# Macdoch Ventures

> Macdoch Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney backing Software and E-Commerce. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/macdoch-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MacdochVentures
- Website: https://macdochventures.com/

Macdoch Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Software and E-Commerce. Our mission is to support Australia & New Zealand’s late seed stage founders. Since 2011, we have partnered with extraordinary founders building companies using technology to build a better future.We are looking for late seed stage founders who have a product and paying customers, in businesses across Australia & New Zealand. Our currentthesis surrounds networked businesses (like platforms and marketplaces) and select SaaS, but we do engage more broadly.We have been active seed investors since 2011. We invested in Cliff, Mel and Cameron when Canva was just starting to offer paid subscription plans. We partnered with Dylan and Mark at Qwilr based on their first public beta. Peter and Tony at Mable had 350 carers on their Sydney-based marketplace when we first partnered with them.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $400k–$4.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $808k–$2.2M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$7.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 26% |
| E-Commerce | 10 | 26% |
| SaaS | 8 | 21% |
| Retail | 4 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 11% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 47% |
| Series A | 7 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 19 | 50% |
| United States | 5 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alasdair Macleod | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alasdair-macleod |
| Eliza Jackson | Associate; Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eliza-jackson |
| Michael Robinson | Co-founder & Head of Macdoch Ventures | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-s-robinson-utah |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brainfish | Brainfish is a trailblazing artificial intelligence (AI) company that specializes in delivering seamless customer experience (CX) solutions by harnessing the power of natural language processing (NLP). Our groundbreaking technology transforms the way customers and businesses interact globally, by providing instant answers to customer servicequeries in any language, and uplifting and enhancing customer support agents. | $6.4M | Seed | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Flagship | Flagship is a retail technology platform to bring new technology to the brick-and-mortar retail world. Flagship is introducing innovative visual merchandising technology to the world of brick-and-mortar retail. | $3.8M | Seed | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Primary | Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| ProfitPeak | ProfitPeak is a SAAS company that offers an app for e-commerce marketing solutions. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Farmbot | Farmbot was established in Sydney in 2014 and is a leading Australian Agtech company in the Internet of Things (IoT) of Agriculture. The company monitors and reports on-farm water ecosystems delivering real-time reporting on water trends, consumption and alerts. As water is the lifeblood of all agricultural endeavours, a detailed understanding ofits usage helps farmers make better management decisions around asset utilisation, resource allocations and carrying capacities. One of the key challenges of the agriculture industry is feeding an ever-growing population, with fewer resources, in a sustainable way. Farmbot sees a growing opportunity in the agricultural industry to provide monitoring solutions that have the capabilities to enable more sustainable and efficient practices. Farmbot has developed an extensive range of monitoring devices which connects to the core monitor enabling farmers to check water, diesel and trough levels, rainfall, staff movements via a safety check-in module, electric fences voltages, flow and pressure rates remotely. We are continuing to build a portfolio of connected devices, expanding the ecosystem. | $3M | Series B | Jun 10, 2024 |  |
| Brainfish | Brainfish is a trailblazing artificial intelligence (AI) company that specializes in delivering seamless customer experience (CX) solutions by harnessing the power of natural language processing (NLP). Our groundbreaking technology transforms the way customers and businesses interact globally, by providing instant answers to customer servicequeries in any language, and uplifting and enhancing customer support agents. | $2.6M | Seed | May 06, 2024 |  |
| Flagship | Flagship is a retail technology platform to bring new technology to the brick-and-mortar retail world. Flagship is introducing innovative visual merchandising technology to the world of brick-and-mortar retail. | $2M | Seed | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| Brainfish | Brainfish is a trailblazing artificial intelligence (AI) company that specializes in delivering seamless customer experience (CX) solutions by harnessing the power of natural language processing (NLP). Our groundbreaking technology transforms the way customers and businesses interact globally, by providing instant answers to customer servicequeries in any language, and uplifting and enhancing customer support agents. | $808K | Pre-Seed | Jul 22, 2023 |  |
| Reask | Reask is a science and technology company that focuses on natural hazard modeling. Reask offers real-time, post-event, and longer-term AI solutions for global weather-related catastrophes by Global Risk mapping and probabilistic trend forecasting of catastrophe risk analytics. | $4.6M | Seed | Jun 15, 2023 |  |
| Cecil | Cecil develops a natural asset management platform designed to scale a team and business. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 25, 2022 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Macdoch Ventures invest in?

Macdoch Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Macdoch Ventures typically joins rounds of $400k–$4.6M at Seed, $808k–$2.2M at Pre-Seed and $1.4M–$7.3M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Macdoch Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Macdoch Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Macdoch Ventures?

The team at Macdoch Ventures includes Alasdair Macleod (Founder), Eliza Jackson (Associate; Partner) and Michael Robinson (Co-founder & Head of Macdoch Ventures). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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