# Galileo Ventures

> Galileo Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 41%
- Fund size: $7.2M
- Last fund: Sep 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/galileovc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/galileovc
- Website: https://galileo.ventures/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/galileovc

Galileo Ventures is a seed venture capital firm that invests the next generation of emerging founders.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 14% |
| Apps | 3 | 8% |
| SaaS | 3 | 8% |
| Internet | 3 | 8% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 18 | 49% |
| Seed | 10 | 27% |
| Series A | 3 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 16 | 43% |
| United States | 3 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| James Alexander | Co-founder and Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-alexander-4 |
| David Rohrsheim | Investment Committee | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-rohrsheim |
| Hugh Stephens | Founder & General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hugh-stephens |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Isaacus | Isaacus is an AI research company building legal superintelligence.Isaacus currently offers a suite of state-of-the-art information retrieval, classification, extraction, and enrichment models that help supercharge legal AI applications.As proud supporters of open research, Isaacus maintains popular open-source datasets and libraries such asthe Massive Legal Embedding Benchmark (MLEB), Legal RAG Bench, Open Australian Legal Corpus, and semchunk.Isaacus is based in Melbourne, Australia, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but operates internationally, serving law firms, enterprises, and governments in the US, UK, Canada, Europe, India, and elsewhere. | $468.2K | Pre-Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Bugster | Bugster tests software products automatically, catching bugs before users do and generates end-to-end tests on web products 80% faster, safely and without the need to expand your development team. | $224.6K | Pre-Seed | Dec 16, 2024 |  |
| TrueState | TrueState’s mission is to enable the enterprise adoption of AI. We do this by providing affordable, easy-to-use tools that help organisations use their data and expertise to build great AI capabilities. | $999.2K | Pre-Seed | Jun 18, 2024 |  |
| CarbonHQ | CarbonHQ is your all-in-one platform making it easy to manage carbon projects across teams. Internal and external. | $391.7K | Pre-Seed | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| Relevance AI | Relevance AI is a platform for building custom AI agents, aiding companies in automating repetitive reasoning tasks efficiently. The company offers two main products: AI Tools, which facilitate seamless integration into workflows for automating repetitive tasks, and AI Agents, which streamline complete workflows in areas such as marketing, sales,and research. Relevance AI aims to empower teams, ensuring limitations are driven by ideas, not size. | $15M | Series A | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| Fairblock | Fairblock operates as an unlike zero knowledge(ZK) technology. Fairblock is building the infrastructure that can enable pre-execution privacy and conditional decryption. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Oct 05, 2023 |  |
| Andromeda Robotics | Andromeda Robotics is a Melbourne-based startup that designs and builds AI-powered companion robots, with the goal of improving well-being and reducing loneliness, particularly among the elderly and children in hospitals and care centers. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 18, 2023 |  |
| envirometrics.io | Envirometrics.io simplifies spatial analytics to make environmental monitoring easier and more accessible. Our first product, Mine-R, is tailored to the mining sector so that sites are able to track environmental targets and meet compliance. | $136.2K | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Steppen | Social media fitness app targeting the Gen Z community. Tiktok meets Spotify for fitness. Create, complete, share and remix workouts all on Steppen. Follow your friends, athletes and personal trainers to complete their workouts. | $1.1M | Seed | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Kite Magnetics | Electric motors enabling electric aircraft of all sizes to fly further, carry more and emit less. The future of aviation is electric. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 30, 2022 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Artesian VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artesian-capital-management) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Investible](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investible) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [1Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1up-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Breakthrough Victoria](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-victoria) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Heracles Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herakles-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Galileo Ventures invest in?

Galileo Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Apps startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 37 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Galileo Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Galileo Ventures?

The team at Galileo Ventures includes James Alexander (Co-founder and Partner), David Rohrsheim (Investment Committee) and Hugh Stephens (Founder & General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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