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Active investors backing this sector, from the Cut Through Venture investor database.
This page lists investors from the Cut Through Venture investor database that back Australian climate tech, cleantech and energy startups, including specialist climate funds, generalist VCs with climate mandates, and government-backed vehicles.
Climate tech is consistently one of the most active sectors by deal count. It led all sectors with 41 deals in 2023, then raised $609M across 55 deals in 2024, the most deals of any sector, per the State of Australian Startup Funding 2024. In Q2 2026 it was second by deal count with 11 rounds and a median deal size of $5M. The persistent gap is at scale-up stage, where later rounds in climate and deep tech often still rely on government support.
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Wollemi Capital (TreeArc Investment Group) is an impact fund based in Sydney, investing from angel and pre-seed through seed and Series A. Founded in 2021 by Tim Bishop and Paul Hunyor, it raised a $220 million round backed by Commonwealth Bank of Australia and invests across climate and energy, vertical business software, healthtech and hardware and robotics. Recent investments include Vexev and ExoFlare.
View profileVirescent Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Sydney, investing from seed through Series A, Series B+ and strategic rounds. Launched by Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corporation, it manages more than $500 million and backs companies across hardware and robotics, climate and energy and life sciences and biotech. Recent investments include MicroTau and Amber Electric.
View profileUNSW Founders is an accelerator based in Sydney, backing companies at the angel, pre-seed, seed and accelerator stages. Founded in 2018 and based at the Michael Crouch Innovation Centre, it has supported more than 140 companies across hardware and robotics, life sciences and biotech, climate and energy and AI infrastructure. Recent investments include VOQO AI and GonGlobal.
View profileUniversity of Melbourne Genesis is a university-linked fund based in Melbourne, backing companies from angel and pre-seed through seed and accelerator stages. Launched in 2024 as a $15 million pre-seed fund with Breakthrough Victoria, it targets research spinouts across climate and energy, life sciences and biotech, horizontal business software and AI infrastructure. Recent investments include Fluent and exteRNA.
View profileUniseed is a university-linked investor based in Brisbane, investing from angel and pre-seed through seed, Series A and Series B+ rounds. Founded in 2000 and jointly owned by nine Australian universities plus CSIRO, it has backed more than 70 companies across life sciences and biotech, hardware and robotics, climate and energy and vertical business software. Recent investments include Ferronova and DeteQt.
View profileTwynam Agricultural Group is a family office based in Sydney, investing from angel and pre-seed through seed and Series A. Founded by the Kahlbetzer family, it runs the Twynam Earth Fund targeting early-stage climate technologies, with deals across climate and energy and hardware and robotics, and has made more than 37 investments. Recent investments include PlasmaLeap Technologies and Smart Paddock.
View profileTitanium Ventures is a venture capital fund based in San Francisco, investing at Series A and Series B+ stages. Formerly Telstra Ventures, it has operated for more than 12 years with additional offices in Sydney, Melbourne and London, backing hardware and robotics, education, horizontal business software and climate and energy companies. Recent investments include Samsara and Silicon Quantum Computing.
View profileTin Alley Ventures is a university-linked venture fund based in Melbourne, investing from seed through to accelerator and Series B+ stages. Created by the University of Melbourne with Tanarra Capital, it manages $125 million backing deep tech spinouts across horizontal business software, climate and energy, life sciences and biotech and AI infrastructure. Recent investments include Apromore and Proxima Bio.
View profileTechstars is an accelerator based in Boulder, Colorado, running seed and pre-seed programs through to Series A across its global cohorts. Founded in 2006 by David Cohen, its portfolio spans AI infrastructure, hardware and robotics, horizontal business software and healthtech, and includes 29 unicorns such as Uber, Twilio and DigitalOcean. Recent investments include Manifest and VetNotes.
View profileTaronga Group is a venture capital fund based in Sydney, investing from seed through Series A and Series B+ rounds. Founded in 2015 by Avi Naidu and Jonathan Hannam, it focuses on 'RealTech' investing across vertical and horizontal business software, hardware and robotics, and climate and energy. Recent investments include Kraken Technologies and Plante.
