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

Andrea Gardiner

Founder and CEO

Will Lee

Investment Manager

43 past transactions

PropHero

Series A in 2025
PropHero is a property investment platform that simplifies the process of finding, purchasing, and managing investment properties. Utilizing proprietary AI algorithms, the platform streamlines due diligence and acquisition, making property investment more accessible and transparent. By focusing on clients' individual needs and investment strategies, PropHero aims to provide a data-driven approach that enhances the investment experience. The company's mission is to eliminate the complexities of real estate wealth management, enabling users to engage in property investment in a straightforward and efficient manner.

Quantum Brilliance

Series A in 2025
Quantum Brilliance specializes in the development of room-temperature quantum computers utilizing synthetic diamond technology. This innovative approach allows the creation of miniaturized and energy-efficient quantum systems that can be seamlessly integrated into everyday computing applications. By eliminating the need for cryogenics and complex infrastructure typical of other quantum technologies, Quantum Brilliance's solutions enable clients to harness the potential of quantum computing for a wide range of disruptive applications. The company's focus on room-temperature quantum accelerators positions it as a leader in making quantum computing more accessible and practical for various industries.

Tability

Seed Round in 2024
Tability, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a goal-tracking platform aimed at enhancing team accountability and focus. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Tability's software is designed to help organizations track Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and various projects. The platform provides features such as transparency, historical tracking, automated reminders, and feedback mechanisms to streamline the goal-tracking process. By integrating these functionalities, Tability enables teams to stay aligned and effectively manage their performance outputs.

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 platform designed to facilitate connections between open-source maintainers and companies. It enables users to nominate and donate to various open-source projects, thereby fostering financial support for these initiatives. The platform aggregates the dependency vision across all repositories linked to organizations involved in the donation process, streamlining the way companies can contribute to open-source sustainability. By providing tools that simplify the financial backing of open-source projects, Thanks.dev aims to enhance the support and sustainability of the open-source ecosystem.

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 innovative approach allows the creation of miniaturized and energy-efficient quantum systems that can be seamlessly integrated into everyday computing applications. By eliminating the need for cryogenics and complex infrastructure typical of other quantum technologies, Quantum Brilliance's solutions enable clients to harness the potential of quantum computing for a wide range of disruptive applications. The company's focus on room-temperature quantum accelerators positions it as a leader in making quantum computing more accessible and practical for various industries.

Syenta

Seed Round in 2022
Syenta specializes in the 3D printing of multi-material electronics, offering a streamlined fabrication method that reduces steps and minimizes waste. The company's technology allows customers to create and iterate on electronic devices in-house, including sensors, photovoltaics, batteries, printed circuit boards, and antennae. By leveraging electrochemistry, Syenta enables the design and construction of micro-fabricated and nano-fabricated electronics, empowering clients to develop their electronic solutions from virtually any location.

SafeStack

Seed Round in 2022
SafeStack is an online education platform that focuses on enhancing the security skills of software development teams. It provides training and consultation aimed at integrating security throughout the software development lifecycle, from the initial concept to the final product. The platform equips software developers, testers, analysts, and architects with the necessary skills to create secure and high-quality code efficiently. By emphasizing a community-centric approach, SafeStack supports organizations of all sizes in embedding security into their design processes, helping them achieve compliance and build reliable software from the ground up.

Josef

Seed Round in 2022
Josef is a legal platform founded in 2017 and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, that focuses on making legal services more accessible. It enables lawyers to automate their processes by creating and launching custom legal chatbots and services. The platform is utilized across various sectors of the legal industry, including commercial law firms, government agencies, and community legal centers, operating in regions such as the United States, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand. Josef features a document automation technology and an intuitive workflow builder, allowing legal professionals to manage high volumes of repetitive tasks efficiently. This enhances their ability to save time and scale their services, ultimately benefiting clients through improved access to legal support.

Clipboard

Venture Round in 2022
Clipboard is a provider of software specifically designed to manage extracurricular school activities through its Extracurricular Management System (EMS). This platform enhances communication, saves time, and increases accountability for schools by offering various services such as scheduling, timesheets, attendance tracking, team management, incident reporting, and staff information. By consolidating these functions into a single platform, Clipboard aims to improve the overall extracurricular experience for students, parents, and staff, facilitating more effective administration 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 property investment platform that simplifies the process of finding, purchasing, and managing investment properties. Utilizing proprietary AI algorithms, the platform streamlines due diligence and acquisition, making property investment more accessible and transparent. By focusing on clients' individual needs and investment strategies, PropHero aims to provide a data-driven approach that enhances the investment experience. The company's mission is to eliminate the complexities of real estate wealth management, enabling users to engage in property investment in a straightforward and efficient manner.

