Backing early-stage tech startups with abnormal potential.
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Our VC funding process is about more than just ticking boxes; it's a reverse-pitch dynamic where we work hand in hand to help you build your business into its best version. Founders come to us at the beginning of their startup journeys, and we are exceptionally proud to have been part of the on-ramp to the success of every company below.
Featured portfolio companies
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![JigSpace Founders Zac Duff and Numa Bertron]()
JigSpace
3D presentations for teams with big ideas.
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![Expert360 Founder Bridget Loudon]()
Expert360
Elite Talent, On-Demand.
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![Restoke Co-Founders Ken and Assaf]()
Restoke
Real Restaurant Intelligence
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![PredictHQ]()
PredictHQ
Master Predictability
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![mx51 Founders]()
mx51
The next-generation merchant experience.
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![AmazingCo Founders]()
AmazingCo
Experiences you'll love.
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![Cuttable Founders Sam, Jack and Edward]()
Cuttable
Good ads made easy.
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![Cake Equity Founders Kim and Jason]()
Cake Equity
The intuitive equity platform for startups.
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![Hatch Founders Adam Jacobs and Chaz Heitner]()
Hatch
To help all people find meaning in work.
The first port of call for early-stage startup founders and investors.
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Learn more about every company in the Rampersand portfolio:
Amazing Co
Blocks
Brandcrush
Cake Equity
Cog Systems
Cuttable
Dexibit
Earthbanc
Expert 360
Functionly
Goterra
Hatch
Indice
Insightech
Jigspace
Mass Dynamics
Matrak
Mentorloop
mx51
Nosto
Orkestra
Predict HQ
Quantum Brilliance
Restoke
Sapia
School Places
Sendle
Sherlok
Skedulo
Sorted Services
Spaceship
Surefire
Surreal
The Pistol
Tzukuri
Zai
Recent startup portfolio news
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![Austrade Commissioner Daniela Assis and Matrak CEO Shane Hodgkins with staff and suppliers in China.]()
MATRAK - Window on carbon: tracking building supplies from China
Canberra Times - Nov ‘24
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![James Allston’s software start-up Orkestra was funded by revenue from his previous consulting business before the start-up raised venture capital.]()
ORKESTRA - Innovators think big on solar-powered mansions
AFR - Oct ‘24
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![Restoke Founders]()
RESTOKE - Hospo-tech raises $5.1 million to save restaurants amid flailing industry
Forbes - Sep '24
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![Restoke restaurant intelligence startup funded by Rampersand Venture Capital Fund]()
RESTOKE - Melbourne start-up is saving cafes a bundle
The Australian - Sep' 24
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![Restoke Restaurant Intelligence AI platform VC Funding Australia]()
RESTOKE - Restaurant tech Restoke.ai gets $5.1m in Rampersand funding
Capital Brief - Sep' 24
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![Bridget Loudon is Telstra’s youngest ever board member, and her tech start-up grew more than in the past year than it did in the past seven.]()
EXPERT360 - Gig economy’s multi-million dollar boost for Expert360
The Australian - Aug' 24
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![A box of hungry maggots like the ones used at the Hyatt at Darling Harbour.]()
GOTERRA - Why Australia’s biggest hotel is bringing in maggots
AFR - Aug' 24
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![Sam Kroonenburg says he sees a similar convergence of technology capability and market opportunity for Cuttable that he enjoyed with A Cloud Guru.]()
CUTTABLE - Aussie who sold cloud start-up for $2b jumps on AI for ads
AFR - Jul' 24
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![The Cuttable team at their office in Melbourne, Australia.]()
CUTTABLE - An AI guru? Startup luminary Sam Kroonenburg raises $5.5 million for new startup Cuttable
SmartCompany - Jul' 24
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![JigSpace AR App receives $13M VC Funding Australia]()
