We invest globally – wherever ANZ-born founders are building. Inception cheques into ambitious tech founders doing the hard things: AI-native software, deep tech, the infrastructure for how the world actually works. If you've got a strong take and the receipts to back it, we want in.
Anyone can write a cheque in the bull. The test is whether they're still around when it gets weird. We've been around. Ask the founders we've backed through the rough quarters – they'll tell you what we're actually like.
Cheque size. Follow-on. The intro we promised on the call. Track record over twelve years and four funds – ask the founders, not us.
Ex-founders and operators. We're here because we wanted to back the next generation, not run a portfolio spreadsheet. The person who leads your deal is the same person on the call three years later.
Direct lines into Anthropic, OpenAI, Stripe, Canva. Founders of A Cloud Guru, THE ICONIC, Hatch, JigSpace, Restoke. Tier-one US funds. We don't gatekeep – if we know someone who can help, you'll know within the week.
Plenty of firms go quiet when things get tough. We lean in. The pivot, the bridge, the call you don't want to make – we're in the room and on the phone. That's the actual job.
No cute ranges that mean nothing. We back at Pre-seed and Seed — large seed rounds still in scope, true Series A is not where we play. Here's the shape of a Rampersand first cheque – and the support that keeps showing up long after it clears.
No black boxes. We tell you what we're thinking at every step – the doubts, the conviction, the open questions. Two weeks, end to end. Faster if your round demands it.
30 minutes with one of the partners. We want to understand who you are, what you're building, and the unique insight that got you here. No pitch deck required – your story is enough.
Two or three working sessions with the wider team. We go deep on the thesis, the market, the product, the GTM – and you get to grill us on what it's actually like to have us on a cap table. You'll know what we think after every session – no surprises.
We call your past colleagues and customers. You call three of our portfolio founders. Ask them the awkward questions. We'll introduce you to the ones we argued with the most.
You present to our IC – partners plus two senior operator-advisors. It's a debate, not a verdict. You'll know the decision before you leave the room.
Clean, founder-friendly docs, signed within days of IC.
Every investment is a set of beliefs we have to hold. We write them down explicitly – it keeps us honest, and it tells you exactly what we're underwriting. Here's the standard stack.
Not just capable – obsessed. We're looking for an unfair advantage: lived experience, deep distribution, a founder-market fit that reads like destiny.
We'd rather underwrite a new market emerging than fight for share in a known one. Show us a wedge into a $10B+ category.
Something you know that most people don't – either because you lived it, built it, or spent years in the weeds. Consensus doesn't compound.
We want a plan where the next fundable milestone is real, not a dream. If step one requires a miracle, it's not step one.
Not "could be a good business." We back companies that, if they work, return the whole fund. The math has to work at the top of the range.
You don't have to be on our cap table to get help. Founders we're talking to get warm intros, customer leads and access to the network – often before there's a term sheet on the table. After we invest, the access compounds.
We don't just offer "intros." The Rampersand Sales Lead Generator delivers a named, warmed-up pipeline for your first 20 customers.
Operators from Hatch, THE ICONIC, A Cloud Guru, Cuttable, Restoke, JigSpace, Multitudes. Global LPs. Advisors who've scaled what you're scaling.
Monthly working sessions with world-class product leaders. You bring the real problem, they tear it apart with you.
Our signature move: you tell us who you want to meet, we find the shortest real path to them in our network and make the intro.
From day one, Rampersand has been with the team and me in the trenches, living and breathing our aspirations, pragmatically dealing with the lows and celebrating the highs.
We read every submission. We reply to every submission. If there's a reason to chase it, we chase hard.