OneVentures Pty

OneVentures is one of Australia’s leading venture capital firms, with over $330M in funds under management. But they do more than invest. They take companies to that all important next stage, by actively shaping their future. They apply their years of international experience, operational and executional expertise to accelerate the growth of their portfolio companies. A global growth focus drives their investment selection with their current portfolio including companies with truly innovative products tackling multi-billion-dollar problems, from needle-free vaccinations to virtual communications to adaptive e-learning.

Anne-Marie Birkill

Co-Founder, Venture Partner and Director

Justine Carzino

Investment Director

Michelle Deaker

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Nick Gainsley

Partner

Jeannie Joughin

Principal

Matthew Lewin

Investment Associate

Helen Liu

CFO

Kate Madden

Investment Manager

Meibusch, Sarah J.

Partner

Aaron Tan

Investment Associate

55 past transactions

HIVERY

Series B in 2022
HIVERY is a software development company. They specialize in retail assortment strategy simulation and optimisation solutions for consumer packaged goods. They transform category management, automatic retailing, and trade promotion with algorithms.

Cascade Strategy

Series A in 2022
Cascade Strategy is a seamlessly integrated suite of tools for running your entire business. From strategic planning to performance management, Cascade includes all the tools you need to build an empowered, cohesive and efficient organization with strategy at its heart. Innovation and agility is at the core of what we do. We firmly believe that corporations deserve access to the same exciting and intuitive technology experiences that consumers are enjoying. Our customers are redefining the world as we know it - from battling the AIDS epidemic and establishing a supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines, to building the world’s fastest Formula One car.

Employment Hero

Series F in 2022
Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HR processes. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees by providing software that employers use and provide access to benefits for all employees.

Kepler Analytics

Series B in 2022
Kepler Analytics provides retail managers with unprecedented insight into shopper behavior to create amazing customer experiences. This is achieved using a revolutionary wireless sensor that detects unique shoppers both inside and outside stores.

Eucalyptus

Series C in 2022
Eucalyptus is a healthcare technology company that develops and runs digital healthcare companies. The company's five healthcare brands form the connective tissue between telehealth consults with doctors, pharmacy delivery, and ongoing patient care. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Haymarket, Australia.

Modern Hydrogen

Series B in 2021
Modern Hydrogen is a breakthrough energy technology company. Their mission is to provide affordable electricity to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Axial Biotherapeutics

Series C in 2021
Axial Therapeutics is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company harnessing the gut-brain axis to develop novel Central Nervous System (CNS) Therapeutics to improve the quality of life for people with CNS diseases and disorders.

LiveTiles

Debt Financing in 2021
LiveTiles began as a startup company. Driven by the vision to create a user-centric platform to help organizations collaborate, founders Karl Redenbach and Peter Nguyen-Brown imagined the concept of software that prioritizes the human experience without compromising function. Since then, we’ve established our headquarters in New York City, and expanded from offering two technology solutions to providing a suite of complementing products that serve small and large businesses across all industries of every size.

Flippa

Series A in 2021
Selling a business is hard. It’s easy with Flippa. Founded in 2009, Flippa exists to support the small business ecosystem so that any business owner or buyer can sell or acquire a business. Flippa is the leading platform and network connecting online business owners with buyers all over the world. Flippa leverages more than 120,000 buyers representing $1.2bn in purchasing intent. Each month, over $41m worth of business value is listed for sale on Flippa and nearly 500,000 business owners and buyers visit Flippa to sell or buy businesses between the prices of $5,000 and $5,000,000. Owners of eCommerce, SaaS, Marketplace, Fulfilled by Amazon, Content, Advertising and other online businesses choose Flippa because it’s the easiest place to list and showcase, best place to connect and negotiate and the safest place to transact. Co-Founded by the Founders of 99Designs and SitePoint, Flippa aims to help small business owners find their exit, in an easy to use and safe environment.

Wild Earth

Series A in 2021
Wild Earth is a technology startup that specializes in developing protein pet foods. It is dedicated to reinventing pet food with science to offer healthier foods for pets that are better for the environment and more humane than conventional products. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Employment Hero

Series E in 2021
Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HR processes. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees by providing software that employers use and provide access to benefits for all employees.

BiVACOR

Series B in 2021
BiVACOR is a privately held company founded in 2008. Their staff includes world-class engineers, medical specialists, and business executives who are diligently working to advance this ground-breaking technology. Together, they have established a strong collaborative network that extends both nationally and internationally. Their world headquarters are located in Houston, Texas, USA, and their international office is in Brisbane, Australia.

