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 Series A, 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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 176 co-investors found.
- 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
- https://www.significant.vc/teamfounded, people
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