Rampersand — Full Portfolio

Cap-table management and equity software platform for startups, handling option grants, vesting, and SAFEs.

Co-investorsStout Street Capital

Capital Brief is a business and politics publication focused on Australia's economy and its intersection with entrepreneurship, capital allocation, and policy.

Media & EntertainmentSydney, AU

Chris Janz(Chief Executive Officer)inDavid Eisman(Chief Business Officer)inJohn McDuling(Editor-in-Chief)

Co-investorsRembrandt Venture PartnersShearwater CapitalTenmile

Parachute provides AI governance and compliance software for hospitals, automating the evaluation, deployment, and monitoring of clinical AI systems to reduce risk and accelerate pilot programs.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechHealthtechNew York City, US

Aria Vikram(Founder)inTony Yamin(Co-Founder & CTO)in

Co-investorsY CombinatorSusa VenturesUpfront Ventures

AI customer-onboarding platform whose voice AI agent Obi watches the user's screen and guides them through activation in real time.

Cuttable is a creative production platform that turns a plain-language brief and a brand's existing content into finished ads in multiple Meta ad formats, publishes them to Meta Ads Manager, and reports back on performance metrics.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech

Sam Kroonenburg(Founder)inEdward Ring(Founder)in

Co-investorsAirTree VenturesSquare Peg CapitalGlitch Capital

Enterprise AI demand-intelligence company (Series C) based in Auckland and SF.

Campbell Brown(Founder)in

Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAspect VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersOwl CapitalTidal Ventures

Converts food waste into protein and fertiliser using insect technology for blue-chip customers.

Co-investorsFlying Fox VenturesOnMarket

Rampersand portfolio company and hiring platform for junior-to-mid roles, used by companies including Dovetail, Spriggy and Hnry.

Hnry provides financial administration and tax services for self-employed individuals and sole traders.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSAuckland, NZ

Claire(Co-founder)James(Co-founder)James Fuller(Founder)inKaran(Managing Director, Australia)

Co-investorsAthletic VenturesCreative HQ — The IncubatorLeft Lane CapitalMovacIcehouse Ventures

inkl is a news aggregation platform that curates and presents articles from a range of publishers, organized by top stories, topics, organizations, people, and authors.

ConsumerMedia & Entertainment

Spatial computing company (Series A), based in Melbourne.

Melbourne

Numa Bertron(Director)Zachary Duff(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsAura VenturesInvestible Climate Tech FundVulpes Ventures

AI agent stack for ecommerce back-office operations, proactively resolving back-end tasks before a support ticket is created.

LaunchVic is Victoria's startup agency that funds accelerator programs and provides support to founders, investors, and startup programs across the Australian state.

GovTechMelbourne, AU

Co-investors30X30 Scaleup ProgramCivVic LabsCut Through AngelsScale Investors

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-investorsFlying Fox Ventures

Mentorloop is a mentoring software platform that helps organisations run and scale mentoring programs, using a cohort-based matching algorithm, milestone-based content, and feedback tools, plus an AI co-coordinator called Coco.

Future of WorkHR TechSaaS

Lucy Lloyd(Founder)inHeidi Holmes(Founder)in

Co-investorsBlackbird VenturesFolklore Ventures

mx51 provides a white-label, bank-grade payments and commerce platform that lets banks and acquirers offer merchants integrated payment processing, including POS-to-terminal integration, dashboards, and transaction analytics.

FintechRetail TechSaaS

Orkestra provides energy modelling software for commercial and industrial (C&I) solar and battery projects, offering feasibility analysis, configurable system design, pre-loaded tariff and load data, and shareable reporting.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergySaaSCarmel, US

Blake Garcia(Founder)inBryan Spitzer(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew J. Macht(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsTidal Ventures

Co-investorsBlackbird Giants

An operating system for law firms, scaling from solo practitioners to enterprise, orchestrating AI-driven legal work and integrating with practice-management tools like Clio and InfoTrack.

Quantum Brilliance designs and manufactures diamond-based quantum chips and products that operate at room temperature, targeting deployment across data centers, edge computing, and field applications.

Deep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingStuttgart, DE

Co-investorsBreakthrough VictoriaCP VenturesInterValley VenturesInvestible Climate Tech FundMain Sequence VenturesR&D Tax Incentive

Rampersand is a venture capital firm that makes inception, pre-seed, and seed investments in Australian and New Zealand founders building AI-native software, vertical AI, and deep tech companies.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software

A restaurant operating system that replaces paper-based workflows and helps multi-venue restaurant groups run operations more efficiently across countries.

Restoke is a restaurant management platform that connects a venue's POS, accounting software, and suppliers to track real-time food costs, inventory, and ordering, and uses AI to capture invoices and reconcile costs.

AI & Machine LearningFoodTechSaaS

Co-investorsMandalay Venture PartnersStage 2 CapitalSkalata

Sapia.ai offers a chat-based AI interview platform that assesses candidates' skills, competencies, and experience through structured conversational interviews.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

Sherlok provides software for Australian mortgage brokers that automates client fact-finds, bank statement retrieval, credit reports, and expense categorisation to produce submission-ready loan files, and continuously monitors client loans for refinancing opportunities.

FintechPropTechSaaS

The page is a media article and webinar recap covering how businesses can spot warning signs of bad debt and protect cash flow, featuring CreditorWatch, whose credit-data service gives businesses visibility into customer payment risk.

FintechMedia & EntertainmentColumbia, US

Mike Burnam(Chief Investment Officer)Cris Burnam(Chief Executive Officer)Tom Harrison(Internal Counsel)Thomas Shin(Director)Ryan McKenzie(Chief Financial Officer)Jason Gannon(Director)

Spriggy is an Australian family money app that gives kids aged 6 to 17 a prepaid Visa card and tools to earn, save, spend and invest, while parents retain control through the app.

ConsumerEdTechFintech

Co-investorsH2 VenturesPerennial PartnersAlium CapitalPerle Ventures Pty Ltd.

Stackla is a user-generated content platform that helps ecommerce and marketing teams discover, curate, and publish authentic customer content across store pages, product pages, and marketing emails.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing Tech

Co-investorsBailador Technology InvestmentsPartners for GrowthPartners for Growth (PFG)

Startup Daily is a subscription-free news and media outlet covering the Australian and New Zealand tech and startup ecosystem, publishing daily news, analysis, advice, and podcasts for founders, investors, and the broader community.

Media & Entertainment

Co-investorsAura VenturesBlack Sheep CapitalAntlerArchangel VenturesAussie AngelsBreakthrough Victoria+8 more

Zai is an Australian fintech payments provider that offers an integrated platform for processing multiple payment methods including credit cards, direct debits, and account-to-account transfers.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSMelbourne, AU

Co-investorsFrontline VenturesSC VenturesCultivation CapitalKleiner PerkinsOrbiMedReinventure Group+1 more