Southern Cross Venture Partners
VC Fund
North Sydney, Australia
Southern Cross Venture Partners is a VC fund in North Sydney focused on Software and Manufacturing. Southern Cross Venture Partners was launched in 2006 by veteran venture capitalists who have managed and operated companies themselves. Southern Cross Venture Partners assist early stage technology companies that demonstrate the potential for exceptional growth and market leadership build significant businesses. The founding principle of SouthernCross is partnership -- they are passionately committed to doing everything they can to help their portfolio companies succeed. Their team has a strong record of utilizing their start-up and management experience, industry knowledge, network of business/customer relationships, and recruiting skills to assist in building significant shareholder value.Southern Cross is currently investing in companies that fit their investment criteria. They prefer to act as lead or co-lead in the early stages where they have experience that can help build value rapidly. They do not have a minimum investment amount, however, a typical initial investment will be $2 million to $5 million with an ability to invest more money in later rounds.
- Total investments:
- 53
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
- Fund size:
- $204M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Southern Cross Venture Partners invests in
Stages Southern Cross Venture Partners invests in
Countries Southern Cross Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $2M–$5M
- Series B
- $5M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (21%)
- Manufacturing 10 (19%)
- Energy 7 (13%)
- Renewable Energy 7 (13%)
- Analytics 5 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 11 (21%)
- Series A 10 (19%)
- Funding Round 8 (15%)
- Series D 5 (9%)
- Series C 4 (8%)
Country
- United States 21 (40%)
- Australia 10 (19%)
- China 1 (2%)
- Singapore 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Scull
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Mark Bonnar
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Anneliese Bisson
Chief Financial Officer
|
Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bob Christiansen
Founding Managing Director
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Founding Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Frank Foster
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunman Energy is a technology company founded by a group of industry veterans delivering the future of Solar. Through the research and development of composite materials, Sunman has successfully commercialized the world’s first glass-free, lightweight and flexible Panel – eArc. Replacing glass completely, eArc brings solar power to markets andapplication scenarios that were previously impossible. | $45M / Series C / Jul 01, 2022 | ||
| Sunman Energy is a technology company founded by a group of industry veterans delivering the future of Solar. Through the research and development of composite materials, Sunman has successfully commercialized the world’s first glass-free, lightweight and flexible Panel – eArc. Replacing glass completely, eArc brings solar power to markets andapplication scenarios that were previously impossible. | $12M / Series B / Nov 10, 2020 | ||
| BenAn Energy is a high-technology multinational enterprise dedicated to the research, development, and manufacturing of Aqueous-Sodium-Ion Energy Storage. As a global leader of new energy innovative technologies, to provide premier energy storage solutions that are safe, sustainable, and persistent-with the highest performance and qualitystandards. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| Sunman Energy is a technology company founded by a group of industry veterans delivering the future of Solar. Through the research and development of composite materials, Sunman has successfully commercialized the world’s first glass-free, lightweight and flexible Panel – eArc. Replacing glass completely, eArc brings solar power to markets andapplication scenarios that were previously impossible. | $5M / Series A / Apr 30, 2018 | ||
| Wave Computing is revolutionizing AI with its data flow-based systems and solutions that deliver orders of magnitude performance improvements over legacy architectures. The company’s vision is to bring deep learning to customers’ data wherever it may be—from the edge to the datacenter—helping accelerate time-to-insight. Wave is powering the nextgeneration of AI by combining its dataflow architecture with its MIPS embedded RISC multi-threaded CPU cores and IP. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Campbell, California. | $56.7M / Series D / Nov 03, 2017 | ||
| Brisbane Materials aims to be the leading supplier of anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for solar and other applications. Born out of the University of Queensland in 2005, Brisbane Materials builds on six years and significant investment in technology and application experience. Longer term, Brisbane Materials will extend its unique roomtemperature and atmospheric pressure synthesis of glass and ceramic coatings to a wide variety of materials systems and applications. | Series B / Jun 18, 2017 | ||
| Switch ON better marketing for your business with Autopilot. The Best Marketing and Customer Data Platform for Ecommerce and SaaS.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 10,000 customers globally spanning Ecommerce, SaaS and B2B.Autopilot has raised $32M in funding to date, backed by Salesforce Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, andBlackbird Ventures. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 07, 2017 | ||
| Wattwatchers is a new open platform, low cost energy-saving network for homes and businesses. It combines a suite of Class 1, all-IP, metering, monitoring and control devices with co-developed software interfaces, cloud -service management tools and Energy Service offerings. Systems can be installed in a variety of configurations and operate inreal-time with or without Utility infrastructures. The Wattwatchers AUDITOR series of internet metering devices come in 3G and WiFi versions and can bridge easily to alternative IoT communications platforms e.g. LoRaWAN. | $2M / Series A / Apr 26, 2017 | ||
| GreenSync is a global energy-tech company that connects energy resources to create dynamic grids.GreenSync platform has knowledge of major grid congestion points and can pay rebates to customers to help improve the reliability of the grid. The company helps transform businesses and markets globally. It enables new markets by facilitatingpeer-to-peer and micro markets as well as large scale trading through our platform. GreenSync helps you buy, sell and store energy in the most efficient way possible. | $11.5M / Series B / Jan 23, 2017 | ||
| More people convert with Fillr. Fillr has developed 'Autofill as a Service' an autofill platform that seamlessly integrates into your app, enabling your customers to transact faster, boosting your conversions and revenue.We've spent over four years (and lots of hard-earned $) building the world's best autofill... So youdon't have to. Our powerful mapping engine, algorithms and machine learning technology utilise advanced proprietary textual heuristics to read forms as close to human representation as possible.Fillr’s Autofill API’s are powering transactions on the world's top fintech, ecommerce, metasearch, cashback and coupon apps. Fillr's next generation autofill technology delivers unprecedented accuracy and speed, and unlike other ‘payment' platforms, Fillr can be used anywhere regardless of a merchant being integrated with us and can be used for any transaction, even those that don’t require payment."When a user engages our autofill tech on a checkout form, they are 2.2x more likely to convert using Fillr than those who choose to type and they spend 19.66% more p/m"Fillr is led by second time entrepreneurs Chris Koch and Chad Stephens. With their first tech venture 1Form, they transformed the Australian housing market gaining 90% market share before it was acquired by publicly listed REA/Newscorp (Realestate.com.au, $6b market cap).Fillr has offices in Melbourne and San Francisco and is backed by SoftBank China Capital, Southern Cross Venture Partners, Reinventure (Westpac Bank) and Constant Innovation. Fillr’s investors have collective experience in creating, growing and managing hyper-growth companies and are some of world’s most successful tech entrepreneurs. Recent investment by SoftBank China Capital, Alibaba’s single largest investor, provides further endorsement of Fillr’s advanced tech and mission to make transacting on mobile easier. | $5M / Series A / Nov 07, 2016 | ||
| See all 53 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Southern Cross Venture Partners invest in?
Southern Cross Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Energy startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 53 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Southern Cross Venture Partners's check size?
Southern Cross Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $2M–$5M at Series A and $5M–$13M 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 Southern Cross Venture Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Southern Cross Venture Partners?
The team at Southern Cross Venture Partners includes John Scull (Managing Director), Mark Bonnar (Managing Director) and Anneliese Bisson (Chief Financial Officer), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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