Top 15 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Australia (May 2026)
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Matrix Partners
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2 | United States, China, India | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Mobile, SaaS | $4M–$100M |
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Shasta Ventures
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2 | United States, Canada, New Zealand | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $1M–$30M |
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Folklore Ventures
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2 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Information Technology | $250k–$15M |
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Square Peg Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $385k–$80M |
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Vayner/RSE
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1 | United States, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Internet, Mobile, Software | $1.5M–$60M |
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Blackbird Ventures
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1 | United States, Australia | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Hardware | $205k–$12M |
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AirTree Ventures
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $385k–$57M |
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Untitled Ventures
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1 | Australia | Seed | News, Publishing, Social Media | |
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Breakthrough Lab
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Total Sport and Entertainment
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1 | Australia | Seed | Video, Mobile, Social | |
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Savannah Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$8M |
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Felicis
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $1M–$45M |
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UK Research and Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Pakistan, Australia | Grant, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Education | $130k–$8.8M |
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Investible
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1 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $125k–$6.1M |
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Founders Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Internet | $1.2M–$75M |
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We're an early stage VC firm that leads pre-seed through Series A rounds and works with founders to help them win.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 437
- Round size: Series A $4M–$22M; Series B $7.3M–$41M; Series C $12M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
- Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure
- Lightforce Orthodontics — LightForce Orthodontics, founded in 2015, makes the world’s first and only fully customized 3D-printed bracket system that is based on the anatomy and tooth morphology of each patient. The company’s mission is to apply modern technology and mass-customization to improve the orthodontic experience for both patients and doctors. LightForce’s platformunites the latest in digital treatment capabilities with cutting-edge, on-demand, 3D manufacturing to offer clinicians the first significant advancement in bracket-based treatment protocol in the past 50 years. A first-of-its-kind in the orthodontic space, Lightforce offers an unparalleled platform for orthodontists and LightForce technicians to collaborate on treatment plans for each individual patient. The company’s solution significantly reduces patient visits to the orthodontist and time spent wearing braces by providing 100 percent fully-customized solutions that improve both convenience and quality, ensuring patients receive the gold standard of care.
Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 335
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.1M; Series A $3.3M–$20M; Series B $7.4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Tracksuit — Tracksuit has created beautiful, always-on, and radically affordable brand tracking for modern consumer brands. Brand marketers and leaders at consumer brands have access to enterprise-tier brand tracking, specifically built for them, at a price point that works. Teams can easily track awareness, consideration, preference and brand associationsfrom real humans within the wider market, and compare results against competitors.
- Lightup — Stay on top of data quality with Lightup.ai. Detect data drift and data outages before they hurt product experience and business decisions. Get started in minutes with a free trial. Continuously monitor all your data assets across the enterprise. Be data-driven with confidence.
- Deep Sentinel — Deep Sentinel offers the only video surveillance systems on the market with live security guards. See how it works and prevent crime on your property now.
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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- Industry: Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4.8M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Swoop Aero — Transforming how the world moves by making access to the skies seamless.
- HealthMatch — HealthMatch is a medical technology company that applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to clinical data to save lives.We aim to dramatically accelerate patient recruitment to clinical trials, and progress life-saving cures onto the market faster than existing practices allow.For clinicians and patients, there is a real struggleto identify and find appropriate trials, particularly where the criteria relating to each trial is inconsistently articulated. HealthMatch encodes qualifying questions relating to each patients condition. The platform matches responses to its trial dataset, and confirms only the correct-match trials for that patient — thereby streamlining the identification of suitable trials and facilitating a patient’s application to those trials.With Ai and software at the core, HealthMatch delivers a radically simple product to match patients with drug trials, backed by an execution approach to data that is deceptively complex to achieve and replicate. In doing so, HealthMatch is dramatically changing an industry that has essentially not moved beyond telephones and excel spreadsheets.
- SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $385k–$3.6M; Series A $1.4M–$21M; Series B $7M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Neara — Neara electric utility software is a physics-enabled platform that builds 3D interactive models of critical infrastructure networks and assets. Request a demo.
