# Side Stage Ventures

Investor in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

## About 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.

## People

- **Markus Kahlbetzer**, Co-Founder & General Partner

## Key Facts

- **Location:** Sydney, New South Wales
- **Country:** Australia
- **Investor Type:** Venture Capital
- **Founded:** 2022

## Investment Industry

- All Industries

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