Top 15 Social VC Funds & Investors in Australia (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Folklore Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $500k–$21M |
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Scalare Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $242k–$5.4M |
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Startive Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Blockchain, Apps | $500k–$1.6M |
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Sydney Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $120k–$1.5M |
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Hatcher+
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $38k–$1M |
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Yolo Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Estonia | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$39M |
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Total Sport and Entertainment
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | Video, Mobile, Social | |
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Skalata
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Education, Information Technology | $135k–$2.3M |
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Boson Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Hardware, Payments | |
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Breakthrough Lab
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Germany, United States | Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | |
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Reinventure
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $800k–$54M |
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Astralis Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia | Series A, Series B, Seed | Sports, Video, Mobile | $4M–$25M |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $40k–$15M |
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OneVentures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Israel | Series A, Debt Financing | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $1M–$20M |
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Three Kings Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Series A | Video, Mobile, Social | |
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Scalare Partners is more than a technology investment fund. We provide critical funding and resourcing
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $242k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $472k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brauz — Brauz connects your customers now with Reserve In Store, Find in Store, Click + Collect, On Demand Delivery, Ship from Store, Appointment Booking, Video Commerce, Clienteling and more.
- Betterx — Betterx is a technology company focused on infrastructure to support Web3.0 and Digital Assets.
- Amelio Health — Amelio Health is a program integrating a set of pathways developing the capabilities of case managers to signpost claimants at risk of developing chronic pain
Startive Ventures is a boutique technology investment company. We are focused on global technology and Internet startup opportunities and look at investments both internationally and in our own backyard. With a vast experience in building successful global consumer-focused Internet brands Startive is a partner that provides more help than justcapital. We also recognize entrepreneurs need to focus on developing ideas, running & growing their businesses, and not dealing with investor overhead.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Blockchain, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- eMoov — Sell or let your property with online estate agent Emoov
- Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.
- Spaceship — Join thousands of Australians investing in their future with Spaceship. Grow your wealth with our investment and super accounts. Start in five minutes.
Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.3M; Angel $130k–$890k; Pre-Seed $337k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Quizling — Quizling is an educational app that allows its users to make quick quizzes on their iPhone or iPad. Its users have the ability to plug their iPhone or iPad into their smart board or digital projector and challenge their class.Quizling is designed for teachers, students, and classrooms. Its aim is to make a teacher’s life easier, a student’slearning more interesting and challenging, and to help make the classroom a fun and engaging place. It can be used to preview a topic and check prior learning or before a test. Students also have the opportunity to make their own quizlings and challenge each other.Quizling was launched in 2012.
- ExtrasJar — Swap health insurance premiums for balanced investments and get access to your funds when using health services.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Hatcher+ is a data-driven venture capital firm that uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading accelerators and investors, worldwide.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Italy, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $38k–$1M; Pre-Seed $55k–$750k
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inaam — impact investing made simple. pick your values, build a real portfolio, track where your money goes. $10/month. ASIC-regulated. built for 18-30s.
- PayToMe.co — PayToMe.co offers innovative and secure payment solutions including text-to-pay, digital invoicing, and digital checkbook services.
- Kybele's Garden — Kybele's Garden focus on algae-based bioponics and algae fermentation methods. Their differentiation strategy boosts harvest yield, source efficiency, and functional content, while improving sensory attributes and shelf life. These technologies can be used in agrifood and skin care, and integrated into existing producers' systems.
Yolo Investments is focusing on late seed & series A stage investments in igaming, fintech and crypto.
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- Industry: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $3M–$39M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Meld — Meld empowers developers to build a Multi Vendor Fintech stack. With a few lines of code, developers gain access to a wide range of financial integrations across multiple domains. Meld helps you lower your overall 3rd party vendor costs, increase coverage and conversion rates, and save you time by launching integrations across markets faster. Weprovide performance analytics for every provider you integrate with - putting you back in control of your fintech stack.
- Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
- Bitblox Games — Offer innovative and engaging blockchain-based games on your platform and attract a new wave of players with Bitblox.
We are Australia's leading, full service sports and entertainment agency specialising in marketing, events, sponsorship and creative.
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- Industry: Video, Mobile, Social
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.
Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $135k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $135k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $18M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Paperly — Paperly is an mobile app that provides modules for school management system and learning management system.
- Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
- BarterAds Pty Ltd — BarterAds is a programmatic advertising exchange that enables businesses to acquire customers without cash spend by converting unused ad inventory into a tradable asset. Instead of paying in fiat, companies earn and spend a proprietary internal currency called Barter Dollars, which are issued when they display ads on their owned media propertiessuch as websites, apps, or platforms.The platform operates as an auction-based exchange, similar to traditional ad networks, where advertisers bid for impressions using Barter Dollars. Inventory is matched contextually and priced dynamically through real-time bidding, ensuring efficient allocation of supply and demand across the network. This allows both advertisers and publishers to maximize the value of otherwise underutilized inventory.BarterAds primarily targets startups, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, gaming companies, and content publishers that have traffic but are constrained by rising customer acquisition costs. By removing the need for upfront cash spend, the platform provides a capital-efficient growth channel, particularly for small and mid-sized businesses.The system includes controls for brand safety, fraud prevention, and inventory quality through business verification, campaign approvals, and continuous monitoring. Barter Dollars are non-transferable and expire periodically, preventing hoarding and ensuring continuous circulation within the ecosystem.BarterAds is designed as a hybrid between barter networks and modern ad exchanges, combining the scalability and automation of programmatic advertising with a closed-loop, cashless economy. The company is headquartered in Australia and is focused on building a global network of advertisers and publishers who both contribute inventory and run campaigns within the platform.
