Jelix Ventures

Jelix Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Darlinghurst, Australia, founded in 2016. The firm specializes in investing in innovative technology startups in Australia and New Zealand, particularly those in deep technology, automation and artificial intelligence, climate solutions, developer tools, and software as a service (SaaS). Jelix Ventures aims to support visionary entrepreneurs and accelerate the growth of companies that have the potential to disrupt traditional markets. Led by experienced investors and sector insiders, the firm focuses on businesses that are globally scalable and positioned for significant impact in their respective industries.

Ian Gardiner

Investment Partner

Cameron Kavanagh

Investment Principal

Will Lee

Investment Manager

43 past transactions

PropHero

Series A in 2025
PropHero is a technology-driven real estate investment platform that simplifies the process of finding, purchasing, and managing income-generating properties. The company employs proprietary AI algorithms to analyze market data and identify lucrative investment opportunities for clients, streamlining the due diligence and acquisition processes. By leveraging its digital platform, PropHero aims to make real estate wealth creation more accessible, stress-free, and data-driven.

Quantum Brilliance

Series A in 2025
Quantum Brilliance specializes in the development of room-temperature quantum computers utilizing synthetic diamond technology. This innovation allows the company to create miniaturized and energy-efficient quantum accelerators that operate without the need for cryogenics or complex infrastructure, making integration into everyday computing applications simpler and more accessible. By enabling edge and massively parallelized computing, Quantum Brilliance's technology aims to facilitate the widespread adoption of quantum computing, allowing clients to explore and leverage disruptive applications in various fields. The company's focus on practicality and efficiency positions it uniquely within the emerging quantum technology landscape.

Tability

Seed Round in 2024
Tability, Inc. is a company that specializes in goal-tracking solutions, providing a platform designed to help teams monitor and manage their objectives effectively. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Tability focuses on tracking Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and various projects. The platform enhances transparency by offering a history of progress, automated reminders, and feedback on updates. Additionally, it includes integration services to streamline workflows, ensuring that teams remain focused and accountable for their goals.

Hatch

Seed Round in 2024
Hatch is a recruiting platform headquartered in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, founded in 2017. The company specializes in connecting early career talent with high-growth tech startups, offering services that include job listings, networking opportunities, and mentorship programs. Hatch's platform emphasizes a holistic approach to recruitment, focusing on candidates' underlying strengths, motivations, and cultural fit rather than solely on traditional resumes. By promoting unbiased hiring practices, Hatch aims to ensure that every candidate has a fair chance to showcase their true selves and find their ideal job match in the tech industry.

thanks.dev

Venture Round in 2024
Thanks.dev is an open-source tool that facilitates connections between companies and open-source maintainers. Its platform enables users to nominate and donate to open-source projects, aggregating dependency information across various repositories and organisations. This allows businesses to sustainably support open-source projects financially.

Earlywork

Seed Round in 2023
Earlywork is a company focused on developing the first tech sales bootcamp in the Asia-Pacific region. It provides talent-hiring services aimed at delivering career resources in technology, startups, and the social impact sector. The company’s platform offers industry-backed sales techniques taught by experts from notable organizations, along with personalized guidance and support from a close-knit group of motivated peers. Through its services, Earlywork equips individuals with essential career advice, pathway guidance, industry analysis, interview preparation, and job search assistance, thereby enabling businesses to recruit skilled professionals.

Quantum Brilliance

Seed Round in 2023
Quantum Brilliance specializes in the development of room-temperature quantum computers utilizing synthetic diamond technology. This innovation allows the company to create miniaturized and energy-efficient quantum accelerators that operate without the need for cryogenics or complex infrastructure, making integration into everyday computing applications simpler and more accessible. By enabling edge and massively parallelized computing, Quantum Brilliance's technology aims to facilitate the widespread adoption of quantum computing, allowing clients to explore and leverage disruptive applications in various fields. The company's focus on practicality and efficiency positions it uniquely within the emerging quantum technology landscape.

Syenta

Seed Round in 2022
Syenta specializes in the 3D printing of multi-material electronics, providing innovative fabrication methods that reduce production steps and minimize waste. The company employs advanced electrochemistry technology to design and manufacture micro-fabricated and nano-fabricated electronic devices, including sensors, photovoltaics, batteries, printed circuit boards, and antennae. By enabling clients to fabricate and iterate on their designs in-house, Syenta empowers businesses to develop electronic devices efficiently and flexibly from virtually any location.

