Queensland Business Development Fund
VC Fund
Queensland Business Development Fund is a VC fund focused on SaaS and iOS. Queensland Business Development Fund
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Queensland Business Development Fund invests in
Stages Queensland Business Development Fund invests in
Countries Queensland Business Development Fund invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $600k–$1.2M
- Series A
- $4.8M–$14M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.7M–$3.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (29%)
- iOS 1 (14%)
- Solar 1 (14%)
- AgTech 1 (14%)
- Energy 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (29%)
- Series A 2 (29%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (29%)
- Grant 1 (14%)
Country
- Australia 6 (86%)
- United States 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global crop protection specialists ADAMA and Australian ag-tech company. | $3.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 08, 2020 | ||
| Gathar is a dinner party marketplace that matches hosts with caterers. Gathar offers a range of set menus priced at between $38 and $150 a head, and even a $750 five-course lobster, steak and truffle meal for two. | $600K / Seed / Jun 09, 2020 | ||
| Kira Biotech is an emerging Australian biotechnology company developing novel immunomodulatory compounds for the treatment of immune system disorders. Its lead candidate, KB312, is a first-in-class, selective, immune-cell depleting monoclonal antibody which targets activated immune cells and aims to restore homeostasis through induction of immunetolerance. Kira Biotech has attracted venture capital funding and is progressing KB312 through preclinical development and phase 1 clinical trials with a team of drug development experts led by well-known US-based rheumatologist and immunologist, Dr Dan Baker. | $13.7M / Series A / Oct 28, 2019 | ||
| Kapiche is a B2B SaaS company that has built an experience intelligence platform to help customer-centric organisations understand and optimize the experiences they deliver. The platform is built around their Natural Language Processing technology which can take 10s of 1,000s of pieces of unseen customer/employee feedback data (both structuredand unstructured) and, in minutes, with no prior setup and no pre-trained models, identify the salient themes being discussed, how the respondents feel about those themes, and what impact it has on your business. | $1.2M / Seed / Sep 03, 2019 | ||
| Red Earth was founded by Chris Winter, Charlie Walker and Bruce Ebzery. Chris was founder of ASX-listed RedFlow Ltd, Bruce is a former Energex executive and Charlie is an experienced CEO and CFO of ASX-listed tech companies. Together with their extended highly seasoned team within the solar battery industry, their mission is to provide Australiansa better and scalable choice when it comes to energy freedom. | $4.8M / Series A / Aug 12, 2019 | ||
| Starts at Sixty is a news, blog and information website and online community for seniors and over 60s in Australia and New Zealand. They cover travel, living, romance, grey nomads, health, money matters, retirement, retirement lifestyles, hobbies, humour and life after retirement. Their readers are lively, active and technologically savvy,accessing their site through Facebook and Twitter as well as online at www.startsatsixty.com and via email. They have lots of fun on their site, with daily jokes, flashbacks and voyeuristic travel stories that make everyone enjoy themselves. See your world through the eyes of other seniors and over 60s Australia-wide.Founded in 2012, by Rebecca Wilson, it is run by the Stretch team, an experienced team of writers based in Brisbane; and written for by expert and community contributers all over the nation.An interactive site, it is designed to offer all the information, insights and ideas that those in the over-60 age-group are looking for. They accept submissions of content from topical experts and over 60 community members. At Starts at Sixty nothing is off-limits. They cover topics from travel and style to entertainment, relationship and hobbies and everything in between. Got a topic you would like covered? or if you would like to write an article for the over 60s… follow these links. And if you would like you advertise; make an enquiry! | $2.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 25, 2019 | ||
| CartonCloud is a time saving online logistics software that is supporting transporting and warehousing companies to become more efficient and move to paperless systems to reduce administration tasks immensely. Using sign-on glass technology for proof of deliveries to be recorded from ios or android devices you can log in online anytime and seeup-to-date logistics data - from anywhere on Mac, PC, tablet or mobile. | $761.1K / Grant / Dec 01, 2017 |
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FAQ
What does Queensland Business Development Fund invest in?
Queensland Business Development Fund invests primarily in SaaS, iOS and Solar startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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 round sizes does Queensland Business Development Fund invest in?
Queensland Business Development Fund typically joins rounds of $600k–$1.2M at Seed, $4.8M–$14M at Series A and $2.7M–$3.2M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Queensland Business Development Fund's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Queensland Business Development Fund took part in.
When did Queensland Business Development Fund last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Queensland Business Development Fund closed in Oct 2020. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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