Sapien Ventures
VC Fund
Sydney, Australia
Sapien Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on fintech, blockchain and online marketplaces, with offices in Australia, USA and China
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Sapien Ventures invests in
Stages Sapien Ventures invests in
Countries Sapien Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 16 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $673k–$4M
- Series A
- $1.1M–$1.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 4 (24%)
- FinTech 3 (18%)
- Marketplace 3 (18%)
- Information Technology 3 (18%)
- Apps 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (29%)
- Series A 3 (18%)
- Funding Round 2 (12%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Private Equity 1 (6%)
Country
- Australia 8 (47%)
- United States 2 (12%)
- Indonesia 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Christian Oey
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Daniel Laurence
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Helen Lorigan
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
John Baird
Executive in Residence
|
Executive in Residence | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
John Worton
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 16 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| Waku is Indonesia's award-winning F&B and catering platform, focusing on daily services for businesses and government entities. With 60+ kitchens and over 15K+ menu selections, we are a one-stop service, serving thousands people daily with the most complete services in Indonesia, from rice box, snack box, buffet, coffee break, vegan &vegetarian meals, in-home fine dining, BBQ, pantry supplies, frozen food, and more. | $1M / Seed / Oct 01, 2022 | ||
| Feel Therapeutics is a digital precision medicine company delivering objective data and passive measurement for mental health. The company develops physiological and digital biomarkers and therapeutics for mental health. Its Feel data monitoring device leverages five embedded sensors via the wristband. Feel collects biometric data and analyzes themusing the latest cutting-edge methods of computer science to develop digital biomarkers.Feel Therapeutics, formerly known as Sentio Solutions. | $4.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 06, 2022 | ||
| Feel Therapeutics is a digital precision medicine company delivering objective data and passive measurement for mental health. The company develops physiological and digital biomarkers and therapeutics for mental health. Its Feel data monitoring device leverages five embedded sensors via the wristband. Feel collects biometric data and analyzes themusing the latest cutting-edge methods of computer science to develop digital biomarkers.Feel Therapeutics, formerly known as Sentio Solutions. | $4M / Convertible Note / Feb 07, 2022 | ||
| Axichain is an Australian owned company with the mission of streamlining & simplifying processes in domestic and international supply chains. We offer a fantastic range of farm management solutions suitable for farmers, abattoir and meat buyers, and traders. Trade with confidence and give your customers certainty of product integrity, originand journey with AXIchain’s intelligent products. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2021 | ||
| Mystro brings together a range of cutting-edge data collection tools into a single secure client onboarding and data storage solution. Natural conversation-style forms that bring data collection to life. Automating and simplifying the document collection process. Mobile-friendly eSignature solution. Custom chatbots and client onboarding workflows.Simple Platform. | Private Equity / Jun 15, 2020 | ||
| HashChing is an online marketplace for consumers to access home loan deals from a local mortgage broker. HashChing has been created to empower people to share their grievance or positive experience and make an informed decision when choosing a financial product, in a simple and convenient manner. | Jan 16, 2020 | ||
| UCOT is a structured ecosystem combining the latest Blockchain technologies and 5G telecommunication, designed for the next generation of smart IoT platform to solve critical issues regarding authentication, security and interoperability across supply chain flows and IoT networks. It will be facilitating businesses to meet challenges with regardsto device validation and authorisation. It is also believed to protect the grid network by eliminating reliance on centralised administration. | $4M / Private Equity / Mar 19, 2018 | ||
| Civic Ledger is a multi-award-winning globally focused company building next generation marketplaces with blockchain technology and smart contracts to create auditable ecosystems. From our beginnings in late 2016, we understood the value proposition of blockchain to build markets of tomorrow to take accurate stock of shared public resources. Sincedelivering our first Proof of Concept in 2016, we have seen the technology mature, the global effort to agree on standards, and the shifting of digital transformation to the mainstream.The common theme that links our solutions is that we break down data silos that often plague organisations enabling different organisations that may not trust each other access the same information seamlessly. The result is increased efficiency and reduction on costs to businesses, and improving the customer experience through building confidence in the data and trust in the transaction. In June 2021, Civic Ledger was accepted into the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers 2021 Cohort. Technology Pioneers have been selected based on the community’s selection criteria, which includes innovation, impact and leadership as well as the company’s relevance with the World Economic Forum’s Platforms. | $785.1K / Seed / Mar 10, 2018 | ||
| Linqto provides liquidity for private securities markets. Founders, VCs, and employees can realize early returns without waiting for an IPO or trade sale. Companies can stay private longer by providing liquidity on an ongoing basis, not just at the exit. Linqto’s technology-enabled platform democratizes the private market for accredited investorsin the same way Schwab and Fidelity made listed equities trading accessible to investors. Long the domain of institutional buyers, the secondary market is open now to all accredited investors with Linqto's accessible and affordable entry into the pre-IPO Unicorns market. | $1.1M / Series A / Feb 28, 2018 | ||
| See all 17 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Sapien Ventures invest in?
Sapien Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Marketplace startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Sapien Ventures's check size?
Sapien Ventures typically joins rounds of $673k–$4M at Seed and $1.1M–$1.5M 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 Sapien Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Sapien Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Sapien Ventures?
The team at Sapien Ventures includes Christian Oey (Venture Partner), Daniel Laurence (Venture Partner) and Helen Lorigan (Venture Partner), among 16 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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