SafeStack

Seed Round in 2022
SafeStack is an online education platform focused on enhancing security within the software development lifecycle. The company provides training and consultation services that equip software development teams with the necessary skills to integrate security from the initial concept through to the final product. By emphasizing a secure-by-design approach, SafeStack enables organizations of all sizes to develop high-quality, secure software efficiently. Its platform caters to various roles in the development process, including developers, testers, analysts, and architects, ensuring that security is a fundamental aspect of software creation and compliance.

Josef

Seed Round in 2022
Josef is a legal technology company that offers a platform designed to empower lawyers to automate and deploy their own legal chatbots and services. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Josef aims to enhance the accessibility of legal services across various sectors, including top-tier law firms, government entities, and community legal centers. The platform features custom-built document automation technology and an intuitive workflow builder, enabling legal professionals to create bots that efficiently manage high volumes of repetitive tasks, such as client interviews. By streamlining these workflows, Josef helps lawyers save time and scale their services, making legal support more reachable for a wider audience across the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Clipboard

Venture Round in 2022
Clipboard is a software provider specializing in an Extracurricular Management System (EMS) designed to streamline the administration of extracurricular activities in schools. The platform enhances communication, saves time, and increases accountability by offering a comprehensive suite of services. These services include scheduling, timesheets, attendance tracking, team management, incident reporting, and staff information. By consolidating these functionalities into a single platform, Clipboard aims to improve the extracurricular experience for students, parents, and staff alike, facilitating better management and organization of school activities.

Iluminr

Series A in 2022
Iluminr is a company that focuses on revolutionizing crisis management practices through innovative cloud-based tools. By enhancing awareness and collaboration, Iluminr enables organizations globally to navigate business-critical events more effectively. Its products offer comprehensive services for monitoring potential threats, such as health pandemics, cyber attacks, natural disasters, and security incidents. The company provides early warning systems, contextual threat analysis, and automated alerts to facilitate timely responses. Additionally, Iluminr supports businesses in understanding the implications of these threats and ensures seamless communication with stakeholders, ultimately helping organizations minimize negative impacts while maximizing opportunities during crises.

PropHero

Seed Round in 2022
PropHero is a technology-driven real estate investment platform that simplifies the process of finding, purchasing, and managing income-generating properties. The company employs proprietary AI algorithms to analyze market data and identify lucrative investment opportunities for clients, streamlining the due diligence and acquisition processes. By leveraging its digital platform, PropHero aims to make real estate wealth creation more accessible, stress-free, and data-driven.

Biza.io

Series A in 2022
Biza.io, founded in 2017, is a technology company focused on creating banking and compliance software tailored for the highly regulated financial services sector. The company aims to transform how financial services are delivered by promoting open banking and harnessing the potential of blockchain technology. Biza.io offers software as a service (SaaS) solutions that cater to the evolving specifications of consumer data rights. By combining its expertise in open banking, data storage, and telecommunications, Biza.io provides next-generation development and compliance services that meet the needs of the financial and compliance industries.

Predelo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Predelo is a technology company that provides an AI-powered predictive automation platform designed to assist businesses in making informed decisions. Its key offerings include adaptive forecasting, automated decision-making capabilities, seamless one-click integrations, and a sophisticated decision engine. By leveraging these features, Predelo enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and ultimately improve customer satisfaction.

Truescope

Seed Round in 2022
Truescope is a prominent SaaS platform specializing in media intelligence and social listening, providing businesses and organizations with real-time insights and analytics. Utilizing advanced artificial intelligence, Truescope aggregates data from a wide array of sources, including online news, social media, forums, and blogs, to deliver tailored media intelligence solutions. With a presence in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States, the company serves clients across diverse industries, offering tools to track brand mentions, monitor competitor activity, analyze sentiment, and identify emerging trends. These capabilities enable clients to make informed decisions, enhance communication strategies, manage reputational risks, and improve overall business outcomes. Truescope is dedicated to helping organizations understand public perception, monitor media coverage, and gain valuable insights into their target audiences.

PropHero

Seed Round in 2022
PropHero is a technology-driven real estate investment platform that simplifies the process of finding, purchasing, and managing income-generating properties. The company employs proprietary AI algorithms to analyze market data and identify lucrative investment opportunities for clients, streamlining the due diligence and acquisition processes. By leveraging its digital platform, PropHero aims to make real estate wealth creation more accessible, stress-free, and data-driven.

