Top 10 Social VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in April 2025
A list of 10 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 10 Social VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in April 2025
Investor | Social Australia investments |
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Folklore Ventures | 3 |
HATCHER+ | 1 |
Skalata | 1 |
Artesian VC | 1 |
Sydney Angels | 1 |
Breakthrough Lab | 1 |
Total Sport and Entertainment | 1 |
Startive Ventures | 1 |
OneVentures | 1 |
Reinventure | 1 |
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.
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
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.
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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 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 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
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.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Blockchain, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, Hong Kong
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.
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.
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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