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Venture capital firms provide funding and strategic support to high-growth startups in exchange for equity. Choosing the right VC partner matters as much as the capital they bring. Founder Signal lists VCs reviewed by the founders they have backed, covering deal terms, board involvement, and post-investment support.

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#1 Highest Rated
5.6

Giant Leap Fund

5 reviews - Melbourne, Australia

Highest rated requires more than 3 verified reviews.

Have met with the Giant Leap team, including Will Richardson and Peter Cameron, ...

re: Dean Serroni- Dean Serroni

Carthona Capital

2 reviews - Sydney, Australia

5.5

1000% why startups succeed, Carthona reads and supports the tumultuous ups and d...

- Verified Founder

Straightest shooters I've met in Aus VC.

- Verified Founder

Archangel Ventures

12 reviews - Melbourne, Australia

5.2

Legend of a guy, goes to bat for you, is extremely honest and candid.

re: Andrew Cicutto- Verified Founder

Excellent team and very supportive. Great working with them post investment as w...

re: Ben & Rayn- Raghav Murali Ganesh, CEO Co-Founder @ Osara Health

EVP

11 reviews - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $172M
5.2

EVP have been a great partner since they invested in the early days of our busin...

re: Dan Szekely- Matthew English, Director and Co-Founder @ Lumary

Daniel and Jenny are a big part of an amazing team. They showed genuine interest...

re: Daniel Szekely- Verified Founder

Blackbird

5 reviews - Auckland, New Zealand

Raised: $1.5BRev: $540M
5.0

Worked alongside the NZ team, was always impressed by the rigour and quality in ...

re: Ryan Walker- Ryan Walker, Founder @ Shareables

Very solid feedback including objective viewpoints on the pros and cons of the b...

re: Jessica Tulp- Verified Founder

Shearwater

4 reviews - Sydney, Australia

5.0

Always willing to help, in evenings and weekends. Is a lawyer, but still fundame...

re: Matt Parbu- Cibby Pulikkaseril, CEO and the One True Founder @ Zabidou

Serious investor, and an ex founder, so understand nuance

re: Zac Zavos- Cibby Pulikkaseril, CEO and the One True Founder @ Zabidou

Artesian

3 reviews - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $243.4MRev: $7M
5.0

Ali has been with us since day one and a pleasure to work with.

re: Ali Clunies Ross- Iain Stewart, CEO & Cofounder @ Exergenics

They invested in our seed alongside Sydney Angels. Were great, really hands off,...

- Verified Founder

Next Gen

3 reviews - Burlingame, Australia

5.0

Legends.

re: Mitchell Hughes- Will O'Brien, CTO & cofounder @ cascayd

Super driven. I'd buy stocks in them if I could. They seem to get it right every...

re: Mitchell Hughes- Verified Founder

Side Stage Ventures

3 reviews - Sydney, Australia

5.0

Clearly biased here as one in one of the original cofounders of Side Stage, back...

re: Ben Grabiner- Matt Allen, Co-founder @ Tractor Ventures

Amazing human, founder turned VC. Elli Hanson joined our early founder program t...

re: Ellie Hanson- David Elchuk, Founder @ The Startup Village

Blacknova

2 reviews - Sydney, Australia

5.0

Another biased review, but roll with me. Darcy was our VC back at DoneSafe.com....

re: Darcy Naunton- Matt Allen, Co-founder @ Tractor Ventures

Operators, great portcos, Venture Partners are helpful, good contributors to the...

- Verified Founder

Co Ventures

2 reviews - San Francisco, Australia

5.0

Generous and thoughtful analysis and perspective

re: Maxine Minter- Verified Founder

Maxine gets great feedback from founders I work with

- Verified Founder

TEN13

2 reviews - Sydney, Australia

5.0

Amazing thought partner. Constantly going out of his way to make introductions, ...

re: Stewart Glynn- Ajay Prakash, Founder @ Entrylevel

Ten13 have been an exceptional partner to Glider. Having backed us across multip...

re: Stew Glyn- Shaun Dobbin, Founder CEO @ Glider

AfterWork Ventures

1 review - Sydney, Australia

5.0

Didn't meet in person, but had a good relationship speaking to them over email

re: Adrian Petersen- Verified Founder

Athletic Ventures

1 review - Sydney, Australia

5.0

Most differentiated fund in market.

re: Matt de Boer- Verified Founder

Bandera Capital

1 review - Sydney, Australia

5.0

Pragmatic, helpful, straightforward

re: Jeremy Atkin- Darryl Lyons, CEO @ Rainstick

Camber Creek

1 review - Washington, United States

Raised: $630MRev: $10.8M
5.0

Favourite VC. But they are proptech specific.

- Verified Founder
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Co:Act

1 review

5.0

Excellent to work with. Lead our series A and followed on for our pre-series B.

re: James Douglas- Pan Koutlakis, Co-founder & CEO @ EatClub

FMG

1 review - Gardena, Europe

Rev: $65.9M
5.0

Great in Europe.

- Lewis Dunnigan, Founder @ Bygen

Galileo Ventures

1 review - Melbourne, Australia

5.0

They are great!! Super supportive and nice to work with. They charged us a progr...

