# SecondQuarter Ventures

> SecondQuarter Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney backing Software and Analytics. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/secondquarter/?viewAsMember=true
- Website: https://secondquarter.vc/

SecondQuarter Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Software and Analytics. SecondQuarter is a venture secondaries fund which provides liquidity to shareholders of Australia's most exciting post-SeriesA startups.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $23M–$46M |
| Secondary Market | $17M–$335M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $10M–$51M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 53% |
| Analytics | 3 | 20% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Marketing | 2 | 13% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 33% |
| Secondary Market | 3 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 20% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Seed | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 12 | 80% |
| United States | 2 | 13% |
| India | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ian Beatty | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-beatty-438e |
| Sam Kroonenburg | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-kroonenburg |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rokt | ROKT is a software development company that offers e-commerce technology and software solutions to introduce marketing into e-commerce through the transaction moment in order to revolutionize the consumer purchasing experience. The business links consumers and marketers and integrates native advertisements into e-commerce sites' transactionalflows. | $335M | Secondary Market | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| InDebted | InDebted develops a cloud-based debt collection software designed to offer tailored debt management tools. Its cloud collections platform leverages machine learning to understand consumer preferences for servicing overdue accounts and provides application programming interfaces (APIs) to link to customer account systems, enabling small and mediumbusinesses to get flexible payment options.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in North Sydney, New South Wales. |  | Secondary Market | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Pendula | Pendula is a customer engagement and workflow automation platform that enables businesses to create seamless, two-way conversations across SMS, email, in-app, RCS, Whatsapp and more. By automating workflows and streamlining communication, Pendula helps teams improve engagement, reduce manual effort, and drive better customer outcomes—all withoutthe need for coding. Whether nurturing leads, managing renewals, or personalising interactions at scale, Pendula ensures businesses stay connected with their customers and drive stronger ROI. | $14.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 14, 2023 |  |
| Zipline.io | Zipline is a compliance platform designed for nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, and other healthcare facilities. Its SaaS platform is used on-site in nursing homes and hospitals to manage visitor, staff, volunteer, and contractor compliance.Zipline, formerly known as RateIt, was founded in 2017 with the goal of improvingretail experiences. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Sonder | One app. One go-to. One support system.Sonder is the trusted wellbeing partner for some of the world’s most innovative organisations as they reimagine how to care and support their people.With a clear purpose of breaking down barriers to help, providing the right support to people at the right time. Acknowledging that there are often multiplefactors at play, and wellbeing comprises of cultural, social, environmental and vocational factors, all which play a part in getting to the root cause of issues, and on a path to wellness.The heart of Sonder's solution is a technology-driven platform supported in real time by medical and mental health experts - experts that are available every minute of every day. Their mission is to get the right outcome across any wellbeing or safety issue.Trusted by major corporations, education providers and Government to enhance wellbeing across the world, Sonder is on a mission to create a better world, accepting differences and supportive of others. A world where it's OK to ask for help, for anything, at any time of the day or night.It takes humans to help other humans. That’s why Sonder combines a human first, tech supported approach. | $23.4M | Series B | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| HIVERY | HIVERY is a software development company. They specialize in retail assortment strategy simulation and optimisation solutions for consumer packaged goods. They transform category management, automatic retailing, and trade promotion with algorithms. | $29.2M | Series B | Jul 14, 2022 |  |
| Edrolo | 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 |  |
| Fresho | Fresho is all about fresh, simple & hygienic food with soothing atmosphere.Their menu includes popular Indian food along with drinks and sweets. They are also providing buffet services for a complete appetite.They are focusing more on the concept of “Good Food – Easy on Pocket!” | $14M | Series A | May 23, 2022 |  |
| Shippit | Shippit makes multi-carrier connectivity and carrier allocation simple, so you can offer more delivery options and sustainable, cost-effective shipments. | $46.2M | Series B | May 03, 2022 |  |
| Buildxact | Buildxact is an online estimating and job management software platform for builders and trades. | $13.1M | Series A | Jan 31, 2022 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [MA Growth Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ma-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Apex Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apex-capital-partners-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does SecondQuarter Ventures invest in?

SecondQuarter Ventures invests primarily in Software, Analytics and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Secondary Market 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 SecondQuarter Ventures's check size?

SecondQuarter Ventures typically joins rounds of $23M–$46M at Series B, $17M–$335M at Secondary Market and $10M–$51M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SecondQuarter Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact SecondQuarter Ventures?

Public channels for SecondQuarter Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at SecondQuarter Ventures?

The team at SecondQuarter Ventures includes Ian Beatty (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Sam Kroonenburg (Venture Partner). 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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