About
Side Stage Ventures is a founder-led venture capital fund that backs the top 1% of founders in Australia at the earliest stage.
We write small cheques to the best early-stage companies. Then we lean in to help the founders build & scale.
We are a team of founders who have backed and built two Australian unicorns, raised over $200M from some of the best VCs in the world, been acquired by Apple, bootstrapped to $20M + revenue, and built Australia’s first dedicated revenue-based startup investment fund.
We started investing together, as a syndicate, alongside a community of 100+ founders and operators and now we’re building the seed fund that we wish we had when we were starting out.
Investment criteria
Pre-seed
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Seed
Invests
Series A
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Series B
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Growth
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- Sectors
- SaaS & SoftwareVenture Capital & Private Equity
- Geographies
- Australia
- Round role
- Leads and co-leads rounds
Highlights
Highlights coming soon
Notable work and milestones will show up here.

