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

Past deals in Defence

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.

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.
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