Participated · Series A · Sep 2025

Starboard Maritime Intelligence is a New Zealand startup focused on maritime security. Its platform analyzes over a billion maritime data points daily — including ship tracking, satellite imagery, radar, oceanographic data and autonomous sensors — to detect suspicious activity and issue real-time alerts. The platform is already used by governments, defense agencies and commercial operators in over 30 countries. The company plans to expand its presence in North America, Europe and the Indo-Pacific region. Starboard raised A$20.7 million in a Series A to support that global expansion and further develop its technology. CEO Trent Fulcher says the platform protects maritime borders, infrastructure and commercial supply chains, and the financing will help set the standard for real-time maritime intelligence. Jonty Kelt (King River Capital) and Vu Tran (OIF Ventures) will join the company’s board. Starboard Maritime Intelligence is a Wellington, New Zealand–based SaaS startup founded in 2019 that applies machine learning to maritime data to detect suspicious vessel activity. Its software platform combines AIS, satellite imagery and scientific models to enable maritime activity monitoring and analysis. The company supports governments, border security authorities, NGOs and fisheries inspectors in prioritizing which vessels to focus on and inspect. In April 2024 Starboard raised A$4.6M (NZ$5M) in seed funding. The proceeds will be used to strengthen support for a growing number of analysts in the Pacific region and to expand the company’s go-to-market function into other countries and industry verticals. No operating metrics (revenue/users) were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2025

Block Earner offers a platform that lets customers use Bitcoin as collateral for home deposit finance while maintaining exposure to Bitcoin market movements. Its integrated, API-enabled platform is designed to simplify crypto-backed lending by consolidating steps into a familiar, banking-like user experience. Product features include biometric withdrawal verification, crypto custody protections, and portfolio management tools for monitoring loan-to-value ratios and loan health. Since launching in 2021, Block Earner's Bitcoin-backed home loan has generated over AUD $400 million in mortgage demand. The company is registered with AUSTRAC and operates as a Corporate Authorised Representative of an Australian Credit Licence, supporting its focus on regulated product expansion. Block Earner plans to roll out additional products and grow across Australia and into early international markets to bridge digital asset markets and traditional finance, in a context where more than 4 million Australians hold over AUD $50 billion in crypto assets. Block Earner is a blockchain-powered fintech that provides a unified wealth-management product combining traditional financial services with blockchain and decentralised finance. Its core product, launched in September 2023, is Crypto‑Backed AUD Loans that let customers borrow Australian dollars using Bitcoin or Ethereum as collateral. Ethereum‑backed loans have comparison rates starting at 5.95% and Bitcoin‑backed loans start at 7.95%, with fixed interest over 12‑month terms and flexible repayment options. Customers can expect on‑the‑spot approval and AUD transferred to their bank within 24 hours of approval while retaining exposure to their crypto holdings. The company initially launched its web and mobile application in March 2021 and positions itself as the first ACL authorised representative crypto‑backed loan provider in Australia. Block Earner aims to unlock an estimated A$25 billion in Australian crypto wealth by providing lending solutions that make crypto assets more liquid and usable.

