Rampersand

Rampersand is a Melbourne-based venture capital firm established in 2013, specializing in early-stage investments, primarily targeting late seed to Series A financing. The firm invests in a broad range of sectors, including enterprise software, technology, fintech, mobile, blockchain, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, augmented reality, logistics, and transportation. Rampersand focuses on supporting Australian technology founders and companies, with a commitment to nurturing their growth into significant national and global players. The firm typically invests between $0.15 million and $3 million in startups based in Australia, New Zealand, Silicon Valley, Israel, Europe, and Asia. With a strong track record of working with successful startups, Rampersand emphasizes that companies require more than just capital for success, leveraging its experience to guide investments toward achieving substantial exits.

Martin Casey

Partner

Jim Cassidy

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Scott Dommett

Associate

Abhishek Maran

Investment Associate

Taryn Pieterse

Investment Principal

33 past transactions

JigSpace

Series A in 2023
We learn better in 3D, but until now doing so has been expensive and inaccessible. Our mission is to create a world where knowledge can be shared in the best possible way, with simple, useful, and delightful tools. Since launching, millions of people have used the free JigSpace app to discover the world and share ideas. From jet turbines, to spaceships, to coral reefs, these 3D presentations, or ‘Jigs’ empower the user to explore at their own pace, in 3D or augmented reality. Jig Workshop enables anyone to create and share Jigs, like Canva or PowerPoint for 3D. Popular use cases include product marketing and sales training, manufacturing prototyping, education and technical support in industries like manufacturing and engineering. Jig Workshop is used by large companies like Medtronic and Hino Trucks for its collaborative features and organization-wide scalability. Niche manufacturers like Swoop Aero (drones) or Triangle Waterquip (filtration) cite its ease of use for non-technical users to quickly share 3D presentations. Businesses use Jig Workshop to demonstrate and develop 3D products with live multiplayer interaction from customers, remote colleagues, or stakeholders.

mx51

Series B in 2022
mx51 partners with acquirers and payment providers to deliver exceptional merchant experiences. mx51's bank-grade payments as a service platform and scalable cloud-based technology seamlessly connects the world of commerce into payments. mx51 was established in 2016 in Sydney, New South Wales by Magnus Hsu.

Cake

Seed Round in 2022
Equity should be a piece of cake. We’re on a mission to simplify companies issuing and transferring shares, options and notes, and keeping your owners sweet. Started in Australia, we now help startups in Singapore, US, UK, India, UAE, New Zealand and growing fast!

Muso

Seed Round in 2021
Muso is a live-entertainment start-up born in Melbourne and now operating Australia-wide. We help venues create better live entertainment experiences and help artists find more gigs to create more revenue opportunities. We leverage technology to make things more efficient, fair and transparent to ultimately make live music more accessible to more people. Eventually we hope that every venue will be a live music venue but until then we’ll work on changing one at a time.

Functionly

Seed Round in 2021
Goodbye traditional org charts and Hello, intelligent organizations. Build lasting operational resilience through any economic climate with Functionly's intelligent org design tools. Visit www.functionly.com for a 22 day free trial.

JigSpace

Series A in 2021
We learn better in 3D, but until now doing so has been expensive and inaccessible. Our mission is to create a world where knowledge can be shared in the best possible way, with simple, useful, and delightful tools. Since launching, millions of people have used the free JigSpace app to discover the world and share ideas. From jet turbines, to spaceships, to coral reefs, these 3D presentations, or ‘Jigs’ empower the user to explore at their own pace, in 3D or augmented reality. Jig Workshop enables anyone to create and share Jigs, like Canva or PowerPoint for 3D. Popular use cases include product marketing and sales training, manufacturing prototyping, education and technical support in industries like manufacturing and engineering. Jig Workshop is used by large companies like Medtronic and Hino Trucks for its collaborative features and organization-wide scalability. Niche manufacturers like Swoop Aero (drones) or Triangle Waterquip (filtration) cite its ease of use for non-technical users to quickly share 3D presentations. Businesses use Jig Workshop to demonstrate and develop 3D products with live multiplayer interaction from customers, remote colleagues, or stakeholders.

