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Top 15 Social VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in May 2025

A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Social VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in May 2025

Investor Social Australia investments
Folklore Ventures 3
Scalare Partners 2
Clean Energy Finance Corporation 1
Boson Ventures 1
Astralis Capital 1
Three Kings Capital 1
Yolo Investments 1
Hatcher+ 1
Skalata 1
Artesian VC 1
Sydney Angels 1
Breakthrough Lab 1
OneVentures 1
Total Sport and Entertainment 1
Reinventure 1
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Folklore Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
  • SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.
  • Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.
Scalare Partners VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Scalare Partners is more than a technology investment fund. We provide critical funding and resourcing
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Australia, Singapore, United States
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
Clean Energy Finance Corporation VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • Australia, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Ampol — Ampol connects our proud history with everything our business is known for today, our trusted high-quality products, our commitment to customer service, local communities and the largest leading transport fuels network in Australia.
  • Neoen — Neoen is an independent energy company, develops, finances, builds, and operates power plants based on renewable energies in France, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, Egypt, and El Salvador. It operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants. The company, through its subsidiaries, also specializes in the development of marine renewable energy projects inFrance; supports photovoltaic project developers and investors in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of solar power plants in France and abroad; and develops solar and wind farms.
  • JET Charge — Australia's #1 supplier and installer of EV charging stations for homes and businesses, expert solutions for all EV infrastructure needs.
Boson Ventures VC Fund
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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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Hardware, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Australia
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.
Astralis Capital VC Fund
Astralis Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Advertising Platforms, iOS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Takes — The only social sport for fans to connect, banter & dissect the game in real-time.
  • 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.
Three Kings Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Three Kings Capital is a private equity platform that protects national assets, corporate assets and personal assets from cyber threats.
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Investment focus
  • Video, Mobile, Social
  • Series A
  • Australia
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.
Yolo Investments VC Fund · Tallin, Harjumaa, Estonia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Yolo Investments is focusing on late seed & series A stage investments in igaming, fintech and crypto.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Sports
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Australia, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
  • Bitblox Games — Offer innovative and engaging blockchain-based games on your platform and attract a new wave of players with Bitblox.
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
Hatcher+ VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, Italy, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Cropify — Eliminating subjective testing from the classification process using AI and machine learning. Cropify.io
  • Flint — Introducing a new battery technology designed for sustainable energy solutions. Explore our innovation and its impact on the future of energy.
  • Cellivate Technology — Startup, with proprietary platform technologies and products that enable cellular meat companies to accelerate the growth of cells
Skalata VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • TALY — TALY is a platform that is designed to find, manage and retain employees from both perfromance and personality for business development.
  • Viewa — Viewa is an augmented reality(AR) content publishing platform that brings print media such as magazines to life in 3D.
  • Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
Artesian VC VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
  • Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
  • Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.
Sydney Angels VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Okkular — Okkular is an AI based fashion tech startup.
  • Apollo Secure — Cyber for Humans - an automated cybersecurity platform for startups and small businesses to improve security maturity and simplify security compliance.
  • Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Breakthrough Lab VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Real Estate, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series B
  • Australia, Germany
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.
  • Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.
  • 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
OneVentures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
OneVentures is one of Australia’s leading venture capital firms, with over $330M in funds under management. But they do more than invest. They take companies to that all important next stage, by actively shaping their future. They apply their years of international experience, operational and executional expertise to accelerate the growth of theirportfolio 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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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Debt Financing, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.
  • StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
  • Employment Hero — Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HRprocesses. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees in Australia and beyond, by providing free, easy-to-use HR software that employers love to use, and access to far greater benefits for all employees.Employment Hero was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Sydney New South Wales.
Total Sport and Entertainment VC Fund · Crows Nest, Queensland, Australia
We are Australia's leading, full service sports and entertainment agency specialising in marketing, events, sponsorship and creative.
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Investment focus
  • Video, Mobile, Social
  • Seed
  • Australia
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.
Reinventure VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
  • Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
  • Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
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