View profileSparkLabs Cultiv8 is an accelerator based in Orange, New South Wales, founded in 2017, running pre-seed and seed stage programs. It focuses on agri-food technology spanning climate and energy, hardware, robotics and sensors, consumer brands and vertical business software, and has accelerated 53 global startups within the NSW Department of Primary Industries ecosystem. Recent investments include PyxGlobal and Carbon Friendly.
View profileSignificant Capital Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Canberra, investing since 2000 at seed through Series B+ stages. It focuses on critical and applied technologies spanning climate and energy, healthtech, space and defence and hardware, robotics and sensors, with 32 investments across 3 funds and 21 SPV syndicates. Recent investments include Liquid Instruments and Visionary Machines.
View profileRFC Ambrian is a growth and private equity firm based in Sydney, founded in 1985, backing companies at seed and Series B+ stages. It focuses on critical minerals, critical technologies, natural resources and heavy industry, with deals spanning hardware, robotics and sensors and climate and energy. Recent investments include MagnaTerra Technologies and NextOre.
View profileMelt Ventures is a Newcastle-based venture capital fund investing from pre-seed and seed through to Series A and strategic rounds. Its recent deals span climate and energy and hardware and robotics, and it describes itself as the first early-stage Advanced Manufacturing Fund in Australia, co-founded by Trent Bagnall and Steph Hinds. Recent investments include MGA Thermal and Allegro Energy.
View profileMarbruck Investments is a Sydney-based venture capital fund investing at Series A and Series B and beyond. Its recent deals span climate and energy, vertical business software and horizontal business software, and it operates as an open-ended group with offices in Darlinghurst, Sydney and Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Recent investments include EatClub and Sitemate.
View profileIP Group is a university-linked investor based in London, founded in 2001 and backing seed through Series B companies. It commercialises intellectual property from universities across hardware and robotics, life sciences, cybersecurity and climate and energy, and expanded into Australia in 2017 with $100 million committed alongside the Group of Eight universities. Recent investments include amsl aero and Hysata.
View profileGrok Ventures is the family office of Mike and Annie Cannon-Brookes, based in Sydney and investing from seed through to Series B and beyond. It focuses on fintech, climate and energy, consumer brands and life sciences, and pivoted to a climate technology investment mandate around 2021. Recent investments include Fleet and Spriggy.
View profileEuphemia is an angel syndicate based in Sydney, backing pre-seed through Series A companies. It invests across consumer tech, climate and energy and horizontal business software, and has deployed more than $95 million across 120 companies since being founded by Dom Pym. Recent investments include Heatseeker and Trace.
View profileElectrifi Ventures is an angel network based in Sydney, backing pre-seed and seed climate technology companies. It draws on a network of more than 350 climate-focused angel investors and invested $200,000 in MGA Thermal's $14.15 million pre-Series B round. Recent investments include MGA Thermal and National Renewable Network.
View profileBrisbane Angels is a Brisbane-based angel network that backs pre-seed and seed companies. It describes itself as Australia's largest angel investing group, connecting members with high-growth Queensland and Australian startups, with recent deals spanning hardware and robotics, consumer tech, vertical business software and healthtech. Recent investments include Avarni and Obzervr.
View profileBreakthrough Victoria is a Melbourne-based government-owned investment fund, launched in 2021, that invests from pre-seed through to growth capital rounds. Owned by the Victorian Government, it provides patient capital across advanced manufacturing, clean economy, digital technologies and health and life sciences, with recent deals spanning hardware and robotics, climate and energy, education and life sciences and biotech. Recent investments include GonGlobal and Amber Electric.
View profileBlack Nova VC is a Sydney-based venture capital fund that invests from pre-seed through to Series A. It focuses on B2B SaaS with a minimum cheque size of $100,000, and its recent deals span cybersecurity, healthtech, vertical business software and marketplaces across a portfolio of more than 40 companies. Recent investments include Refresh and Zabidou.
