Uniseed
uniseed.com Direct investor
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 directly in companies, 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 investor
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 8 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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