Venture capital fund · 19 deals
Melbourne, VIC
Every published round Rampersand 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.
Companies Rampersand has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parachute | Rampersand portfolio company building AI for SME law firms | 19 Feb 2026, Pre-seed | 1 | 1 |
| Cor | Builds Obi, a voice AI agent that onboards software users over video calls | 3 Dec 2025, Pre-seed | 1 | 1 |
| Keeyu | AI agent for proactive e-commerce post-purchase operations | Jul 2025, Pre-seed | 1 | 1 |
| Restoke.ai | 24 Sep 2024 | 1 | 1 | |
| Cuttable | AI-powered, automated advertising platform for performance marketing teams | 22 Jul 2024, Seed | 4 | 0 |
| Hatch | AI-powered employment marketplace connecting young professionals with employers | 19 Feb 2024, Seed | 1 | 1 |
| Orkestra | Oct 2023, Seed | 1 | 0 | |
| Sherlok | 2 Jul 2023 | 1 | 1 | |
| JigSpace | Platform enabling creation, sharing and viewing of interactive 3D presentations across de… | Apr 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| Aussie Angels | Former name of Ventari, angel investment platform | 13 Jan 2023, Seed | 1 | 0 |
| Mx51 | Payments fintech | 19 Jul 2022, Series B | 1 | 0 |
| Cake Equity | Equity platform for cap table management and capital raises at startups | 15 Mar 2022, Seed | 1 | 1 |
| Quantum Brilliance | Quantum computing company that installed QPUs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Aug 2021, Seed | 2 | 0 |
| Expert360 | 2015, Series A | 1 | 1 |
Companies Rampersand'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 |
|---|---|
| AmazingCo | - |
| Cake | - |
| Fourday | - |
| Goterra | - |
| Mass Dynamics | - |
| Mentorloop | - |
| PredictHQ | - |
| Restoke | - |
| Sapia | - |
Fund closes reported for Rampersand, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Rampersand has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Rampersand did.
Stories naming Rampersand. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Workforce platform Expert360 is being bought by AI hiring firm Swipejobs at a reported $16 million value, while its founder and earliest backers are set to receive nothing for their stakes.
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Melbourne AI advertising startup Cuttable raised $5.7 million at a doubled $100 million valuation, expanding to New York amid growing US demand.
Creditors have voted to wind up Canberra insect-protein startup Goterra after sale and recapitalisation efforts failed, with administrators reporting mounting losses and recoveries likely confined to their fees.
Rampersand's April newsletter: an essay on AI services startups, model releases from Anthropic and Meta, Firmus Technologies' $505 million raise, Dexibit's sale to accesso, plus portfolio jobs, events and market commentary.
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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.
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Adtech firm Cuttable has banked $5.7 million at a doubled $100 million valuation, adding Airtree, Glitch Capital and an angel to existing backers, and is heading to New York on growing American demand.
Recap of a Growth Summit panel where Rampersand's Paul Naphtali explains what VCs mean by 'too early', why the phrase signals a fit or product concern, and how rejections can turn into investments.
Roundup of the week's Australian startup funding: fresh raises for five companies, Startmate's Summer '26 accelerator intake of 19 startups, and Affinda's acquisition of Pathfindr.
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Federation says ACI Logistix hid its finances before merging with Sendle and FirstMile into Fast Group, now winding down, killing the courier; the article also recalls past Sendle and Strongroom raises.
Directors at Sendle's parent FAST Group voted to shut the delivery business after it could not raise the money needed to survive; Federation had propped it up while rivals Aramex and Interparcel courted customers.
Alternative parcel delivery firm Sendle stopped taking bookings five months after merging into US parent Fast Group, whose financial troubles led investor Federation Asset Management to suspend fund withdrawals and inject emergency capital.
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Six Australian startups, including Bodd, Hachiko and Cor, collectively secured about $24 million in fresh backing, while seaweed peer Sea Forest floated on the ASX and jumped in early trade.
Weekly funding roundup covering raises by Bodd, Hachiko, Fremantle Seaweed, Cor, Detail Earth and Recovr, plus seaweed peer Sea Forest's ASX float at a $112 million market capitalisation.
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Rampersand's December newsletter leads with its $2m pre-seed investment in Cor, maker of the Obi AI avatar coach, plus trend retrospectives, tech news, portfolio updates, community events and a job ad.
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.
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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.
