Artesian VC

Artesian VC is an alternative investment management company that specializes in early-stage venture capital, particularly in the clean energy sector. Established in 2004 after spinning out from ANZ Banking Group, the company has evolved to manage a range of specialized funds, with a focus on seed and follow-on investments in startups sourced from approved accelerators, incubators, and academic programs. Artesian's investment strategy emphasizes partnerships with leading organizations in the startup ecosystem, enabling it to identify and support high-potential ventures. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Shanghai, New York, London, and Singapore, the company has built a global presence and has successfully raised over AUD 255 million for its various funds. Additionally, Artesian has expanded its reach through initiatives like its China VC Fund and plans for a Southeast Asia VC Fund, underscoring its commitment to fostering innovation in diverse markets.

Matthew Clunies-Ross

Managing Partner

Tim Heasley

Partner and COO

Felix Zhang

Partner

Past deals in Navigation and Mapping

NAVi Medical Technologies

Venture Round in 2023
NAVi Medical Technologies is a Melbourne, Australia-based medical device company founded in 2017. It develops a real-time electrocardiogram tip location system that tracks catheter position inside patients by analyzing internal ECG signals, helping clinicians visualize placement without excessive X-ray exposure and supporting safer drug delivery and improved patient outcomes.

Seoul Robotics

Series B in 2022
Specializes in developing advanced LiDAR perception software for autonomous vehicles and robots. Its technology enables infrastructure-based autonomous driving, featuring controlled area navigation and obstacle detection across varied environments.

NAVi Medical Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
NAVi Medical Technologies is a Melbourne, Australia-based medical device company founded in 2017. It develops a real-time electrocardiogram tip location system that tracks catheter position inside patients by analyzing internal ECG signals, helping clinicians visualize placement without excessive X-ray exposure and supporting safer drug delivery and improved patient outcomes.

BindiMaps

Venture Round in 2022
BindiMaps is a mobile app designed to enhance navigation in indoor spaces for users with visual impairments. The app uses natural language audio descriptions to guide users, providing precise location information and directions to their desired destinations. BindiMaps aims to make every indoor space fully accessible, thereby improving the lives of individuals with vision impairment by promoting independence, employment opportunities, and community engagement. Additionally, the app offers real-time hazard warnings and evacuation procedures, ensuring safe navigation through unfamiliar and complex environments.

Labfly

Venture Round in 2022
Labfly is a Berlin-based startup focused on urban air mobility through the development of an automated drone delivery system. The company specializes in creating drones optimized for transporting medical goods, featuring a localization system that allows them to operate in close proximity to or even inside buildings. This innovative technology is designed to provide a traffic-independent delivery service, ensuring access to critical and life-saving products in densely populated areas. Labfly's advanced server-based flight-planning and control system enhances the operational efficiency of its drones, addressing the urgent need for timely delivery of essential goods in urban environments.

MyrLabs

Seed Round in 2020
MyrLabs is an A*STAR spin-off that designs and manufactures hardware, sensors, and algorithms for robotics. The company delivers its technology as add-on modules that upgrade existing equipment to enable next-generation capabilities, and it offers three variants of a positioning system focused on fast-moving robots, serverless positioning, and infrastructure-free IoT communications.

Seoul Robotics

Series A in 2020
Specializes in developing advanced LiDAR perception software for autonomous vehicles and robots. Its technology enables infrastructure-based autonomous driving, featuring controlled area navigation and obstacle detection across varied environments.

Ambient

Venture Round in 2020
Ambient is an Australian company specializing in environmental mapping of noise and air pollution across major cities and regions. The company aims to enhance public understanding of how transport-related noise and air quality impact residential areas. It produces detailed maps and tabulated data that encompass various factors, including road traffic noise, railway noise, air traffic noise, and air quality levels, which can be assessed for individual properties as well as entire suburbs. Ambient serves both enterprises and government entities, offering valuable insights that assist in property valuation, investment decisions, and urban planning. By providing the most comprehensive noise and air quality datasets in Australia, Ambient enables stakeholders to make informed choices regarding their living and investment environments while also helping government bodies improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Seoul Robotics

Seed Round in 2019
Specializes in developing advanced LiDAR perception software for autonomous vehicles and robots. Its technology enables infrastructure-based autonomous driving, featuring controlled area navigation and obstacle detection across varied environments.

