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Top 25 Early stage venture capital companies based in Australia

RevenueBase identified 166 early stage venture capital companies headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 730 professional contacts across them, including 258 with verified work emails and 68 with mobile numbers. Sydney is the largest hub.

This list covers early stage venture capital companies 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 1, 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 RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 1, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
166Companies
730Contacts tracked
258Verified emails
68Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest early stage venture capital companies based in Australia

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 166 early stage venture capital companies based in Australia, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 1, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to early stage venture capital companies: 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
1Strong evidenceRedfern, Australia11-5032 contacts →

Strong 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 1, 2026
2Indirect evidenceBrisbane, Australia11-5028 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 1, 2026
3Strong evidenceMelbourne, Australia11-5023 contacts →

Strong evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
4Partial evidenceSydney, Australia11-5021 contacts →

Partial evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
5Indirect evidenceSydney, Australia11-5018 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
6Indirect evidenceSydney, Australia11-5017 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 1, 2026
7Indirect evidenceMelbourne, Australia11-5016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At SIBF VC, we support visionary founders, offering them a bridge; both financially and strategically, towards scaling up.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
8Partial evidenceDarlinghurst, Australia11-5016 contacts →

Partial evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
9Partial evidenceMelbourne, Australia11-5013 contacts →

Partial evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
10Strong evidenceSydney, Australia1-1012 contacts →

Strong evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
11Indirect evidenceNewstead, Australia1-1011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
12Partial evidenceNorth Sydney, Australia1-1011 contacts →

Partial 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 1, 2026
13Strong evidencePerth, Australia1-1010 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 1, 2026
14Indirect evidenceNorth Parramatta, Australia11-5010 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 1, 2026
15Indirect evidenceMilton, Australia11-509 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Ambico partners with brilliant people to build and scale businesses in Australia’s highest-growth sectors.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
16Indirect evidenceAdelaide, Australia11-507 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our goal is to help people start the business of their dreams - to the benefit of customers and founders.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
17Indirect evidenceBondi Junction, Australia1-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Jelix, we lead investments in visionary young technology companies to accelerate growth.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
18Strong evidenceMelbourne, Australia1-107 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Galileo Ventures is a seed stage venture capital company based in Australia.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
19Strong evidenceBrisbane, Australia1-106 contacts →

Strong evidence

Early Stage Venture Capital

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
20Indirect evidenceNorth Melbourne, Australia1-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are harnessing years of experience in tech, and business!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
21Indirect evidencePalm Beach, Australia1-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Torus supports founders through a fund, an active angel syndicate, and a community offering exclusive access, content, and events.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
22Strong evidenceBrisbane, Australia1-105 contacts →

Strong evidence

“At Sprint we grow and mentor in the very best early-stage ideas and most importantly, their founders.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
23Strong evidenceSydney, Australia1-105 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Reinventure is an independent Venture Capital firm with a strong corporate partnership with Westpac.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
24Strong evidenceNorth Sydney, Australia11-504 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Halkin Ventures is a holistic global, collective of investors that provide growth capital, custodianship and hands on expertise to founders in order to achieve extraordinary…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
25Strong evidenceSydney, Australia1-104 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Beachhead is a venture capital firm investing in high-growth Australian companies looking to grow bigger, go further and achieve more.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026

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Early stage venture capital companies based in Australia at a glance

As of Sep 1, 2026
35.3%Verified-email coverage
9.3%Mobile-number coverage
4.4Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
36.7%Largest-city concentration · Sydney
Sep 1, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
126
11-50
36
51-200
3
501-1,000
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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 venture capital companies, 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 venture capital companies”. 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 venture capital companies), 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 venture capital companies, 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, 258 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 1, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Early stage venture capital companies by metro

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 venture capital companies, 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 venture capital companies are there based in Australia?

RevenueBase identified 166 early stage venture capital companies 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?

Folklore Ventures, headquartered in Redfern, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most early stage venture capital companies?

Sydney leads with 61 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (26) and Brisbane (12).

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 258 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 166 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 1, 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.