Flying Fox Ventures
Venture capitalMelbourne · Pre-Seed–Series A · 3 people tracked
Investment thesis
Flying Fox Ventures backs early-stage companies in Australia and New Zealand, helping them scale internationally by providing capital alongside hands-on resources, mentorship, and expertise. The firm positions itself as disciplined yet unconventional, favoring founders who challenge norms. It also runs the Flying Fox Angel School, an educational program teaching companies and teams how to invest and think like startup investors.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 3 people
from the firm's websiteWhat they invest in
from 52 of 59 portfolio companiesSaaS ×24AI & Machine Learning ×21Enterprise Software ×9EdTech ×7Consumer ×5Digital Health ×5Healthtech ×5Fintech ×4
HQs:Australia×15United Kingdom×1Singapore×1United States×1
Investments · 59 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathA free mobile game where players pick a country, build a player, and compete for a spot in a FIFA World Cup 2026 squad.
ConsumerGamingSports Tech
Co-investorsProDigital Future Fund
Agscent develops technology to detect and measure methane emissions from livestock, aiming to link emission data to livestock productivity.
AgTechClimate TechHardware
Co-investorsBetter Food VenturesMandalay Venture Partners
AI-NC offers a browser-based tool that reviews mechanical product designs for manufacturability, flagging issues such as unmachinable features, tolerance problems, and changes between revisions before parts reach production.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSaaS
Co-investorsMelbourne Accelerator Program (MAP)
AuditCover is a platform for accounting firms to offer and manage tax audit insurance for their clients, automating onboarding, renewals, quoting, and claims.
FintechInsurTechSaaS
Castlepoint provides an AI-based platform that automatically discovers and classifies data and records across an organisation's systems using explainable AI, without requiring metadata, tags, or labels.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityGovTech
Co-investorsMain Sequence Ventures
Contactile develops optical tactile sensors that give robotic hands and grippers a sense of touch, enabling adaptive real-time grip, slip detection, and friction estimation for physical AI and robotic manipulation.
Deep TechHardwareRoboticsSydney, AU
Heba KhamisBenjamin Xia(Founder)in
Co-investorsRadar VenturesUNSW Founders 10xTrue Ventures
CounterCurrent provides AI-based ocean forecasting and route optimization software that helps shipping companies find more fuel-efficient routes by harnessing ocean currents.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechLogistics & Supply Chain
Drawbridge Labs builds interactive 3D mobile experiences with conversational AI hosts, used by media and entertainment brands to engage audiences around TV shows, sports, and retail activations.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment
BLUwater is a sparkling water beverage infused with sustainably grown blue spirulina, offering a naturally blue, antioxidant-rich drink with vitamins and minerals as an alternative to conventional soft drinks.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTech
Edrolo provides curriculum-aligned video lessons and scaffolded practice questions for secondary school students, along with class- and student-level performance insights for teachers and schools.
EdTechSaaSMelbourne, AU
Jeremy Cox(Founder)inDuncan Anderson(Founder)
Co-investorsAirTree VenturesCardinia VenturesBlackbird VenturesGiant LeapOneVentures
Edrolo provides curriculum-aligned learning content and practice questions for secondary school students in Australia, with data analytics tools to help schools track performance against state benchmarks.
EdTechAustralia, AU
Jeremy Cox(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlackbird VenturesCardinia VenturesAirTree VenturesGiant Leap
Edsemble runs a subscription service that ships two age-tailored children's books per month for kids ages 0–4, paired with parent and book guides.
ConsumerE-commerceEdTech
Co-investorsSkalata
Eugene provides medical-grade genetic screening for reproductive/family planning (conditions like cystic fibrosis, SMA, fragile X) and preventative health (cancer, heart disease, metabolic conditions across 180+ genes), delivered via at-home saliva kits with genetic counselling support.
BiotechDigital HealthHealthtech
Zoe Milgrom(Chief Clinical Officer & Genetic Counsellor)
Everlab is a health platform offering preventative diagnostics, longevity testing (bloodwork, genetics, and fitness), and access to longevity-trained doctors, dietitians, and physios, with results and care plans tracked in a single app.
Digital HealthHealthtechLongevity
Marc Hermann(Founder)in
Co-investorsAfterWork Venturesb2ventureTen13AirTree VenturesLeft Lane Capital
Extraterrestrial Power Ltd. develops mass-manufacturable, radiation-tolerant thin silicon solar cells and panels for space applications, and offers spacecraft electrical engineering and embedded software services to other space tech companies.
