# Sydney Seed Fund

> Sydney Seed Fund is a VC fund in Sydney backing Analytics and Medical. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2016
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/sydney-seed-fund
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/SydneySeedFund
- Website: http://sydneyseedfund.com.au
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sydneyseedfund

Sydney Seed Fund is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Analytics and Medical. The Sydney Seed Fund is an early stage investment fund managed by experienced entrepreneurs looking to invest in Sydney’s most passionate tech founders. Backed by a highly experienced investment team, international advisors and group of investors, the Fund aims to invest in 20 start-ups with approximately $100,000 of funding per company. Fundedstart-ups will become part of the Sydney Seed Ecosystem – accelerating their opportunity to build a globally significant online business.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 3 | 43% |
| Medical | 2 | 29% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 29% |
| Health Care | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 86% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 6 | 86% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexia Fan | Analyst Intern | 0 | — |
| Ari Klinger | Founder & CEO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ari-klinger |
| Benjamin Chong | Founder & General Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-chong |
| Garry Visontay | General Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garry-visontay |
| Jason Seam | Operations Coordinator | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Our Little Foxes | Our Little Foxes is building a global community of creatively intelligent kids. Creativity is listed as the number one leadership competency for the future, yet it is a skill that decreases in our kids if it isn't nurtured. Our Little Foxes delivers creativity kits to families to help inspire the creativity in their children, whileconnecting families from around the world through a shared creative experience. | $130K | Angel | Feb 22, 2016 |  |
| CohortIQ | CohortiQ delivers health analytics enabling more people to spend less time in hospital. Our machine learning insights allow you to baseline and monitor your healthcare initiatives to ensure you provide great care and maximise value.cohortiQ can automatically identify cohorts that contain both target and control patients. This allows you tomeasure and compare the efficacy of almost any health initiative. We do this with connected, patient-centric data and recent innovations in machine learning. | $200K | Seed | Jan 19, 2016 |  |
| Opus Medical | Opus Medical was founded in 2014 to design, manufacture, and market healthcare innovations developed after 15 years of research at Stanford University and the University of Sydney.The Opus team is diverse and collaborative. They enjoy working together and understand that by doing so they can move mountains. They are an eclectic mix ofnationalities, ages and backgrounds but between us they have the expertise and experience required across a broad range of areas including research, design, production, sales and management.Opus HQ is based in the Cicada Innovations incubator in Sydney and all of their devices are Australian made. Opus is registered with FDA, TGA and CE and their products are approved for clinical use in USA, Europe and Australia. | $269K | Seed | Aug 14, 2015 |  |
| Qwilr | Create the perfect proposal, pitch, sales quote and more. Every Qwilr page you send has outstanding visual polish, together with intelligent tracking, automation and analytics. Launched in 20154 Qwilr has customers in over 60 markets around the world and has raised over AUD$12M in funding to date. It is backed by Point Nine Capital, AirtreeVentures, Right Click Capital, Macdoch Ventures and Typeform founder Robert Muñoz. | $400K | Seed | May 21, 2015 |  |
| Handkrafted | Handkrafted was born out of a passion for quality and authenticity. Frustrated with the poor quality of mass-produced goods so commonly available, we have set out to make better quality, custom craftsmanship more accessible to everyone. | $67K | Seed | Jan 13, 2015 |  |
| TrademarkVision | TrademarkVision was founded in 2011 as a computer vision spinout from a research organisation in Australia. In 2013 they released the world’s first visual search engine for trademarks which immediately picked up commercial traction.For any company trying to build a brand around their new logo, they know that ensuring their logo is protectable asa trademark (and infringement free) globally can be a time-consuming and costly process. TrademarkVision’s reverse image search technology cuts this process down to seconds while giving accurate global coverage. Their first-to-the-world technology has the potential to not only improve brand owner’s lives, but completely change the game of brand protection.TrademarkVision is now used by trademark attorneys, brand owners and IP offices worldwide and has set a new industry standard.TrademarkVision was recognized in 2017 in the Top 10 Most Innovative AI/Machine Learning companies in the world by FastCompany, and in the Top 8 Companies Changing How Machine Learning Is Used by Entreprenur.com.They’re passionate about what they’ve created, but it’s only the start. They believe in continual research and everything they do is a step towards being the leader in image recognition, with recent launches of 3D designs search, automatic image classification, and a deep-learning based Brand API. | $236K | Seed | Jun 01, 2014 |  |
| RateUs | RateUs is an online rating system that monitors customer happiness and channels real-time actionable feedback.By using RateUs, a business can understand what its customers really think.RateUs delivers a business three powerful capabilities:1. Capture FeedbackCollect both quantitative ratings and qualitative feedback in an unintrusivemanner at a time that is convenient for your customer.2. Measure and MonitorThe RateUs system allows you to monitor the pulse of your customer happiness at any given point in time at a company, team and individual level. 3. Change behaviourBy bringing a level of real-time awareness to your customer facing staff about their individual performance, they are empowered to monitor and change their own behavior and embrace a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2013 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Right Click Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-click-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Artesian VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artesian-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [muru-D](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investment-advantaged-software-pty-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Macdoch Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/macdoch-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pollenizer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pollenizer) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- QUT Creative Enterprise Australia — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Sydney Seed Fund invest in?

Sydney Seed Fund invests primarily in Analytics, Medical and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Sydney Seed Fund?

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### Who are the partners at Sydney Seed Fund?

The team at Sydney Seed Fund includes Alexia Fan (Analyst Intern), Ari Klinger (Founder & CEO) and Benjamin Chong (Founder & General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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