- Allen Fan, CEO & Co-founder @ CarbonHQ

Marbruck

1 review - Sydney, Australia

5.0

Great partner. One of a few VCs in Aus who can support early but also keep follo...

- Pan Koutlakis, Co-founder & CEO @ EatClub
M

Mirvac Ventures

1 review

5.0

Excellent experience with the team at Mirvac who have provided invaluable insigh...

- Iain Stewart, CEO & Cofounder @ Exergenics
M

MPH Lawyers

1 review - Perth, Australia

5.0

MPH provides personalised advice for founders and directors that is both accurat...

re: Mark Burchnall- Harry Clark

RCF

1 review - Reggio Nell'emilia, Italy

Rev: $12.8M
5.0

Great. We've worked with RCF and they've been excellent.

- Tim Snell, Founder @ Pitcrew.ai
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Scalare Ventures

1 review

5.0

Great experience, was very transparent with us during the entire process.

re: Jenny Li- Verified Founder

Scale Investors

1 review - Melbourne, Australia

Rev: $5.0M
5.0

The world of venture funding is in for Supernova Scale Revolution Founders ...ar...

re: Roo + Chelsea- Liesl Haris, Cofounder & CEO @ Gap Drone

Skalata Ventures

1 review - Melbourne, Australia

5.0

The entire Skalata team, Tom, Rob, Rohan and Maxine are a pleasure to work with

- Nilushanan Kulasingham, Founder @ Nucanon

Twynam

1 review - Sydney, Australia

Rev: $6.0M
5.0

The Twynam team is very supportive and truly backs ideas. We met them very early...

re: Jonathan Green- Verified Founder

Antler

7 reviews - Singapore, Singapore

Raised: $323.2MRev: $75M
4.6

They really invest in founders

re: Bede Moore- Cibby Pulikkaseril, CEO and the One True Founder @ Zabidou

Moves fast, really supports the portfolio

re: Michael Kron- Cibby Pulikkaseril, CEO and the One True Founder @ Zabidou

AirTree

2 reviews - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $1.6BRev: $3.5M
4.5

Super switched on and genuinely cares for the company. No micro management but c...

re: Jackie Vullinghs- Verified Founder

Making valuable intros.

- Eric Fan, Founder @ LUMOS

OIF

1 review - Sydney, Australia

4.0

Deep understanding of how to support founders. Always happy to roll up their sle...

- Verified Founder

Tenacious Ventures

1 review - Melbourne, Australia

Raised: $27.1M
4.0

These guys have been great, actively supporting whenever we have requested, happ...

- Verified Founder

Investible

3 reviews - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $124.5MRev: $1.2M
3.7

Second best bald man in climate tech, no arguments.

re: Ben Lindsay- Verified Founder

Nice folks - they have a big portfolio so kind of just leave us to things, which...

- Allen Fan, CEO & Co-founder @ CarbonHQ

Virescent Ventures

3 reviews - Sydney, Australia

2.3

Didn’t follow on in subsequent rounds. Not super engaged. No post-investment sup...

- Verified Founder

Yeah, agree with the other comment re. not very engaging.

- Verified Founder

Australian Medical Angels

1 review - Sydney, Australia

2.0

Very slow on response and don’t hear much

- Verified Founder

Brandon Capital

1 review - Melbourne, Australia

Raised: $944.4MRev: $7.1M
1.0

Terrible VC. All the things that you hear about that is terrible about VC - they...

- Verified Founder

Breakthrough Victoria

1 review - Melbourne, Australia

Rev: $1.3M
1.0

Worst experience with any VC so far.

- Verified Founder
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St Baker Energy

1 review

1.0

Got to IC and went quiet for months, poor communication.

- Verified Founder
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1835i

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

77 Partners

No reviews yet - Brisbane, Australia

Afore Capital

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $504.9M

AIX Ventures

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $248.5M
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AlitePro

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

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AlitePro Pty Ltd

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

Altered Capital

No reviews yet - Auckland, New Zealand

Aspire (part of NZGCP)

No reviews yet - Auckland, New Zealand

Aura Ventures

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Australian Investment Council

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Rev: $8.5M

Backbone Ventures

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Banana Capital

No reviews yet - Ann Arbor, United States

Base10

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $1.1BRev: $2.6M

Battery Ventures

No reviews yet - Boston, United States

Raised: $14.7BRev: $35M

Beachhead Venture Capital

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Beaten Zone Venture Partners

No reviews yet - Brisbane, Australia

B

Bee Hive

No reviews yet - Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Black Sheep Capital