EnergyHardwareSpace Tech
Peter Toth(Co-founder & CEO)Gavin Conibeer(Co-founder & CSO)Babett Volgyesi(Co-founder & COO)
Co-investorsMelt Ventures
Factor builds software tools for energy pricing and portfolio management, aiming to replace slow, manual spreadsheet-based processes used by energy teams.
Climate TechEnergyEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsBlackbird Ventures
Factor House builds enterprise tooling for real-time streaming data infrastructure, including Kpow (a UI and API for Apache Kafka) and Flex (for Apache Flink), unified in the Factor Platform for streaming observability.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMelbourne, AU
Derek Troy-West(Co-founder)inKylie Troy-West(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsBlackbird VenturesAlice Anderson FundLaunchVic BasecampLighter CapitalOIF VenturesOur Innovation Fund
Gega Elements is a materials science company developing gallium refining technology based on proprietary research, aiming for a cost-effective and sovereign-controlled processing pathway.
CleantechDeep TechNew Materials
Co-investorsSalus Ventures
Co-investorsTenacious Ventures
A gaming content website publishing articles on video game memes, retro games, reviews and guides, cosmetic skins, and game lore for franchises like Pokémon and League of Legends.
GamingMedia & Entertainment
Converts food waste into protein and fertiliser using insect technology for blue-chip customers.
Co-investorsOnMarketRampersand
Heaps Normal is an independent, Australian-owned non-alcoholic beverage company producing non-alc beers (including a draught and prosecco) sold to pubs and consumers.
ConsumerDirect to Consumer
Co-investorsTen13
Driven offers neuroscience-based resilience training, certifications, and psychometric assessments (such as the PR6 Resilience Assessment) along with a Driven Resilience app and coaching programs.
EdTechMental HealthWellness & Fitness
iluminr provides Microsimulations, short scenario-based exercises that test and document an organization's strategic, operational, and cyber resilience while producing audit-ready evidence for regulators, auditors, and boards.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsInvestible Climate Tech Fund
Insightech provides digital experience analytics that show how users behave on a website, surfacing friction points, errors, and drop-offs across the conversion funnel along with their business impact.
Data & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsPolipo Ventures
InvestorHub is a sales and marketing software platform for investor relations, helping public companies build a more active shareholder base through engagement tools, a branded investor hub, an AI-driven investor register, and multi-channel campaigns.
FintechMarketing TechSaaS
Josef is a no-code legal automation platform that lets legal teams turn policies and playbooks into Q&A tools, automate contract drafting (e.g.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Co-investorsLegalTechCarthona Capital
Juno is a research platform that runs unscripted, asynchronous qualitative interviews with real people and analyzes the responses at scale, connecting themes to source quotes.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Michelle Gilmore(CEO)
Co-investorsBlackbird VenturesAda VenturesArtesianEntrepreneur FirstIllumina Accelerator
Kapiche is a customer intelligence platform that uses AI to analyze customer conversations across support, surveys, reviews, and social channels, turning unstructured feedback into structured insights like reason for contact and satisfaction.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsMoxxie VenturesSydney AngelsTransition Level InvestmentsMain Sequence Ventures
Kismet is a platform that matches people using Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) with suitable service providers and offers tools for NDIS budgeting, financial management, and plan navigation.
Digital HealthHealthtechMarketplaces
Co-investorsAirTree VenturesCrane Venture PartnersDarcy NauntonProsus Ventures
Komodo Wellbeing publishes content on fostering a growth mindset and building resilience in students within the school environment.
EdTechMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Andy Ryan(Founder)in
Co-investorsBooster Innovation FundCure Kids VenturesFolklore VenturesTiger Global Management
Mass Dynamics provides a browser-based workspace and API for analyzing omics data, letting scientists upload experiments, run AI agent-driven analysis, and explore biological insights such as pathway enrichment and protein lists.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechSaaS
Co-investorsRampersand
Mayday is a month-end platform for finance teams using Xero, QuickBooks Online, or Intuit Enterprise Suite, automating operations such as intercompany reconciliations, recharges, prepayments, deferred revenue, and adjusting journals.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsFalak Startups
me&u is an AI-powered menu, ordering, and payment platform for hospitality venues such as restaurants, bars, and food halls, offering personalized guest menus, CRM, loyalty, and staff upsell tools.