Biza.io

Series A in 2022
Biza.io, founded in 2017, is a technology company specializing in banking and compliance software tailored for the financial services industry. The firm aims to transform financial service delivery by promoting open banking and harnessing the potential of blockchain technology. Biza.io develops advanced testing and infrastructure tools that cater to the complex requirements of consumer data rights, providing Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. With expertise in open banking, data storage, and telecommunications, the company supports the financial and compliance sectors in adopting next-generation DevOps and blockchain-based compliance services.

Predelo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Predelo is a developer of a predictive automation platform designed to assist businesses in making informed decisions. The platform features AI-powered forecasting and optimization tools that facilitate adaptive forecasting and automated decision-making. With one-click integrations and a robust decision engine, Predelo aims to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction for its users.

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 property investment platform that simplifies the process of finding, purchasing, and managing investment properties. Utilizing proprietary AI algorithms, the platform streamlines due diligence and acquisition, making property investment more accessible and transparent. By focusing on clients' individual needs and investment strategies, PropHero aims to provide a data-driven approach that enhances the investment experience. The company's mission is to eliminate the complexities of real estate wealth management, enabling users to engage in property investment in a straightforward and efficient manner.

FloodMapp

Seed Round in 2022
FloodMapp is a company that specializes in predictive flood mapping technology through a suite of B2B SaaS products. The platform offers real-time web mapping services integrated with GIS systems to enhance situational awareness before, during, and after flooding events. By leveraging big data analytics, automation, and machine learning alongside advanced hydrology and hydraulic models, FloodMapp delivers large-scale and rapid flood modeling. Their disaster management platform also aggregates live rainfall and river height data, enabling flood inundation mapping that assists government agencies in providing timely warnings to disaster management boards, ultimately aimed at preventing flood damage and saving lives.

Amaka

Seed Round in 2021
Amaka is a software company based in Sydney, Australia, established in 2014. It specializes in providing an accounting platform designed for business owners, accountants, and bookkeepers, aiming to streamline and automate data entry processes. The platform effortlessly connects various systems that users rely on daily, enabling seamless synchronization of sales records and data extraction from point-of-sale systems. This integration allows users to receive their data in a preferred format, facilitating easy access to insights and helping them monitor key business metrics efficiently.

SafeStack

Seed Round in 2021
SafeStack is an online education platform that focuses on enhancing the security skills of software development teams. It provides training and consultation aimed at integrating security throughout the software development lifecycle, from the initial concept to the final product. The platform equips software developers, testers, analysts, and architects with the necessary skills to create secure and high-quality code efficiently. By emphasizing a community-centric approach, SafeStack supports organizations of all sizes in embedding security into their design processes, helping them achieve compliance and build reliable software from the ground up.

Quantum Brilliance

Seed Round in 2021
Quantum Brilliance specializes in the development of room-temperature quantum computers utilizing synthetic diamond technology. This innovative approach allows the creation of miniaturized and energy-efficient quantum systems that can be seamlessly integrated into everyday computing applications. By eliminating the need for cryogenics and complex infrastructure typical of other quantum technologies, Quantum Brilliance's solutions enable clients to harness the potential of quantum computing for a wide range of disruptive applications. The company's focus on room-temperature quantum accelerators positions it as a leader in making quantum computing more accessible and practical for various industries.

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 provides a solution that leverages low-code technology to streamline coding processes, allowing engineers to create enterprise-grade applications more quickly. By automating repetitive tasks, FL0 enables developers to concentrate on more significant aspects of their work, ultimately accelerating their operations. The platform generates, installs, and scales containers that execute various services, facilitating a robust infrastructure for backend engineering.

HowToo

Series A in 2021
HowToo is an innovative eLearning authoring tool designed to streamline the creation and delivery of professional training courses. The platform offers a vast library of templates, allowing users to easily copy and paste their content, incorporate quizzes, and launch courses in just minutes. By leveraging data, research, and analytics, HowToo empowers users to build effective learning experiences. The platform also adheres to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard, ensuring accessibility for all users. With its science-based design, HowToo facilitates the transformation of raw content into shareable digital courses, making it an essential resource for organizations looking to enhance their training programs.