FloodMapp

Seed Round in 2022
FloodMapp is a company specializing in predictive flood mapping technology, offering a suite of business-to-business software-as-a-service products. The company provides real-time web mapping services that integrate with geographical information systems to enhance situational awareness before, during, and after flood events. By leveraging big data analytics, automation, and machine learning alongside advanced hydrology and hydraulic models, FloodMapp delivers large-scale and rapid flood modeling. Its platform aggregates live rainfall and river height data to create flood inundation maps, enabling government agencies and disaster management boards to issue timely warnings, mitigate flood-related damages, and ultimately save lives.

Amaka

Seed Round in 2021
Amaka is a software company based in Sydney, Australia, established in 2014, that specializes in providing accounting solutions for business owners, accountants, and bookkeepers. The company's platform automates data entry and accounting operations by seamlessly connecting various systems that users engage with daily. This integration facilitates the synchronization of sales records and automates the extraction of data from point-of-sale systems, delivering it in user-preferred formats. By streamlining these processes, Amaka enables users to gain effortless insights and effectively track their business metrics, enhancing operational efficiency and decision-making capabilities.

SafeStack

Seed Round in 2021
SafeStack is an online education platform focused on enhancing security within the software development lifecycle. The company provides training and consultation services that equip software development teams with the necessary skills to integrate security from the initial concept through to the final product. By emphasizing a secure-by-design approach, SafeStack enables organizations of all sizes to develop high-quality, secure software efficiently. Its platform caters to various roles in the development process, including developers, testers, analysts, and architects, ensuring that security is a fundamental aspect of software creation and compliance.

Quantum Brilliance

Seed Round in 2021
Quantum Brilliance specializes in the development of room-temperature quantum computers utilizing synthetic diamond technology. This innovation allows the company to create miniaturized and energy-efficient quantum accelerators that operate without the need for cryogenics or complex infrastructure, making integration into everyday computing applications simpler and more accessible. By enabling edge and massively parallelized computing, Quantum Brilliance's technology aims to facilitate the widespread adoption of quantum computing, allowing clients to explore and leverage disruptive applications in various fields. The company's focus on practicality and efficiency positions it uniquely within the emerging quantum technology landscape.

FL0

Seed Round in 2021
FL0 is a backend-focused cloud development and deployment platform that aims to enhance the efficiency of software development. The company offers a low-code engineering platform that accelerates coding processes, allowing developers to create enterprise-grade technology more rapidly. By generating, installing, and scaling containers that execute various services, FL0 enables existing engineers to focus on more impactful tasks by automating repetitive processes. This approach not only streamlines operations but also increases productivity within software development teams.

HowToo

Series A in 2021
HowToo is an innovative eLearning authoring tool designed to facilitate the creation and delivery of professional-quality training courses. With a vast library of customizable templates, users can easily integrate their content, add quizzes and assessments, and launch engaging learning experiences in minutes. The platform combines a science-based design with powerful insights from data and analytics, enabling users to transform raw content into effective e-learning modules. Additionally, HowToo is the first authoring tool to comply with the WCAG 2.1 AA standard, ensuring accessibility for all learners. Through its user-friendly interface and comprehensive features, HowToo aims to enhance the quality and effectiveness of online training programs.

Abyss

Venture Round in 2021
Abyss Solutions specializes in leveraging machine learning, computer vision, and field robotics to enhance the inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure globally. The company focuses on developing robotics and artificial intelligence-based software aimed at improving the safety of underwater assets. Abyss Solutions provides services such as automated inspections of oil platform surface corrosion, subsea assessments, and condition monitoring for inshore assets and underground pipelines. Its innovative technology offers asset owners vital insights necessary for the effective management of structures, including notable locations like the Hoover Dam, offshore platforms in Africa, water supply aqueducts in Scotland, and the Sydney Opera House. By serving various sectors, including offshore oil and gas, water, transport, maritime, and defense, Abyss Solutions enables informed decision-making for asset management.

Iluminr

Seed Round in 2020
Iluminr is a company that focuses on revolutionizing crisis management practices through innovative cloud-based tools. By enhancing awareness and collaboration, Iluminr enables organizations globally to navigate business-critical events more effectively. Its products offer comprehensive services for monitoring potential threats, such as health pandemics, cyber attacks, natural disasters, and security incidents. The company provides early warning systems, contextual threat analysis, and automated alerts to facilitate timely responses. Additionally, Iluminr supports businesses in understanding the implications of these threats and ensures seamless communication with stakeholders, ultimately helping organizations minimize negative impacts while maximizing opportunities during crises.

