Side Stage Ventures

Side Stage Ventures is a founder-led venture capital fund that backs the top 1% of founders in Australia at the earliest stage. We write small cheques into the best early-stage companies. Then we lean in to help the founders build & scale. We are a team of founders who have backed and built two Australian unicorns, raised over $200M from some of the best VC’s in the world, been acquired by Apple, bootstrapped to $20M + revenue, and built Australia’s first dedicated revenue-based startup investment fund. We started investing together, as a syndicate, alongside a community of 100+ founders and operators, and now we’re building the seed fund that we wish we had when we were starting out. HOW WE INVEST ▪ We typically invest up to $1.5M in pre-seed or seed rounds. ▪ We are super collaborative and enjoy investing alongside other great investors both in Australia and around the world. ▪ We are sector agnostic but looking for the best surfers riding the biggest waves — outlier founders, building in big markets. ▪ We are early-stage specialists — we focus on solving the challenges of 0–1. ▪ It’s never too early. We’re comfortable backing companies very early, often pre-revenue.