Aura Ventures
Suite 11.01, Level 11, 9 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000, Australia
Overview
Aura Ventures is a venture capital firm backing the creators of category-defining technology companies. They provide wealth, funds management, and corporate advisory solutions to their clients.
- Total investments
- 18
- Lead investments
- 6
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 6
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Haast
Participated · Series A · Apr 2026
Haast builds an AI-native compliance platform that embeds organizational policy, risk appetite, and approval logic directly into day-to-day enterprise workflows to automate high-volume compliance tasks. The company uses large language models and agentic flows to provide end-to-end workflow automation with auditability and interpretability for legal and compliance teams. Haast reports traction with Fortune 500 customers, 4.5x revenue growth in the past 12 months, and zero customer churn. Founded in 2023, Haast is headquartered in New York and also operates offices in San Francisco and Sydney. With the Series A proceeds, Haast plans to scale its agentic flows, accelerate product development, and expand its global enterprise footprint. The company positions itself as infrastructure-level compliance for enterprises facing rapid content growth driven by generative AI.
- Isaacus
Led · Seed · Sep 2025
Founded earlier this year by legal AI specialist Umar Butler, Isaacus is building domain-specific artificial intelligence and data infrastructure for legal tech companies. Its flagship asset is the Blackstone Corpus, a living, multijurisdictional repository of legal knowledge that underpins advanced research and retrieval models. By delivering AI-powered legal research capabilities that surpass general-domain systems, the company aims to solve the unique pain points of emerging AI-first legal tech firms and forward-thinking law practices. Isaacus believes these tech-driven firms will become the law offices of the future and is tailoring its tools accordingly. The founding team also includes statistical expert Abdur-Rahman Butler and former IBM CTO Anthony Butler, providing deep technical and enterprise experience. Following a $700,000 pre-seed round, the company now has capital to accelerate R&D in sovereign Australian legal AI and expand collaborations across the sector. This investment positions Isaacus at the forefront of what it calls “one of the most disruptive legal AI missions of the decade.”
- Scandinavian Biolabs
Led · Equity · Sep 2024
Founded in 2020 and based in Copenhagen, Scandinavian Biolabs develops science-backed, non-invasive preventative products targeting early-stage hair loss. Its flagship product, the Bio-Pilixin® Activation Serum, has been clinically tested and is central to the company’s offering. SBL launched as a direct-to-consumer brand and has since expanded into retail and various pharmacies. The company reports supporting over 140,000 customers and holds a 4.5 out of 5 Trustpilot score. Future plans include scaling the online business, expanding strategic retail (including pharmacies), leading in the UK, Germany and the Nordics, and entering the US market, with SevenVentures supporting German expansion via a strategic TV collaboration. SBL positions itself as a preferred solution for reliable, tested hair-care products that work with the body.
- JigSpace
Participated · Equity · Jul 2024
JigSpace is a Melbourne augmented reality startup known for its demo app, which has been pre-installed on Apple Vision Pro and iPads worldwide. The company has been featured in four Apple keynotes, including the Vision Pro announcement and its launch. JigSpace secured $13 million in funding led by Breakthrough Victoria. The round also included participation from Aura Ventures, Anorak Ventures, follow-on investments from Rampersand, Investible and Vulpes Ventures, and angel investor Hugh Bickerstaff. This funding follows a $6 million Series A in 2021 and coincided with the Apple Vision Pro release in Australia. JigSpace provides a platform for individuals, professionals and teams to create interactive 3D presentations (“Jigs”) in minutes—positioned like Canva or PowerPoint for 3D. The product is used for product visualization, design, marketing, training and sales, and can deliver AR to any device without an app download. The company reports more than 5 million downloads/users and a 4.8-star rating, with Fortune 500 customers including PepsiCo and Panasonic. Over the past year JigSpace doubled its monthly active B2B users and more than 300,000 Jigs have been created across 83 countries. A recent partnership with the Alfa Romeo F1 team expanded from fan engagement into a sales asset that has helped close multi-million-dollar deals. With an AU$5.2m raise, the team plans global expansion and to ramp up its commercial organization following recent product development leaps. JigSpace enables anyone to build and view interactive 3D AR presentations called Jigs for education, repair guides, and product demonstrations. Launched in 2017, the app has grown to over 4 million users and holds a 4.8 average rating on the App Store. The company offers a free consumer app plus a paid Jig Pro platform for commercial customers; individual Jig Pro subscriptions are $49 per month while enterprise pricing is not listed. Jig Pro adoption has grown 40% month-over-month since its mid-2020 launch, with average users logging in at least once per day and enterprise customers including Verizon, Volkswagen, and Medtronic. JigSpace has been featured in Apple’s iPhone 12 keynote for lidar use and partnered with Snapchat on a Lens that surfaces 3D Jigs; the team aims to work with manufacturers to convert CAD files into instructional Jigs. The company emphasizes maintaining a free version to keep knowledge accessible while monetizing through its Pro offering. JigSpace is a platform for creating and sharing interactive 3D presentations. The company counts Apple, Medtronic and Hino Trucks USA among its users. It was founded about four years ago and is based in Melbourne. Usage of the platform has surged, with COVID-19 driving a 900% uptick in use. JigSpace raised US$1.4 million (A$1.96 million) in seed funding. Head of product Sam Granleese says the company makes software that enables anyone to share knowledge in 3D and that the technology is designed to be easy and accessible.
- SynergyXR
Participated · Equity · Mar 2024
SynergyXR is a no-code, enterprise XR platform founded in 2008 that enables companies to use spatial computing, including AR, VR and MR, without coding expertise. The platform offers tools for design, development and deployment across various XR devices and targets industries such as manufacturing and energy. SynergyXR positions its product to improve operational efficiency, enhance employee safety and transform training methods. The company promotes a people-first approach to bring extended realities into daily business operations. Recent funding will support geographic expansion and go-to-market efforts. Leadership includes CEO Mads Troelsgaard, CTO Sune Wolff and Chief Experience Officer Thomas Fenger.