HESTA
VC Fund
Melbourne, Australia
HESTA is a VC fund in Melbourne focused on Solar and Software. HESTA provides superannuation services, including investment options, insurance, and retirement planning to its members. The super fund is tailored for people working in the health and community services sector.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
Last updated:
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Industries HESTA invests in
Stages HESTA invests in
Countries HESTA invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
3 more contacts available
Round size
- Series A
- $6.3M–$17M
- Series B
- $20M–$27M
- Private Equity
- $81M–$1.5B
Investment Focus
Industry
- Solar 2 (13%)
- Software 2 (13%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (13%)
- Apps 1 (7%)
- SaaS 1 (7%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (20%)
- Private Equity 3 (20%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Seed 1 (7%)
- Series C 1 (7%)
Country
- Australia 8 (53%)
- United States 3 (20%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Debby Blakey
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jeff Brunton
Head of portfolio management
|
Head of portfolio management | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Heidi Health
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Heidi Health develops an ambient AI medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation and related tasks. It listens to patient-clinician conversations, transcribes key highlights, and then produces structured notes, referral letters, patient summaries, billing codes, and other downstream documents. The system supports customizabletemplates, allows editing during sessions, and integrates with various EHR systems while offering compliance with privacy and security standards. Clinicians in multiple specialties and care settings use Heidi to reduce administrative burden, improve focus on patient care, and streamline workflows. | $16.6M / Series A / Mar 03, 2025 | |
SafetyCulture
|
SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements. | $49.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 09, 2024 | |
Pine Gate Renewables
|
Pine Gate Renewables is a developer and owner-operator of utility-scale solar and energy storage projects. With one of the largest operational fleets and development pipelines, the company provides renewable energy and storage solutions for utility and C&I partners across North America. It operates utility-scale solar farms and also offersrelated services including land origination, project development management, community outreach management, financing, and asset management. | $650M / Private Equity / Apr 29, 2024 | |
Gilmour Space Technologies
|
Gilmour Space Technologies is an Australia and Singapore-based rocket company that is developing and launching low-cost hybrid launch vehicles for small satellites. Gilmour Space is tracking to launch our Eris orbital launch vehicles and G-Sat small satellite bus/platforms to Low Earth Orbits (LEO) in 2024. | $35.9M / Series D / Feb 19, 2024 | |
Generate Capital
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Generate Capital is a finance company that builds, owns, and operates sustainable infrastructure to deliver affordable and reliable resource solutions. The company operates and finances assets in energy, mobility, and water resources. | $1.5B / Private Equity / Jan 31, 2024 | |
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Heidi Health
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Heidi Health develops an ambient AI medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation and related tasks. It listens to patient-clinician conversations, transcribes key highlights, and then produces structured notes, referral letters, patient summaries, billing codes, and other downstream documents. The system supports customizabletemplates, allows editing during sessions, and integrates with various EHR systems while offering compliance with privacy and security standards. Clinicians in multiple specialties and care settings use Heidi to reduce administrative burden, improve focus on patient care, and streamline workflows. | $6.3M / Series A / Oct 25, 2023 | |
Locus Robotics
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Locus Robotics manufactures autonomous, mobile robots to support e-commerce for retailers and warehouse logistics providers. Its technology works collaboratively alongside workers to dramatically improve order productivity and increase fulfillment speed and throughput 2X-3X with near-perfect order accuracy, to ensure that consumers receive theirorders as quickly and accurately as possible.It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts. | $117M / Series F / Nov 29, 2022 | |
Morse Micro
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Morse Micro is a fast-growing wireless integrated circuit solutions company that is reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company was founded by Wi-Fi pioneers and innovators, Michael De Nil and Andrew Terry, joined by the original Wi-Fi inventor Prof. Neil Weste and wireless industry veterans, whose teams designed Wi-Fi chipsinto billions of smartphones. Headquartered in Australia with offices in China and the U.S., Morse Micro’s strong and diverse system team, portfolio of IP and patents, enables Wi-Fi HaLow connectivity across the complete IoT ecosystem, from surveillance systems and access control to industrial automation and mobile devices, allowing connected devices to reach farther. www.morsemicro.com | $20M / Series B / Nov 28, 2022 | |
Edrolo
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At Edrolo, our mission is simple: to improve education. We're an Australian, venture-backed edtech startup with global ambitions. We are all passionate about our mission and building a culture where we can all do the best work of our lives.Our belief is that all students should have access to the greatest teachers, people who bringsubjects to life and inspire learning and passion. We believe students should have access to this regardless of where they live or what school they attend. Additionally, all schools should have access to powerful data to drive school improvement, which is accessible via our platform. | $28.9M / Series B / Jun 07, 2022 | |
Magaloop
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MAGALOOP IS PURSUING THE VISION OF CONNECTING GLOBAL INDEPENDENT RETAIL WITH FMCG´S ON ITS DIGITAL MARKETPLACE | $9.3M / Seed / May 12, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does HESTA invest in?
HESTA invests primarily in Solar, Software and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series B and Private Equity stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is HESTA's check size?
HESTA typically joins rounds of $6.3M–$17M at Series A, $20M–$27M at Series B and $81M–$1.5B at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds HESTA participates in.
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Who are the partners at HESTA?
The team at HESTA includes Debby Blakey (CEO) and Jeff Brunton (Head of portfolio management). 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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