JigSpace

Seed Round in 2020
We learn better in 3D, but until now doing so has been expensive and inaccessible. Our mission is to create a world where knowledge can be shared in the best possible way, with simple, useful, and delightful tools. Since launching, millions of people have used the free JigSpace app to discover the world and share ideas. From jet turbines, to spaceships, to coral reefs, these 3D presentations, or ‘Jigs’ empower the user to explore at their own pace, in 3D or augmented reality. Jig Workshop enables anyone to create and share Jigs, like Canva or PowerPoint for 3D. Popular use cases include product marketing and sales training, manufacturing prototyping, education and technical support in industries like manufacturing and engineering. Jig Workshop is used by large companies like Medtronic and Hino Trucks for its collaborative features and organization-wide scalability. Niche manufacturers like Swoop Aero (drones) or Triangle Waterquip (filtration) cite its ease of use for non-technical users to quickly share 3D presentations. Businesses use Jig Workshop to demonstrate and develop 3D products with live multiplayer interaction from customers, remote colleagues, or stakeholders.

Expert360

Venture Round in 2020
Expert360 is APAC’s marketplace and management platform powering the freelance economy. The platform enables top freelance consultants, contractors and experts to easily connect with APAC’s largest businesses to perform high quality, project orientated work. Expert360’s platform allows enterprise to respond quickly to the resource demands of the business while streamlining the source-to-pay freelance management life cycle at scale.

PredictHQ

Series B in 2020
Smarter demand forecasting models at scale start here. Discover what causes your anomalies with PredictHQ's API. Our systems aggregate and verify millions of demand causal factors and ranks them by predicted impact so your team makes better decisions faster. Our demand intelligence is used by some of the smartest companies all over the world including Uber, Booking.com, Alexa, Accenture, Domino’s and many more to build more accurate forecasts, intelligent products and operational strategies. Customers are using our API for: - Demand forecasting model improvement - Dynamic pricing optimization - Workforce optimization - Inventory management improvements - Predictive analyitcs - Data centralization strategies

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.

PredictHQ

Series A in 2018
Smarter demand forecasting models at scale start here. Discover what causes your anomalies with PredictHQ's API. Our systems aggregate and verify millions of demand causal factors and ranks them by predicted impact so your team makes better decisions faster. Our demand intelligence is used by some of the smartest companies all over the world including Uber, Booking.com, Alexa, Accenture, Domino’s and many more to build more accurate forecasts, intelligent products and operational strategies. Customers are using our API for: - Demand forecasting model improvement - Dynamic pricing optimization - Workforce optimization - Inventory management improvements - Predictive analyitcs - Data centralization strategies

AmazingCo

Seed Round in 2018
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.

Cog

Series A in 2017
We Secure IoT. Cog Systems has been preparing for the revolution in connected device architecture since 2014. We couple the same techniques of modularity used in cloud computing with the fundamentals of security, trustworthiness, robustness and adaptability to enable highly secure connected devices. Cog Systems leverages our D4 Secure Platform to isolate critical functions and services on IoT. This approach pro-actively secures these devices by reducing the attack surface and also increases reliability by eliminating single points of failure. Cog Systems embeds additional security features of double encryption, non-bypassable VPNs, nested VPNs, and secure boot to protect both data at rest and data in transit. The system can scale linearly and infinitely, thus reducing bottlenecks and preserving performance. All of this is available for the IoT commercial market with the flexibility to run any and all applications effectively and securely. This unique approach provides the assurance of defense grade security so our customers can focus on delivering best-in-class applications, performance and usability. Cog Systems, based in Sydney, Australia, leads the industry in secure connected device implementations with 30+ deployments across world governments, defense organizations and corporate enterprises.

