# Sapien Ventures

> Sapien Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last fund: Jul 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sapien-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sapienventures
- Website: http://www.sapienventures.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sapienventures.vc

Sapien Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on fintech, blockchain and online marketplaces, with offices in Australia, USA and China

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $673k–$4M |
| Series A | $1.1M–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 24% |
| FinTech | 3 | 18% |
| Marketplace | 3 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 18% |
| Apps | 2 | 12% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 29% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 12% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 8 | 47% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Oey | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-oey |
| Daniel Laurence | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-laurence |
| Helen Lorigan | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helen-lorigan |
| John Baird | Executive in Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-baird |
| John Worton | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-worton |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Curious Thing AI | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Feel Therapeutics | 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 | Seed | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| AXIchain | 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 | 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 | 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 Australia | 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 | 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. | $673K | Seed | Mar 10, 2018 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Anthemis Exponential Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-exponential-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [PaceZero Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pacezero) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Flight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flight-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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?

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