# Telstra

> Telstra is a VC fund in Melbourne backing Software and Market Research. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/telstra
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/telstra
- Website: https://www.telstra.com.au/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/telstra24x7

Telstra is an Australia-based telecommunications and information services company offering a full range of communications services. The company has built a fully integrated IP network and a reliable mobile network for its clients. Through its strategic investments over the years and the recent acquisition of Pacnet in Asia, it now has the largestprivately owned subsea cable network in Asia Pacific, have licenses throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas and it facilitates access to more than 2,000 PoPs in 230 countries and territories.Telstra’s international operations are headquartered in Hong Kong, where it provides wholesale and enterprise customers with a full breadth of holistic and end-to-end solutions across data, voice, satellite, and managed network services. The company was founded in 1975 and is locally headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Telstra. Shizune tracks 10 team members at Telstra. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/telstra?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$83M |
| Series A | $2M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Market Research | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| AgTech | 1 | 13% |
| Farming | 1 | 13% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 38% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |
| Series F | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 4 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| Singapore | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Stefan | National General Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-stefan |
| Andy Lumsden | Head of Network Services | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-lumsden |
| Chris Mohan | General Manager Threat Research and Intelligence and Security Controls | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-mohan |
| Gary Traver | Director of Media Networks | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-traver |
| Jim Fagan | Director, Global Platforms | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-fagan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Silicon Quantum Computing | To advance the development and commercialisation. | $50.4M | Series A | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Zetifi | Zetifi has developed wireless network technology that provides mobile broadband coverage extension for farms, vehicles and machinery. | $8.1M | Series A | Dec 07, 2022 |  |
| Farmbot | Farmbot was established in Sydney in 2014 and is a leading Australian Agtech company in the Internet of Things (IoT) of Agriculture. The company monitors and reports on-farm water ecosystems delivering real-time reporting on water trends, consumption and alerts. As water is the lifeblood of all agricultural endeavours, a detailed understanding ofits usage helps farmers make better management decisions around asset utilisation, resource allocations and carrying capacities. One of the key challenges of the agriculture industry is feeding an ever-growing population, with fewer resources, in a sustainable way. Farmbot sees a growing opportunity in the agricultural industry to provide monitoring solutions that have the capabilities to enable more sustainable and efficient practices. Farmbot has developed an extensive range of monitoring devices which connects to the core monitor enabling farmers to check water, diesel and trough levels, rainfall, staff movements via a safety check-in module, electric fences voltages, flow and pressure rates remotely. We are continuing to build a portfolio of connected devices, expanding the ecosystem. | $2M | Series A | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| InsightzClub Pte Ltd | InsightzClub uses smart technology to enable various companies to uncover valuable insights from data to realize smarter decision-making. InsightzClub's platform delivers highly personalized insights by integrating & analyzing data from multiple sources including passive data through a dashboard for marketing. | $500K | Seed | Oct 14, 2017 |  |
| The U Group & Co. | Next generation of consumer insights for the omnichannel world. Understanding the why behind the buy. |  | Angel | Aug 29, 2017 |  |
| Silicon Quantum Computing | To advance the development and commercialisation. | $83M | Seed | Aug 22, 2017 |  |
| Cohere Technologies | Cohere Technologies is a leading pioneer for software enhanced 4G & 5G networks. The company has developed a 3GPP compliant software solution to dramatically improve today’s 4G and 5G networks. Cohere is the inventor of OTFS for 6G. Founded in 2009, Cohere Technologies is headquartered in San Jose, California. | $35.5M | Series C | Mar 24, 2015 |  |
| Box | Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. Box platform "allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any formatfrom anywhere." It also helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and manages their critical information in the cloud. | $100M | Series F | Dec 05, 2013 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Australian Government](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/australian-government) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Commonwealth Bank of Australia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commonwealth-bank-of-australia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cultiv8 Funds Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cultiv8-funds-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GrainCorp Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grain-corp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Titanium Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/telstra-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Telstra invest in?

Telstra invests primarily in Software, Market Research and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Telstra's check size?

Telstra typically joins rounds of $500k–$83M at Seed and $2M–$50M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Telstra participates in.

### How do I contact Telstra?

Public channels for Telstra include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Telstra?

The team at Telstra includes Alex Stefan (National General Manager), Andy Lumsden (Head of Network Services) and Chris Mohan (General Manager Threat Research and Intelligence and Security Controls), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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