AfterWork Ventures
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AfterWork Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies, with a focus on Australia and New Zealand. It is community-powered, leveraging a network of tech operators to support its portfolio.
AfterWork Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Australia. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in sector agnostic. Its stated cheque size is $100k - $500k AUD. $20 million under management and 54 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in seed and pre-seed companies - when you’re ready to turn your ‘after work’ project into your life’s work.”
— AfterWork Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Australia
- Invests in
- Global, AU, NZ
- Sectors
- sector agnostic
- Cheque size
- $100k - $500k AUD
- Assets under management
- $20 million
- Portfolio
- 54 companies
Team, as AfterWork Ventures publishes it
- Alex Khor Partner
- Adrian Petersen Partner
- Bella Acton Creative Director
- Adam Smith Venture Partner
- Mike Forster Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on afterwork.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 49 co-investors found.
- Archangel Ventures 4 shared companies: atelier.co, aerotruth.com, searcheye.io, switchboardcloud.com
- Shearwater Growth Equity 2 shared companies: lyka.com.au, runn.io
- OIF Ventures 1 shared company: atelier.co
- Skalata Ventures 1 shared company: switchboardcloud.com
- Blackbird Ventures 1 shared company: cotiss.com
- Augmentum Fintech 1 shared company: onfido.com
- BY Venture Partners 1 shared company: onfido.com
- Eurazeo 1 shared company: onfido.com
- Fin Capital 1 shared company: onfido.com
- SFC Capital 1 shared company: onfido.com
and 39 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page AfterWork Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.afterwork.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://www.afterwork.vc/for-investorsinvests_in_geographies, aum, portfolio_count
- https://www.afterwork.vc/who-we-arepeople
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Record 1744 · added 2026-08-29 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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