No reviews yet - Fortitude Valley, Australia

Boldstart Ventures

No reviews yet - Miami, United States

Raised: $894.7MRev: $7.4M

Breakthrough Energy

No reviews yet - Kirkland, United States

Raised: $3.2BRev: $25M

Breyer Capital

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

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Citi Ventures

No reviews yet - United States

Common Sense Ventures

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

Costanoa VC

No reviews yet - Palo Alto, United States

Raised: $394M

Counterpart Ventures

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

CRV

No reviews yet - Palo Alto, United States

Raised: $2.3BRev: $15M

Designer Fund

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $83.5MRev: $8M

Electrifi Ventures

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Emergence Capital

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $2.7BRev: $5M

Flying Fox

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

FocalVC

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Folklore

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

GD1

No reviews yet - Auckland, New Zealand

General Catalyst

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $17.6BRev: $15M

Gilmour Space Technologies

No reviews yet - Gold Coast, Australia

Raised: $286.6MRev: $64.4M

Goodwater Capital

No reviews yet - Burlingame, United States

Raised: $1BRev: $5M

H2 Ventures

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $4M

HEX

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

H

Hive Growth

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

Human Capital

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Rev: $12.1M

I2N at The University of Newcastle

No reviews yet - Newcastle, Australia

Icehouse Ventures

No reviews yet - Auckland, New Zealand

Raised: $230.5M

In-Q-Tel Australia

No reviews yet - Arlington, United States

Rev: $133.4M

Industry Ventures

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $4.3BRev: $21M

January Capital

No reviews yet - Singapore, Singapore

Raised: $215M
J

Jelix Ventures

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Kilara Capital

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

King River

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

K

KKR & Co. Inc.

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Larsen Ventures

No reviews yet - Perth, Australia

Lead Out

No reviews yet - Portola Valley, United States

Lighter Capital

No reviews yet - Seattle, Australia

Raised: $472.7MRev: $21.3M

Lightspeed Venture Partners

No reviews yet - Menlo Park, United States

Raised: $21.2BRev: $63.1M

Lowercarbon Capital

No reviews yet - Eastchester, United States

Raised: $1.7B

M12 (Microsoft Venture Fund)

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $4MRev: $5M

M13

No reviews yet - Los Angeles, United States

Raised: $850M

M8 Ventures

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Main Sequence

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $500M

Maverick Ventures

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $1.2B

Max Ventures

No reviews yet - New York, United States

Melt Ventures

No reviews yet - Newcastle, Australia

Menlo Ventures

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $3.1BRev: $25M

MHS Capital

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $75MRev: $4.5M

MOVAC

No reviews yet - Auckland, New Zealand

Raised: $277M

NAB

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Rev: $14.3B

NAB Ventures

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

NEA

No reviews yet - New York, United States

Raised: $17.0BRev: $400M
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neomatter

No reviews yet - Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

NextGen Ventures

No reviews yet - Australia

Nuance

No reviews yet - New Zealand

NZGCP

No reviews yet - Wellington, New Zealand

Obvious Ventures

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $697.1M

OIF Ventures

No reviews yet - Double Bay, Australia

Raised: $140M

OneVentures

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Outset Venture

No reviews yet - Auckland, New Zealand

Raised: $25M

Parade Ventures

No reviews yet - Silicon Valley, United States

Partners for Growth

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $601MRev: $20M

Peak XV

No reviews yet - Singapore, United States

Rev: $68.9M

Pitch Venture Capital

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

Playground Global

No reviews yet - Silicon Valley, United States

Raised: $798MRev: $15M

Point72 Ventures

No reviews yet - Stamford, United States

Raised: $6MRev: $1.4B

Possible Ventures

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

Potentia Capital

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $438MRev: $20M
P

Power of N/Headline

No reviews yet - United States

Precursor Ventures

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $46.3M

Prelude Ventures

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Rev: $14.3M

QIC

No reviews yet - Brisbane, Australia

Raised: $1BRev: $449M
Q

QIC Ventures

No reviews yet - Brisbane, Australia

Qualgro

No reviews yet - Singapore, Australia

Raised: $250M

Rampersand

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

Raised: $50M

ReGen Ventures

No reviews yet - Byron Bay, Australia

Raised: $50M

Reinventure Group

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $88.1MRev: $5.6M

Ridge Ventures

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $440.1M

SecondQuarter

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $51M

Seed Space Venture Capital

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Spark Capital

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $3.1BRev: $10.1M

Sprint Ventures

No reviews yet - Petrie Terrace, Australia

Raised: $50M

SquarePeg Capital

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

Raised: $2.1BRev: $9.2M

Startup Galaxy

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

StB Capital Partners

No reviews yet - Brisbane, Australia

Raised: $7M

Stoic Venture Capital

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Susa Ventures

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $765MRev: $6.4M

TCV

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $9BRev: $12M

Techstars Tech Central Sydney Accelerator

No reviews yet - Haymarket, Australia

Tenacity Venture Capital

No reviews yet - Silicon Valley, United States

Tenmile

No reviews yet - Melbourne, Australia

Tidal Ventures

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Treble Capital

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

TWIYO

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Uncork Capital

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $900M

UniQuest Extension Fund

No reviews yet - Brisbane, Australia

Venture Capital Careers

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Verona Capital

No reviews yet - Perth, Australia

Village Global

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Raised: $100MRev: $34M

VU Venture Partners

No reviews yet - San Francisco, United States

Rev: $15M

Wholesale Investor

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Rev: $8M

Wollemi Capital

No reviews yet - Sydney, Australia

Raised: $332.2MRev: $1.2M

XV Capital

No reviews yet - Adelaide, Australia

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