Uniseed
uniseed.com Direct + LP
Uniseed is an Australian venture fund that invests in early-stage deep tech and life science companies originating from research at its partner universities and CSIRO. It operates two funds: a Commercialisation Fund for pre-seed and seed investments, and a Venture Fund for later-stage investments.
Uniseed is a venture capital firm headquartered in Australia, founded in 2000. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from pre-seed to Series B, in deep Tech, life Sciences, biotech and pharmaceutical. Almost $200m funds under management under management and 32 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Companies commercialising breakthrough Deep Tech discoveries that originate from research at one of our 9 university partners, or CSIRO.”
— Uniseed, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Australia
- Invests in
- Australia
- Sectors
- Deep Tech, Life Sciences, Biotech, Pharmaceutical, MedTech, Quantum Technologies, Advanced Materials, Energy, Industrial Processes, Advanced Manufacturing, Robotics, AgTech, FoodTech, Aerospace, SpaceTech, Mineral processing, Advanced Engineering, Defence
- Founded
- 2000
- Assets under management
- almost $200m funds under management
- Portfolio
- 32 companies
Team, as Uniseed publishes it
- Alastair Hick Chief Executive Officer
- John Kurek Investment Director, Biotechnology (Melbourne)
- Laura Droessler-Dansie Investment Manager, Technology (Sydney)
- Aleta Knowles Investment Manager, Biotechnology (Sydney)
- Jeffrey Bourne Investment Manager, Technology (Melbourne)
- Richard Symons Chief Financial Officer
- Rhiannon Black Business Operations Specialist
- Alex Mahoney Investment Analyst
- Alexandra Mahoney Investment Analyst
Names and roles exactly as listed on uniseed.com. 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. 8 co-investors found.
- Main Sequence Ventures 3 shared companies: deteqt.tech, diraq.com, morsemicro.com
- ACF Investors 1 shared company: exonate.com
- Cambridge Angels 1 shared company: exonate.com
- Beaten Zone Venture Partners 1 shared company: deteqt.tech
- imec.xpand 1 shared company: diraq.com
- Quantonation 1 shared company: diraq.com
- Right Click Capital 1 shared company: morsemicro.com
- Virescent Ventures 1 shared company: morsemicro.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Uniseed publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.uniseed.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, status
- https://www.uniseed.com/portfolioaum, portfolio_count
- https://www.uniseed.com/about-uspeople
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Record 1588 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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