HIVERY

Debt Financing in 2021
HIVERY is a software development company. They specialize in retail assortment strategy simulation and optimisation solutions for consumer packaged goods. They transform category management, automatic retailing, and trade promotion with algorithms.

Lumary

Venture Round in 2021
Lumary is a leading global healthcare platform with complete end-to-end care management solutions for aged care, disability, allied health, and autism therapy providers. Designed and developed by top local industry experts and tech engineers, Lumary’s purpose-built software integrates with specialist applications to create a single cloud-based solution that enables providers to manage their entire organisation and workforce in one place. With Lumary’s integrated, industry-specific solutions, providers have everything they need to build a more sustainable business and improve the quality of their care delivery with one easy-to-use platform. Creating software solutions and products that benefit the community is at the heart of what they do. Lumary’s headquarters are located in Adelaide, with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, and Denver.

Eucalyptus

Debt Financing in 2021
Eucalyptus is a healthcare technology company that develops and runs digital healthcare companies. The company's five healthcare brands form the connective tissue between telehealth consults with doctors, pharmacy delivery, and ongoing patient care. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Haymarket, Australia.

Employment Hero

Series D in 2021
Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HR processes. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees by providing software that employers use and provide access to benefits for all employees.

Phocas

Venture Round in 2021
Phocas has thousands of customers across North America, the UK, Europe and Australia. They're experts in helping manufacturing, distribution and retail customers turn their company data into results. From easy-to-read dashboards, to the renowned lightning-fast grid, everything about Phocas is designed for ease-of-use. Phocas allows you to drill from high level dashboards right down into the underlying transactions. It’s not just turning data into pretty pictures, it's about seeing the data that makes your business tick.

Coassemble

Debt Financing in 2021
Coassemble provides an online training platform for mid-market and technology-based companies. The system integrates with Slack, Shopify and other popular apps, creating an organic workflow that leads to engaged teams and the ability to grow at scale. Team leads in IT, customer support, sales, marketing and HR can administer and track progress on both new-employee programs and continuing development modules.

InDebted

Venture Round in 2021
InDebted develops a cloud-based debt collection software designed to offer tailored debt management tools. Its cloud collections platform leverages machine learning to understand consumer preferences for servicing overdue accounts and provides application programming interfaces (APIs) to link to customer account systems, enabling small and medium businesses to get flexible payment options.

InDebted

Debt Financing in 2021
InDebted develops a cloud-based debt collection software designed to offer tailored debt management tools. Its cloud collections platform leverages machine learning to understand consumer preferences for servicing overdue accounts and provides application programming interfaces (APIs) to link to customer account systems, enabling small and medium businesses to get flexible payment options.

Zoomo

Series A in 2020
Zoomo is a provider of electric bikes accessed via subscription models to help gig workers in the food delivery industry. Zoomo's high-quality LEV (light electric vehicle) range includes e-Bike, e-Moped, and e-Cargo options. Zoomo plans to use the funding to add new corporate categories such as parcel, mail, and grocery deliveries that its bikes can be used for as well as other models better suited for individual consumers.

Phocas

Debt Financing in 2020
Phocas has thousands of customers across North America, the UK, Europe and Australia. They're experts in helping manufacturing, distribution and retail customers turn their company data into results. From easy-to-read dashboards, to the renowned lightning-fast grid, everything about Phocas is designed for ease-of-use. Phocas allows you to drill from high level dashboards right down into the underlying transactions. It’s not just turning data into pretty pictures, it's about seeing the data that makes your business tick.

OneVue

Debt Financing in 2020
No matter what business you're in, they work with you to offer your clients a range of superannuation solutions, whatever their stage of life or superannuation balance. They are your wholesale provider of self managed super fund, retail super and digital member based solutions. Through customised wealth management platforms they can help you to provide your clients with the ultimate end-to-end investment experience. While platform services has been Their focus historically and remains an important offering, they also take pride in the fact that we're now the market leader in independent outsourced unit registry solutions.

Shippit

Series A in 2019
Shippit makes multi-carrier connectivity and carrier allocation simple, so you can offer more delivery options and sustainable, cost-effective shipments.

Kira Biotech

Series A in 2019
Kira Biotech is an emerging Australian biotechnology company developing novel immunomodulatory compounds for the treatment of immune system disorders. Its lead candidate, KB312, is a first-in-class, selective, immune-cell depleting monoclonal antibody which targets activated immune cells and aims to restore homeostasis through induction of immune tolerance. Kira Biotech has attracted venture capital funding and is progressing KB312 through preclinical development and phase 1 clinical trials with a team of drug development experts led by well-known US-based rheumatologist and immunologist, Dr Dan Baker.