AI & Machine LearningFoodTechSaaS
Co-investorsAirTree VenturesCommerce VenturesTen13OneVenturesSkip CapitalTiger Global Management+1 more
Multitudes is an engineering analytics platform that measures the impact of AI interventions on developer productivity, codebase quality, and team wellbeing, flagging risks like reduced code quality ("AI slop") in AI-generated changes.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsBlackbird VenturesEven Capital
Newie is an app for selling services, aimed at helping service providers save time, reduce administrative work, and process sales quickly.
SaaSSales Tech
DNX Solutions is an Australian cloud-native consultancy and systems integrator that helps organisations modernise and operate cloud and legacy technology platforms with a focus on reliability, security, cost control, governance, and data foundations for AI.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsBeachhead Venture CapitalUtiliti Group
Operata provides an observability platform that captures metrics, events, logs and traces across contact center tech stacks — including voice AI, CCaaS, CRM, networks, browsers, headsets and telephony — to monitor and troubleshoot live customer interactions.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsBlack Nova VCDarcy NauntonTidal Ventures
Presien develops plug-and-play computer vision and on-machine AI ("physical AI") solutions that heavy industry OEMs and technology providers integrate into machines to enable real-time operational insights.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechRoboticsSydney, AU
Co-investorsIn-Q-TelMain Sequence Ventures
QSIC is an AI-powered in-store audio platform that combines music curation, patented volume-adjusting hardware, and AI-generated ad scripting and voiceovers to help retailers manage and monetize their store audio.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningRetail Tech
Co-investorsTen13Tractor Ventures
Replica Studios was an AI voice technology company that provided synthetic voice generation capabilities for creative projects.
AI & Machine LearningGamingBrisbane, AU
Co-investorsTechstarsCarthona CapitalThe Venture Reality Fund
Rythm offers monthly blood testing and biomarker tracking to help consumers monitor health metrics over time, providing actionable insights for optimization rather than one-time snapshots.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & FitnessSan Francisco, US
Dacri Burdan(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inRobert Wade(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardAndrew Montgomery(Director)in
Co-investorsAcre Venture PartnersCollaborative FundCourtside Ventures
Safewill is an online platform for creating legally reviewed Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney, and Enduring Guardianship documents, with each Will checked by its affiliate law firm Safewill Legal.
ConsumerLegalTechSaaSSydney, AU
Co-investorsKing River CapitalMighty PartnersReinventure Group
Skills Base offers a skills management platform that lets organizations build a skills taxonomy, map skills to roles and teams, assess competencies, and generate skill-gap reports for resource allocation, training, and internal mobility.
Future of WorkHR TechSaaS
Co-investorsTractor Ventures
Surreal is a productivity platform for the live entertainment industry that handles scheduling, booking across multiple venues, entertainer roster management, and automated invoicing and artist payments.
Enterprise SoftwareMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Tiliter builds computer-vision product recognition that identifies specific products, parts and assets from images when barcodes, labels or RFID tags are missing, returning product identity, SKU or asset data with confidence scores into existing workflows.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareRetail Tech
Marcel Herz(Founder)in
Co-investorsAllied Venture PartnersFlucas VenturesTen13
B2B lead generation and predictive analytics platform powered by technographics.
Co-investorsH2 Ventures
Co-investorsAfterWork Ventures
Xailient builds privacy-safe facial recognition that runs on-device (Edge AI) inside cameras, avoiding cloud transmission of images and video for large-scale camera fleets.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityIoT
Zapid is an AI-native hiring platform that helps high-volume hiring teams screen applicants, review video and text responses, filter candidates, and automate interview scheduling.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesKomodo · animalsaroundtheglobe.com · Aug 18, 2026

Everlab · ascendants.in · Aug 16, 2026
Contactile · itbrief.com.au · Aug 10, 2026
Castlepoint · bournemouthecho.co.uk · Aug 4, 2026

Rythm · intelligence360.news · Jul 28, 2026
Goterra · capitalbrief.com · Jul 27, 2026
Juno · finsmes.com · Jul 17, 2026
Mayday · trysignalbase.com · May 25, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Flying Fox Ventures made?
- Flying Fox Ventures has 57 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Flying Fox Ventures invest at?
- Flying Fox Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Flying Fox Ventures focus on?
- Flying Fox Ventures focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Flying Fox Ventures located?
- Flying Fox Ventures is headquartered in Melbourne, AU.
- Who does Flying Fox Ventures co-invest with?
- Flying Fox Ventures most often shares deals with Ten13, Blackbird Ventures, AirTree Ventures, among 48 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamRachael Neumann (Flying Fox Ventures)
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