Skalata
Venture capitalMelbourne · Pre-Seed–Seed · 16 people tracked
Also known as Skalata Ventures
Investment thesis
Skalata focuses on the seed stage, which it considers the hardest phase for young companies, arguing founders need experts alongside them rather than just capital. It provides flexible funding with follow-on investments and dedicates more time to its founders than other Australian investors, emphasizing getting fundamentals right early to move faster later. Its model pairs investment with an operating and support team that has helped grow hundreds of early-stage companies, prioritizing sustainable growth over growth at any cost. Skalata positions itself as a genuine long-term partner across Australia and internationally.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
Team · 16 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 42 of 61 portfolio companiesSaaS ×29AI & Machine Learning ×21EdTech ×6Consumer ×5Media & Entertainment ×4Retail Tech ×4Climate Tech ×3E-commerce ×3
HQs:Australia×14Vietnam×1
Investments · 61 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2020 · 12017 · 12 dated
Altai is an online casting platform that connects actors, agents, casting professionals and clients, offering end-to-end tools to manage auditions and casting.
MarketplacesMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Josh(Co-founder)
Co-investorsAntlerAntler Australia
Online marketplace connecting clients, brands and businesses with local creatives for creative projects.
Co-investorsBlack Sheep Capital
Bookbot offers a phonics-based reading app with a library of decodable books and a reading assistant that listens to children read aloud, giving instant feedback and tracking progress.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTech
Choovie Group operates a movie rewards and loyalty platform that lets enterprise brands offer customers discounted cinema tickets, seat selection, and booking across 300+ Australian cinemas through a branded portal, plus FMCG partnerships, corporate events, and wholesale movie vouchers.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Sonya Stephen(CEO)
Cleverbean is a literacy platform for Australian primary schools that provides curriculum-aligned writing programming and AI-powered, real-time feedback on student writing, along with automated insights for teachers.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
Co-investorsMelbourne Accelerator Program (MAP)
Doohly is a digital signage CMS platform for screen network owners, offering content management, player software, campaign scheduling, and analytics to deploy and manage DOOH (digital out-of-home) networks.
AdTechMarketing TechSaaS
Advertising startup acquired by Canva for $30m
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-investorsFlying Fox Ventures
Enrola provides sales-trained AI agents that engage leads asynchronously via SMS, handling qualification, objection handling, and nurturing before syncing conversations back to a CRM.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsPurpose Ventures
Explorate is an Australian supply chain company that combines logistics software with in-house freight forwarding (sea, air, road, and rail) and customs clearance, supported by a global partner network across more than 120 countries.
Enterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSBrisbane, AU
Conor Hagan(Co-founder)inAlex Ewart(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsCardinia Ventures
Factory AI provides a predictive maintenance platform that detects developing equipment faults early so maintenance teams can plan interventions and avoid unplanned downtime.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningIoT
AI-focused company (subject of a Skalata investment note on reducing downtime)
Flux Finance is a consumer mobile app that lets users check and improve their credit score, view all their financial accounts in one place for budgeting, and learn about personal finance through content, games, and quizzes.
ConsumerFintech
Foremind offers an Australian platform that combines Employee Assistance Program (EAP) mental health support with psychosocial safety compliance, linking counselling sessions booked by staff to audit-ready compliance records.
HR TechMental HealthSaaS
Joel(Founder)
H3D builds an AI platform called AutoDesign that automates the design of custom-fit products, replacing manual CAD work for hearing labs (hearing aids, hearing protection, consumer audio) and dental labs.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical DevicesSaaSAnn Arbor, AU
Philip Kinsella(Co-founder & CTO)Iain Mcleod(Co-founder & CEO)Zhong He(Executive Officer, Director)John Yu(Director)Feng Zhang(Director)
Co-investorsSignificant VenturesStarfish Ventures
Lanterne provides software that connects to fleet operators' existing tools — telematics, booking platforms, task systems, or WhatsApp — to monitor fleet operations and automatically create, assign, and follow up on tasks.
AI & Machine LearningMobility & TransportationSaaS
Alex Barnes(Founder)in
Co-investorsRockstart
Lewis Software provides techno-economic validation and assessment tools for R&D, innovation, and commercialisation teams, helping them model and value emerging process technologies.
CleantechDeep TechSaaS
Lyngo is an AI phone answering and virtual receptionist service for healthcare clinics that answers patient calls 24/7, books appointments, and handles reschedules, cancellations, and general enquiries.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthSaaS
Mana is a tool for teachers and educators that helps document student learning, support instructional decision-making, and inform curriculum planning for individual children.