JIGSPACE - AR startup secures $13 million amid Apple Vision Pro release
Smart Company - Jul ‘24
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![Goterra CEO Olympia Yarger with Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore AO.]()
GOTERRA - Robotic insect startup to turn household food scraps into animal feed in Sydney
SmartCompany - Jun' 24
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![Olympia Yarger (left) introduces Lord Mayor Clover Moore to the maggots that will soon be handling Sydney's food scraps.]()
GOTERRA - Maggots to munch on Sydney residents' food scraps as councils look for solutions to organic waste
ABC - Jun' 24
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![In a move set to shake-up the advertising industry, Sunday Gravy’s co-founder Jack White, ex-Swisse marketer Ed Ring, and tech entrepreneur Sam Kroonenburg, have joined forces to conceive ‘Cuttable’, a new tech platform which empowers businesses to p]()
CUTTABLE - Sunday Gravy co-founder Jack White launches new advertising tech platform Cuttable
CampaignBrief - June' 24
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![Sapia.ai founder and CEO Barb Hyman]()
SAPIA - Sapia.ai opens its machine learning models with strategic API program
Startup Daily - Jun' 24
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![Expert360 CEO Bridget Loudon says demand for optimisation experts has grown.]()
EXPERT360 - Cost-cutting advisers the bright spot in professional services
AFR - May'24
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![Shane Hodgkins, CEO and co-founder of Melbourne-based construction start-up Matrak, has opened a China office.]()
MATRAK - Aussie tech pushes into China, Taiwan despite geopolitical risks
AFR - Apr' 24
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SAPIA - Sapia.ai reveals chat-based job interviews preferred by women and minorities
Startup Daily - Apr' 24
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![Sapia.ai founder and CEO Barb Hyman]()
SAPIA - Job interview analysis platform launches generative AI chatbot to explain its hiring decisions
Startup Daily - Mar' 24
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![Adam-Jacobs-Chaz-Heitner_Hatch funded by Rampersand VC Funding Sydney]()
HATCH - Sydney-based Hatch raises $7 million for its AI-powered jobs marketplace
Smart Company - Feb ‘24
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![Adam Jacobs & Chaz Heitner Hatch]()
HATCH - Gen Z jobs marketplace banks $7 million Seed round
Startup Daily - Feb ‘24
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![Hatch & Rampersand VC Funding]()
HATCH - ‘Seek for Gen Z’ start-up raises $7m
Sydney Morning Herald - Feb ‘24
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![Zac & Numa from JigSpace]()
JIGSPACE - The Aussies hoping to make a fortune from Apple’s Vision Pro
The Australian Financial Review - Feb ‘24
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![Mentorloop cofounders, Heidi Holmes and Lucy Lloyd]()
MENTORLOOP - Why these founder prefer a ‘thriving middle’ to chasing VC funding for fast growth
Startup Daily - Dec' 23
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![Barb Hyman, CEO at Sapia.ai.]()
SAPIA - How AI can challenge the 'gut feel' VCs use to make investments
Capital Brief - Dec' 23
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![Earthbanc startup funded by Rampersand VC fund]()
EARTHBANC - AstraZeneca's first AI-monitored tree-planting programme
Sustainability Magazine - Dec' 23
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![Skretting Australia's Amber Zheng and Rhys Hauler with the Goterra product]()
GOTERRA - Food waste startup is getting into the aquaculture food supply business
Startup Daily - May' 24
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![Orkestra Founders funded by Rampersand VC Fund]()
ORKESTRA - Re-Seeded: Renewables startup raises $2 million
Startup Daily - Oct ‘23
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![A start-up which can estimate when investors will see a return on renewable energy projects and a platform which can measure a person’s mental health using smartwatches have raised new capital.]()
ORKESTRA - Energy, mental health start-ups raise $3.75m
The Australian - Oct' 23
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![Goterra’s Justin Frank and Matthew Woloszuk with award presenter Danielle Gibson from Zembl.]()