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Roundup of five Australian raises totalling $85 million: National Renewable Network's Series A, plus Syenta, Cuttable, SprintSuite and Bitwise Agronomy, with lead investors and expansion plans for each.
Melbourne adtech firm Cuttable has added $4.5 million to its seed round with Square Peg leading, taking total backing to $10 million and valuing the business at $44.5 million ahead of its US push.
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Blackbird partner Samantha Wong reflects on a decade of the firm's Sunrise conference and Australia's startup ecosystem, recalling Atlassian's Nasdaq listing and Aconex's float and sale to Oracle.
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Quantum Brilliance, a Canberra-based maker of diamond-based quantum chips, has drawn fresh equity from the National Reconstruction Fund and more from Breakthrough Victoria to build a diamond foundry, with prior grants and backers recapped.
Roundup of six Australian funding rounds this week: InDebted, Evolt, Restoke.ai, Mary Technology, Matilda and Demtech.ai, with investors, amounts, InDebted's valuation and a secondary component for early backers and staff.
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Australian hospitality-tech startup Restoke.ai has closed a $5.1 million round led by Rampersand, with Mandalay, Archangels, BC Growth and Stage2 Capital participating, to fund US expansion.
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LaunchVic case study on Ecotone Partners' Planet Fund, a climate investment vehicle launched with grant support and $20 million committed, aiming to fill a financing gap for climatetech founders.
Weekly roundup of three Australian raises: adtech firm Cuttable's seed round, Fundabl's equity round and SeenCulture's funding, naming investors, plus new Cuttable co-CEOs and a board appointment.
AI ad startup Cuttable, co-founded by Sam Kroonenburg, Jack White and Ed Ring, raised $5.5m in a seed round led by Square Peg with Rampersand aboard; Kroonenburg earlier sold A Cloud Guru to Pluralsight.
Weekly roundup of four Australian raises: HammerTech $105m led by Riverwood Capital, JigSpace $13m led by Breakthrough Victoria, ExoFlare's $5.3m seed, and Go Locum's $350,000 seed led by Paspalis.
Breakthrough Victoria heads a $13 million investment into augmented reality company JigSpace, with Aura Ventures, Anorak Ventures and returning backers taking part; the Melbourne firm plans US offices and team growth.
Breakthrough Victoria led a $13m raise for AR platform JigSpace, investing via convertible note alongside Aura Ventures, Anorak Ventures and returning backers, with Victorian job growth expected.
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Student-run fund NextGen Ventures launches to back university-founded startups, training student investors with partner VC firms and seeking its own capital; its report counts over $1.2 billion raised by student-founded startups since 2012.
Jelix Ventures explains why it joined Hatch's December 2023 funding round, citing the founders' track record, an AI job-matching product, strong customer feedback and a large addressable market.
Aura Ventures explains its seed investment in Hatch, an Australian jobs marketplace for young professionals co-founded by Adam Jacobs and Chaz Heitner, alongside Rampersand, Investible, Jelix Ventures and Alberts.
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Australian startups Diraq, Marqo, and Hatch secured funding rounds. Ansarada was acquired by Datasite. Bupa launched a new venture fund, and the Queensland government backed several VCs and accelerators.
Profile of Mentorloop, a profitable Melbourne mentoring-platform startup whose cofounders urge founders to seek sustainable growth instead of repeated fundraising; the piece recalls its 2017 seed round backed by Blackbird, Rampersand and Folklore.
Dispute resolution tech company Immediation entered voluntary administration, with FTI Consulting appointed and seeking recapitalisation or asset sale bids; the article recounts its funding history and leadership turmoil.
Roundup of ten Australian startup raises totalling $38.8 million, topped by Heidi Health's Series A, also recording an Outstaffer executive appointment and the earlier sale of CarAdvice to Nine.
Melbourne renewables software firm Orkestra has secured $2 million in a follow-up seed round led again by Tidal Ventures, alongside Rampersand, Impact Ventures, Luxem and four climate tech investors, with a Series A next.
Weekly roundup of five Australian startups announcing raises: Stacked Farm, Sherlok, Readiitel's Readii, Nullify and Baresop, together bringing in $46.9 million from local investors.
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Adelaide fintech Sherlok has raised $3.4 million led by Rampersand to expand its AI platform that helps brokers refinance clients' mortgages in one click using open banking data.
Melbourne 3D and augmented reality presentation startup JigSpace has banked a further $5.2 million from repeat backers Rampersand, Investible and Vulpes; customers include the Alfa Romeo F1 team.
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