Salus Ventures

Founded in 2022, Salus Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, Australia. The firm invests in early-stage companies (pre-seed to Series A) operating within the national resilience domain, focusing on sectors such as aerospace and defense, automation, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence & machine learning, big data, cybersecurity, and supply chain technology.

Mike Ferrari

Managing Director

8 past transactions

Arkeus

Venture Round in 2025
Arkeus is a technology company that specializes in the rapid development of autonomous optical systems for various surveillance and reconnaissance applications. They design, innovate, and fabricate these systems, which are optimized for use on surface sensors, aircraft, or drones, to support missions such as intelligence gathering, border protection, and search and rescue. Their solutions enable the defense industry to make informed decisions in challenging environments.

Q-CTRL

Series B in 2024
Q-CTRL develops software tools and firmware for quantum computing to reduce and control quantum bit errors in quantum hardware. Its quantum control infrastructure software supports research and development professionals and end users, accelerating the pathway to the first useful quantum computers and underpinning software-defined quantum sensors for defence, intelligence, navigation, and earth observation. The company collaborates with universities, national labs, and industry partners to advance hardware error management and stability in quantum systems.

Arkeus

Seed Round in 2023
Arkeus is a technology company that specializes in the rapid development of autonomous optical systems for various surveillance and reconnaissance applications. They design, innovate, and fabricate these systems, which are optimized for use on surface sensors, aircraft, or drones, to support missions such as intelligence gathering, border protection, and search and rescue. Their solutions enable the defense industry to make informed decisions in challenging environments.

Phantm

Seed Round in 2023
Phantm is a company that operates a platform aimed at reducing plastic use by replacing it with fully compostable natural materials derived from organic waste. The platform diverts nutrients from landfills by using food waste as feedstock and provides tools to assess plastic footprints, guiding and tracking the transition to natural materials and a plastic‑free supply chain. By accelerating the adoption of natural materials, Phantm helps businesses eliminate fossil‑based plastics.

High Earth Orbit Robotics

Series A in 2023
HEO Robotics provides Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and asteroid prospecting services using nanosatellites deployed in high Earth orbit.

Visionary Machines

Seed Round in 2022
Visionary Machines specializes in developing advanced spatial vision systems for machines using passive camera arrays. Its core product is a high-fidelity 3D sensor that combines geometric measurements from multiple cameras and AI techniques, initially serving defense, mining, and logistics sectors.

Kasada

Series A in 2019
Kasada Pty Ltd, established in 2014, specializes in cybersecurity software solutions. Headquartered in Chippendale, Australia, with offices in the U.S. and U.K., the company offers Kasada Polyform, a cloud-based platform that automatically detects and mitigates bot attacks on enterprise web applications, protecting against various threats including system takeover, content scraping, and denial-of-service attacks.

Advanced Navigation

Seed Round in 2017
Advanced Navigation, established in 2012 and based in Sydney, Australia, specializes in developing and manufacturing high-quality navigational technologies and robotics. The company's portfolio includes acoustic underwater navigation systems, GNSS/INS devices, MEMS AHRS, logging and post-processing units, satellite compasses, speed sensors, subsea antennas, and INS. With a background in mission-critical robotics and expertise spanning sensors, GNSS, inertial navigation, RF technologies, acoustics, robotics, AI, and algorithms, Advanced Navigation's products are designed to operate accurately under challenging conditions, serving clients in manufacturing and warehousing facilities to enhance process optimization and productivity.
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