Mentorloop

Seed Round in 2017
Mentorloop connects mentors with mentees via a simple, interactive and affordable online platform.Whether they formally acknowledge it or not, most of us have had a mentor in their lives. As technology develops the need for a mentor in a modern day format is increasingly important. Mentoring helps people work smarter, develops key talent, and aids succession planning. That’s why over 70% of Fortune 500 companies now offer mentoring to their people.The global vision of Mentorloop is to “make mentoring mainstream” so that anyone who wants a mentor, can connect with one, anytime, anywhere.

Spaceship

Series A in 2017
Spaceship is a FinTech company that provides a web-based financial investing platform to offer a diversified portfolio of investments. It allows users to invest their money by creating long-term investment goals, tracking their progress, balances, unit prices, and returns from one account, and diversifying their investments. It helps individuals to invest in various portfolios, access US stocks and ETFs, and manage superannuation funds with competitive performance and no minimum investment requirement.

Expert360

Series B in 2017
Expert360 is APAC’s marketplace and management platform powering the freelance economy. The platform enables top freelance consultants, contractors and experts to easily connect with APAC’s largest businesses to perform high quality, project orientated work. Expert360’s platform allows enterprise to respond quickly to the resource demands of the business while streamlining the source-to-pay freelance management life cycle at scale.

Sapia

Series A in 2017
Sapia is a team of data scientists, artificial intelligence experts, IO psychologists and recruitment industry veterans who’ve joined together on a mission to change the way candidate assessment is done, by leveraging the power of smart technology. We believe all people decisions should be based on data and analytics – not gut feeling. With the help of technology, we want to level the candidate playing field and help reduce unconscious biases in the hiring process. Offices in the US, UK and Australia.

PredictHQ

Seed Round in 2016
Smarter demand forecasting models at scale start here. Discover what causes your anomalies with PredictHQ's API. Our systems aggregate and verify millions of demand causal factors and ranks them by predicted impact so your team makes better decisions faster. Our demand intelligence is used by some of the smartest companies all over the world including Uber, Booking.com, Alexa, Accenture, Domino’s and many more to build more accurate forecasts, intelligent products and operational strategies. Customers are using our API for: - Demand forecasting model improvement - Dynamic pricing optimization - Workforce optimization - Inventory management improvements - Predictive analyitcs - Data centralization strategies

Sapia

Series A in 2016
Sapia is a team of data scientists, artificial intelligence experts, IO psychologists and recruitment industry veterans who’ve joined together on a mission to change the way candidate assessment is done, by leveraging the power of smart technology. We believe all people decisions should be based on data and analytics – not gut feeling. With the help of technology, we want to level the candidate playing field and help reduce unconscious biases in the hiring process. Offices in the US, UK and Australia.

Assembly Payments

Series A in 2016
Assembly Payments is a financial technology company that provides payment solutions that enable marketplaces, platforms, and banks to create online payment experiences without limitations.

Stackla

Series A in 2016
Stackla is a social content marketing platform that puts user-generated content at the heart of brand marketing. With an AI-powered user-generated content (UGC) platform and asset manager, Stackla sits at the core of the marketing stack, actively discovering and recommending the best visual content from across the social web, as well as internal and external resources, to fuel personalized content experiences at scale. More than 500 global brands, agencies, media companies, and nonprofits use Stackla to curate and publish the best content from across the social web. Founded in 2012, Stackla has offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, and London.

Expert360

Series A in 2015
Expert360 is APAC’s marketplace and management platform powering the freelance economy. The platform enables top freelance consultants, contractors and experts to easily connect with APAC’s largest businesses to perform high quality, project orientated work. Expert360’s platform allows enterprise to respond quickly to the resource demands of the business while streamlining the source-to-pay freelance management life cycle at scale.

Assembly Payments

Venture Round in 2015
Assembly Payments is a financial technology company that provides payment solutions that enable marketplaces, platforms, and banks to create online payment experiences without limitations.

