OIF Ventures
Venture capitalDouble Bay · Pre-Seed–Series B · 18 people tracked
Investment thesis
OIF Ventures backs technology founders with deep conviction, positioning itself as a hands-on partner that works alongside the companies it invests in. The firm emphasizes shared momentum and support for founders throughout their journey. It leverages a base of over 150 investors who are themselves founders and operators contributing active value, and it connects portfolio companies to a broad network of leading US venture capital firms, having facilitated access to more than $1 billion in US capital.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 18 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 29 of 55 portfolio companiesSaaS ×16AI & Machine Learning ×14Enterprise Software ×10Cybersecurity ×6Fintech ×5Construction Tech ×4HR Tech ×4Cloud Computing ×3
HQs:Australia×5United States×5Brazil×1Canada×1Israel×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 17 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×112 founders×33 founders×24+ founders×1
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 55 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 32024 · 12017 · 16 dated
Advanced Navigation develops navigation and positioning systems using inertial, photonic, and quantum sensing technologies for autonomous systems across defense, space, climate science, and commercial applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechIoTRoboticsSpace Tech
Chris Shaw(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsAirTree VenturesAlpha Intelligence CapitalBrick Mortar VenturesIn-Q-TelKohlberg Kravis RobertsMain Sequence Ventures+2 more
Co-investorsInvestible Climate Tech FundOur Innovation Fund
Appetise is a meal-planning app that generates recipes and smart shopping lists, letting users shop for ingredients online or in-store at their local supermarket.
ConsumerFoodTechMarketplacesRetail TechSaaS
Elise(Co-Founder)Toby(Co-Founder)Toby Hilliam (Skilton)(Founder)in
Co-investorsArc AngelsBlack Sheep CapitalIcehouse VenturesNZVCSproutTen13
Assignar develops cloud-based operations software for self-perform general contractors and subcontractors working on infrastructure projects, covering both office and field workflows.
Construction TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSDenver, US
Sean McCreanor(CEO & Co-Founder)Marko Tomic(CTO & Co-Founder)
Co-investorsMultiplier CapitalOur Innovation FundTola CapitalFifth Wall
Co-investorsOur Innovation Fund
Bookipi offers an all-in-one business management platform for freelancers and small businesses, combining invoicing, CRM, appointment scheduling, proposals, contracts, timesheets, and an AI website builder in a single workflow.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsOur Innovation FundTen13
Co-investorsOur Innovation Fund
D-ID develops an AI video creation platform that produces professional avatar videos and interactive visual agents for enterprise communication and customer experience.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSTel Aviv-Yafo, IL
Sella Blondheim(Founder)inEliran Kuta(Founder/CTO)inGil Perry(Founder)in
Co-investorsBright Pixel CapitalConnecticut InnovationsMarubeni Ventures Inc.Mindset VentureOur Innovation FundY Combinator+2 more
DataMasque provides data masking and synthetic data solutions that generate "synthetically identical" customer data for development and operations.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Grant(CEO & Co-founder)in
Co-investorsOur Innovation FundWavemaker PartnersIcehouse Ventures
Dataweavers is a Microsoft Azure-native platform company that provides infrastructure, DevOps, security, and platform operations management for enterprise organizations running complex digital platforms and headless commerce systems.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsFive V CapitalOneVenturesOur Innovation Fund
Eftsure provides a platform for verifying suppliers and protecting business-to-business payments, with tools for vendor management, payment verification, segregation of duties, and audit reporting.
