Rampersand is the first investor for Aus/NZ early-stage startup founders with abnormal potential. Since 2013/14, we have been active seed investors in Australia and New Zealand, writing the first cheques for companies like Goterra, JigSpace, and Expert360. We invest thoughtfully and with high conviction to help startups ramp through the early stages and beyond. We have invested AUD$100 million in 34 companies and returned millions to our investors. Across our portfolios, companies have increased in value by 800% on average and raised more than AUD$500 million from investors such as Lightspeed, SutterHill and Acrew. We’ve been involved in startups and tech for decades and have been actively investing for ten years. We’re a dedicated seed fund with $100m invested, a portfolio value of $1B+, and 50+ founders across 30+ startups. We’ve returned millions to our investors. We embrace uncertainty, move fast, experiment and grow. While the industry has grown immensely since we started backing founders, our mission remains unchanged. We back the founders who back themselves to change the world.
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🙌 Jig is a finalist in the Apple App Store Awards. Congratulations to the team at JigSpace! 2024 has indeed been a BIG one and we love to see it.
Excited to share that Jig is a finalist in the Apple App Store Awards! 2024 has been an huge year, not just for JigSpace but for spatial computing in general. And to think this era has only just begun ✨ Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g6rAdXew #AppStoreAwards #AppleVisionPro #AugmentedReality
Restoke.ai is one of the most effective weapons Australian restaurants and cafes have as they battle rising costs and dwindling customer spending. Listen to Restoke founders Assaf Stizki and Ken Brand on The Unicorns Podcast below 👇 👇 👇
I had the pleasure of interviewing the co-founders of Restoke.ai for the latest episode of The Unicorns Podcast. Assaf Stizki and Ken Brand have created an incredible tech product that is taking the hospitality industry by storm, all over the world. Remember the name - Restoke.ai https://lnkd.in/gJZZ-fdY
📣 MELBOURNE EVENT - Tuesday 3rd December We have loved partnering with Cremorne Digital Hub on several fantastic events for the local #startup ecosystem this year! The CDH team are closing the year with a reflective event, unpacking some of the biggest wins and lessons VCs experienced in 2024. The Panelists: - Rachael Neumann - Founding Partner at Flying Fox Ventures - Hugh Stephens - VC partner at Galileo Ventures - Alexandra Clunies-Ross - Partner at Artesian (Alternative Investments) We'll be in the room for chats and to soak up the perspectives and experiences of the night. See you there! https://lnkd.in/g8zDBFQb
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Excited to share that Jig is a finalist in the Apple App Store Awards! 2024 has been an huge year, not just for JigSpace but for spatial computing in general. And to think this era has only just begun ✨ Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g6rAdXew #AppStoreAwards #AppleVisionPro #AugmentedReality
Just our Investment Associate Scott Dommett being a straight-up legend at the recent Startup&Angels event 🤩
🚀 Wow time really flies by .. can you believe that our Melbourne event was already 2 weeks ago ?!!? Anyways, here is a small clip of Scott Dommett (from Rampersand), one of the investors on the panel that night, explaining how startups in Australia get noticed by investors ! 🔥 Stay tuned for more startup tips & join our online Community if you're part of the startup ecosystem : https://lnkd.in/eeJyFDHg Leo Denes Pooja Nair Romane Delvallee Celine W. Taoufik ELMANAJI Enora Bouget Liliane Ndour Reza Khosravi Mathilde Marriat Eleonore Zumbiehl
ARCHERY ATTACK 🎯 Yesterday, our team converged in the sunny backstreets of Reservoir, Melbourne (Rezza if you're a local) to work on their collaboration, communication, teamwork and dynamism. AKA, we shot the crap out of each other in a completely safe and super fun environment facilitated by Archery Attack Huge thanks to AmazingCo for setting up this incredible end-of-year activity. It's AMAZING what you can book on their platform; check it out: https://lnkd.in/gGvEvkaS Abhishek Maran Andrew Poesaste Chanie Hyde Paul Naphtali Rod Hamilton Scott Dommett Sunday Berry Taryn Pieterse Varad Chaudhari
Matrak kicking serious supply-chain goals with supply-chain & carbon data from 30L manufacturers in China 👇 👇 👇
Today, we're thrilled to announce: Live production, supply-chain + carbon data from 30,000 manufacturers in China is available on Matrak , thanks to our new partnership with CBME. 🎉Massive thanks to Marion Rae at the Australian Associated Press (AAP) for her exclusive article today about the announcement 🎉 - check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gSaV-2u6 🕵️♀️ Below is our inside take of what this means, how it came about, and how your company can take advantage of this new level of transparency.
Not sure which AI tools are right (or useful) for your company? Check out this handy #AI buyers guide from the team at Sapia.ai 👀
Be a leader Learn first and fast Take your team on the learning journey Our AI buyers guide helps you do that Download here https://lnkd.in/dwAGmPkC #aiforgood #learningisagency
100 days following a personal AI overlord designed to make Lucas Rizzotto happy. Essential and very wholesome viewing for a Friday commute we reckon! (also, that production value is 👌)
Day 13 out of 100 wearing A.I. glasses designed to help you find happiness. Welcome to this challenge's biggest mystery yet. Unprompted and out of the blue, my A.I. told me to move to Lithuania - and so I made my way to the small, Northern European country. If you’re new here, here's quick recap: I’m spending 100 days wearing custom A.I. glasses designed to help me find happiness. I took the open-source Frame Glasses by Brilliant Labs & created an A.I. that knows everything about my life. It records my actions through an integrated camera, extrapolates my habits over time & uses its knowledge of my life to give me daily orders designed to maximize long term happiness. It's basically a personal A.I. overlord designed to make me happy. So why did it tell me to go to Lithuania? I'm not sure. But I'm excited (and terrified) to find out. (If I don't discover it organically in a few days, I might just look at some of the logs). The real question now is how do I get back home. It's really cold here and I'm not sure I can last an entire winter here. The internet speed is actually great, though. #artificialintelligence #innovation #coding #tech #technology #hacker #smartglasses #brilliantlabs #augmentedreality #arglasses #ai #transhumanism #futurism #metaorion #orion
🔗 Online event! The State Of The Australian VC Market Heading Into 2025 by Standard Ledger. It’s been a tough couple of years in the startup funding market, with funding drying up, bridge, flat, and down rounds. On the startup side, there’s been lots of work to extend runways, usually at the cost of slowing growth and job losses. With all the necessary cutbacks in growth, how will this be viewed by investors who are always looking for metrics up and to the right? Let's find out! Register for this essential near-year-end panel event and hear directly from the funders, including speakers from Aussie Angels, Tractor Ventures, Five V Capital, and our investment associate Abhishek Maran from Rampersand. https://lnkd.in/gZ4qRBw5
🇦🇺 Join us along with our expert panelists from Aussie Angels, Tractor Ventures, Rampersand, and Five V Capital as we share insights into market trends, what to expect investors to look for in the year ahead, a summary of the 'Cut Through Venture Report' and more! 💵 🚀 Don't miss out! Tickets are on sale now! #StartupFunding #VentureCapital #AusVC #RaiseCapital
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