Venture capital fund · 5 deals

Exhort Ventures

Sydney, NSW

Disclosed deals

Every published round Exhort Ventures took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
Support Fusion	Pre-seed	26 Mar 2026	$1m	Lead	Func Ventures Biagio LaRosa Ryan Spillane Toby Alcock Antler Australia	Startup Daily (27 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (27 Mar 2026), SmartCompany, ARN (ARNnet)
Contented	Seed	13 Feb 2026	$3.5m	Participant	Icehouse Ventures New Zealand Growth Capital Partners Phase One Ventures Altered Capital Shearwater Capital	Startup Daily, Capital Brief, startupintros.com, Shearwater Capital portfolio
Teacher's Buddy	Seed	18 Nov 2025	$1.8m	Participant	Giant Leap Flying Fox Ventures Co Ventures Saniel Ventures Soul Capital	Startup Daily (21 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (19 Nov 2025), Exhort Ventures portfolio
Keeyu	Pre-seed	Jul 2025	$2.3m	Participant	Rampersand Archangel Ventures Startmate Empress Capital Sydney Angels Southern Angels Jason Wyatt Alexey Mitko Paul Greenberg Luigi Iacullo	Startup Daily (14 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (13 Nov 2025), Rampersand (12 Nov 2025), Rampersand (11 Nov 2025), Empress Capital portfolio, Exhort Ventures portfolio, Rampersand portfolio
Fluency	Pre-seed	29 Apr 2025	$1.5m	Participant	Bradley Tabone Archangel Ventures 1MX.ai Orvel Ventures Brad Tabone Andrew Cicutto OneMX.ai Swinburne University of Technology NextGen Ventures	Startup Daily (13 Feb 2026), SmartCompany (10 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (9 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (25 Jun 2025), SmartCompany (2 May 2025), Startup Daily (29 Apr 2025), Exhort Ventures portfolio

Portfolio

Companies Exhort Ventures has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
Contented	AI work-conversation documentation platform	13 Feb 2026, Seed	1	0
Fluency	AI work intelligence platform that turns organisational activity into documentation and w…	29 Apr 2025, Pre-seed	1	0
Keeyu	AI agent for proactive e-commerce post-purchase operations	Jul 2025, Pre-seed	1	0
Support Fusion	A platform that lets managed IT service providers and their enterprise clients collaborat…	26 Mar 2026, Pre-seed	1	1
Teacher's Buddy	AI-based education startup building an all-in-one AI-enhanced workspace to tackle teacher…	18 Nov 2025, Seed	1	0

From its portfolio page

Companies Exhort Ventures's own portfolio page lists that no published round yet places it in. The page is the source; the round is being looked for.

Company	Site
AirRobe	airrobe.com ↗
Apollo Secure	apollosecure.com ↗
App named by its site	app.ventari.com ↗
Avertro	avertro.com ↗
Contented AI	contentedai.com ↗
Heatseeker	heatseeker.ai ↗
Infinity Studio	infinitystudio.ai ↗
Kindling	-
Kismet	kismet.healthcare ↗
Latner	latnersoftware.com ↗
Mary Technology	marytechnology.com ↗
Phantm	phantm.com ↗
Preve	preve.co ↗
Profitate	profitate.com.au ↗
SPEC Toolbox	spectoolbox.com ↗
Tikpay	tikpay.com ↗

Funds

Fund closes reported for Exhort Ventures, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for Exhort Ventures yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies Exhort Ventures has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Exhort Ventures did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of Exhort Ventures is recorded as having been acquired.

Name	Role	Sources
Federico Quaia	Managing Partner	Startup Daily, ARN (ARNnet)

Coverage

Stories naming Exhort Ventures. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

12 deals

Eight ANZ startups that raised $373.3 million this week

Weekly roundup detailing eight trans-Tasman raises totalling A$373.3 million, headlined by Halter's Series E, spanning quantum computing, biomanufacturing, robotics, adtech and agtech, plus a recalled $2 billion founder exit.

