# Vocus Upstart

> Vocus Upstart is a VC fund in Perth backing Software, iOS and SaaS. See 2 investments, round sizes, portfolio. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Perth, Australia
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jun 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewm
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/vocusupstart
- Website: http://www.vocusupstart.com.au/

Vocus Upstart is a VC fund in Perth focused on Software and iOS. Vocus Upstart is all about helping you build a great tech startup. You bring the passion, ambition and your idea for the next big thing in tech, and they'll help you bring your idea to life.Commencing in August 2016 they will provide a number of teams with funding and intensive mentorship in a three-month program to launch and acceleratetheir startup. Register your interest to be notified about upcoming information sessions and related events.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 100% |
| iOS | 1 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Gaming | 1 | 50% |
| Geospatial | 1 | 50% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GeoMoby | GeoMoby has gained unprecedented capabilities to turn data into real-time value providing indoor, and outdoor geofencing with higher accuracy than industry standards along with a negligible battery consumption (patented solution). GeoMoby takes great pride in its hard-working team, a priceless and unprecedented asset for any business, and its yearsof investment in R&D before going to market, ensuring a quality, tested and proven, cost-effective outcome-based offering could be delivered to the market. GeoMoby’s feature-rich technology also enables users to trigger alerts and actions based on predefined sets of conditions (dwell-time, body temperature, weather, real-time traffic, user profile, and more) and complex geofences (virtual geographic boundaries), that can be configured to trigger custom actions when crossed. The technology offers a cloud-based SAAS platform ensuring its high availability, adaptability, redundancy, and potential to scale, all of that made accessible through a dedicated GeoMoby environment. GeoMoby acts as the bridge that generates powerful data and converts it into meaningful information from which priceless analysis and critical business decisions can be made for health, security, efficiency, and productivity. GeoMoby is unique its ability to offer an all-in-one complete platform solution enabling asset monitoring in real-time, with considerably better accuracy than industry standards, in any environment, on surface, indoors, outdoors, and, in a world-first, underground. GeoMoby is dedicated to helping its clients improve the health and safety of their workforce, gain world-first visibility of their underground mining operations, and increase their productivity through enhanced asset monitoring and management. All products and solutions are easy to deploy, cost-effective and work effectively in complex environments, online and offline, and is carrier agnostic. The GeoMoby all-in-one platform provides clients with the ability to access various features such as self-configurable geofencing, 3D indoor, outdoor, 3D underground mapping, and automation based on customised analytics, enhancing business decisions, ensuring they are, not only faster, but based on accurate data not previously accessible. Our technology is solving key technical problems in the mobile geolocation industry including: o Super Power Efficient Solution (1%per hour) - 10x better battery management than industry standards o Accurate Indoor/Outdoor Geolocation (with iBeacon support) - 20x times better accuracy than industry standards o New geospatial layer to already existing business analytics (Accurate customer data profile based on real-time behaviour) | $30.4K | Convertible Note | Jun 01, 2015 | https://www.geomoby.com |
| Offpeak Games | Offpeak Games designs and develops VR games for its clients.Its games range consists of Valiant, a team-based multiplayer medieval mounted combat game that enables its users to ride horses and fight virtual opponents in five versus five team battles. It offers dedicated servers and in-game leaderboards. This game is supported by HTC Vive andOculus platforms.Offpeak Games was founded in 2014 by Andrew Ravenscroft, Liami Poli, and Christopher Parkin and is based in Australia. | $32K | Seed | May 18, 2015 | http://www.valiantgame.com/ |

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## FAQ

### What does Vocus Upstart invest in?

Vocus Upstart invests primarily in Software, iOS and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Vocus Upstart last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vocus Upstart closed in Jun 2015. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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