Investor for disruptors and force carrier for impact! We are an Australian Venture Capital that backs visionary founders of all backgrounds and grows exceptional deep tech or business model innovation companies to become truly transformative!
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- Industry: FinTech, Hardware, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- AI-NC — Platform to connect engineers and manufacturers, and provide them with the right tools to streamline the process.
- Catalyser — Catalyser is customizable cloud software for better employee giving. It specializes in managing and growing employee giving in the workplace by volunteering, fundraising, payroll giving, appeals, and pro bono. the company involves in increasing employee engagement and social responsibility.
- Kite Magnetics — Electric motors enabling electric aircraft of all sizes to fly further, carry more and emit less. The future of aviation is electric.
Breakthrough Lab are successful start-up founders who have operated businesses from pitch deck to exit.Breakthrough Lab manages Australian technology focused venture capital investments.We are a team of successful start-up founders who have operated businesses from pitch deck to exit. As venture capital fund managers we are dedicated toachieving market-beating returns for both our investors and the founders we back.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Talon.One — The all-in-one promotion software designed for enterprises. Manage all your marketing promotions in one scalable system without stressing developer resources.
- OpenAgent.com.au — In Australia we are completely obsessed with property. Yet, even in Australia, real estate is an industry that still often fails to delight the consumer. A couple of years ago we set out to transform the way property is transacted.OpenAgent.com.au is a platform where sellers can compare and hire real estate agents to:- Find an agent who sellsat the price they promise- Engage an agent on terms that make sense- Monitor the transaction progress end-to-end
- Flamingo AI — Flamingo AI is an enterprise SaaS company in the field of Conversational Commerce providing Cognitive Virtual Assistants and Knowledge Engines that analyse unstructured data that automate online customer sales and service experiences.
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Browse database — It's Free!Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally.With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner,Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4.7M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $8.1M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Kasada — Kasada stops automated threats and bot attacks from the very first request across web, mobile apps, and APIs. Real-time bot mitigation with no rules to manage.
- InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
- Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
Astralis Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Sports, Video, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $4M–$6M; Series B $20M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lucra Sports — Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.
- Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.
- Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.
Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 227
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- CUZIN — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
- Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
- Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
OneVentures is a later-stage venture capital firm focused on scaling Technology and Healthcare companies through growth equity and credit. The firm's role extends far beyond investment, as the firm actively guides companies toward achieving their next critical milestones. By leveraging decades of global experience and operational expertise,OneVentures accelerates growth and helps shape the future of its portfolio companies.A global growth focus drives their investment selection, with their current portfolio including companies with truly innovative products tackling multi-billion-dollar problems, from needle-free vaccinations to virtual communications to adaptive e-learning.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Debt Financing
- Geography: Australia, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$20M; Debt Financing $1M–$6.7M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $145M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vaxxas — Vaxxas develops and commercializes needle-free vaccine delivery system. Vaxxas was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brisbane, Australia.
- Kira Biotech — Kira Biotech is an emerging Australian biotechnology company developing novel immunomodulatory compounds for the treatment of immune system disorders. Its lead candidate, KB312, is a first-in-class, selective, immune-cell depleting monoclonal antibody which targets activated immune cells and aims to restore homeostasis through induction of immunetolerance. Kira Biotech has attracted venture capital funding and is progressing KB312 through preclinical development and phase 1 clinical trials with a team of drug development experts led by well-known US-based rheumatologist and immunologist, Dr Dan Baker.
- Vertero — Axial Therapeutics is a biotechnology company fundamentally changing the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders by harnessing groundbreaking science in the microbiome-gut-brain axis.
Three Kings Capital is a private equity platform that protects national assets, corporate assets and personal assets from cyber threats.
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- Industry: Video, Mobile, Social
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.
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Folklore is a team of investors, founders, and builders committed to supporting Australian and New Zealand tech founders. We are a first cheque to forever investment firm, and we believe in the power of founder vision and the potential of teams, right from the start.
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Arkeus
— Arkeus is a leader in the fusion of optics and autonomy. Our wide area autonomous optical systems are deployed to conduct Search, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in a range of operating environments.
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Hullbot
— Hullbot is a developer of a robotic in-water cleaning system designed to inspect, map, and clean the hull of a boat without a human operator present. They offer design, development, and deployment of autonomous drones, delivering solutions to stop the growth of marine organisms, improve performance, and extend the time between haul-outs. Theirembedded intelligence enables their robots to interact with the environment on-the-fly.
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Sphere
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