# South Australian Venture Capital Fund

> South Australian Venture Capital Fund is a VC fund backing Health Care. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Adelaide, Australia
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/artesian-capital-management/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SAVCFund
- Website: https://www.savcfund.com/

South Australian Venture Capital Fund is a VC fund in Adelaide focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. South Australian Venture Capital Fund (SAVCF) is available to help build dynamic and innovative early-stage companies to accelerate their growth. SAVCF enable innovative SA ventures to secure funding and accelerate growth into national and global markets, stimulating economic activity and job creation.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$12M |
| Series A | $2.3M–$20M |
| Series B | $13M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 23% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 23% |
| Internet of Things | 2 | 15% |
| Telecommunications | 2 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 15% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Series B | 3 | 23% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Rohrsheim | Portfolio Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-rohrsheim |
| Peter Malinauskas | Premier of South Australia | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-malinauskas |
| Susan Close | Deputy Premier | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susan-close-cb3b |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ferronova | Ferronova is a medical device company that offers imaging and surgery products. | $6M | Series A | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| Seonix Bio | Seonix Bio aims to improve the treatment and prevention of blinding eye disease by developing advanced risk prediction tools. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Pearler.AI | Pearler.AI is a software company that provides business development including advanced Ai, and software security. | $212.1K | Pre-Seed | Aug 28, 2023 |  |
| Fivecast | Fivecast was spun out of the Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Centre, a collaboration between Australia's national security agencies and various research organisations. Fivecast and Data to Decisions CRC spent considerable effort working with the law enforcement and national security community to define the big data problems faced bythe industry. This collaboration, in line with Fivecast’s expertise in big data, natural language processing, knowledge mining and multimedia understanding, led to the development of the first commercial product, Fivecast Insight. This platform is a world-first data collection and analysis platform, powered by machine learning. | $19.9M | Series A | Apr 10, 2023 |  |
| Rumin8 | Rumin8 is tackling one of the biggest contributors to climate change: methane emissions from livestock. The digestive process of beef and dairy cattle accounts for a full 3.7% of all greenhouse gas emissions, a huge contribution from a single source. With billions of people around the world relying on animal proteins as part of their daily diet,eliminating livestock methane production is a powerful lever in the quest toward a climate-optimal future.Rumin8 has invented a technology that has been shown to reduce the emissions from cattle by up to 95%. Our technology productizes the anti-methane compounds that occur naturally in plants and turns them into dietary supplements for livestock. The results are a reduction in methane emissions by up to 95%, increase in efficiency of the animal’s digestive systems, and more energy for the animal to growWe are on a mission to decarbonize hundreds of millions of cattle around the world so the global food system can take a giant step forward. | $12M | Seed | Jan 23, 2023 |  |
| ValAi | ValAi is a startup disruptive technology company that provides blockchain solutions. | $1M | Seed | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| BiomeBank | BiomeBank is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing microbial therapies to treat unmet medical need globally, with an immediate focus on the APAC region. We currently manufacture a microbial therapy to treat Clostridoides difficile, a potentially life threatening infection, and are positioning the drug product for multiple indications.Furthermore, we are actively developing second generation therapies in multiple diseases, including Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease. | $7.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 08, 2022 |  |
| Kindship | Kindship is a social networking app built by and exclusively for parents raising children with disabilities, delays, and neurodiversity. | $1M | Seed | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| Fleet Space Technologies | Fleet is an agile space company connecting the Internet of Things around the world using a massive fleet of small low-cost satellites. We’re making it faster, simpler and cheaper to connect the world’s devices.We provide direct, global access to a secure low-cost low-bandwidth connectivity platform ideal for machine to machine data exchange anddeploying IoT sensor networks at scale. With simple device setup and management through a web interface and powerful cognitive analytics built in, the IoT is about to take a giant leap forward.Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximize the resource efficiency of human civilization and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform. | $26.3M | Series B | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Lumary | SaaS platform for NDIS and Aged Care service providers to manage their internal workflow and business process. | $17M |  | Mar 29, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Artesian VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artesian-capital-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IQT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/in-q-tel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CSIRO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/csiro) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hostplus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hostplus) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Main Sequence Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/main-sequence-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [OneVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does South Australian Venture Capital Fund invest in?

South Australian Venture Capital Fund invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Internet of Things startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is South Australian Venture Capital Fund's check size?

South Australian Venture Capital Fund typically joins rounds of $1M–$12M at Seed, $2.3M–$20M at Series A and $13M–$26M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds South Australian Venture Capital Fund participates in.

### How do I contact South Australian Venture Capital Fund?

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### Who are the partners at South Australian Venture Capital Fund?

The team at South Australian Venture Capital Fund includes David Rohrsheim (Portfolio Manager), Peter Malinauskas (Premier of South Australia) and Susan Close (Deputy Premier). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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