First to believe.
First to invest.

The most trusted early-stage VC in Aus/NZ. We back founders with earned conviction – building AI-native software, doing hard things, and transforming how the world works.

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Capital deployed
$100m+
Portfolio cos.
0
Locations
Syd · Melb · SF
Years investing
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Who we back

We invest with conviction – before the world catches up.

Inception, pre-seed and seed cheques into ambitious Aus/NZ founders – wherever in the world you've planted the flag. We lead or co-lead, reserve deeply for follow-on, and stay close for a decade. Concentrated in AI-native software, vertical AI, and the deep tech that defines the next platform shift.

Born ANZ. Building anywhere.

From Surry Hills to San Francisco, Cremorne to New York, Auckland to London – we back the global ANZ diaspora doing audacious things. We don't care where you are, only what you're building.

If you're an Aussie or Kiwi founder building something amazing – talk to us.

Capital deployed
$100m+
Invested principal across four funds since 2013.
Portfolio companies
0
Unique names backed. 59 positions across the four funds.
Years investing
0
One of the longest-running seed specialists in Aus/NZ.
Vertical AI AI Agents B2B Software Future of Work Spatial Computing Life Sciences × AI Climate & Robotics Quantum & Deep Tech
What we back

We back the hard things.
The audacious. The early.

Three shapes of conviction. AI rebuilding entire industries. Founders putting software inside atoms. AI rewriting how every business actually works. If your company would scare a generalist firm, you're talking to the right people.

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Active portfolio · 40+ companies
Last updated Apr '26
How we help

Capital is the start.
Compounding is the point.

A small team by design – so every founder gets a partner on speed-dial. Here's what that looks like in practice.

01 – The network

Your front door to the US. Your cheat sheet to the network.

Direct lines into Anthropic, OpenAI, Canva's CPO, Stripe, Atlassian – plus the operators behind ANZ's biggest exits. If you have a problem, you talk to the best in the industry. Anywhere in tech.

  • Direct intros: Anthropic, OpenAI, Canva, Stripe
  • Warm paths to Sequoia, A16Z, Index, Accel
  • Operator-advisor bench across 80+ functions
02 – Hands-on

Partners on speed-dial for the 3am call.

GTM, hiring, pricing, board prep, the existential wobble – we're the firm you call first when something is on fire, or about to be. Whiteboard with us. Walk away with a sharper version of your business.

  • Partner-led whiteboard sessions
  • GTM, hiring + pricing playbooks
  • 3am calls, when it matters
03 – Capital that compounds

Founder-friendly cheques. Reserves that show up.

Clean standard docs. Fair valuations. Real reserves for every follow-on. We keep our promises – twelve years and 40+ companies of doing exactly that.

  • Standard clean docs
  • Reserves for every follow-on round
  • No observer-seat bloat
The Rampersand Universe

Anyone in tech.
Anywhere. 1.3
hops, median.

Partners

Paul, Andrew, Taryn · on speed-dial

03

Tier-one VCs & SF funds

Sequoia, A16z, Index, Accel · Warm

80+

Top operators

Walmart, Stripe, Canva, Atlassian, Culture Amp

400+

Top functional leaders

CPOs, Heads of GTM, Design, Data

120+

Global LPs

Family Offices, Endowments, Funds of Funds

60+

Portfolio founders

40 companies, opt-in graph

40+
Meet the partners →

The Rampersand network runs deeper than our rolodex. Partners, LPs, venture partners and operator-advisors opt in to the Giant Warm Intro graph – so the intros you need land in days, not months.

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First to believe
TarynTaryn
AndrewAndrew
PaulPaul
Index
Sequoia
A16Z
Stripe
Walmart
Canva
Atlassian
Culture Amp
Portfolio Founders
Lightspeed
Shopify
Seek
Heads of GTM
CPOs · ex-Figma
Data / AI
Design Leaders
Global LPs
Family Offices
Founders on Rampersand
Latest

What we're thinking about.

Notes from the field – what we're reading, funding, and arguing about internally. Fortnightly, no spam.

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April Architect – the FDE trap, Dexibit's exit, & the Claude mythos.

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Investment Note03 Dec '25

Why we led Cor – the future of software onboarding.

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Insight09 Dec '25

Straight from the unicorn's mouth – lessons on AI-first product leadership.

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