Sydney Seed Fund

Our Little Foxes is building a global community of creatively intelligent kids. Creativity is listed as the number one leadership competency for the future, yet it is a skill that decreases in our kids if it isn't nurtured. Our Little Foxes delivers creativity kits to families to help inspire the creativity in their children, while connecting families from around the world through a shared creative experience.

CohortiQ delivers health analytics enabling more people to spend less time in hospital. Our machine learning insights allow you to baseline and monitor your healthcare initiatives to ensure you provide great care and maximise value. cohortiQ can automatically identify cohorts that contain both target and control patients. This allows you to measure and compare the efficacy of almost any health initiative. We do this with connected, patient-centric data and recent innovations in machine learning.

CompeteShark's goal is to make it easier to help your business succeed and “stand out” in a noisy world. They do this by helping you benchmark your web efforts in an increasingly data-driven world. After building and helping others build successful digital businesses for many years, they realized the best in the businesses win and innovate by constantly experimenting, learning, and being obsessed with customer experience.

Opus Medical was founded in 2014 to design, manufacture, and market healthcare innovations developed after 15 years of research at Stanford University and the University of Sydney. The Opus team is diverse and collaborative. They enjoy working together and understand that by doing so they can move mountains. They are an eclectic mix of nationalities, ages and backgrounds but between us they have the expertise and experience required across a broad range of areas including research, design, production, sales and management. Opus HQ is based in the Cicada Innovations incubator in Sydney and all of their devices are Australian made. Opus is registered with FDA, TGA and CE and their products are approved for clinical use in USA, Europe and Australia.

Create the perfect proposal, pitch, sales quote and more. Every Qwilr page you send has outstanding visual polish, together with intelligent tracking, automation and analytics. Launched in 20154 Qwilr has customers in over 60 markets around the world and has raised over AUD$12M in funding to date. It is backed by Point Nine Capital, Airtree Ventures, Right Click Capital, Macdoch Ventures and Typeform founder Robert Muñoz.

Create the perfect proposal, pitch, sales quote and more. Every Qwilr page you send has outstanding visual polish, together with intelligent tracking, automation and analytics. Launched in 20154 Qwilr has customers in over 60 markets around the world and has raised over AUD$12M in funding to date. It is backed by Point Nine Capital, Airtree Ventures, Right Click Capital, Macdoch Ventures and Typeform founder Robert Muñoz.

TrademarkVision was founded in 2011 as a computer vision spinout from a research organisation in Australia. In 2013 they released the world’s first visual search engine for trademarks which immediately picked up commercial traction. For any company trying to build a brand around their new logo, they know that ensuring their logo is protectable as a trademark (and infringement free) globally can be a time-consuming and costly process. TrademarkVision’s reverse image search technology cuts this process down to seconds while giving accurate global coverage. Their first-to-the-world technology has the potential to not only improve brand owner’s lives, but completely change the game of brand protection. TrademarkVision is now used by trademark attorneys, brand owners and IP offices worldwide and has set a new industry standard. TrademarkVision was recognized in 2017 in the Top 10 Most Innovative AI/Machine Learning companies in the world by FastCompany, and in the Top 8 Companies Changing How Machine Learning Is Used by Entreprenur.com. They’re passionate about what they’ve created, but it’s only the start. They believe in continual research and everything they do is a step towards being the leader in image recognition, with recent launches of 3D designs search, automatic image classification, and a deep-learning based Brand API.

RateUs is an online rating system that monitors customer happiness and channels real-time actionable feedback. By using RateUs, a business can understand what its customers really think. RateUs delivers a business three powerful capabilities: 1. Capture Feedback Collect both quantitative ratings and qualitative feedback in an unintrusive manner at a time that is convenient for your customer. 2. Measure and Monitor The RateUs system allows you to monitor the pulse of your customer happiness at any given point in time at a company, team and individual level. 3. Change behaviour By bringing a level of real-time awareness to your customer facing staff about their individual performance, they are empowered to monitor and change their own behavior and embrace a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.