Trevor Folsom
Partner @ Elevation Capital
Sydney, Australia
Trevor Folsom is a seed investor at Elevation Capital in Sydney focused on Software and Marketplace. Elevation Capital was formed by a group of successful entrepreneurs who have co-invested in order to pool together their capital and experience. We consider ourselves to be “venture accelerators” rather than venture capitalists. After starting my first fledgling business at the age of 17, I truly understand the unique challenges faced byentrepreneurs and I am aware that it takes more than just capital for a company to succeed.Recently, Blueprint Management and the various business's we developed (up to 10 companies over 13 years) has given me exposure to the difficult challenges that every entrepreneur will face. My experience has involved the creation of a company with only $10K start-up capital, which grew to over 950 staff. This business was then sold to a private equity group. The success of this venture has given me invaluable knowledge that I can now share with others to guide them in the future.Specialties:If there is one simple thing I have learnt in recent times about investing into growth companies, it is: "to not waste anyones time".Elevation Capital is a professional and committed organisation and is able to invest quickly when a good business opportunity presents itself. We appreciate the challenge that entrepreneurs face when trying to raise capital while also dealing with the daily time constraints of running their businesses.
- Total investments:
- 42
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Trevor Folsom invests in
Stages Trevor Folsom invests in
Countries Trevor Folsom invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $65k–$4M
- Angel
- $285k–$301k
- Pre-Seed
- $792k–$1.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (24%)
- Marketplace 5 (12%)
- Apps 4 (10%)
- SaaS 3 (7%)
- Internet 3 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (43%)
- Angel 3 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (7%)
- Series A 3 (7%)
- Funding Round 3 (7%)
Country
- Australia 21 (50%)
- United States 7 (17%)
- Singapore 2 (5%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Investments
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LiveHeats
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LiveHeats is the leading live scoring, live results, and event management software platform for action sports. | $836.2K / Seed / May 21, 2025 | |
Fugu
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Cheap green carbon at scale for the dawn of the e-fuel age | Seed / Jul 09, 2024 | |
Fugu Carbon
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Fugu Carbon is a machinery manufacturing company that helps in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology from air. | Seed / Jul 08, 2024 | |
Marlee (Fingerprint For Success)
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Marlee is a collaboration and performance AI that helps individuals and teams bring out the best in each other. Providing personalized insights in just minutes, making connecting, motivating, collaborating, and developing easy, right in the flow of work.Marlee is built on 25 years of global human data and evidence-based psychologies, and it isnow the world's largest global database of human motivations.In 2020, we launched the world's first AI Coach Marlee, to help everyone to develop and achieve their goals. With a 4.4 star customer rating, Marlee coaches to 1,000 different types of goals to support work, career, leadership, financial, well-being and relationships. 90% of people achieve their goals within just four weeks! | $4.4M / Seed / Feb 01, 2023 | |
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Marlee (Fingerprint For Success)
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Marlee is a collaboration and performance AI that helps individuals and teams bring out the best in each other. Providing personalized insights in just minutes, making connecting, motivating, collaborating, and developing easy, right in the flow of work.Marlee is built on 25 years of global human data and evidence-based psychologies, and it isnow the world's largest global database of human motivations.In 2020, we launched the world's first AI Coach Marlee, to help everyone to develop and achieve their goals. With a 4.4 star customer rating, Marlee coaches to 1,000 different types of goals to support work, career, leadership, financial, well-being and relationships. 90% of people achieve their goals within just four weeks! | $3.5M / Series A / Jan 31, 2023 | |
fileAI
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fileAI is the enterprise intelligence company behind fileForge - the leading platform for complex business process automation. Where most AI falls short in production, fileForge provides the structure, validation, and traceability that makes agentic AI reliable by design. It unifies data capture, preparation, governance, and orchestration intoauditable, SOP-driven workflows that transform unstructured and semi-structured data into trusted, reusable process intelligence. Trusted by global enterprises including MS&AD, Toshiba, PwC, KPMG, Nippon Paint, and Keppel, fileAI has processed over 1 billion files across finance, insurance, supply chain, healthcare, and core business operations - delivering governed automation and contextual reuse for the world's most complex workflows.For more information, visit www.file.ai. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Nov 13, 2021 | |
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Marlee (Fingerprint For Success)
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Marlee is a collaboration and performance AI that helps individuals and teams bring out the best in each other. Providing personalized insights in just minutes, making connecting, motivating, collaborating, and developing easy, right in the flow of work.Marlee is built on 25 years of global human data and evidence-based psychologies, and it isnow the world's largest global database of human motivations.In 2020, we launched the world's first AI Coach Marlee, to help everyone to develop and achieve their goals. With a 4.4 star customer rating, Marlee coaches to 1,000 different types of goals to support work, career, leadership, financial, well-being and relationships. 90% of people achieve their goals within just four weeks! | $1.1M / Seed / Dec 23, 2019 | |
Car Next Door
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Car Next Door is an online marketplace, providing a booking system and a range of in-vehicle technologies to make car-sharing safe, fast, keyless, and easy for both car owners and car borrowers. It will enable 10,000 Australians to share their cars with neighbors, thereby removing the dependency on personal vehicle ownership and fundamentallychanging the way people make their transport decisions.Car Next Door is based in Sydney, Australia. | $1.2M / Corporate Round / Jul 04, 2018 | |
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Car Next Door
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Car Next Door is an online marketplace, providing a booking system and a range of in-vehicle technologies to make car-sharing safe, fast, keyless, and easy for both car owners and car borrowers. It will enable 10,000 Australians to share their cars with neighbors, thereby removing the dependency on personal vehicle ownership and fundamentallychanging the way people make their transport decisions.Car Next Door is based in Sydney, Australia. | $5M / Series B / Feb 05, 2018 | |
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Car Next Door
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Car Next Door is an online marketplace, providing a booking system and a range of in-vehicle technologies to make car-sharing safe, fast, keyless, and easy for both car owners and car borrowers. It will enable 10,000 Australians to share their cars with neighbors, thereby removing the dependency on personal vehicle ownership and fundamentallychanging the way people make their transport decisions.Car Next Door is based in Sydney, Australia. | $5M / Series B / Feb 05, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
About Elevation Capital
Elevation Capital is an early stage private investment company established in 2010. Funds are co-invested to facilitate participation in a diverse range of business ventures whilst spreading costs, risks and rewards for our shareholders.
Elevation Capital Contacts
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Trevor Folsom
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FAQ
What does Trevor Folsom invest in?
Trevor Folsom invests primarily in Software, Marketplace and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Trevor Folsom's check size?
Trevor Folsom typically joins rounds of $65k–$4M at Seed, $285k–$301k at Angel and $792k–$1.5M 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 Trevor Folsom participates in.
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When did Trevor Folsom last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Trevor Folsom closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 42 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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