Top 10 Sporting Goods VC Funds & Investors in Australia (September 2026)

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• Apate.AI — Is the next generation of scam prevention and intelligence. We deploy advanced conversational AI bots combined with real-time insights to protect businesses, governments and communities globally.2
• Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
• GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.

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• Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
• Isaacus — Isaacus is an AI research company building legal superintelligence.
• Catapult — Discover Catapult. The cutting-edge sports technology, data analytics, and insights that will unleash your team's and athletes' potential.

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• CUZIN — CUZIN is your global shopping family. A community marketplace enabling members to purchase any product worldwide by leveraging other members’ buying access or advantages.Members post requests for any product they want from anywhere in the world. Online or offline, specialist boutiques/clearance outlets and sales. This request is pushed to'cuzins' best placed (geographically or commercially) to purchase the item on their behalf. Cuzins earn a tip for helping out!In addition to accepting a shopping request, any cuzin can instantly monetise being in the right place at the right time posting a purchase opportunity, which is pushed to interested members worldwide. Shopping, shipping, social. Sorted. CUZIN provides the social and logistics platform to facilitate the matching, communication, payment and shipping of the items we love worldwide.
• Vaulta — Vaulta is a battery casing technology company based in Brisbane, Australia. Using advanced composite materials and smart, streamlined design, Vaulta has developed a lighter and smaller battery case with fewer parts, creating scalable efficiencies and opportunities for manufacturers. Vaulta founder and director Dominic Spooner has over 12 yearsexperience as a design engineer, and has worked in a range of industries, including renewables and batteries, defence and aerospace, consumer products, commercial products and startups. While working in battery design, Dominic saw firsthand that opportunities for growth were being overlooked in favour of continuing with the status quo – and that’s when the idea for Vaulta was born.Vaulta’s world-first no-weld design means modules can be easily assembled and disassembled, cells reused and recycled, and new cells added as battery technology continues to evolve.From stationary storage and electric vehicles to defence, aerospace and beyond, Vaulta’s battery case technology works wherever batteries do.
• Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.

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• AlleSense — AlleSense has developed a unique and novel solution to label-free imaging, the NanoMslide.
• Mental Jam — We are a games studio dedicated to ​creating impactful experiences that ​explore mental health.
• Deftbiotech — Deftbiotech is a biotech startup developing peptide-based antifungal treatments for nail and skin infections.

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• Heatseeker — Determine how successful your business, product or campaign will be before launching by testing your products and messaging with AI-powered digital campaigns.
• Zena Sport — The most advanced Female Chest Protectors for Contact Sports. Using a patented design developed after 3 years of research and testing, Zena Sport Chest Protectors are ultimate essential to elevate your performance on game day. Reduces your risk of injury, wear Zena Sport and play fearlessly!
• GGWP Academy — AI and social listening driven marketplace, backed by education to create #SmarterInfluence and drive ROI for brands in esports and gaming.

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• Giftbee — Giftbee reshapes gifting for businesses and consumers. Send gifts with flexibility to accept, swap, or give forward. Manage gifting programs, reduce waste, and create meaningful impact.
• Indi — Connect the village around your child and track what matters. Organise records, therapy goals and your care team in one place.
• Ovum — Meet Ovum, the intelligent health journal mobile app designed for womankind.

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• Sportility — Sportility is democratising grassroots sports sponsorship globally by connecting brands to teams, granting access to affordable and professional gear. We’re connecting household brands to an untapped grassroots sports community, allowing brands to increase their exposure and engagement through branded placement on sports uniforms.
 Sportility ishas provided grassroots teams and clubs the ability to access affordable and professional gear and has now grown to support over 30,000 sports people across Australia and the USA.

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• Zerocap — Digital Asset Trading and Liquidity Across Web3 Capital Markets
• Zena Sport — The most advanced Female Chest Protectors for Contact Sports. Using a patented design developed after 3 years of research and testing, Zena Sport Chest Protectors are ultimate essential to elevate your performance on game day. Reduces your risk of injury, wear Zena Sport and play fearlessly!

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• Bewelab SA — Bewe is a mobile game designed to reduce cravings, using neuroscience to automatically retrain your brain and effortlessly reclaim your health.
• BOOMPower — Help your customers electrify their homes while you hit your net zero goals. BOOM! Power delivers turnkey solutions for organisations ready to lead.
• Inceptoo — World's First Group Marketing Platform

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• Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
• BankVault Cybersecurity — BankVault is a cybersecurity innovation company pioneering web security. We have over 25x innovations, 6x Patent families filed worldwide, 5 products in market, and high-caliber shareholders including Turing Laureate - Whitfield Diffie (the father of internet encryption). BankVault's lighthouse product, MasterKey, empowers users withfrictionless and secure access to web login portals: increasing engagement, building trust, and reducing customer login abandonment. This is an intelligent new approach to Passwordless Authentication that is invisible and frictionless for users. The seamless experience achieves MFA in one step and can be deployed within minutes (instead of months) with no technology or security risk. The system is based on a new Decentralized Web Protocol, is FIDO2 compliant, and requires: - No client software or user setup - No user change management - No backend system changes.MasterKey is used by enterprises and SaaS businesses delivering services via the web (B2C / SaaS). Organizations can "Test Drive" their own site without cost. For transparency the API is open-source and the protocol is published in a global patent application.Our vision is to establish MasterKey as the trusted default for web security.
• Checkbox — Checkbox is an award-winning no code platform which allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.