# Exhort Ventures

> Exhort Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney backing Software, SaaS and Timber. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exhortventures

Exhort Ventures is an early-stage venture capital syndicate based in Australia, focused primarily on investments in software and technology startups, though it maintains a sector-agnostic approach and considers opportunities across all industries. The syndicate targets investments from the angel to seed stage, with a particular interest innon-capital-intensive, tech-driven businesses.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$4.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $676k–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Timber | 1 | 14% |
| Construction | 1 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 14% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 43% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 4 | 57% |
| Philippines | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Contented AI | Contented AI offers AI-driven tools that help businesses generate, optimize, and manage written content for digital marketing. | $4.1M | Seed | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| SPEC Toolbox | CLT Toolbox offers sustainable design of structural materials, using software to clear through the clutter and make design simple. CLT Toolbox is building structural design software to make mass timber as easy as concrete or steel. | $3M | Seed | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Teacher’s Buddy | Teacher’s Buddy is an AI-driven tool for educators—enhancing learning, aligning with curricula, and accessible to all. | $1.2M | Seed | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Keeyu | keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Support Fusion | Support Fusion solves a painful, industry-wide problem: when enterprise clients co-manage IT with MSPs, support tickets and operational data must be rekeyed manually between disconnected systems like ServiceNow, ConnectWise, Jira, and Zendesk. This manual work creates delays, increases costs, and obscures performance visibility for both serviceproviders and their customers.By automating this ticket sync from the start, Support Fusion becomes the intelligence layer that sits between ITSM and PSA tools, unlocking time-saving automation across the full managed services lifecycle — from SLA monitoring and onboarding to QBR preparation and upsell identification. | $676.2K | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| PREVE | 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 |  |
| Fluency | Fluency is reshaping how businesses do processes. For too long, documentation has been completely manual, and automation reserved for technical wizards. Fluency automates process documentation, identifies efficiencies in new processes, and unlocks no-code automation. | $958K | Pre-Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Archangel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archangel-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Startmate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startmate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1MX AI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1mx-ai) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Altered Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altered-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Exhort Ventures invest in?

Exhort Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Timber startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Exhort Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$4.1M at Seed and $676k–$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 Exhort Ventures participates in.

### When did Exhort Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Exhort Ventures closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 7 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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