AmazingCo

Series A in 2019
AmazingCo is an experiences and activities creator. Through its platform, it makes it easy for people all across the globe to discover and enjoy amazing real world experiences, helping people spend their time in a more connected way.

Employment Hero

Series C in 2019
Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HR processes. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees by providing software that employers use and provide access to benefits for all employees.

Hometime

Debt Financing in 2019
Hometime is a prominent management platform for short-term rental operators in the Asia-Pacific region, catering to over 100,000 small-scale professional managers who often lack the necessary infrastructure to expand their businesses. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools and technology, along with dedicated support teams, to facilitate growth, enhance revenue, and improve service delivery for local operators. Hometime's business model has enabled it to successfully scale across 17 markets, delivering significant value to three main stakeholders: homeowners, who benefit from increased rental yields and flexibility; guests, who enjoy a consistent and high-quality experience; and partner operators, who can grow their businesses while maintaining exceptional quality standards. Additionally, Hometime manages all aspects of property management, including guest inquiries and coordination with service providers, thereby simplifying the hosting experience for property owners.

Edrolo

Debt Financing in 2019
At Edrolo, our mission is simple: to improve education. We're an Australian, venture-backed edtech startup with global ambitions. We are all passionate about our mission and building a culture where we can all do the best work of our lives. Our belief is that all students should have access to the greatest teachers, people who bring subjects to life and inspire learning and passion. We believe students should have access to this regardless of where they live or what school they attend. Additionally, all schools should have access to powerful data to drive school improvement, which is accessible via our platform.

Blade Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2018
Blade Therapeutics is a discovery stage drug development company. Their mission is to create antifibrotic treatment strategies that address a wide variety of congenital and acquired diseases of fibrosis. Their leadership team has extensive experience at developing drugs that treat fibrotic disorders. They are also partnering with international experts in order to identify and in-license cutting-edge technologies to build a robust pipeline of antifibrotic compounds.

Madorra

Venture Round in 2018
Madorra Their goal is empowering women to live fuller, healthier lives. Madorra is working towards changing the paradigm for treating vaginal dryness, by providing a medical device solution to a problem that has previously only been served by pharmaceuticals. They are focused on giving post-menopausal women and breast cancer survivors the power to choose the non-hormonal treatment option they want.

Paragen Bio

Venture Round in 2018
Paragen Bio is a provider of a technology intended to treat autoimmune diseases. The company's technology helps in treating diseases which causes the immune system to attack healthy tissues and organs, enabling doctors to stop the deterioration and complete destruction of tissue.

Phocas

Venture Round in 2018
Phocas has thousands of customers across North America, the UK, Europe and Australia. They're experts in helping manufacturing, distribution and retail customers turn their company data into results. From easy-to-read dashboards, to the renowned lightning-fast grid, everything about Phocas is designed for ease-of-use. Phocas allows you to drill from high level dashboards right down into the underlying transactions. It’s not just turning data into pretty pictures, it's about seeing the data that makes your business tick.

BiVACOR

Venture Round in 2018
BiVACOR is a privately held company founded in 2008. Their staff includes world-class engineers, medical specialists, and business executives who are diligently working to advance this ground-breaking technology. Together, they have established a strong collaborative network that extends both nationally and internationally. Their world headquarters are located in Houston, Texas, USA, and their international office is in Brisbane, Australia.

Employment Hero

Series B in 2018
Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HR processes. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees by providing software that employers use and provide access to benefits for all employees.

OVO

Corporate Round in 2018
OVO we love sport and we love being entertained. We're big fans of sport - motorsport, tennis, gymnastics, footie, rugby, volley ball....it's a long list. Like the fans out there we've watched matches on our mobile, listened to commentary while we're in the car, met mates at the pub to watch the grand final, paid through the nose to subscribe to sports TV channels and grudgingly paid extra for the 'pop up' (we prefer to call them 'pay up') channels that show up when there's a really awesome sports event playing.

