# Top 50 Marketplace VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in May 2026

## Carthona Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 14
- 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.

## EVP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.

## AirTree Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 12
- 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.

## Investible
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 12
- 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.

## Blackbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 12
- 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.

## Sydney Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Flying Fox Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Aura Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies

## Black Sheep Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Skalata
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Reinventure
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Artesian VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Clinton Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Clinton Capital Partners is a VC advisory business that specialises in raising capital and growing shareholder returns, for early stage technology companies and their investors. In addition, we invest our own funds to align company, investor and advisor. We have completed >70 successful transactions, and crystallised 14 liquidity events.Clinton Capital Partners has a long and established track record of growing companies, raising capital, conducting mergers, and creating liquidity events. When raising capital, we feel early-stage companies underestimate the time involved, the distraction to the underlying business, and the importance of identifying the “right culturally aligned” investors for their journey.

## Macdoch Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Our mission is to support Australia & New Zealand’s late seed stage founders. Since 2011, we have partnered with extraordinary founders building companies using technology to build a better future.We are looking for late seed stage founders who have a product and paying customers, in businesses across Australia & New Zealand. Our currentthesis surrounds networked businesses (like platforms and marketplaces) and select SaaS, but we do engage more broadly.We have been active seed investors since 2011. We invested in Cliff, Mel and Cameron when Canva was just starting to offer paid subscription plans. We partnered with Dylan and Mark at Qwilr based on their first public beta. Peter and Tony at Mable had 350 carers on their Sydney-based marketplace when we first partnered with them.

## Tidal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Rampersand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Grand Prix Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bondi, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Online Portals, Marketplace

Grand Prix Capital is a private venture capital and investment firm specialized in rapid growth, start-up, private and microcap listed businesses.

## Ellerston Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## TEN13
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

## Southern Cross Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy

Southern Cross Venture Partners was launched in 2006 by veteran venture capitalists who have managed and operated companies themselves. Southern Cross Venture Partners assist early stage technology companies that demonstrate the potential for exceptional growth and market leadership build significant businesses. The founding principle of SouthernCross is partnership -- they are passionately committed to doing everything they can to help their portfolio companies succeed. Their team has a strong record of utilizing their start-up and management experience, industry knowledge, network of business/customer relationships, and recruiting skills to assist in building significant shareholder value.Southern Cross is currently investing in companies that fit their investment criteria. They prefer to act as lead or co-lead in the early stages where they have experience that can help build value rapidly. They do not have a minimum investment amount, however, a typical initial investment will be $2 million to $5 million with an ability to invest more money in later rounds.

## Melbourne Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing

Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.

## Brisbane Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## SEEK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Square Peg Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Pollenizer
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, Marketplace

Pollenizer is a co-founder of start-up web businesses in Australia. They partner with strong founders and take equity stakes at a concept stage on consumer and SaaS businesses. The skill sets cover technology, marketing and capital raising. They also occasionally make seed investments. Their businesses include;* * ** * * * * * * * * * Their team includes;* Phil Morle, ex-CTO of Kazaa, Omnidrive.* Mick Liubinskas, ex-CMO of Kazaa, Tangler, ZaprThey are also investors and partners with 

## OIF Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

OIF is a venture capital firm focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs building businesses.

## Bailador Technology Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Bailador is a growth capital fund that focuses on the IT and media sectors, managed by an experienced team with demonstrated sector expertise. The company supports its portfolio companies in subsequent rounds of funding through their own participation and with introductions to larger international growth expansion funds. It assists in thepreparation and management of fundraising, M&A activity, and pre-IPO processes. The portfolio businesses of the company are DocsCorp, Click Loans Group, Rezdy, Stackla, iPRO Solutions, and SiteMinder.Bailador is an Australia-based company that was founded in 2010 by Paul Wilson and David Kirk.

## ACAC Innovation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Renewable Energy

ACAC Innovation provides angel investment, mentoring and support to game-changing startups. We work with founders to turn their innovative ideas into successful businesses.

## Right Click Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm

## Touch Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Payments, Virtual Workforce

Touch Ventures is an investment holding company focused on high growth, scalable investment opportunities globally, including those who may benefit from Afterpay's ecosystem

## Cultivation Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Cultivation Capital invests in young companies whose ideas have potential to transform the way we live and work.

## Seven West Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet

Seven West Media is the leading, listed national multi-platform media business based in Australia. We comprise Seven Television, the leading free to air capital city television network; Pacific Magazines, the country's second largest magazine group by readership; Yahoo!7 one of the nation’s most successful internet platforms, as well asWestern Australia's leading newspaper, The West Australian and associated WA regional newspapers and radio stations. Seven West Media was created through the acquisition of Seven Media Group by West Australian Newspapers Holdings Limited (WAN) as approved by WAN shareholders on 11 April 2011.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Perennial Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Perennial Partners is a specialist, active investment management firm. Formed in 2000 and led by well-known Value investor, John Murray. The company's sole focus is to deliver excellence in funds management through equity ownership and the alignment of interests between key investment management staff and our clients. Perennial Value nowmanages over $5 billion on behalf of institutional and retail clients.

## 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.

## Adcock Private Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Legal, Internet

We are an industry-agnostic, globally-active firm that capitalises on new market opportunities with great business ideas and technologies.

## Exto Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Apps, Content, Internet

Exto Partners is a leading Australian venture capital firm that has backed the next growth phase of many of Australia's fast growing tech companies.

## Alium Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## TEV Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms.

## Giant Leap Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## ASI Growth Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Travel, Software, Analytics

ASI Growth Partners is an investment Firm.

## Rocket Internet
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech

Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.

## CVC Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Software, Retail, Financial Services

CVC has six complementary strategies across private equity, secondaries and credit, through which we invest on behalf of pension funds and other leading institutions

## Investec
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Energy

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

## Five V Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Information Technology

Five V Capital is a leading, growth-focused private equity & venture capital firm in Australia and New Zealand

## Tiger Global Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.

## OneVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Acorn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Acorn Capital Specialist Emerging & Microcap Investment Management. We research and invest in the most attractive Australian based emerging or microcap companies.

## LegalZoom
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Glendale, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Legal, AgTech, Internet

LegalZoom is the nation's most recognized name in law, the alternative to the traditional law firm. The leading provider of online legal document services and legal plans to families and small businesses, LegalZoom offers high quality, affordable legal services, marrying cutting-edge technology with access to experienced attorneys.LegalZoom was founded on the idea that all Americans deserve access to the law; and as of 2011 the company has helped close to two million small businesses and families with their legal needs. Our high quality documents have been accepted in all 50 states, and 94% of customers would refer LegalZoom to their family and friends.

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