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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 49 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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