Wagetap

Seed Round in 2020
Wagetap is a platform that provides employees with access to their earned wages at any time, enhancing financial flexibility. By integrating with company payroll systems, Wagetap allows employees to track their earnings and withdraw a portion of their pay before the traditional payday, which helps them manage unexpected expenses. This innovative approach serves as a valuable tool for businesses to improve employee recruitment, retention, and engagement by offering a modern solution to financial management.

Clipboard

Seed Round in 2020
Clipboard is a software provider specializing in an Extracurricular Management System (EMS) designed to streamline the administration of extracurricular activities in schools. The platform enhances communication, saves time, and increases accountability by offering a comprehensive suite of services. These services include scheduling, timesheets, attendance tracking, team management, incident reporting, and staff information. By consolidating these functionalities into a single platform, Clipboard aims to improve the extracurricular experience for students, parents, and staff alike, facilitating better management and organization of school activities.

Diffuse Energy

Seed Round in 2020
Diffuse Energy Pty Ltd, established in 2018 and headquartered in Williamtown, Australia, specializes in manufacturing wind energy turbines. The company caters to a diverse range of industries, including telecommunications, agriculture, mining, and remote communities, offering a clean and efficient alternative to traditional power sources. Diffuse Energy's patented diffuser technology enhances turbine blade airflow, resulting in superior efficiency. Their small wind turbines can complement existing renewable energy systems like solar PV and battery storage, providing businesses with a reliable and sustainable power solution.

Alauda Aeronautics

Seed Round in 2020
Alauda Aeronautics is a manufacturer of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, specializing in the development of performance flying cars. The company is notable for powering the world's first electric flying car racing series, which showcases its innovative approach to personal air mobility. Alauda Aeronautics designs both remotely piloted and manned flying vehicles equipped with advanced collision-avoidance systems that integrate radar and machine vision technology, ensuring safety for pilots. By focusing on creating accessible flying cars, the company aims to revolutionize the future of mobility through cutting-edge electric racing machines.

Snappr

Series A in 2019
Snappr is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in visual content creation, functioning as the largest on-demand marketplace for photography and photo editing. Founded in 2017, Snappr offers a self-service application known as Snappr Shoots, allowing users to easily book photographers for their projects. In addition to this, the company provides Snappr Workflows, a software-as-a-service solution designed for enterprises to automate their visual content pipelines. To further enhance its offerings, Snappr includes free tools such as the Snappr Photo Analyzer, an AI-driven tool for portrait photo analysis. By facilitating connections between photographers and clients, Snappr streamlines the process of acquiring high-quality visual content.

FloodMapp

Seed Round in 2019
FloodMapp is a company specializing in predictive flood mapping technology, offering a suite of business-to-business software-as-a-service products. The company provides real-time web mapping services that integrate with geographical information systems to enhance situational awareness before, during, and after flood events. By leveraging big data analytics, automation, and machine learning alongside advanced hydrology and hydraulic models, FloodMapp delivers large-scale and rapid flood modeling. Its platform aggregates live rainfall and river height data to create flood inundation maps, enabling government agencies and disaster management boards to issue timely warnings, mitigate flood-related damages, and ultimately save lives.

Style Arcade

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Style Arcade is a company that specializes in fashion analytics and range planning software tailored for the fashion industry. It provides a SaaS platform that enables brands to optimize their product offerings by visualizing historical, current, and future ranges. This platform facilitates real-time collaboration among teams, enhancing workflow automation in an industry characterized by rapid change and often remote operations. Style Arcade's software assists fashion brands in making informed decisions about product performance, assortment planning, and budget management. By offering insights into size curves, investment levels, and store-specific range configurations, it empowers retailers to balance creativity with profitability. The technology eliminates the inefficiencies of traditional methods and enhances accuracy, agility, and overall efficiency in merchandise planning. Ultimately, Style Arcade aims to align fashion businesses with their core asset—their products—thereby driving growth in revenue and profit.

Josef

Seed Round in 2019
Josef is a legal technology company that offers a platform designed to empower lawyers to automate and deploy their own legal chatbots and services. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Josef aims to enhance the accessibility of legal services across various sectors, including top-tier law firms, government entities, and community legal centers. The platform features custom-built document automation technology and an intuitive workflow builder, enabling legal professionals to create bots that efficiently manage high volumes of repetitive tasks, such as client interviews. By streamlining these workflows, Josef helps lawyers save time and scale their services, making legal support more reachable for a wider audience across the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Whooshkaa

Venture Round in 2019
Whooshkaa is a podcast hosting platform designed to assist creators and marketers in the creation, distribution, and monetization of audio content. The platform allows users to capture, edit, host, and analyze on-demand podcasts, providing tools that enable effective audience engagement and commercial opportunities. By facilitating the entire podcasting process at an enterprise level, Whooshkaa empowers creators to maximize the value of their audio content while enabling brands to effectively reach and connect with their target audiences.