Abyss

Venture Round in 2021
Abyss Solutions specializes in applying machine learning, computer vision, and robotics to the inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure worldwide. The company focuses on enhancing the safety and functionality of underwater assets, offering services such as automated corrosion inspection and remediation for oil platforms, subsea inspections, and condition monitoring of inshore assets and underground pipelines. By leveraging proprietary data capture technology, Abyss Solutions provides essential information to asset owners in various sectors, including offshore oil and gas, water, transport, maritime, and defense. Their work spans notable landmarks and infrastructures, from the Hoover Dam to the Sydney Opera House, ensuring that these vital structures remain operational and safe.

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 on-demand access to their salaries, allowing them to withdraw part of their pay before the traditional payday. By integrating with a company's payroll system, Wagetap adjusts payslips accordingly for any withdrawals made. This service enables employees to track their earnings and manage unexpected expenses, fostering financial flexibility. Wagetap serves as a valuable tool for businesses looking to recruit, retain, and engage their workforce effectively.

Clipboard

Seed Round in 2020
Clipboard is a provider of software specifically designed to manage extracurricular school activities through its Extracurricular Management System (EMS). This platform enhances communication, saves time, and increases accountability for schools by offering various services such as scheduling, timesheets, attendance tracking, team management, incident reporting, and staff information. By consolidating these functions into a single platform, Clipboard aims to improve the overall extracurricular experience for students, parents, and staff, facilitating more effective administration of school activities.

Diffuse Energy

Seed Round in 2020
Diffuse Energy specializes in renewable energy solutions, focusing on innovative small wind turbine technology designed to harness wind energy efficiently. The company's patented diffuser technology enhances airflow through turbine blades, significantly improving energy production capabilities. This technology can be integrated with existing renewable systems such as solar photovoltaic panels and battery storage, allowing businesses to generate their own clean energy. By facilitating the transition from diesel power generation to sustainable wind power, Diffuse Energy aims to provide clients with a reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly energy source.

Alauda Aeronautics

Seed Round in 2020
Alauda Aeronautics is a manufacturer of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, specializing in performance flying cars. The company is recognized for its role in establishing the world's first electric flying car racing series. Alauda designs both remotely piloted and manned flying vehicles equipped with advanced safety features, including a collision-avoidance system that utilizes radar and machine vision. This focus on innovation aims to provide clients with access to future mobility solutions 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 that specializes in predictive flood mapping technology through a suite of B2B SaaS products. The platform offers real-time web mapping services integrated with GIS systems to enhance situational awareness before, during, and after flooding events. By leveraging big data analytics, automation, and machine learning alongside advanced hydrology and hydraulic models, FloodMapp delivers large-scale and rapid flood modeling. Their disaster management platform also aggregates live rainfall and river height data, enabling flood inundation mapping that assists government agencies in providing timely warnings to disaster management boards, ultimately aimed at preventing flood damage and saving lives.

Style Arcade

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Style Arcade offers a comprehensive SaaS platform that enhances the product offerings of fashion brands through advanced fashion analytics and range planning software. As the fashion industry evolves, Style Arcade addresses the challenges faced by lean and remote teams by providing tools for workflow automation and real-time collaboration. The platform enables users to visualize historical, current, and future product ranges, facilitating an optimal balance between creativity and profitability. It answers critical questions related to product performance, assortment planning by various demographics, ideal size curves, investment strategies, budget tracking, and product options. By replacing traditional methods like Excel and generic business intelligence tools, Style Arcade empowers fashion businesses to operate with greater agility, accuracy, and efficiency, ultimately aligning their operations with the core asset of their products.

Josef

Seed Round in 2019
Josef is a legal platform founded in 2017 and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, that focuses on making legal services more accessible. It enables lawyers to automate their processes by creating and launching custom legal chatbots and services. The platform is utilized across various sectors of the legal industry, including commercial law firms, government agencies, and community legal centers, operating in regions such as the United States, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand. Josef features a document automation technology and an intuitive workflow builder, allowing legal professionals to manage high volumes of repetitive tasks efficiently. This enhances their ability to save time and scale their services, ultimately benefiting clients through improved access to legal support.