- SPIRITT — Spirit enables the development of complex applications by describing the concept to a computer without the need to write code, It is an artificial intelligence-based platform that allows you to develop complex applications such as Tinder, Instagram, or Wolt.
- Tomorrow.io — Predict, automate, and solve your biggest weather challenges with Tomorrow.io.
Founded in 2014, Vayner/RSE is a marriage of builders: Gary Vaynerchuk, VaynerMedia and RSE Ventures. VRSE invests in teams building tomorrow's companies through unique consumer insight and relentless drive.Our sweet spot is in the first round of institutional financing, funding either as lead investors or as part of a syndicate.Beyond capital, we support our community with access and insights derived across both our investment portfolio and the operating companies we oversee on a daily basis.Our team has a diverse background of starting, growing and operating companies across a variety of industries and life stages and we leverage this mental elasticity to help our entrepreneurs through the gamut of challenges that accompany building companies.
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- Industry: Internet, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3M; Series A $4M–$12M; Series B $8.6M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Danvas — Danvas is advancing screens that will possess a fully dimensional interactive design that brings NFT art to life and will reinforce the authentic ownership of the artwork. Its premium, luxury digital art canvas aims to accelerate the world’s appreciation of digital artists and their artwork, and introduce art collectors to the value, andpossibilities of the next wave of digital art.
- nameless — Private testnets and tools for enhanced, collaborative Web3 development.
- Immutable Systems — Immutable Systems delivers a radically new approach to cloud security.
Blackbird Ventures is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in diverse businesses including emerging technology companies and real estate development. Blackbird Ventures is based in La Jolla, California.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $205k–$3.6M; Series A $1M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Dgraph Labs — The only fault-tolerant, distributed graph database with native GraphQL that gives developers the tools to quickly build distributed applications at scale.
- PsiQuantum — PsiQuantum is building the world's first useful quantum computer.
- SafetyCulture — Raise your game with an easy to use mobile app and software inspection solution. iAuditor by SafetyCulture is available on iOS and Android.
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $385k–$7.1M; Series A $1.5M–$57M; Series B $5.1M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.
- Secure Code Warrior — Secure Code Warrior helps developers write more secure code. We are focused on bringing an innovative approach to developer security training. Contact us today.
- High Earth Orbit Robotics — HEO Robotics provides on-orbit inspection services for satellites, using a network of space-based sensors. The high quality image data and insights allow satellite operators to conduct predictive maintenance and diagnose issues with their assets
Untitled Group is the collective responsible for a variety of unique festivals, events, venues, tours and good times enjoyed by our artists and patrons from all around the globe.The Melbourne based collective produce over 100+ events annually within Australia and abroad, bringing hundreds of thousands of music lovers together each year.
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- Industry: News, Publishing, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.
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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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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- Industry: Video, Mobile, Social
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 413
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.7M; Series A $2.5M–$17M; Series B $9M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Opsera — Opsera automates any CI/CD toolchain, enables declarative pipelines, and provides unified insights across your entire software delivery process.
- Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
- MotherDuck — Making analytics ducking awesome with DuckDB. Sign up to stay in touch.
UKRI convenes, catalyses and invests in close collaboration with others to build a thriving, inclusive research and innovation system.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Education
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Pakistan, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $614k–$1.2M; Grant $130k–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TwoShot —
- EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology
- Jet Engineering System Solutions — Delivering pop up, floating maritime 5G communications for a safe and secure, sustainable, smart operational, global blue economy.
Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $125k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $642k–$1M; Series A $1M–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Sherlok — Automated client retention for mortgage brokers, helping them grow their loan book by proactively keeping their existing clients happy and with them forever.
- BintanGO — Creator Marketing Platform terbaik di Indonesia, lebih dari 40.000 Kreator dan 100 Brand sudah bergabung. Buat campaignmu jadi fleksibel, terlacak dan terukur.
- Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 598
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.5M; Series A $4M–$40M; Series B $11M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Layer N — Layer N is a layer 2 network designed to hyper-scale financial applications on Ethereum.
- Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.
- Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.
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