Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Bower provides an operating stack for scientists that uses ambient intelligence and integrations with smart glasses and wearables to capture voice, video, images, readings, and workflows and convert them into structured, searchable knowledge. The product acts as an ambient scribe that documents experiments, marks results and workflows, and can guide researchers through checklists and protocols at the bench. The founding team combines product and AI leadership (Michelle MacRae), engineering and knowledge-graph experience (David Lyon), startup scaling experience (James Boysons), and long-standing research domain expertise (Renaud Joannes-Boyau). Bower reports early pilot customers and design partners including Mount Sinai, Southern Cross University, and Mass Affinity Bloodless Diagnostics. The company raised $2M in a Pre-Seed round to deepen work with design partners and early beta users and to prepare to scale in the coming year.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Sophiie AI offers an AI-native operating platform that automates the administrative workflows of high-volume trades and service businesses, handling customer enquiries, qualification, booking, scheduling, job coordination, quotes, follow-ups and invoicing across phone and digital channels. The company evolved from an AI receptionist to a broader operating layer designed to run workflows continuously alongside owners, office teams and tradies in the field. Founders Jacob Banks, Luke Kelleher and Juan Castro built Sophiie after observing large operational inefficiencies in trades markets. Sophiie reports serving thousands of businesses across Australia, New Zealand and the U.K., and growing roughly 10–15% month-on-month. The company plans to use recent seed funding to accelerate product development, grow its team and expand its presence in existing markets before entering the U.S. later in the year. No revenue figures or prior funding rounds were disclosed in the articles.

Led · Seed · Jun 2026

Ovum operates an AI-powered women’s health platform that captures both qualitative and quantitative health information to create longitudinal records of users’ clinical context. The company reports it has collected more than 60,000 health insights and facilitated over 113,000 AI health conversations, with users aged 15–84 tracking conditions from migraines and ADHD to PCOS, endometriosis and menopause. Ovum generates revenue through subscriptions and enterprise partnerships and has signed pilots and partnerships with organisations including Medibank, Fernwood Fitness, Sweat, Menopause Friendly Australia and Australian Red Cross Lifeblood. The startup has launched clinical trials with St George Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Women to assess AI as a preventative health tool for women. Ovum says 83% of its users have opted in to share anonymised data for research, and the company emphasises it will never sell user data and will only use data with explicit consent. Founded by Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks in 2022, Ovum is positioning its dataset as a commercial research asset while stressing privacy, consent and clinical integrity.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Smart AI Connect develops SuppliAssure, a platform that provides continuous assurance of supplier security posture using live control signals and API-driven evidence rather than point-in-time assessments. The platform targets regulated sectors, notably financial services and superannuation, and is moving toward live deployment across Australian superannuation funds. The company advanced through Fusion Venture Labs' 12-week Cyber Security Lab, partnering with institutions such as Insignia Financial and supported by Queensland Investment Corporation to validate its solution in real-world settings. Smart AI Connect presented to the Australian Superannuation Cyber Security Forum and is engaging multiple institutions for pilot deployments and broader sector rollout. The recent oversubscribed $1 million seed round, backed by UniQuest Extension Fund, Admiralty Capital Group, Torus Capital and Pipeline Capital, is intended to support commercialisation and deployment activities.