Whooshkaa

Venture Round in 2019
Whooshkaa is a podcast hosting platform designed to assist creators and marketers in producing, distributing, and monetizing audio content. The platform allows users to capture, edit, and host podcasts, providing tools for analytics and audience engagement. This enables creators to effectively commercialize their podcasts and allows brands to connect with their target audiences through on-demand audio content. By offering comprehensive services for podcast creation and management, Whooshkaa supports both individual creators and enterprises in leveraging the growing popularity of podcasts for marketing and monetization purposes.

Dotterel Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Dotterel Technologies Limited, based in Auckland, New Zealand, specializes in developing noise reduction and audio recording technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Founded in 2015, the company offers innovative solutions that include passive noise reduction and active noise filtering, making UAVs suitable for noise-sensitive applications in sectors such as agriculture, cinematography, entertainment, security, and defense. Dotterel's technology features lightweight propeller shrouds made from sound-absorbing materials, low-noise propellers, and a sophisticated array of microphones with advanced processing algorithms, allowing for real-time aerial audio recording. This capability expands the use of UAVs in various industries where noise has previously posed a challenge. Dotterel collaborates with prominent institutions, including the University of Auckland, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to further enhance its technological offerings.

Sinorbis

Seed Round in 2018
Sinorbis is a software company focused on assisting Western businesses in engaging with Asian consumers, particularly in China. It offers an integrated marketing platform that enables clients in Education, B2B, and Technology sectors to create, measure, and optimize their digital presence in the region. The platform simplifies the process of establishing a digital footprint by allowing companies to launch their online initiatives within weeks, thus bypassing typical administrative challenges. Sinorbis aims to reduce costs associated with digital marketing by providing tools to set up and manage campaigns at a significantly lower investment. Furthermore, the platform offers comprehensive insights into digital performance, enabling businesses to optimize their marketing strategies and benchmark against competitors effectively.

Inquisitive

Seed Round in 2018
Inquisitive is an online educational resource designed for teachers, parents, and students, offering a variety of learning programs. The company has developed an educational platform that focuses on interactive lessons tailored for primary school students. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Inquisitive's platform automatically generates customized teaching and learning programs, allowing educators and learners to engage in interactive and intuitive sessions. This approach aims to enhance the educational experience, making it accessible and effective for users.

Dotterel Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Dotterel Technologies Limited, based in Auckland, New Zealand, specializes in developing noise reduction and audio recording technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Founded in 2015, the company offers innovative solutions that include passive noise reduction and active noise filtering, making UAVs suitable for noise-sensitive applications in sectors such as agriculture, cinematography, entertainment, security, and defense. Dotterel's technology features lightweight propeller shrouds made from sound-absorbing materials, low-noise propellers, and a sophisticated array of microphones with advanced processing algorithms, allowing for real-time aerial audio recording. This capability expands the use of UAVs in various industries where noise has previously posed a challenge. Dotterel collaborates with prominent institutions, including the University of Auckland, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to further enhance its technological offerings.

Trade Ledger

Seed Round in 2017
Trade Ledger, founded in 2016, is a business lending platform that aims to enhance the efficiency of corporate lending. It supports various lending categories, including invoice funding, supply chain financing, and debtor financing. The platform is designed to automate commercial lending processes for banks and alternative finance providers, enabling them to streamline operations and accelerate growth. By offering features such as invoice lending and receivables management, Trade Ledger facilitates faster and more effective lending solutions for both bank and non-bank organizations.

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 specializes in providing a no-code platform for location-based augmented reality, targeting markets such as music festivals, large events, and city experiences. The company's technology helps users navigate large, crowded spaces by overlaying real-time information, such as queue times, onto their surroundings. This functionality creates opportunities for promotional marketing, allowing both big brands and local businesses to engage with consumers in an immersive manner while delivering valuable information to users. Additionally, tagSpace offers a custom content management system (CMS) equipped with comprehensive analytics to enhance user experience and marketing effectiveness. The company holds several international patents for its proprietary technology, further solidifying its position in the augmented reality landscape.

Black.ai

Black.ai is an Australian company established in 2017, specializing in the development of an automation platform and distributed perception stack aimed at enhancing autonomous decision-making and robotic service delivery in retail and industrial settings. The company focuses on large format retailers, offering solutions that help prevent theft and boost revenue through real-time decision-making and improved staff responses. Its platform employs artificial intelligence to map stores in real-time using multi-dimensional sensors, enabling the observation and analysis of human behavior and movement within retail environments. This technology facilitates the detection of interactions and significant events, allowing store owners to manage inventory more effectively and minimize losses.
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