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Top 25 Early-stage investment firms based in Australia

RevenueBase identified 269 early-stage investment firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 1,438 professional contacts across them, including 416 with verified work emails. Sydney is the largest hub.

This list covers early-stage investment firms headquartered in Australia, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 14, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
269Companies
1,438Contacts tracked
416Verified emails
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The 25 largest early-stage investment firms based in Australia

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 269 early-stage investment firms based in Australia, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to early-stage investment firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceSurry Hills, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-50147 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Airtree is a venture capital firm backing Aussie and Kiwi founders, building the iconic technology companies of tomorrow.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
2Indirect evidenceRedfern, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5033 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Folklore Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm that is committed to supporting Australia and New Zealand’s most ambitious founders.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
3Indirect evidenceBrisbane, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5028 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“TEN13 is a global VC fuelling founders with first cheques from $300k-$2m and support through the journey to scale.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
4Indirect evidenceBrisbane, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1027 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“River City Labs fosters the growth of startup companies solving big problems.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
5Strong evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5023 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
6Indirect evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5023 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Tidal is a thesis-led venture fund backing the founders building AI-native Systems of Work.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
7Partial evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5021 contacts →

Partial evidence

“TDM Growth Partners is a global investment firm with offices currently in Sydney and New York.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
8Indirect evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5020 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are Black Nova VC, and we're championing the next generation of B2B technology startups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
9Indirect evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Scalare Partners Holdings Limited (ASX: SCP, exists to empower visionary technology founders to transform their ideas into the great businesses of tomorrow.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
10Indirect evidenceDarlinghurst, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5017 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Nakatomi backs and builds new ventures from day dot.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
11Indirect evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Skip Capital is passionate about backing technology enabled businesses.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
12Partial evidenceMelbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5014 contacts →

Partial evidence

“More time, support, resources and know-how than any other seed-stage investor in Australia.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
13Partial evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1014 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We invest at the pre-seed and seed stage, enabling pioneering and mission-driven innovators to solve critical problems at the intersection of enterprise and national security.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
14Indirect evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“SpringCapital backs brilliant people solving difficult problems.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
15Strong evidenceMelbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1013 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund investing in Australian startups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
16Strong evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1012 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Bailador Technology Investments [ASX:BTI] is a listed venture capital fund targeting expansion stage investments.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
17Indirect evidenceNewstead, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
18Partial evidenceMelbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1011 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Co:Act is an investment partnership of experienced venture investors with a network of founders, business leaders and family offices.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
19Indirect evidenceNorth Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“KC Ventures works with some of Australia’s most promising startups, helping guide them through their journey to scale.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
20Indirect evidenceBellevue Hill, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We're a start-up company that just happens to invest in other start-ups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
21Indirect evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We empower exceptional founders to scale companies that will re-imagine insurance.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
22Strong evidenceGold Coast, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1010 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Admiralty Capital Group is an Australia-based early-stage venture capital firm and fund manager dedicated to fuelling innovation and empowering next-generation leaders.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
23Strong evidencePerth, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1010 contacts →

Strong evidence

“At Fund WA, we’re committed to powering Western Australia’s most innovative, high-growth, and scalable ventures from the early stages of commercialisation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
24Indirect evidencePerth, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Plus Eight is home to Australia’s most ambitious founders, a launchpad for bold ideas backed by support, funding, and community.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
25Indirect evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026

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Early-stage investment firms based in Australia at a glance

As of Sep 14, 2026
28.9%Verified-email coverage
5.3Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
38.7%Largest-city concentration · Sydney
Sep 14, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
218
11-50
44
51-200
5
201-500
1
501-1,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Australia, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Australia, over 269 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among early-stage investment firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Australia whose own description of what they do matches “early-stage investment firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names early-stage investment firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among early-stage investment firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 416 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Early-stage investment firms by metro

  • Early-stage investment firms in Sydney104
  • Early-stage investment firms in Melbourne38

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names early-stage investment firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many early-stage investment firms are there based in Australia?

RevenueBase identified 269 early-stage investment firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Airtree, headquartered in Surry Hills, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most early-stage investment firms?

Sydney leads with 104 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (38) and Brisbane (18).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 416 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 269 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.