CybersecurityFintechSaaS
Co-investorsLevel EquityOur Innovation Fund
Enboarder provides an AI-driven platform for employee onboarding and cross-functional HR journeys, helping enterprise customers like Deloitte, ING, and Cisco reduce time-to-productivity and attrition.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSAustin, US
Brent Pearson(Executive Officer, Director)inDavid Jacobson(Director)James Butler(Director)
BoardWilliam Szczerbiak(Director)
Co-investorsGreycroftNext Coast VenturesEscalate Capital PartnersFlucas VenturesGolub GrowthOur Innovation Fund+1 more
Co-investorsOur Innovation Fund
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 FundFlying Fox VenturesLaunchVic BasecampLighter CapitalOur Innovation Fund
Fortiro provides an automated document fraud detection and verification platform that analyzes content, visual, metadata, and digital forensic properties of documents such as payslips, bank statements, tax documents, and invoices to generate a fraud risk score.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintech
Sean Quagliani(Founder)inDavid Weber(Founder)in
Co-investorsOur Innovation Fund
Futurerent provides property-based cash advances to Australian real estate investors, offering upfront funds against future rental income without a credit impact.
FintechPropTech
Godfrey Dinh(Founder)inAlvin Singhin
Co-investorsOur Innovation Fund
Getro is a network-based recruiting platform that helps companies hire faster by leveraging employee referrals and professional networks.
HR TechMarketing TechSaaSBoulder, US
Evan Walden(Founder)
Co-investorsAcadian Ventures Management, LlcBlindspot Ventures Management CoEmbedded CapitalMotive PartnersOur Innovation FundSamaipata+4 more
Go1 is an online learning platform that aggregates training content from over 250 providers into a single subscription for learning and development leaders.
EdTechEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Andrew Barnes(Founder/CEO)inChris Eigeland(Founder and CEO)inVu Tran(Founder)Chris Hood(Founder/CTO)in
Co-investorsAfterWork VenturesAirTree VenturesBlack Sheep CapitalEndeavor CatalystFull Circle Venture CapitalFundersClub+11 more
Hapana is a fitness business management platform offering member management, scheduling, marketing automation, reporting, and a white-label mobile app.
SaaSSports TechWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsBailador Technology InvestmentsOur Innovation FundRiverside Acceleration CapitalTractor Ventures
Instaclustr, part of NetApp, provides a managed platform, enterprise support, and consulting for open source data technologies, helping enterprises run their data layer more reliably and efficiently.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsBailador Technology InvestmentsLevel EquityOur Innovation FundSignificant VenturesSydney Angels
Co-investorsLegalTechOur Innovation Fund
Kasada provides a bot defense and fraud prevention platform that detects and blocks automated bot attacks, account takeover, scraping, and human fraud without relying on CAPTCHAs.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Sam Crowther(Founder)
Co-investorsIn-Q-TelMain Sequence VenturesOur Innovation FundTen ElevenReinventure Group
Co-investorsOur Innovation Fund
Platform addressing PR industry complexity and scaling publisher relationships.
Co-investorsOur Innovation FundVolition Capital
Mary Technology applies AI to convert unstructured legal documents into structured data, positioning itself within the legal technology space.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTech
Co-investorsOur Innovation FundSydney Angels
Mastt builds AI and software tools for construction project management, using agentic AI to automate manual reporting and administrative work for project teams.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaSSydney, AU
Doug Vincent(CEO, Co-founder)inJamie Cerexhe(Co-founder)inRaman(Co-founder)inIan(Chief Financial Officer)
Co-investorsArtesianInvestible Climate Tech FundOur Innovation FundSignificant Ventures
Matrak is a materials and task coordination platform for construction supply chains, connecting head contractors, manufacturers, suppliers, logistics providers, and installers on a single real-time system.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechLogistics & Supply Chain
Co-investorsOur Innovation FundSuperSeed Ventures
Co-investorsOur Innovation Fund
Neara provides a 3D, physics-based digital twin platform that unifies LiDAR, GIS, and asset records into an engineering-grade model of electrical networks, letting utilities simulate environmental and mechanical scenarios to predict asset failures, prioritize grid hardening, and plan network designs.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechEnergySaaS
Co-investorsOur Innovation FundPolipo VenturesSquare Peg CapitalTCVEQTSkip Capital
Co-investorsOur Innovation Fund
Pagaleve offers a "buy now, pay later" payment method in Brazil that lets consumers split purchases into Pix installments without a credit card, usable across thousands of partner stores.