Prota Therapeutics

Series A in 2017
Prota Therapeutics is an Australian, proprietary limited, privately-held biotech company established in 2016 to develop and commercialize novel combination probiotic allergen oral immunotherapy treatments. Prota holds an exclusive license to the patented probiotic food immunotherapy technology, developed at the MCRI. Series A funding of AUD $15m was secured from OneVentures, a leading Australian venture capital investment firm (OneVentures' Healthcare Fund III) – including $5M from the Australian Commonwealth Government Biomedical Translation Fund – as well as private investment. This has enabled Prota to advance their clinical program, develop scalable cGMP product manufacturing processes, and initiate discussions with regulatory agencies in the lead up to a planned large-scale pivotal Phase 3 efficacy and safety study for the PRT100 peanut allergy treatment.

Smart Sparrow

Series C in 2017
Smart Sparrow owns and operates an e-learning platform, which enables students and professionals to create an e-learning courseware. It allows customers to create courseware on various subjects, including digital literacy, computer sciences, engineering, finance, marketing, medicine, orientation, sciences, and soft skills, as well as training courses. Smart Sparrow serves various institutions locally and internationally. Ariel Shoham, Dror Ben-Haim, Shaowei Ho, and Zack Belinson founded it on December 29, 2010, with its headquarters in Surry Hills in Australia with an additional office in San Francisco in California.

8i

Series B in 2017
8i their solution includes enterprise-grade hologram capture stages in camera arrays, a cutting-edge software stack to transform (fuse, edit, and compress) holograms using proprietary computer vision and machine learning models, and a publishing suite to integrate. Their photoreal holograms are turned into digital experiences that can be viewed.

Employment Hero

Series A in 2016
Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HR processes. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees by providing software that employers use and provide access to benefits for all employees.

Employment Hero

Series A in 2016
Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HR processes. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees by providing software that employers use and provide access to benefits for all employees.
Clinical Genomics is a privately held biotechnology company developing innovative products for colorectal cancer diagnosis and monitoring. With a broad intellectual property portfolio including more than 20 issued and pending patents, Clinical Genomics has developed and validated a sensitive and specific blood test for colorectal cancer recurrence monitoring that will be launched in the U.S. in 2016. This 2-gene test, which is based on methylated DNA from two genes, BCAT1 and IKZF1, is currently known by its project name GEMINI.

Find-Me Technologies Pty Ltd

Venture Round in 2015
Find-Me Technologies is the creator of Carers Watch, an emergency alert system platform. The all new Carers Watch protects your loved ones and those you care for. The Carers Watch can receive incoming calls, from any landline or mobile phone, has a Global Positioning System that can monitor the location of the wearer and an alert button that can be put through to our partners specialist monitoring centres. Personal emergency alarms have been large and normally limited to working around the home. The Find-me Carers Watch is lightweight and can be worn the same as an everyday watch. It can be adapted to be worn as a brooch or pendant, and a secure strap is available making it suitable for all needs. The Find-me Carers Watch is a wrist watch that not only tells the time, but also incorporates the capabilities of a mobile phone, a panic alert (with two way voice communication), a tracking system, a fall sensor and is water resistant so it can be worn in the shower or rain. It will work anywhere there is mobile phone coverage (including Telstra NextG) and is 3G compatible. For monitoring you can connect it via our easy to use web interface to alert family and friends and is available through our partners Tunstall in Australia and New Zealand to be monitored by their specialist 24/7 response centres. The watch is also easily changed to a duress alert with one way communication to the call centres for people that work alone or in dangerous environments.

Vaxxas

Series B in 2015
Vaxxass is a biotechnology company that develops a novel needle-free vaccination technology. The company uses proprietary dry-coating technology that can eliminate or significantly reduce the need for vaccine refrigeration during storage and transportation - easing the resource and logistics burden of maintaining the vaccine "cold chain". Vaxxas was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brisbane, Australia.

Incoming Media

Series A in 2014
Incoming Media focuses on solving big problems around mobile video, analytics, and engagement for premium video publishers and advertisers. It engages mobile audiences with the right content at the perfect moment by delivering "High Quality Mobile Engagement" to reduce churn, increase engagement and optimize ad monetization. Incoming Media exists because video consumption is trending away from TV towards mobile, and because mobile media is trending away from pull consumption towards push consumption - where each user is notified of personalized content at the perfect moment. Incoming Media helps media publishers navigate these trends, solving the technical challenges of delivering personalized and highest quality mobile video experiences, and seizing the economic opportunity of attracting premium brand advertising.

Hatchtech

Venture Round in 2013
Hatchtech is an Australian company developing a locally developed proprietary technology platform that will enable the creation of a new generation of lowtoxicity pest control products. Specifically, the patented technology allows the complete blocking of pest species egg hatch through a novel mode of action. The technology has applicability for controlling ectoparasites and other egg laying pests of humans, animal, crops and the built environment.

