Startup · $2.4m raised · Marketing and advertising · AI
Sydney, NSW
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Heatseeker raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Capital F | Pre-seed | - |
| East End Ventures | Pre-seed | - |
| Euphemia | Pre-seed | - |
| Even Capital | Pre-seed | - |
| L'Oréal | Accelerator | - |
| L’Oréal | Accelerator | - |
Investors whose own portfolio pages list Heatseeker, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.
| Investor | Listed on |
|---|---|
| Eastend Ventures | its portfolio page ↗ |
| Exhort Ventures | its portfolio page ↗ |
Companies Heatseeker acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Heatseeker. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Adelaide-based Eastend Ventures closed its debut fund at US$19.4 million, backed by cornerstone investor Funds SA and over 50 investors; it has deployed over US$5.18 million into seven startups.
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Eastend Ventures, a VC based in Adelaide, has locked in $10 million for its $50 million debut fund — South Australia's first ESVCLP — and has already backed three startups with it.
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Heatseeker has closed its pre-seed round at US$1.5 million, led by Capital F, and added a third cofounder as it shifts focus to the US market.
Australian research-tech startup Heatseeker AI has landed $US1.5m in pre-seed backing from Capital F and others to chase the huge market research industry.
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Angel syndicate FB10X announces an investment in Heatseeker, a market experimentation platform, noting most of its portfolio backs women-founded companies and it has deployed close to half a million dollars since 2022.
Ten of the twelve startups joining the NSW-backed Techstars Sydney accelerator for 2024 have a female founder; past participant SeenCulture earlier banked $1m in capital.
Sydney AI platform Heatseeker has released an alpha of its market-testing tool, with founders Kate O'Keeffe and Fiona Triaca saying it helps startups validate ideas, while a pre-seed raise has begun.
Partner content profiling Heatseeker, whose AI platform tests startup growth ideas live in-market; it reports the pre-seed round reaching $1.3 million, above the original $500,000 target, with Euphemia and US angels among backers.