Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

Founded in 2016, Adelaide-based Splose offers physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists and other allied health practitioners a single platform to manage appointments, onboarding, invoicing and compliance. The company has embedded AI tools such as transcription, automated note-taking, reporting and workflow automation, generating more than 200,000 AI outputs each month. Over 20,000 individual practitioners across Australia, New Zealand and the UK now use the software, with user numbers growing at more than 100% year-on-year and UK usage expanding 300% in the last 18 months. Popular AI features include AI Scribe, Ask AI, AI Blocks and an email assistant, which Splose claims let clinicians create notes four times faster than manual methods. Management emphasizes deep product integration and community-led development as its competitive moat against legacy practice-management systems. While profitability metrics were not disclosed, the company’s valuation is reported to be comfortably above $100 million. New capital will accelerate product development, deepen AI workflows, improve payment solutions and support further UK expansion.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2025

Lorikeet develops AI-powered universal customer concierges that operate across chat, email, and voice and are designed to make judgment calls and take actions rather than just answer FAQs. Its product emphasizes safety and auditable execution via granular permissions and dynamic gating, enabling end-to-end handling of high-consequence workflows such as replacing lost or stolen debit cards without human intervention. The company focuses on regulated industries including financial services, healthcare, and energy to ensure robustness in tough environments. Since its public launch in October, Lorikeet says revenue has grown 10x and it is solving exponentially more customer conversations month over month. Customers include several unicorns across the United States, Europe, and Australia, notably Airwallex, Linktree, Flex, and Eucalyptus. Lorikeet plans to double down on R&D and global go-to-market efforts in the second half of 2025; it has raised over $50 million in funding to date. Lorikeet builds an AI customer experience platform powered by a proprietary intelligent graph technology that orchestrates sophisticated workflows for complex, regulated support cases. Its AI agents are designed to handle multi-conditional problems, engage on sensitive topics, and surface uncertainty so they avoid giving incorrect answers. Since launching in October 2024 the company has grown quickly—bookings increased 3.5x and it added several unicorns and public companies as customers and pilot partners. Customer metrics cited include a 10-point CSAT increase and doubled support volume for Eucalyptus, CSAT rising to 75% for MagicEden (from 45%), and Breeze resolving 40% of complex support volume within 30 days. The company plans to use the new funding to enhance its intelligent graph, expand enterprise capabilities, and accelerate go‑to‑market efforts across healthcare, financial services, technology, and other regulated industries. Lorikeet says it will also aggressively expand into the United States while growing its local team in Sydney. Lorikeet offers an AI customer support platform built on a unique architecture that enables agents to resolve complex tickets while maintaining high customer satisfaction. Its framework lets AI agents follow established standard operating procedures (SOPs) to tackle complicated support workflows. The company serves customers including Remote.com, Step, Eucalyptus, Stashaway, and SensorFlow. Lorikeet was founded by Steve Hind and Jamie Hall and is based in Sydney, Australia. The startup recently raised $5.0M in a seed round and plans to use the capital to support product development and accelerate global expansion. The platform is positioned for scale in customer support but the article does not disclose revenue or user metrics.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2024

Guzman y Gomez (GYG) is a Sydney-headquartered Mexican quick-service restaurant chain co-founded by Steven Marks in 2006. The group operates 183 restaurants in Australia and 26 across Singapore, Japan and the US, and is targeting the Chicago area where it has four stores. GYG reported global sales of $471 million in the December half (up 31% year‑on‑year), FY23 network sales of $759 million, and underlying FY23 EBITDA of $32 million (up 56%). The company plans to open 30–40 new restaurants per year long term and has ambitions to add 800 more stores in Australia. GYG says the fresh capital will be used to expand both in Australia and offshore, and it continues to review the possibility of an IPO within the next 12 months. Investors and management cite the founder-led culture, superior unit economics and systems to deliver at scale as reasons for support.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2022

Bare is an Australian death‑tech startup developing a single space for customers to navigate their end‑of‑life journey, covering pre‑planning, funerals, grief, and legal and estate management. Co‑founders Cale Donovan and Sam McConkey say the company is preparing to unveil that unified platform. The startup raised a $10 million Series A led by Perennial Partners and Ord Minnett Private Capital. The company says the new capital will be directed into three core components of the business as it scales. Bare has previously raised funding from investors including OIF Ventures, Athletic Ventures, Simon Griffiths and Andrew Bogut. The raise brings the company’s total funding to $15 million over the past three years.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2021

Who Gives A Crap makes toilet paper and related consumer products with an explicit social and environmental mission. The founders—Simon Griffiths, Jehan Ratnatunga and Danny Alexander—have historically run the business profitably and self-funded growth while donating half their profits to sanitation causes. To date the company has donated more than $10 million to improve global sanitation. The startup plans to use new capital to enter new countries, expand its product range, scale sustainability initiatives and deepen community impact. Management says the funding will allow it to make bigger bets while maintaining substantial annual donations to charity partners. The company is focused on accelerating international growth to help provide toilets and clean water for people affected by contaminated water sources.