SmartCompany 27 Mar 2026 Cauldron Cuttable Future Maintenance Technologies Halter Rumin8 Scanabull Silicon Quantum Computing Support Fusion A Cloud Guru AgriZero Copenhagen Metro CSIRO Downer EDI Dubai Metro Freemantle Seaweed Future Feed High-Capacity Metro Trains Lufthansa Rio Tinto Sea Forest Silver Fern Farms AirTree Ventures Antler Australia Bessemer Blackbird Ventures Bond Brighter Super Callaghan Innovation Commonwealth Bank of Australia DCVC Enterprise Angels Exhort Ventures Federal Government Founders Fund Func Ventures Glitch Capital Horizon Ventures Icehouse Ventures Main Sequence Ventures NewView NGS NRF Corporation NSW Government Promus Queensland Investment Corporation Rampersand SOSV Sprout Agritech Square Peg Capital Taronga Group Telstra Ubiquity University of NSW Benjamin Duncan Craig Piggott Dan Bull Daniel Stuart-Jones David Kestenbaum Greg Rudakov Michele Stansfield Professor Michelle Simmons Paul Sealock Peter Thiel Sam Kroonenburg Steve Rudakov Ursula Haywood

Also Startup Daily

Pre-seed $1m

Support Fusion closes $1M funding for headcount growth

A software vendor has secured $1 million in pre-seed backing led by two venture firms, with an earlier backer and three channel executives also investing, to fund hiring in Australia and the US.

ARN (ARNnet) 23 Mar 2026 Support Fusion 360 Consulting Generation-e Logicalis Paratira Antler Australia Exhort Ventures Func Ventures Biagio LaRosa Ryan Spillane Toby Alcock Federico Quaia Greg Rudakov Steve Rudakov

Also SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily

15 deals

Cheque-in: 10 ANZ startups raised nearly $193 million this week

Weekly roundup of ten Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling nearly $194 million, topped by Neara's $90 million round at a $1.1 billion valuation, with Splose, Operata, HAMR Energy and Adora also covered.

Startup Daily 13 Feb 2026 Adora Contented eGuarantee Fluency HAMR Energy Neara Operata splose Wellumio Artesian VC Atlassian Canva Chess.com Deel Employment Hero Facebook Gemini Granola Netflix New Zealand government Notion Replit Revolut Siteminder Snowball Effect Spotify Startmate Swinburne Innovation Studio Xero Accel Airbus Altered Capital Archangel Ventures Athletic Ventures Blackbird Ventures Black Nova Venture Capital Booster Carya Venture Partners Correlation Co Ventures Cure Kids Ventures Designer Fund DST Global Partners Enterprise Angels EQT EVP Exhort Ventures Flying Fox Ventures Flying Kiwi Garuda Ventures Ghost VC Glitch Capital Hort Innovation Icehouse Ventures Mixture of Experts NextGen Ventures Nuance Connected Capital NZ Growth Capital Partners Pacific Channel Partners Group Qantas Shearwater Capital Skip Capital Spectrum Equity Square Peg Capital TCV Tenacious Ventures Thyssenkrupp Uhde Tidal Ventures David Stribley Finnlay Morcombe Hannah Hardy-Jones Lucy Pink Nathan Scully Nicholas Sanderson Oliver Farnill Omar Salem Richard Beaumont Simon Carroll Stephen Ellis

2 deals

Contented - $4.1M Seed | Startup Intros

Contented has raised a $4.1 million seed round with Altered Capital leading six other investors; the page's funding history also lists a prior $25 million seed round.

startupintros.com 9 Feb 2026 Contented Altered Capital Exhort Ventures Icehouse Ventures New Zealand Growth Capital Partners Phase One Ventures Shearwater Capital

Also Capital Brief·Startup Daily

23 deals

Cheque-in: 17 ANZ startups – plus Brooki and The Memo – raised $59.61 million this week

A weekly roundup of funding deals by Australian and New Zealand startups, spanning baked goods, retail, health AI, beverages, edtech, solar, legal tech, and Western Australian medical research grants.