Participated · Series B · Aug 2025

SuperGaming is an Indian game development studio best known for titles such as Indus Battle Royale and Silly Royale, and for producing award-winning mobile experiences. The company develops proprietary technology including the Indus Engine and SuperPlatform, a cloud-based SaaS built in partnership with Google Cloud to power hyperscale, real-time multiplayer games for lower-end devices in emerging markets. SuperGaming has pursued Web3 integration through projects like Tower Conquest: Metaverse Edition on Polygon and a Layer-3 Superchain partnership with B3 GameChain on Base to enable asset continuity and interoperable progression. The new capital will be used to expand Indus internationally (starting with Latin America in partnership with LOUD.GG), scale game development capabilities, hire top-tier talent, create new original IP, and deepen publisher partnerships. Financially, the company closed a $15M Series B following a $5.5M Series A in October 2021, with returning backers reaffirming support. SuperGaming highlights strong market validation—Indus won Google Play's "Best Made in India" award for 2024—and positions SuperPlatform as the primary focus for global expansion and developer-facing monetization and live-ops tools. SuperGaming is a Pune-based game developer that builds and publishes mobile and multiplayer titles. It has developed its own game engine for running hyper-scale, real-time multiplayer games and holds the official PAC-MAN mobile game. Its catalogue includes MaskGun (which crossed 50 million installs), Devil Amongst Us (10 million installs within four months), and Tower Conquest. The company also offers Bored, a suite of games for remote teams used in over 2,500 Slack workspaces across the US, UK, Europe and India. SuperGaming raised $5.5M in a Series A and plans to use the proceeds to expand talent by 60%, build a publishing division and market existing titles. It intends to launch a battle royale, Indus, in early 2022. SuperGaming is building a social platform that serves as a party hub for casual gamers, offering a genre of casual, social and party games. The product targets a broader audience than hard-core titles, aiming for games played by a much larger and diverse audience. The company plans to use the newly raised capital to launch its social platform and to enter international markets within the next year. SuperGaming raised $1.3 million in a seed round to fund these efforts. Founders are Roby John (co-founder and chief executive), Navneet Waraich (director of technology), and Sanket Nadhani; John previously co-founded and led Pune-based June Gaming. The article cites a KPMG and Google study projecting India’s online gaming market to grow to $1 billion by 2021 from $290 million in 2017, highlighting the opportunity SuperGaming targets.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2025

Stan operates a social platform designed for gaming creators, publishers and their communities, offering tools that blend social interaction with monetisation features for streamers and influencers. The company’s app has been downloaded more than 30 million times, with notable penetration in India’s tier-II and tier-III cities. Management plans to invest heavily in AI-driven personalisation, expanded creator monetisation toolsets and deeper publisher integrations to strengthen user engagement and revenue opportunities. Future strategy also includes scaling the platform into other mobile-first international markets. The product vision emphasises building dynamic ecosystems where gamers, creators and developers can co-create shared worlds. Financially, Stan has attracted $10.5 million in Series A funding to date, signalling strong investor confidence in its growth trajectory.

Participated · Series B · May 2025

Relevance AI builds an AI agent “operating system” that helps companies create, train and deploy teams of AI agents that integrate with existing tech stacks. The platform is tool- and model-agnostic and aims to let agents learn niche workflows and collaborate like human employees. The company reports 40,000 AI agents registered on its platform and counts Qualified, Activision, and Safety Culture among customers. Relevance recently launched Workforce, a no-code multi-agent system for non-technical users, and Invent, a prompt-based agent creation tool. It plans to use new funding to further enhance product capabilities and to expand customer support in its primary markets of Australia and the U.S. The startup has grown headcount from 19 employees in 2023 to 80 across San Francisco and Sydney. Relevance AI, founded in 2020, operates a platform to build and deploy AI apps and custom agents to automate repetitive reasoning tasks. Its two primary products are AI Tools, which plug into existing workflows to automate tasks, and AI Agents, which complete entire workflows across functions like marketing, sales, and research. The company is on a mission to enable teams to be limited only by their ideas, not their size. In December 2023 Relevance AI raised $15.0M in a Series A led by King River Capital with participation from Peak XV's Surge, Galileo Ventures and Insight Partners. Proceeds will be used to scale the team globally and expand into San Francisco in 2024. The company is listed as OnSearch Pty Ltd and is categorized in workflow automation software. Founded in 2020 by Jacky Koh and Daniel Vassilev, Relevance AI builds a vector platform that enables developers and data scientists to represent and analyze unstructured data (text, image, audio) via high-dimensional numerical vectors. The platform helps reveal semantics and insights from unstructured data with minimal labeling or training, making vector capabilities more accessible and affordable for businesses of any size. Relevance AI serves more than 3 million end users and handles over 100 million weekly requests across sectors including SaaS, e-commerce, education, and gaming. The company is based in Sidney, Australia. It plans to use new funding to expand its global customer base and double its headcount. Relevance AI recently raised $3M in funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from Galileo Ventures and Archangel Ventures.