Tzukuri

Seed Round in 2015
Tzukuri designs and develops wearable technology products. It offers sunglasses that integrate with an iPhone app, which alerts users if they leave their sunglasses behind somewhere, and shows where they left them. The app also recognizes when users leave iPhones behind and rings extra loudly to alert them. Tzukuri was co-founded by Allen Liao, Michael Sutton, and Will Cannings in 2013 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Tiger Pistol

Series A in 2014
Tiger Pistol, the most award-winning collaborative advertising platform, makes high performance social advertising simple and scalable for clients and their partners, removing the barriers to customer acquisition, sales growth, and partner loyalty. Tiger Pistol's Collaborative Advertising Platform™ utilizes advanced technology and automation to unite enterprise brands, resellers, and agencies with their partners to acquire and engage new customers within their local communities. A Meta (formerly Facebook) Business Partner, Tiger Pistol is the largest third-party publisher of collaborative social ads in the world, supporting clients in 22 global markets with more than 500,000 campaigns published annually.

Indice Semiconductor

Series A in 2014
Indice is a fabless semiconductor company which has made it its mission to think outside the box, with a focus on producing efficient, powerful signal and power conversion for lighting, audio, ADC/DAC and other applications. Our solutions are developed around patented technology which enables many benefits over traditional power control schemes including active temperature management, active power management, high performance and high power density, typically reducing the required PCB size. Our LED product portfolio includes dimmable LED driver IC’s for MR16 (12VAC) and mains voltage (110VAC & 240VAC) solutions, driver boards and reference designs for turnkey manufacture. Indice LED driver IC’s are at the heart of each LED driver reference design we develop. Our flexible product offerings for MR16 and mains voltage LED drivers enable rapid time-to-market for customers wanting to develop their own LED product no matter what level of in-house expertise they have. Indice reference designs come in a variety of form factors to suit an array of lamp sizes and shapes.

Stackla

Seed Round in 2014
Stackla is a social content marketing platform that puts user-generated content at the heart of brand marketing. With an AI-powered user-generated content (UGC) platform and asset manager, Stackla sits at the core of the marketing stack, actively discovering and recommending the best visual content from across the social web, as well as internal and external resources, to fuel personalized content experiences at scale. More than 500 global brands, agencies, media companies, and nonprofits use Stackla to curate and publish the best content from across the social web. Founded in 2012, Stackla has offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, and London.

Skedulo

Seed Round in 2014
Skedulo is the platform for intelligent mobile workforce management. The company's solution helps enterprises intelligently manage, schedule, dispatch, and track resources in the field. With native solutions that integrate seamlessly to Salesforce and ServiceNow, and its independent platform that connects to any system of record, Skedulo offers enterprises and mid-market companies a mobile workforce management product that complements any tech stack. Founded in 2013, headquartered in San Francisco and with offices in North America, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom, Skedulo has enabled over 150 companies to seamlessly schedule and service more than 5 million appointments all around the globe.

School Places

Seed Round in 2014
School Places is a unique online marketplace that matches private school vacancies with parents evaluating their child’s schooling options a year or two in advance. By partnering with private schools, the site helps maximise the school’s revenue through the dynamic pricing of each and every vacancy, incentivising parents to take up places that would otherwise remain empty. School Places helps parents enrol their children into Australia’s leading private schools at a discounted rate. Schools list their vacant places with full flexibility over the discount they set and the number of years the discount will apply. Parents can easily search for and claim a place at a private school that best suits their child’s needs. School Places is truly a win/win/win for all parties involved: Schools maximise their revenue, incumbent parents share the benefits of a better funded school – better facilities, less pressure on future fee increases, and incoming parents can enrol their children in their desired school at a reduced rate.

Tiger Pistol

Seed Round in 2013
Tiger Pistol, the most award-winning collaborative advertising platform, makes high performance social advertising simple and scalable for clients and their partners, removing the barriers to customer acquisition, sales growth, and partner loyalty. Tiger Pistol's Collaborative Advertising Platform™ utilizes advanced technology and automation to unite enterprise brands, resellers, and agencies with their partners to acquire and engage new customers within their local communities. A Meta (formerly Facebook) Business Partner, Tiger Pistol is the largest third-party publisher of collaborative social ads in the world, supporting clients in 22 global markets with more than 500,000 campaigns published annually.
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