Rampersand
rampersand.vc Direct investor
Rampersand is an Australian venture capital firm that provides seed and pre-seed funding to technology startups founded by Australians and New Zealanders, with a focus on AI, deep tech, and climate. It operates as an ESVCLP and manages over $100 million in capital.
Rampersand is a venture capital firm headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, founded in 2013. It invests directly in companies, in AI-native software, vertical AI, deep tech and climate. Its stated cheque size is $250K – $2.5M first cheque. $100m+ under management and 40 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest with conviction – before the world catches up.”
— Rampersand, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Unknown – Seed
- Invests in
- ANZ, Global
- Sectors
- AI-native software, vertical AI, deep tech, climate, life sciences, spatial computing, quantum, robotics
- Cheque size
- $250K – $2.5M first cheque
- Founded
- 2013
- Assets under management
- $100m+
- Portfolio
- 40 companies
Team, as Rampersand publishes it
- Paul Naphtali Founder & Managing Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on rampersand.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. 10 co-investors found.
- Archangel Ventures 3 shared companies: launchvic.org, getcor.ai, restoke.ai
- Skalata Ventures 2 shared companies: getcor.ai, restoke.ai
- AirTree Ventures 2 shared companies: cuttable.com, expert360.com
- Stage 2 Capital Advisors 1 shared company: restoke.ai
- Square Peg Capital 1 shared company: cuttable.com
- Frontier Ventures 1 shared company: expert360.com
- Perennial Value Management 1 shared company: expert360.com
- Tozer and Co 1 shared company: expert360.com
- AfterWork Ventures 1 shared company: smartcompany.com.au
- Shearwater Growth Equity 1 shared company: capitalbrief.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Rampersand publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://rampersand.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://rampersand.vc/team.htmlhq_country, hq_city, founded, people
- https://rampersand.vc/how-we-invest.htmlstage_min, stage_max, cheque_size
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