FLYING HIGH: Food waste management innovator Goterra wins Best Sustainability Startup
Startup Daily - Sep' 23
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![Olympia Yarger says Goterra’s larvae are housed in shipping container-sized units dubbed “maggot robots”, and can devour vast amounts of food waste.]()
GOTERRA - This start-up’s ‘maggot robot’ will tackle Woolies’ food waste
AFR - Aug' 23
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![Sherlok Founder Adam Groche, funded by Australian VC Rampersand]()
SHERLOK - Mortgage rate fintech Sherlok raises $3.4 million
Startup Daily - Jul ‘23
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![Breaking into the US technology market is tough, but Barb Hyman reckons she’s up to the task.]()
SAPIA - Meet the woman leading Australia’s AI industry into the US
AFR - Jun' 23
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![Zac from JigSpace]()
JIGSPACE - Augmented reality start-up nets $5.2m
The Australian - Apr ‘23
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![JigSpace receives $13M Venture Capital Funding Australia]()
JIGSPACE - Is this the next Canva? JigSpace lands $13m raise as Apple Vision Pro arrives in Australia
Forbes - Jul ‘24
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![Brandcrush cofounders Matthew Hurle and Teresa April]()
BRANDCRUSH - Rampersand, Startmate score exit as US media co snaps up marketing startup
Startup Daily - Mar ‘23
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![Dr Marcus Doherty co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Quantum Brilliance says its time for quantum computing must prove its value.]()
QUANTUM BRILLIANCE - Start-up that makes room-temp quantum computers banks $26m
AFR - Feb' 23
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![The Orkestra Team funded by Rampersand Melbourne Based VC Firm]()
ORKESTRA - Clean energy software startup Orkestra charges up on $1.1 million Seed raise
Startup Daily - Nov' 22
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![Victor Zheng, CEO and co-founder of mx51 says it was relatively simple to close a large funding round, as the lead investor approached them.]()
MX51 - Mastercard and Westpac-backed start-up bucks market with $32.5m raise
AFR - Jul' 22
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![Workstations in empty office]()
SKEDULO - What Business Leaders Should Know About Their Deskless Workers
Forbes - Jul' 22
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![Earthbanc CEO Tom Duncan]()
EARTHBANC - This Climate Fintech Startup Is Paving The Way For Mass Market Adoption Of Land Regeneration
Forbes - Apr' 22
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![Earthbanc is a carbon and finance Web3 and Refi platform with offices in Europe and the USA.]()
EARTHBANC - Carbon and Finance Platform Raises $1.5 Million Pre Seed Round
GlobalNewswire - Apr' 22
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![Jason-Atkins-L-and-Kim-Hansen-R from Cake Equity Funded by Rampersand Venture Capital Fund]()
CAKE EQUITY - Sweet relief for Gold-coast startup as it raises $3m in seed funding
Business News Australia - Mar ‘22
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![Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow (9) (L) and Los Angeles Rams Quarterback Matthew Stafford (9).]()
PREDICTHQ - Super Bowl predicted to have the hugest audience yet — and record bets, too
CNBC - Feb' 22
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![Cake co-founders Jason Atkins and Kim Hansen]()
CAKE EQUITY - Startup stakeholder management platform raises $3 million seed round
Startup Daily - Mar ‘22
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![Muso co-founders Alan-Jin, Brandon Crimmins and Jeremiah Siemianow]()
SURREAL - Rampersand-backed entertainment booking platform Muso rebrands as Surreal ahead of Series A
Startup Daily - Sep ‘23
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![Banks face big risks if they don’t move fast, says mx51 chief executive Victor Zheng.]()
MX51 - Big tech eyes small business market in Australia
AFR - Jan' 22
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![Muso co-founders Brandon Crimmins, Jeremiah Siemianow and Alan Jin.]()
SURREAL - Live entertainment startup Muso turns the dial up to 11 with $2 million seed+ round
