), and proofing via partners, iProov, Veriff. - Support for SMS OTP, Email OTP, TOTP, Passkeys, WhatsApp OTP, Yubikey / FIDO2 hardware keys, push authentication, Device signing and binding. - PSD2 / SCA compliance support, Strong Customer Authentication. - Visual authentication flow builder with two-step authentication support. - SSO admin supported. - SOC2 Type 2 certified. - Hosted on AWS. - Available to transact via AWS Marketplace.Use Cases:- Streamlined user onboarding with minimal friction - Account takeover (ATO) prevention and response - Securing high-value transactions and sensitive actions - Protection against rewards program and promotion abuse - Self-service account recovery with strong identity verification - Step-up authentication for escalated permissions | $910.5K | Seed | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| ChemCloud | ChemCloud is a digital platform that makes it easy to discover, buy, and sell chemicals. ChemCloud allows customers to source all of their chemicals and raw materials from trusted suppliers, then track the location of their order and schedule production with confidence. ChemCloud reduces waste by connecting chemical distributors and manufacturersin order for them to buy and sell their products. | $831.3K | Seed | Jul 22, 2022 |  |
| InStitchu | InStitchu is an online custom clothier specializing in tailor made menswear. Customers are able to design custom made garments online which are then made to their exact measurements.InStitchu provides tailor made, high quality menswear through a simple online ordering process. Once a customer has added measurements to their profile, a suit orshirt can be ordered in a few minutes and on its way in two weeks. There are multiple ways for a customer to get their measurements perfected and enjoy that “perfect fit” InStitchu customers keep coming back for - our measurement guide will take you on a journey from your living room to the hustle and bustle of our tailor’s studio. Customers can choose from a wide range of globally sourced high quality wool and cotton fabrics, and when you’ve chosen, we’ll deliver your design right to your door. This new approach to shopping is stress free and cuts out the middleman, allowing us to deliver customers luxury tailor made suits and shirts without the high price tag. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 08, 2022 |  |
| Runn | Runn is a provider of real-time resource management and forecasting software for the modern workforce. It allows company project managers to plan, track, and forecast staffing capacity and capability. The company's cloud-based interface includes features that make dealing with complexity and change simple. A convenient scenario planningfeature enables users to quickly see how winning or losing new work will affect resourcing and the company's bottom line, or what skill sets a company may need to hire based on their future sales pipeline.Runn assists employers in understanding demand and available capacity, as well as the impact of project and milestone changes on their most valuable asset - their people. They can optimize individual and team workloads and avoid bottlenecks and delays that prevent them from doing better work. | $1.4M | Seed | Dec 14, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dovetail Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dovetail-investment-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GD1 (Global From Day One)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-from-day-one-fund-ii) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Investors Marlborough](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-investors-marlborough) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BlueStamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluestamp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Common Sense Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/common-sense-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Paloma Ventures invest in?

Paloma Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Payments and Software startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Paloma Ventures typically joins rounds of $831k–$1.4M at Seed and $3.4M–$10M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Paloma Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Paloma Ventures?

Public channels for Paloma Ventures include 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 Paloma Ventures?

The team at Paloma Ventures includes Ash Fogelberg (general partner). 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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