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.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Nitrosend offers an AI-powered martech platform that enables businesses to generate email campaigns, automated workflows, and customer segments via simple text prompts rather than traditional template editors. The startup uses generative AI to write, design, and send email content for small and mid-sized businesses. Nitrosend launched recently and plans to scale its platform and operations with the proceeds of its seed round. The company was founded in 2026 by siblings Edward and George Hartley and founding team member Kam Low. Financially, Nitrosend has raised $700,000 in Seed funding led by Eastend Ventures Fund 1 with participation from Archangel Ventures and Aussie Angels. The company lists its website as https://nitrosend.com.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Founded in 2023 by Swinburne engineering graduates Finnlay Morcombe and Oliver Farnill, Fluency offers a work intelligence platform that observes how tasks are performed across an organisation and uses AI to convert this activity into step-by-step guides, SOPs, annotated screenshots, and visual workflow maps. The product operates agent-style and does not require direct integrations, instead monitoring activity across common workplace applications such as Salesforce and Excel. By delivering a clear operational baseline, Fluency helps enterprises decide where to deploy AI and automation for maximum ROI, effectively replacing manual documentation work traditionally done by management consultants. Early customers include insurance giant AON, fashion conglomerate PVH Corp, and education publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The company has raised a total of US$7.5 million to date and is currently valued at about US$30 million. Proceeds from the latest financing will be used to grow the engineering team and accelerate international expansion.

Led · Seed · Dec 2025

Hachiko is a Sydney-based startup building a software platform that optimises and manages industrial battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolios. Tailored for commercial and industrial batteries, the solution coordinates dispatch across multiple energy markets, reportedly doubling portfolio viability and unlocking greater than 75% revenue uplift for asset owners. Founder and CEO Rakhesh Martyn draws on experience delivering roughly 4 GW of utility-scale batteries since 2017, positioning the product as a critical layer for the 120 GW of new storage forecast for the coming decade. Falling battery capex—down about 85% in the last ten years—has accelerated distributed battery deployment, and Hachiko aims to match this pace with advanced analytics, flexibility, and control. Early customers have validated the platform’s value, helping attract top-tier climate and energy investors. With fresh capital, the company will grow its technical and go-to-market teams while deepening and broadening product capabilities to serve a rapidly expanding customer base.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2025

Founded in 2021 by trauma surgeon Dr. Tom Kelly and technologist Waleed Mussa, Heidi Health offers an AI medical scribe that transcribes and dictates notes, creates personalized patient summaries, and tracks follow-up tasks so physicians can focus on care. The platform is model-agnostic, combining the company’s proprietary models with large models such as Gemini to optimize accuracy, latency and cost. Since launching products in early 2024, Heidi Health says it has returned more than 18 million clinical hours across 70 million patient visits in 116 countries and currently serves over 2 million clinicians each week. The company operates on a freemium model, augmenting its core scribe with paid features and, most recently, an AI agent that calls patients on a doctor’s behalf. Future plans center on expanding product capabilities and broadening access to providers in settings ranging from large hospitals to refugee camps. Key new hires include former Microsoft Chief Medical Officer Dr. Simon Kos and Plaid’s head of revenue Paul Williamson. Heidi Health has raised a total of $96.6 million to date to fund its growth and product development.