Guiddoo World

Venture Round in 2019
Guiddoo World Travels Pvt Ltd. is a travel technology company based in Mumbai, India, with additional offices in Dubai and San Francisco. Founded in 2013, the company specializes in developing mobile applications tailored for tour operators, tourism boards, travel startups, and online travel agencies. These applications facilitate various functions, including offering promotions, communicating with customers during their trips, and selling tours and activities. Guiddoo World focuses on providing unique and customized travel packages specifically for Chinese and Indian travel agencies, catering to the increasing number of independent travelers from China. By leveraging intelligent data from over 4,000 travel agents and analyzing more than one million trend points from the internet and social media, the company creates smart itineraries. Additionally, Guiddoo has established partnerships to offer over 5,000 excursions across 14 destinations in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

SkyeBrowse

Seed Round in 2018
SkyeBrowse is a technology company that specializes in live 3D mapping software, primarily aimed at enhancing emergency response and situational awareness for public safety and defense. The company has developed a patented videogrammetry process that allows users to create detailed 3D models quickly and efficiently, using a simple one-tap feature on its iOS app. This technology enables users to operate drones autonomously, capturing aerial data with high precision, achieving accuracy within less than a centimeter in just minutes. By providing real-time data and 3D models of incidents such as car accidents, SkyeBrowse supports police and first responders in their efforts to protect lives and improve traffic safety. Its innovative approach significantly reduces the time required for reality capture compared to traditional photogrammetry methods, establishing SkyeBrowse as a leader in the field of emergency response technology.

Elite Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Elite Robotics develops autonomous vehicle technology aimed at enhancing the functionality of agricultural robots and mobile service robots. The company has created a unique navigation system that does not depend on machine learning, allowing for effective tracking of various elements within a vehicle's environment. This innovative approach minimizes the need for costly hardware, enabling the safe and reliable navigation of unknown environments. By streamlining these technologies, Elite Robotics aims to simplify users' lives, providing them with more time to engage in activities they enjoy.

BindiMaps

Seed Round in 2017
BindiMaps is a mobile app designed to enhance navigation in indoor spaces for users with visual impairments. The app uses natural language audio descriptions to guide users, providing precise location information and directions to their desired destinations. BindiMaps aims to make every indoor space fully accessible, thereby improving the lives of individuals with vision impairment by promoting independence, employment opportunities, and community engagement. Additionally, the app offers real-time hazard warnings and evacuation procedures, ensuring safe navigation through unfamiliar and complex environments.

GetSwift

Venture Round in 2016
GetSwift is a delivery management platform that enables businesses to manage drivers, dispatch tasks, and monitor deliveries in real time. The software supports route optimization, workforce management, data analytics, and communications, while addressing information security and infrastructure needs. It serves enterprises and small to mid-sized businesses across sectors such as food service, restaurants, retail, and couriers, offering tools for e-commerce ordering, task and cash management, real-time alerts, and cloud communications, along with consulting and system design for delivery and logistics infrastructure. Founded in 2015, GetSwift is headquartered in New York and operates globally.

Safety Compass

Seed Round in 2015
Safety Compass is a developer of a work health and safety risk management application aimed at improving workplace safety for Australian workers. The company’s innovative application utilizes augmented reality technology to provide real-time hazard information based on the user’s physical location. By leveraging the capabilities of a smartphone's camera and GPS, Safety Compass enables workers to view and understand potential dangers in their environment, presenting critical safety information directly on their devices. This approach eliminates the need for cumbersome safety manuals and enhances the ability of workers to assess, manage, and avoid risks effectively, ultimately aiming to help bring them home safely at the end of each workday.

Deckee

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Deckee develops a mobile app that enhances boating safety and navigation. It offers crowdsourced information such as weather conditions, vessel positions, community reviews, and safety alerts, enabling boat owners to make informed decisions on the water.

Ninja Blocks

Seed Round in 2012
Ninja Blocks is the creator of the Ninja Sphere, the missing brain for your _smart_ devices. Ninja Sphere learns from your behaviour, identifies your preferences, and manages your devices so you don't have to. The Ninja Sphere incorporates a gesture interface and micro-location technology that accurately locates radios within the home. It is backwards compatible with the Ninja Block, a popular device and platform that supports 100s of third-party devices. Ninja's should be effective and invisible as should the interface to your home.
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