The Best Day

Seed Round in 2013
Beasy is a social planning tool that makes it easier for people to bring their groups together. Founder Whitney Komor had the idea for The Best Day following a frustrating attempt at organizing a weekend away with her girlfriends. She thought it would be easier to lock in your group if you could send them time, date and place options, and invite each person to vote based on their availability and preferences. In March 2013 The Best Day closed a $1M investment round to fund the launch of the social scheduling platform.

Charm Health

Series A in 2013
Charmhealth is a developer and supplier of specialist oncology electronic medical record and clinical information systems.

Incoming Media

Seed Round in 2013
Incoming Media focuses on solving big problems around mobile video, analytics, and engagement for premium video publishers and advertisers. It engages mobile audiences with the right content at the perfect moment by delivering "High Quality Mobile Engagement" to reduce churn, increase engagement and optimize ad monetization. Incoming Media exists because video consumption is trending away from TV towards mobile, and because mobile media is trending away from pull consumption towards push consumption - where each user is notified of personalized content at the perfect moment. Incoming Media helps media publishers navigate these trends, solving the technical challenges of delivering personalized and highest quality mobile video experiences, and seizing the economic opportunity of attracting premium brand advertising.

BuildingIQ

Series A in 2013
Founded in 2009, BuildingIQ is an energy management software company whose mission is to redefine the way energy is managed in commercial buildings. BuildingIQ's suite of software offerings utilizes Predictive Energy Optimization - the only energy management software platform that forecasts energy demand and automatically adjusts a building’s HVAC settings to continuously optimize energy use and peak loads. BuildingIQ works with existing building energy management systems and utility demand response systems, and incorporates weather forecasts, occupant comfort, utility prices and demand response signals in its optimization algorithms. BuildingIQ automatically reduces energy consumption, cost, and emissions while maintaining or improving occupant comfort. These offerings reduce energy cost and consumption, helping facility owners, managers and occupants get more value out of their existing energy systems. BuildingIQ has commercialized 15+ years of building control systems, modeling and comfort research developed by the world-leading experts at the Energy Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national research organization, and combined it with industry expertise to offer commercial facility owners and managers high value solutions with no capital expense outlay. The company has been honored as Winner of the AIRAH Award for Excellence in Innovation, Tech23's Greatest Potential Award, Red Herring's Asia 100 Award and most recently, Environmental Design + Construction and Sustainable Facility's Readers' Choice Award and Connectivity Week's Buildy Award.

Paloma Mobile

Series A in 2012
Paloma Mobile, founded in July 2011 by Jennifer Zanich and Steve Langkamp, develops and commercializes a cloud-based platform that delivers data-efficient smartphone applications. The company’s first service Photo Chat, delivers a mix of photos and social features, such as voice notes, in private conversations with friends or family.

Vaxxas

Series A in 2011
Vaxxass is a biotechnology company that develops a novel needle-free vaccination technology. The company uses proprietary dry-coating technology that can eliminate or significantly reduce the need for vaccine refrigeration during storage and transportation - easing the resource and logistics burden of maintaining the vaccine "cold chain". Vaxxas was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brisbane, Australia.

Smart Sparrow

Series A in 2011
Smart Sparrow owns and operates an e-learning platform, which enables students and professionals to create an e-learning courseware. It allows customers to create courseware on various subjects, including digital literacy, computer sciences, engineering, finance, marketing, medicine, orientation, sciences, and soft skills, as well as training courses. Smart Sparrow serves various institutions locally and internationally. Ariel Shoham, Dror Ben-Haim, Shaowei Ho, and Zack Belinson founded it on December 29, 2010, with its headquarters in Surry Hills in Australia with an additional office in San Francisco in California.

Hatchtech

Venture Round in 2010
Hatchtech is an Australian company developing a locally developed proprietary technology platform that will enable the creation of a new generation of lowtoxicity pest control products. Specifically, the patented technology allows the complete blocking of pest species egg hatch through a novel mode of action. The technology has applicability for controlling ectoparasites and other egg laying pests of humans, animal, crops and the built environment.

AdGent Digital

Seed Round in 2009
AdGent Digital is a media and technology company that works with leading publishers to deliver brands a premium audience via proprietary display, social media, and tablet advertising platforms. AdGent Digital has offices in USA, Europe, and Asia and delivers brand messages to audiences in countries around the world.
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