E-commerceFintech
Henrique Weaver(Founder)in
Co-investorsEntrée CapitalFounder CollectiveMSW CapitalOur Innovation FundSaison CapitalSalesforce Ventures+1 more
Citizen-centric revenue optimisation platform improving government revenue and payment experiences.
Co-investorsOur Innovation Fundx15ventures (Commonwealth Bank)
Rosterfy provides a platform for recruiting, onboarding, and managing volunteers, with automated tools to deliver personalized onboarding experiences.
Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaS
Shannan Gove(Founder)in
Co-investorsBailador Technology InvestmentsOur Innovation Fund
Sitemate builds digital tools and workflow automation software for engineering, trades, and technical workforces across the built world, aiming to reduce administrative burden and increase productivity.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechFuture of WorkSaaS
Hartley(CEO)
Co-investorsArtesianBlackbird VenturesOur Innovation FundShearwater CapitalSydney Angels
Starboard offers an AI agent that automates the freight quoting workflow for freight forwarders, reading RFQs, sourcing carrier rates, applying margins, and generating quotes.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSToronto, CA
Sumeet T(Founder)
Co-investorsFlair VenturesGaruda VenturesAltered CapitalEclipseIcehouse VenturesKing River Capital
Syenta develops high-resolution interconnect technology for chip-to-chip connections using Localized Electrochemical Manufacturing, enabling higher bandwidth between compute and memory in AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSemiconductors
Jekaterina Viktorova(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlackbird VenturesJelix VenturesNSW Clean Technology Innovation GrantsOur Innovation FundPlayground GlobalSalus Ventures
Co-investorsOur Innovation Fund
Visionary Machines develops passive optical sensing systems that produce real-time, georeferenced 3D representations of the environment across multiple spectral bands, including in GPS-denied conditions.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechRoboticsSydney, AU
Samson Lee(Founder & Chief Technology Officer)inSonny Foster(Chief Executive Officer)inNick Gibbs(Chief Operating Officer)in
Co-investorsFolklore VenturesIn-Q-TelOur Innovation FundSalus VenturesSignificant VenturesThorney Investment Group
Santa Monica, US
Alec Andronikov(Executive Officer, Director)
XM Cyber provides a continuous exposure management platform that discovers, prioritizes, and validates attack paths across on-premises and cloud environments for IT security and risk management teams.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Boaz Gorodissky(Founder)in
Co-investorsKarma VenturesKickstart InnovationOur Innovation Fund
Zitcha offers a retail media operating system that connects retailers' merchant, trade, media, and finance teams with brands and agencies, using AI to plan, execute, and measure ad campaigns.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningRetail Tech
Troy Townsend(Founder)in
Co-investorsOur Innovation FundVMG Partners
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioInstaclustracq. by NetApp
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesStarboard · 1851franchise.com · Aug 20, 2026
Fortiro · tradingview.com · Aug 11, 2026
Advanced Navigation · forbes.com.au · Jun 29, 2026
Visionary Machines · afr.com · Jun 21, 2026
DataMasque · asiatechdaily.com · Jun 15, 2026
Getro · usnews.com · Jun 5, 2026
Appetise · bandt.com.au · Feb 20, 2026
Neara · dlapiper.com · Feb 17, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has OIF Ventures made?
- OIF Ventures has 53 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 3 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does OIF Ventures invest at?
- OIF Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What is OIF Ventures's typical check size?
- OIF Ventures typically writes checks of $165K – $3.3M.
- What sectors does OIF Ventures focus on?
- OIF Ventures focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is OIF Ventures located?
- OIF Ventures is headquartered in Double Bay, AU.
- Does OIF Ventures lead rounds?
- OIF Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does OIF Ventures co-invest with?
- OIF Ventures most often shares deals with Our Innovation Fund, Bailador Technology Investments, Blackbird Ventures, among 73 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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