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1835i Ventures

55 Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia

Overview

1835i Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of ANZ Bank. It speciali8zes in the fields of banking, finance, and financial services. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.

Total investments
7
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Banking
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
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Investment portfolio

  • DataMesh

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2023

    DataMesh builds and markets a proprietary payments platform called “Unify” that lets merchants manage in-store, online, and in-app payments from one interface. The system is positioned as low-cost yet high-performance, enabling rapid communication between banks and merchants. Beyond core acceptance, the company offers modular tools that let clients tailor additional payment capabilities to their particular needs. This unified approach is designed to streamline payment operations, lower processing costs, and improve transaction speed. The firm targets enterprise merchants looking to consolidate multiple payment channels into a single infrastructure. DataMesh’s technology stack also emphasizes flexibility, allowing banks and partners to integrate quickly. Its recent Series A financing provides fresh capital to scale product development and expand market reach.

  • Airwallex

    Participated · Series E · Oct 2022

    Airwallex offers an AI-native financial operating system and a suite of regulated financial infrastructure products, including payment acceptance, billing, global accounts, corporate cards, and spend management. The company holds 85+ licenses across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific and serves more than 676,000 businesses worldwide, directly or through platform partners. Airwallex reported $1.3 billion in annualized revenue and $287 billion in annualized transaction volume as of March 2026, with more than 90% of revenue coming from customers using multiple products. It is rolling out two new initiatives—T:0, an end-to-end AI-native finance platform currently in private beta, and Airi, a consumer wallet and agentic commerce infrastructure. The company plans to use recent funding to accelerate product development, expand its regulatory and infrastructure footprint, and scale teams to build next-generation AI-native financial software. Airwallex was founded in Melbourne in 2015 and is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with over 2,300 employees across 27 offices.

  • Valiant

    Participated · Series B · Oct 2019

    Valiant Finance is an Australian business loan marketplace and comparison engine that connects business owners to over 75 online SME loan providers. The platform partners with banks and broker networks including Westpac, Connective and Yellow Brick Road Group and offers a streamlined application process from inquiry to settlement. Valiant intelligently selects the best lending option for customers and builds a unique digital application for that product in real time, even when the end lender has limited digital capability. The company plans to use the $12.5 million Series B to accelerate its product roadmap, expand partnerships, and broaden its SME product offerings, including point-of-sale finance for equipment dealerships. Valiant is also developing collaboration and machine-learning features for accountants and point-of-sale vendors. The funding is intended to strengthen Valiant's position in small-business lending and support future institutional partnerships. Valiant Finance is an online SME lending marketplace that matches small businesses with lending partners through an algorithm and emphasizes "unprecedented transparency." The platform officially launched in November last year and has since partnered with 26 lenders. The company intends to use its marketplace to put business loan options in front of more Australian small businesses. Valiant closed an $800,000 seed funding round to support that expansion. The round was led by Westpac's VC fund Reinventure and supported by H2 Ventures and several angel investors. Co-founder Alex Molloy said he cast a wide net for funding and chose Reinventure as the lead.

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