Dotterel Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Dotterel Technologies Limited, founded in 2015 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, specializes in noise reduction and audio recording technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The company has developed innovative solutions that include passive noise reduction and active noise filtering, specifically designed to make UAVs quieter for noise-sensitive applications. Additionally, Dotterel's technology enables real-time aerial audio recording, facilitating use in various sectors such as agriculture, cinematography, entertainment, and defense. Their products utilize lightweight propeller shrouds made from sound-absorbing materials, low-noise propellers, and an array of microphones, combined with advanced processing algorithms. Dotterel collaborates with several prestigious universities, enhancing its technological advancements and application potential across diverse industries.

Sinorbis

Seed Round in 2018
Sinorbis is a multi-award-winning software company that specializes in helping Western businesses engage with Asian consumers, particularly in China. It offers a cloud-based integrated marketing platform that enables clients to create, measure, and optimize their digital presence in the Asian market. The platform simplifies the process of establishing a digital footprint, allowing businesses to launch their initiatives within weeks while minimizing administrative hurdles. By providing tools for website creation, search engine optimization, and performance analysis, Sinorbis empowers organizations to effectively manage their digital marketing efforts at a reduced cost. This comprehensive approach allows clients to gain better control over their marketing strategies and benchmark their performance against competitors in the region.

Inquisitive

Seed Round in 2018
Inquisitive is an online educational platform designed to support teachers, parents, and students by offering a variety of interactive learning programs. The platform focuses on primary school education and leverages artificial intelligence to create customized teaching and learning experiences. By generating tailored lessons, Inquisitive facilitates engaging and intuitive educational sessions that enhance the learning process for students. Through its innovative approach, the company aims to improve educational outcomes and provide valuable resources for educators and families.

Dotterel Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Dotterel Technologies Limited, founded in 2015 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, specializes in noise reduction and audio recording technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The company has developed innovative solutions that include passive noise reduction and active noise filtering, specifically designed to make UAVs quieter for noise-sensitive applications. Additionally, Dotterel's technology enables real-time aerial audio recording, facilitating use in various sectors such as agriculture, cinematography, entertainment, and defense. Their products utilize lightweight propeller shrouds made from sound-absorbing materials, low-noise propellers, and an array of microphones, combined with advanced processing algorithms. Dotterel collaborates with several prestigious universities, enhancing its technological advancements and application potential across diverse industries.

Trade Ledger

Seed Round in 2017
Trade Ledger, founded in 2016, is a company that specializes in a corporate lending platform aimed at improving business lending practices. The platform automates various commercial lending processes for global banks and alternative finance providers, allowing users to streamline operations. Trade Ledger supports multiple lending categories, including invoice funding, receivables management, and supply chain financing. By enabling both bank and non-bank organizations to enhance their operational efficiency, Trade Ledger contributes to faster lending and fosters economic growth.

StorReduce

Venture Round in 2017
StorReduce designs and develops deduplication software for its clients. The software features inline deduplication, backups, data replication, big data, and cloud-based support. The application assists its clients with migrating on-premises backups to cloud and backing up on-cloud data using deduplication. StorReduce was founded in 2014 and is based in California.

tagSpace

Seed Round in 2016
tagSpace is a company that specializes in providing a no-code solution for location-based Augmented Reality (AR). Targeting markets such as music festivals, large events, and urban experiences, tagSpace's platform enhances navigation in crowded spaces by overlaying real-time information, including queue times, to guide users effectively. This technology not only offers practical assistance but also creates opportunities for promotional marketing, allowing big brands and local businesses to engage with potential customers in immersive ways. Additionally, tagSpace supports its platform with a custom content management system (CMS) and a comprehensive suite of analytics, ensuring that users can develop and manage AR content effectively. The company’s technology is proprietary and protected by multiple international patents, underscoring its innovative approach in the AR landscape.

Black.ai

Black.ai is an Australian company based in Fitzroy, established in 2017. It specializes in developing an autonomous retail platform that utilizes artificial intelligence and multi-dimensional sensors to map stores in real-time. The platform monitors human behavior, automates the observation of people's movements, and detects notable events such as theft or stock interactions. This enables large format retailers to make real-time decisions, enhance staff response, prevent theft, and manage inventory more effectively.
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