# Wildcard Ventures

> Wildcard Ventures is a VC fund in Melbourne backing Artificial Intelligence and B2B. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wildcard-ventures/
- Website: https://www.wildcardventures.vc/

Wildcard Ventures is a venture capital fund built to turbocharge SportsTech* startups.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$6M |
| Series A | $6.2M–$64M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 38% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |
| B2C | 1 | 13% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| Video | 1 | 13% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| Australia | 2 | 25% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vibranium Labs | Vibranium Labs is an AI on-call engineer platform designed to resolve incidents with less stress. | $4.6M | Seed | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Kabata | The world's first AI-powered dumbbells, Kabata is able to analyze and comprehend your fitness metrics to deliver increasingly efficient, effective, engaging workouts. Kabata’s algorithms constantly learn what is most enjoyable - and most effective - for each user, getting smarter as you get stronger. | $5M | Seed | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Kabata | The world's first AI-powered dumbbells, Kabata is able to analyze and comprehend your fitness metrics to deliver increasingly efficient, effective, engaging workouts. Kabata’s algorithms constantly learn what is most enjoyable - and most effective - for each user, getting smarter as you get stronger. | $5M | Seed | May 21, 2024 |  |
| SwingVision | SwingVision is a real-time AI stats, highlights and line-calling mobile application for ball & racket sports. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States. | $6.2M | Series A | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Samsara Eco | Samsara Eco is an enviro-tech company creating infinite recycling to end plastic pollution. | $6M | Seed | Mar 24, 2022 |  |
| Mr Yum | Mr Yum is a mobile ordering platform that provides a visual menu and tool for table ordering, pickup, and delivery. Its platform can make increase order sizes and also has marketing and customer analytic tools. These include a loyalty platform called Boomerang, which lets venues create gift vouchers, free item codes, and dollars or percentages. MrYum has 1,500 venues on its platform, including shopping centers, movie theaters, and airports in addition to restaurants, and 13 million users.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Collingwood, Australia. | $63.6M | Series A | Nov 29, 2021 |  |
| SwingVision | SwingVision is a real-time AI stats, highlights and line-calling mobile application for ball & racket sports. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 15, 2021 |  |
| Minute | Minute is a video optimization technology company that provides viewers with highlights of the video content on the web. Based in Tel Aviv, the company was founded in 2013 with the aim of driving video engagement and making the online video consumption process both more efficient and enjoyable. Minute finds personalized and desirable content forusers so that they can spend their time watching only the most engaging clips while also efficiently discovering a greater volume of content. |  | Series B | Feb 15, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Courtside Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/courtside-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Wildcard Ventures invest in?

Wildcard Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, B2B and B2C startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 Wildcard Ventures's check size?

Wildcard Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$6M at Seed and $6.2M–$64M 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 Wildcard Ventures participates in.

### When did Wildcard Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Wildcard Ventures closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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