Significant Capital Ventures
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Significant Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in critical technologies and deep tech startups. It partners with universities and governments, and has a history of investing in Canberra's innovation ecosystem.
Significant Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Canberra, Australia, founded in 2016. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in critical technologies, deep tech, AI and medical. Its stated cheque size is $100K - $500K. $28.6M under management and 31 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We take a sector-agnostic approach, investing in companies across a broad range of industries. Our primary focus is on technologies that demonstrate a unique and sustainable market advantage, creating solutions that are difficult to replicate.”
— Significant Capital Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Canberra, Australia
- Invests in
- Australia
- Sectors
- critical technologies, deep tech, AI, medical, industrial, defence, materials, enterprise productivity
- Cheque size
- $100K - $500K
- Founded
- 2016
- Assets under management
- $28.6M
- Portfolio
- 31 companies
Team, as Significant Capital Ventures publishes it
- Fiona Hindmarsh General Partner
- Peter Hodgson Independent Chair
- Richard Cawsey Investment Committee
- Steve Hardy Investment Committee
- Michele Troni Partner & Chief Investment Officer
- David Ireland Innovation Partner
- Nina Kuzmina Principal
- Rachel Zhao Investment Analyst
- Tejas Tagra Investment Team
Names and roles exactly as listed on significant.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. 176 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- OIF Ventures 3 shared companies: visionarymachines.com, instaclustr.com, mastt.com
- Abac Capital 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Abingworth 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AC Ventures 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Acrewood Holdings 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Adara Ventures 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Adit Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AE Industrial Partners, LP 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AIF Capital 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Alchemy Special Opportunities LLP 1 shared company: goo.gl
and 166 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Significant Capital Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.significant.vc/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, cheque_size, description, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.significant.vc/investlayer
- https://www.significant.vc/portfoliostage_min, stage_max
- https://www.significant.vc/aboutthesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.significant.vc/teamfounded, people
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