Startup Daily 21 Nov 2025 ArthoLase Biotome Pty Ltd Curtin University DermR Health Research WA Pty Ltd Dispute Buddy Edrolo Hopr Materia Health Medow Health AI MetroElectro Murdoch University Pretect Devices Pty Ltd ProGenis Pharmaceuticals Proteomics International Pty Ltd Respirion Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd Teacher's Buddy The Kids Research Institute Australia The Memo University of Western Australia Centre for Child Health Research Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Matildas Morgans Redbubble The Wine Collective Co Ventures Ecotone Partners Epic Angels Exhort Ventures Flying Fox Ventures Giant Leap Innovation Seed Fund Pier 12 Capital Saniel Ventures Soul Capital Techstars Sydney WA Future Health Research and Innovation Fund Wavemaker Impact Chris Titley John Bromley Dr Johnny Wu Dr Michael Boyer Dr Michael Solomon Sue Read Dame Theresa Gattung Ben Sze Joel Freiberg Jose Ramirez Josh Freiberg Kate Casey Laz Siapantas Lloyd Heinrich Matt Abraham Phoebe Simmonds

Seed $1.8m

Edrolo cofounder's AI teacher burnout startup chalks up $1.85 million Seed round

Melbourne education AI startup Teacher's Buddy has secured seed backing, with Giant Leap leading, to grow its teacher productivity platform across Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

Startup Daily 19 Nov 2025 Teacher's Buddy Edrolo Co Ventures Exhort Ventures Flying Fox Ventures Giant Leap Saniel Ventures Soul Capital Adam Milgrom Ben Sze Matt Abraham Maxine Minter

Also Startup Daily

13 deals

Cheque-in: 8 startups gobbled up $572.12 million in funding this week

Weekly roundup of eight raises totalling $572.12 million, led by Firmus's $500 million round; RAGE Biotech, SunDrive, Number 8 Bio, Fabra, Keeyu, MyGig and Drone-Hand also funded, plus two RAGE Biotech executive appointments.

Startup Daily 14 Nov 2025 Drone-Hand Fabra Keeyu MyGig Number 8 Bio RAGE Biotech SunDrive Archangel Ventures Atlassian Canva CDC Data Centres Clean Energy Finance Corporation Eucalyptus Firmus Technologies Marketplacer Nvidia Tesla UNSW Artesian VC Aussie Angels Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)Blackbird Ventures Breakthrough Victoria Concept Ventures Co Ventures CSIRO Empress Capital Exhort Ventures government-backed Australian Renewable Energy Agency Hostplus Icehouse Ventures IP Group Australia January Capital Li & Fung Main Sequence Ventures Monash Ventures One Innovators Radius Capital Rampersand Side Stage Ventures Southern Angels Startmate Sydney Angels The March Group Alexey Mitko Jason Wyatt Luigi Iacullo Paul Greenberg Dr Alex Carpenter Angus Vidor Cameron Adams David Hu Dr Edwin Tucker Gloria Yu Luke Grana Malcolm Turnbull Mike Cannon-Brookes Nick Manks Oliver Curtis Robyn Denholm Dr Siro Perez Tim Rosenfeld Dr Tom Williams Vince Allen

Also SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Business News Australia

2 deals

💫 Ramplify: November Nattering

Rampersand's newsletter announces it led Keeyu's $2.3 million pre-seed round, alongside portfolio updates from Quantum Brilliance, Cuttable, Hatch and Goterra, plus job listings and reflections on domain founders and Australian venture capital.

Also Rampersand·quantumwire.com·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·semiconductorindustrymonthly.com

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