Common Sense Ventures
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Common Sense Ventures is an Australian family office that invests in early-stage, fast-growing businesses. It provides financial and operational support to founders, focusing on scalable business models and real market needs.
Common Sense Ventures is a family office headquartered in Australia. It invests directly in companies, at pre-seed, in agtech, food, sustainability and eCommerce/DTC. Its stated cheque size is $100k - $1M.
“We invest in early-stage businesses with check sizes of $100k - $1M, we love being the first outside money into a business or joining along with other investors later along the journey.”
— Common Sense Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Family office
- Stage
- Pre-seed
- Headquarters
- Australia
- Invests in
- Australia
- Sectors
- Agtech, Food, Sustainability, eCommerce/DTC, B2B software
- Cheque size
- $100k - $1M
Team, as Common Sense Ventures publishes it
- Owen Symington Managing Director
- John Symington Director
Names and roles exactly as listed on commonsense.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. 16 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- BetterLabs 2 shared companies: gatheredhere.com.au, loopit.co
- Scale Investors 2 shared companies: stylesourcebook.com.au, milkdroppumps.com
- AirTree Ventures 1 shared company: chemist2u.com.au
- Flying Fox Ventures 1 shared company: chemist2u.com.au
- AfterWork Ventures 1 shared company: avarni.co
- Main Sequence Ventures 1 shared company: avarni.co
- Carthona Capital 1 shared company: layerpowered.com
- Purpose Ventures 1 shared company: gatheredhere.com.au
- Significant Capital Ventures 1 shared company: flaimsystems.com
- Skalata Ventures 1 shared company: stylesourcebook.com.au
and 6 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Common Sense Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.commonsense.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.commonsense.vc/aboutpeople
Record 8700 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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