View profileAlberts Impact Ventures is a Sydney-based impact fund that invests from seed through to later growth rounds. It backs companies across equality, culture, healthy minds and sustainable environment themes, with recent deals spanning marketplaces, vertical software, climate and energy, and life sciences and biotech, and combines venture investing with philanthropy through the Tony Foundation. Recent investments include Sendle and Bygen.
View profile77 Partners is a Brisbane-based venture capital fund that backs pre-seed and seed companies. It focuses on frontier technology and its recent deals span climate and energy, education, healthtech and vertical software, with backing from Silicon Valley firm Bee Partners. Recent investments include Fleetyr and Edexia AI.
View profileTall Order Ventures, formerly Skalata Ventures, is a venture capital fund based in Melbourne, investing from pre-seed through Series B+. It describes itself as a first-cheque fund backing AI-native founders across vertical business software, horizontal business software, education and training and marketplace sectors, and is raising Fund III with cheques up to $1 million. Recent investments include Enrola and Viewa.
View profileTidal Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Sydney, investing from angel and pre-seed through seed, Series A and Series B+ rounds. It focuses on AI companies reshaping how work gets done, backing vertical and horizontal business software, healthtech and AI infrastructure across Australia and the US. Recent investments include Operata and Checkbox.
View profileTenacious Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Melbourne, backing companies from angel and pre-seed through seed and Series A. It focuses on agrifood and climate technology, with deals spanning climate and energy, life sciences and biotech, hardware and robotics and horizontal business software. Recent investments include Nbryo and SwarmFarm Robotics.
View profileSquare Peg is a venture capital fund based in Melbourne, founded in 2012, investing from pre-seed through Series B+. The firm manages billions of US dollars in assets under management, backing deals across fintech, life sciences and biotech, healthtech and vertical business software in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and Israel. Recent investments include Alloy and Constantinople.
View profileStoic Venture Capital is a university-linked investor based in Sydney, founded in 2019, investing from pre-seed through Series B+. It describes itself as Australia's first university-focused venture fund, backing life sciences and biotech, hardware, robotics and sensors and climate and energy with cheques of roughly $100,000 to $1 million. Recent investments include Kinoxis Therapeutics and Ena Respiratory.
View profileStartmate is an accelerator based in Sydney, founded in 2010 by Niki Scevak, investing from pre-seed through Series B+. It runs cohort-based programs across marketplace, vertical business software, horizontal business software and climate and energy, with a portfolio of over 350 companies valued at a combined $4.5 billion. Recent investments include EstiMate AI and GlowBack.
View profileSprint Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Brisbane, investing at seed and Series A stages. It is sector-agnostic with deals spanning healthtech, consumer tech, fintech and vertical business software, and is backed in part by the Queensland Investment Corporation. Recent investments include Avarni and Umps.
View profileSkip Capital is a family office based in Sydney, investing from pre-seed through Series B+. It is the private investment fund of Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar and Kim Jackson, with deals spanning hardware, robotics and sensors, consumer brands, vertical business software and fintech. Recent investments include Alloy and MicroTau.
View profileShearwater Capital is a growth and private equity investor based in Sydney, founded in 2018, backing companies from pre-seed through Series B+. It invests roughly $100 million of its 3 founder-partners' own capital across hardware, robotics and sensors, vertical business software, life sciences and biotech and horizontal business software. Recent investments include Parallel and Factory.
View profileScale Investors is an angel network based in Melbourne, backing companies from pre-seed through Series A. It describes itself as Australia's first angel network focused on women-led startups, with deals spanning education and training, life sciences and biotech, marketplace and hardware, robotics and sensors. Recent investments include Baymatob and ProSeek Bio.
View profilePossible Ventures is a Sydney-based venture capital fund backing pre-seed, seed and Series A companies. Its recent deals span climate and energy, life sciences and biotech, space and defence and healthtech, and it rebranded from Inventures Collective around June 2024. Recent investments include Heidi Health and Arlula.
View profileMain Sequence is a Sydney-based venture capital fund, founded in 2017, investing from pre-seed and seed through to Series A and Series B and beyond. Its recent deals span climate and energy, hardware and robotics, space and defence and AI infrastructure, and it spun out of CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, raising a $450 million third fund in 2022. Recent investments include Kinoxis Therapeutics and Avarni.
