# Top 50 Artificial intelligence VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in October 2023

## Flying Fox Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.

## Artesian VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Carthona Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

## Blackbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.

## Main Sequence Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

We work with inventors who are building something hard from their unique expertise in science. These inventors are building the industries that will thrive for the decades to come. We have a unique working model to accelerate a company's pathway to scale.

## Reinventure
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

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.

## Skip Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Skip Capital is a private investment fund investing in technology and infrastructure

## Right Click Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm

## Folklore Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Information Technology

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.

## CP Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

CP Ventures is a VC fund that invests internationally in early stage, highly scalable, breakthrough technology companies driven by the 4IR

## Jelix Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand. We invest from pre-seed to Series A, and partner with ambitious and daring founders building the future.

## Black Sheep Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.

## AirTree Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

## Skalata
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Education, Apps

Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.

## Transition Level Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Founded by Steve Baxter, Transition Level Investments provides equity capital and operational expertise across Seed and Series A rounds to Australian companies.
Our team focuses on a company-growth approach, adding value by assisting founders to build their expertise, expand their team, build product, scale locally and globally to position for asuccessful exit. We have a track record of identifying investment opportunities in the Australian market and helping enable global growth.

## Qualgro VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Qualgro is a venture capital (VC) fund based in Singapore that provides funding to tech startups across Southeast Asia, in areas like Data, Software, and AI.

## Jolimont Global Mining Systems
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Construction, Software, SaaS

Resource Capital Funds is a mining-focused alternative investments firm that partners with companies to build strong, successful, and sustainable businesses.

## NAB Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

NAB Ventures is an Australian Venture Capital fund backed by National Australia Bank (one of the largest 20 banks globally).

## January Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology

January Capital believes that rapid digitalization will continue to occur across all industries over the next decade. This fundamental shift will enable one-of-a-kind possibilities for category-defining enterprises to emerge. They prioritise collaborating with founders who are developing technologies that allow such transformation. They invest fromthe beginning of a company's life cycle, but they may also provide ongoing assistance. They are looking for firms that were developed in or for the Asia-Pacific area. Analysts anticipate that certain themes will drive economic growth in this region over the next several decades.

## Regal Funds Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Regal Funds Management was founded in 2004 by Andrew and Philip King. Regal utilises a long/short investment strategy and performs investment management and investment advisory services to a number of Australian Unit Trusts and Cayman Island Companies.

## Investible
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

## Archangel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing

Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together.

## Brisbane Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.

## Square Peg Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.

## Follow[the]Seed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence

Follow[the]Seed is a post-seed algorithmic venture capital fund, using a unique predictive analytical model known as Raving Fans™ to identify the next $1 Billion+ ventures. Based in Sydney, Australia; San-Francisco, USA; Tel Aviv, Israel & Beijing, China our team has over 3 decades of combined experience building startups ourselves andanother 2 decades of experience investing in over 90 companies.Oh, and we truly love entrepreneurs and innovation.

## Alium Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Alium Capital focuses on listed and unlisted technology investments to generate out-sized returns. The company invests in technology, innovation, and early-stage businesses, all the way through to publicly listed assets.
It specializes in the fields of finance, investing, innovation, and capital.Alium Capital was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.

## Horizons Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Investing in the deep science and technology that can propel humanity towards a radically better future.

## Giant Leap Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, SaaS

Giant Leap is Australia's first venture capital fund to be 100% dedicated to investing in exceptional, rapidly scalable impact businesses.

## Starfish Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology

Starfish Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm focused on information technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies.

## Investec
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Energy

Welcome to Investec. Find out more about us, our businesses, sponsorships and career opportunities.

## Tencent
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

## SafetyCulture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Data Integration

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## Microequities
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Pet, Local

We manage funds and assets exclusively for high net worth, wholesale, and sophisticated investors seeking to invest in microcaps. Contact us today.

## Sydney Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Apps

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.

## SEEK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Human Resources, Recruiting, Software

SEEK is a diverse group of companies that have a unified purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organizations succeed. The Group encompasses a strong portfolio of employment, education, and volunteer businesses which span across Australia, New Zealand, China, South East Asia, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, andBangladesh. SEEK makes a positive impact on a truly global scale, operating in a total of 18 countries with market-leading positions in 14 countries. It creates world-class product technology solutions to address the needs of job seekers and hirers and facilitate the matching between job seekers and hirers across our online employment marketplaces. Online Education Services (‘OES’) offers leading online education and SEEK Learning offers trusted advice in relation to career-related education. SEEK’s commitment to having a positive impact on society is reflected through the diverse range of initiatives which its businesses across the globe partake in to support the communities they operate within. In Australia and New Zealand SEEK Volunteer is each country’s largest single source of volunteering opportunities offering not-for-profit organizations free access to post volunteer opportunities. This free marketplace is something SEEK is exceptionally proud of. Over its 20 years of operation, SEEK continues to innovate within the markets it operates in. It provides a culture of excellence and acceptance in our workplaces and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of the organization.

## Tidal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.

## FreshTracks Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shelburne, Vermont, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

FreshTracks Capital - a Vermont based venture capital fund investing in Northern New England seed & early stage entrepreneurial companies.

## Viburnum Funds
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps

We are an Active Ownership Investment Manager of public and private equities for high net worth individuals, family offices and institutional investors.

## ASI Growth Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Travel, Software, Analytics

ASI Growth Partners is an investment Firm.

## Rampersand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Marketing, Enterprise Software

Rampersand is an early-stage venture capital firm. We invest in the best Australian technology founders, teams and companies and are committed to helping them become major national, regional and global leaders.The rampersand team has worked with successful startups and technology firms in Australia, Silicon Valley, Israel, Europe and Asia. Ourpartners have seen numerous companies from the early stages through to successful exits including BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle for US$7.2bn), Jajah (acquired by Telefonica), Snaptu (acquired by Facebook), Onavo (acquired by Facebook), StepStone (acquired by Axel Springer) and Amobee (acquired by Singtel for over US$300m).As you can see, we have done it before and know that companies need more than just capital to succeed.

## OneVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Capital Zed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Content, Software, Marketing

an Australia-based disruptive technology investor

## NextView Ventures
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping

The Future is Coming

## Wavemaker Partners
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, IT, Commerce/Shopping

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

## Australian Research Council
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Biotechnology

Australian Research Council provides the Australian government with research advice and administers research grants.

## GBTEC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Predictive Analytics

GBTEC Software + Consulting are suppliers of business process management (BPM) software and process consulting. Due to their complete coverage of the entire value creation chain, GBTEC offers customers unique added value. GBTEC supports you from the first idea through to daily operations with well-founded know-how and unique products. Theircomprehensive knowledge in the BPM setting and strong customer orientation have brought us acclaim from leading worldwide companies and organizations within the public domain in a very short time period. From the beginning, they have always oriented themselves toward long-term successful and partner-based relationships. Their customers’ objectives are the focus of their activities. They pursue them with the highest level of dedication.

## Macquarie Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Renewable Energy

Macquarie Capital combines specialist expertise, innovative advice and flexible capital solutions to help our clients and partners make opportunity reality.

## Ellerston Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection.

## VoicePunch
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Real Estate

VoicePunch is a hub for founders who are enabling the next wave of voice technologies to connect with peers and investment partners.

## Egis Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Sensor, Automotive

EgisTec specializes in the IC design, research and development, and the testing and sales of capacitive fingerprint sensor.
Egis Technology Inc. provides fingerprint biometrics and data encryption solutions. The Company specializes in integrated turnkey solutions with an emphasis on sensor performance and software usability.

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