Top 15 Social VC Funds & Investors in Australia (August 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, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $360k–$8.2M |
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Boson Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Hardware, Payments | |
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Yolo Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $1.2M–$200M |
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Astralis Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia | Series A, Seed, Series B | Sports, Gaming, Advertising Platforms | $2M–$25M |
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OneVentures
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Israel | Series A, Debt Financing, Series B | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $1.2M–$29M |
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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–$55M |
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Hatcher+
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $50k–$1.2M |
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Skalata
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$2.3M |
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Clean Energy Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt | Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate | $3.9M–$719M |
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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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Three Kings Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Series A | Video, Mobile, Social | |
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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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Total Sport and Entertainment
VC Fund
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1 | Australia | Seed | 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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $360k–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $726k–$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 — Trade Securely and Trade for Good with BetterX! Join sophisticated investors in trading hundreds of assets | $BTTX Coming Soon
- 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
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.
Yolo Investments is focusing on late seed & series A stage investments in igaming, fintech and crypto.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Australia, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $3M–$39M; Venture - Series Unknown $7M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Meld — Access stablecoins and digital assets anywhere
- 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.
Astralis Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Sports, Gaming, Advertising Platforms
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $2M–$2M; Series A $4M–$6M; Series B $20M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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.
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, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$23M; Series B $13M–$29M; Debt Financing $1.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $145M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- me&u — me&u is an online ordering and payment application designed to order meals. They provide communication technology to order and pay through mobile phones at restaurants. Their process of ordering with waiters and splitting bills that enable users to order their food and pay bills through a digital payment platform.
- Truescope — Make better informed communications decisions with Truescope. Harnessing millions of media posts every day to deliver you real-time information that influences your business strategy.
- 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.
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.
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: 70
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4.9M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $8.1M–$55M
- 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.
- 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
- Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
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, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Italy, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Seed $50k–$1M; Pre-Seed $75k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% 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.
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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $135k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $125k–$406k
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $18M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
- Paperly — Paperly helps companies streamline processes, compliance, and approvals in one platform. Gain real-time visibility and empower your teams to work with clarity and confidence.
- 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.
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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation invests using a commercial approach to overcome market barriers and mobilize investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and low emissions technologies. They seek to catalyze and leverage private sector funding for the commercialization and deployment of clean energy technologies necessary for thetransition to a carbon-constrained economy.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Series B $3.9M–$77M; Post-IPO Debt $42M–$719M; Debt Financing $18M–$511M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $62M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- FlexiGroup — At FlexiGroup, we love to connect customers with things that will help them work and play. FlexiGroup is a diversified financial services group. Through a network of over 16,000 retail and business partners we provide a wide range of innovative finance products and payment solutions to consumers and businesses. From supporting education, toequipping a home, to building a business – we have a wide range of solutions to help. This includes interest free cards and no interest ever payment plans; consumer and business leasing solutions; and mobile and broadband plans. FlexiGroup operates in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, and is offered at more than 16,000 locations including Harvey Norman, Escape Travel, IKEA, Domayne, Joyce Mayne, King Living, Nick Scali, Australian Outdoor Living, JB Hi-Fi, AGL Solar, The Good Guys Kitchens, Noel Leeming, Husqvarna, and the Fantastic Group.
- Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
- Quintessential Equity — Owner-operator discipline across acquisition, improvement and operations. Tenant-first execution, governed decision-making and clear reporting for wholesale and professional investors. Explore the portfolio, capabilities and how we invest across cycles.
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: 97
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.5M; Angel $130k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $337k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Keeyu — keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences.
- iiShield — iiShield aims to improve patient outcomes and surgeon training in transplant surgery by providing effective organ heat protection.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
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.
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.
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.
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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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Sphere
— Live courses led by vetted experts for professionals who want to advance their careers
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Octopusbot
— Empowering agribusinesses with 97% accurate AI forecasts, 7 months ahead of the market to mitigate weather risk and price volatility.
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