View profileMacdoch Ventures is a Sydney-based venture capital fund investing from pre-seed and seed through to Series A and Series B and beyond. Its recent deals span marketplaces, horizontal business software, fintech and climate and energy, and it operates as part of the broader Macdoch Group family office. Recent investments include Farmbot and Brainfish.
View profileJelix Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Sydney, backing pre-seed through Series A companies across Australia and New Zealand. It invests in hardware and robotics, climate and energy, and vertical and horizontal business software, operating as a corporate authorised representative serving wholesale and sophisticated investors only. Recent investments include PropHero and Quantum Brilliance.
View profileInvestible is a venture capital fund based in Sydney, founded in 2018 and investing from pre-seed through Series A with capacity to follow on. It backs marketplace, vertical and horizontal business software and fintech companies from offices in Sydney and Singapore, and runs Club Investible, a syndicate of more than 250 co-investors. Recent investments include Apate AI and PlasmaLeap Technologies.
View profileGiant Leap is an impact fund based in Melbourne, founded in 2016 and investing from pre-seed through to Series B. It backs hardware and robotics, marketplace, education and consumer brand companies across climate, health and social-impact themes, and holds an AFSL for its 30 plus portfolio companies. Recent investments include Teacher's Buddy and indi.
View profileGalileo Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Sydney, founded in 2020 and backing pre-seed and seed companies. It invests across vertical business software, healthtech, AI infrastructure and hardware and robotics, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco and typical cheques of $200,000 to $500,000. Recent investments include Relevance AI and Isaacus.
View profileEVP is a venture capital fund based in Sydney, investing from seed through Series A and beyond. It backs B2B software companies across vertical and horizontal software, fintech and marketplaces, and closed its Fund V at $100 million in 2025. Recent investments include AutoGrab and CorePlan.
View profileCP Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Sydney, backing pre-seed through Series A companies globally. It invests across vertical business software, hardware and robotics, fintech and consumer tech, typically writing cheques of $100,000 to $500,000. Recent investments include LeadStory and MGA Thermal.
View profileAirTree Ventures is a Sydney-based venture capital fund that invests from pre-seed through to growth-stage rounds. Its recent deals span fintech, healthtech, education and vertical software, and it announced a $250 million seed fund alongside a $400 million growth fund in 2025. Recent investments include High Earth Orbit Robotics and Gridsight.
View profileArtesian is a Sydney-based venture capital fund, founded in 2004, that invests from pre-seed through to growth rounds. It manages roughly $1.5 billion across debt and venture platforms, with recent deals spanning life sciences and biotech, cybersecurity, space and defence, and healthtech, and has backed more than 600 ventures under founders Jeremy Colless and Matt Clunies-Ross. Recent investments include Elita and Strong Room AI.
View profileArchangel Ventures is a Sydney-based venture capital fund that invests from pre-seed through to later growth rounds. It backs companies across Australia and South East Asia, with recent deals spanning healthtech, vertical software, education and fintech, and is currently deploying its 2026 Fund. Recent investments include Sophiie and Refresh.
View profileAfterWork Ventures is a Sydney-based angel network that invests from pre-seed through to later growth rounds. It is sector agnostic, backing the right team over any specific vertical, and its recent deals span vertical software, marketplaces, fintech and healthtech, drawing on a community of 100+ tech operators. Recent investments include Enrola and Lyka Pet Food.
View profileBlackbird is a Sydney-based venture capital fund that invests from pre-seed through to growth-stage rounds. It backs companies across Australia and New Zealand, with a portfolio valued at more than $10 billion across 100+ companies, and recent deals spanning hardware and robotics, consumer brands, healthtech and vertical software. Recent investments include OpenDebt and Heidi Health.
View profileCarthona Capital is a venture capital fund based in Sydney, investing from seed through to Series B and beyond. It backs companies across fintech, climate and energy, and hardware and robotics, and has raised a third fund of roughly $360 million from super funds, family offices and high net worth investors. Recent investments include Safewill and BuildPass.
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