EdTechSaaS
Offers products related to composting, with versions aimed at commercial composting facilities as well as backyard and garden home users.
Circular EconomyClimate TechHardware
NetNada provides AI-powered carbon accounting and sustainability reporting software that helps companies measure Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and produce audit-ready climate disclosures.
CleantechClimate TechSaaS
Co-investorsUNSW Founders 10x
Co-investorsSwinburne Innovation Studio
Nola is a computer-vision platform that turns existing CCTV infrastructure into anonymous visitor analytics, using proprietary re-identification to measure wait times, visitor journeys, and dwell.
AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS
Nucanon is a story-development platform with a drag-and-drop narrative builder, real-time collaboration, an interactive play mode, and generative AI for creating worlds, imagery, and voiceovers.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomySaaS
Omni Biotech develops hardware-agnostic algorithms that read optical (PPG) signals from existing smartwatches to continuously monitor hydration, heat strain and fatigue against each wearer's own baseline.
Digital HealthHealthtech
Optomni is an agtech company that builds OmniOrder, an AI-driven wholesale trading and supply chain optimisation platform for the fresh and perishable food sector.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningFoodTech
Murad Mekhtiev(Chief Executive Officer)Abdelrahman Elborey(Chief Technology Officer)
Outhire offers an AI recruiting agent called Joel that screens resumes, sources candidates from a 500M+ profile database, runs adaptive phone and video interviews in 10+ languages, answers candidate questions, and detects interview fraud.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Paperly is an administrative software platform for K-12 schools that consolidates workflows, documentation, communication, and oversight into one system, covering trips and excursions, digital forms, compliance, risk assessments, and announcements.
EdTechSaaS
Co-investorsPurpose Ventures
Co-investors77 Partners
Preezie offers an AI-native agentic shopping platform that adds natural language search, product recommendations, size and fit advice, and instant answers to eCommerce sites.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail Tech
Co-investorsTen13Touch Ventures
PropCode offers a software platform that automatically analyses urban planning rules and development potential for a given address and project type.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaS
Will Sullivan(Founder & CEO)Jonah Turnquist(Founder & CTO)
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 CapitalRampersand
Restoplus is an all-in-one restaurant platform offering point of sale, branded website and app, online ordering, QR code table ordering, commission-free delivery, table reservations, and loyalty programs.
FoodTechRetail TechSaaS
Smart Paddock provides 24/7 GPS tracking and monitoring of cattle and farm assets using IoT devices and a cloud-based analytics platform.
AgTechData & InfrastructureIoTAustralia, AU
Co-investorsBreakthrough Victoria
Strength assessment system for health & fitness professionals
Moodboard tool for renovators, decorators and interior designers
Style Sourcebook is an online interior design platform that lets users create mood boards by mixing and matching thousands of home products from different brands and retailers.
ConsumerMarketplacesPropTech
SupplyScope is a product and compliance management platform that uses AI agents to handle the full product lifecycle, including supplier onboarding, product development, compliance validation, and distribution.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Switchboard provides a supply chain integration platform that automates data exchange and onboarding of trading partners across multiple systems.
Data & InfrastructureLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Co-investorsAfterWork VenturesTen13
Tability is a strategy and OKR platform where goals can be assigned to human team members, AI agents, or both, with agents handling execution tasks like writing, researching, and reporting toward defined outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaSSmiths Lake Nsw
Sten Pittet(Executive Officer, Director)
TabLogs is a cloud-based boring log platform for geotechnical and environmental engineering firms, letting field and office teams capture borehole data, run validation, and generate standardized reports compliant with ASTM D2487 and USCS.
Cloud ComputingConstruction TechSaaS
SOCOLIVE (Socolive TV) is a Vietnamese-language online football streaming platform that aggregates live match broadcasts along with schedules, live scores, results, league tables, highlights and news in one system.
ConsumerMedia & EntertainmentSports Tech
Co-investorsMelbourne Accelerator Program (MAP)
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Skalata made?
- Skalata has 21 tracked investments.
- What stage does Skalata invest at?
- Skalata invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Skalata's typical check size?
- Skalata typically writes checks of $50K – $300K.
- What sectors does Skalata focus on?
- Skalata focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Skalata located?
- Skalata is headquartered in Melbourne, AU.
- Does Skalata lead rounds?
- Yes, Skalata leads investment rounds.
- Who does Skalata co-invest with?
- Skalata most often shares deals with Cardinia Ventures, Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP), Swinburne Innovation Studio, among 6 tracked co-investors.
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