Startup Daily - Oct' 21
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![Spaceship funded by Rampersand Venture Capital Fund]()
SPACESHIP - Spaceship hits $1b in funds under management
Sydney Morning Herald - Jul' 21
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![Skedulo’s Matt Fairhurst has just raised $100 million from Softbank.]()
SKEDULO - Brisbane start-up banks $100m, after running race to vaccinate America
AFR - Jul'21
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![Zac & Numa from Jigspace funded by Rampersand Venture Capital Australia]()
JIGSPACE - JigSpace scores $6m from Rampersand, Investible
Australian Financial Review - Jul ‘21
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![Mass Dynamics co-founders Dr Andrew Webb, Dr Giuseppe Infusini, Aaron Triantafyllidis and Paula Burton.]()
MASS DYNAMICS - The startup funding round: Athena’s record-breaking raise, $1.5 million for biotech, and Turnbull backs forensics startup
Smart Company - May' 21
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![Matrak co-founders Brett and Shane Hodgkins]()
MATRAK - ‘Huge opportunity’ in construction tech: Aconex co-founder backs Matrak
Sydney Morning Herald - Jan' 21
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![Andrew Moore says about the early super withdrawals: "Most people are doing it out of serious need, and Australia should count itself lucky we have this savings pool."]()
SPACESHIP - Cannon-Brookes leads $10m raising for Spaceship amid super crunch
AFR - Aug' 20
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![PredictiveHire co-founder and chief executive Barb Hyman.]()
SAPIA - Hiring surge helps HR tech capital raising over the line despite virus
AFR - Apr' 20
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![Brandcrush co-founder and chief executive officer Teresa Aprile.]()
BRANDCRUSH - I was once told ‘you’re not a typical founder’ — but there’s nothing typical about startupland
SmartCompany - Feb'20
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![Muso founders Alan Jin, Brandon Crimmins and Jeremiah Siemianow.]()
SURREAL - Money talks: Live music marketplace Muso lands $1.5 million, including from company that first backed AC/DC
SmartCompany - Oct' 19
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![Bridget Loudon has raised more capital for Expert360 and is looking for the right time to go public]()
EXPERT360 - Secures $12m, sets itself for future IPO
AFR - Feb' 20
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![Brandcrush co-founders Matthew Hurle and Teresa Aprile.]()
BRANDCRUSH - "Completely scary and absolutely empowering”: One-year-old startup Brandcrush bags $1 million
SmartCompany - Sep' 19
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![AmazingCo Founders Nick Brozovic, Silvia Hope and Jeremy Cox.]()
AMAZINGCO - A $1 trillion opportunity: AmazingCo bags $5 million to capitalise on experience-based spending trend
SmartCompany - Sep' 19
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![AmazingCo co-founders Silvia Hope, Nick Brozovic and Jeremy Cox have raised another $5.1 million.]()
AMAZINGCO - AmazingCo attracts cash after wowing US
AFR - Sep '19
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![PredictHQ VC Funding by Rampersand]()
PREDICTHQ - Raises $10 Million, Unlocking Data Intelligence to Power The Future of Predictive Commerce
GlobalNewswire - Nov'18
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![Shane (left) and Brett Hodgkins, co-founders of material tracking app Matrak.]()
MATRAK - The $3m bet on the next construction tech unicorn
AFR - Jul' 19
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SKEDULO - Raises $28M Series B Led By Microsoft’s M12 Venture Arm
Crunchbase - Mar' 19
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![Mentorloop mentorship startup funded by Rampersand Venture Capital Fund]()
MENTORLOOP - Melbourne startup gears up for UK expansion
Startup Daily - Feb' 19
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![CEO and founder Olympia Yarger]()
GOTERRA - Food waste climate tech startup lands in Queensland
Startup Daily - Nov' 23
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![Expert360, run by Bridget Loudon, has just ruled off a convertible raising.]()
EXPERT 360 - Big names in freelancer marketplace Expert360's raising
AFR - Feb' 19
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