Side Stage Ventures
VC Fund
Sydney, Australia
Side Stage Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Software and Marketing. Early stage venture firm investing in Australia´s best pre-seed and seed stage Founders
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Side Stage Ventures invests in
Stages Side Stage Ventures invests in
Countries Side Stage Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$8M
- Pre-Seed
- $681k–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (14%)
- Marketing 2 (14%)
- Health Care 2 (14%)
- Information Technology 2 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (36%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
Country
- Australia 10 (71%)
- Canada 1 (7%)
- New Zealand 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ben Grabiner
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
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Emily Casey
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Harrison Wright
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Markus Kahlbetzer
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Kantoko
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Kantoko is a dedicated Australian mental health platform that provides online ADHD assessment, diagnosis, and long-term care for adults. | $2.5M / Seed / Aug 13, 2026 | |
Outlier Space
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Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits. | $10.5M / Pre-Seed / Jul 29, 2026 | |
Fabra
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Fabra is a 3D product design platform that gives real-time experience to create their own products. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Nov 10, 2025 | |
Puralink
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Puralink provides autonomous robots for pipe inspection, mapping, and repair. | $1.5M / Seed / Sep 17, 2025 | |
Thanks
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Thanks is a platform designed to transform the post-purchase "thank you" page into a revenue-generating opportunity while enhancing customer engagement and brand loyalty. | $2.6M / Seed / Mar 11, 2025 | |
Elita
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Elita platform combines dog stem cells with health data to help predict, prevent, and treat disease before symptoms appear. | $680.9K / Pre-Seed / Jan 17, 2025 | |
Arca Climate Technologies, Inc.
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Carbin Minerals unlock the enormous carbon dioxide removal potential of mine waste. | $8M / Seed / Aug 15, 2024 | |
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Arca Climate Technologies, Inc.
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Carbin Minerals unlock the enormous carbon dioxide removal potential of mine waste. | $8M / Seed / Aug 15, 2024 | |
TrueState
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TrueState’s mission is to enable the enterprise adoption of AI. We do this by providing affordable, easy-to-use tools that help organisations use their data and expertise to build great AI capabilities. | $999.2K / Pre-Seed / Jun 18, 2024 | |
Leonardo.Ai
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Leonardo AI is a generative AI platform for content creation, offering features like the Alchemy Refiner and an image generator app. | $30.8M / Series A / Dec 06, 2023 | |
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FAQ
What does Side Stage Ventures invest in?
Side Stage Ventures invests primarily in Software, Marketing and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Side Stage Ventures's check size?
Side Stage Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8M at Seed and $681k–$11M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Side Stage Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Side Stage Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Side Stage Ventures?
The team at Side Stage Ventures includes Ben Grabiner (General Partner), Emily Casey (Principal) and Harrison Wright (Associate). 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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