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AfterWork Ventures sets out its case for backing Avarni, a carbon accounting platform targeting Scope 3 supply-chain emissions, noting its round was led by Main Sequence with Sprint Ventures also taking part.
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AfterWork Ventures announces it joined Avarni's pre-seed round and interviews founders Misha Cajic and Anuj Paudel on their path from school projects to emissions tracking software.
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AfterWork Ventures interviews tikpay founder Michael Walters about his journey from building and selling littlepay to raising the transport payments startup's pre-seed round, which AfterWork co-led with unnamed venture investors in early 2023.
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AfterWork Ventures explains why it co-led transport ticketing and payments startup tikpay's pre-seed round with Black Nova Ventures, Investible, Func Ventures and Metagrove Ventures, citing the founders' deep sector expertise.
AfterWork Ventures announces its pre-seed investment in coaching software startup Medoo and interviews its two co-founders about how they built the business together.
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AfterWork Ventures' team reflects on lessons from raising their first community-powered fund, describing their fundraising approach, community generosity, and recognition on The Australian's Innovator's List.
AfterWork Ventures' Q&A explaining venture capital basics, announcing the first close of its first professional fund above $10 million against a $30 million target, with illustrative comparisons to Uber, Canva, Blackbird and Square Peg.
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AfterWork Ventures explains why it led coaching-software startup Medoo's pre-seed round, profiling its two founders' operating backgrounds and arguing workplace trends will drive adoption of coaching tools.
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AfterWork Ventures reflects on backing Stropro in February 2020, explaining why the platform opening structured bank products to sophisticated investors fits its unbundling-of-banks thesis and Asia-Pacific ambitions.
AfterWork Ventures explains its pre-seed investment in Tirtyl, a zero-waste cleaning tablet startup, covering the founders' backgrounds, early traction, unit economics, and competitors including ZeroCo and Blueland.
AfterWork Ventures explains why it joined Blakthumb's pre-seed round, led by Tidal Ventures, backing software for indoor food and cannabis growers founded by Mel Fyfe and Carey Taylor.
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AfterWork Ventures' first-birthday post recalls its founders' angel record, a 2019 micro-fund, a ten million dollar first close five months in, and the launch of its NFT project.
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AfterWork Ventures explains why it reinvested in OwnHome's $31 million Series A led by Square Peg with Commonwealth Bank, having backed the rent-to-buy startup's pre-seed round in July 2021.
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AfterWork Ventures explains why it joined SwingVision's $2 million seed round led by Tennis Australia's Wildcard Ventures, alongside Roddick, Blake and the MyFitnessPal co-founders; the app brings pro-grade tennis analytics to amateurs.
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AfterWork Ventures explains why it invested pre-seed in Samphire Neuroscience, a neurotech startup whose headband eases menstrual symptoms, alongside hardware accelerator HAX, profiling the Oxford-founded team and the women's health opportunity.
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AfterWork Ventures' investment note explains why it backed OfferFit, whose AI replaces A/B testing for marketers, in a May 2021 pre-Series A round, and notes Canvas Ventures led a $14m USD Series A.
AfterWork Ventures explains why it joined OwnHome's July pre-seed round, profiling the rent-to-buy startup's founders, its debt facility, customer traction, and the housing affordability problem it tackles.
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AfterWork Ventures explains why it invested in Ripe Robotics, a Shepparton startup building fruit-picking robots that graduated from Startmate, while US competitor Abundant Robotics shut down.
AfterWork Ventures profiles Functionly's co-founders Tim Brewer and Damian Bramanis, recalling its own late-2020 pre-seed investment and the earlier angel backing from Andrew Larsen and David Wood.
Interview with Zara Lord, who founded the nurse-staffing platform uPaged. AfterWork recalls backing her in June 2021, and the piece notes an Australian Government grant for female founders.
AfterWork Ventures interviews OwnHome's co-founders about their friendship, earlier careers and choice to build a startup helping first-home buyers, which recently raised $3.6 million in a pre-seed round with Global Founders Capital and Entrée Capital.
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AfterWork Ventures explains its decision to back Lyka, an Australian startup making fresh whole-food meals for dogs, citing a growing market, in-house manufacturing and the company's newly completed $6.5 million Series A.
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AfterWork Ventures explains why it invested in Send Payments, a partnerships-led foreign exchange provider embedding FX services inside partner brands' platforms, praising its customer support and go-to-market.
AfterWork Ventures announces Bella Acton as its Creative Director, describing her storytelling background, her startup Never Liked It Anyway, her role at Kin Group, and why the fund hired a creative lead.
AfterWork Ventures explains why it invested in Functionly, an organisational design tool, citing the founding team's track record, product-led growth, and the opportunity to replace spreadsheet-heavy HR processes.
AfterWork Ventures reflects on its September 2020 investment in Vitruvian, maker of the V-Form resistance trainer, setting out its connected fitness thesis and the team's progress since backing them.
Deals recorded from AfterWork Ventures's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avarni | Pre-seed | 21 Nov 2023 | $2.5m | |
| Tikpay | Pre-seed | 19 Sep 2023 | $1.6m | |
| Medoo | Pre-seed | 26 Jul 2022 | - | |
| Tirtyl | Pre-seed | 21 Apr 2022 | - | |
| Blakthumb | Pre-seed | 11 Apr 2022 | $825k | |
| Samphire Neuroscience | Pre-seed | 7 Feb 2022 | - | |
| OwnHome | Series A | 4 Feb 2022 | $31m | |
| Swingvision | Seed | 31 Jan 2022 | $2m | |
| Functionly | Seed | 22 Sep 2021 | $3.6m | |
| OwnHome | Seed | 22 Jul 2021 | $3.6m | |
| Lyka | Series A | Jun 2021 | $6.5m | |
| Offerfit | Seed | May 2021 | - | |
| Ripe Robotics | Accelerator | 2021 | - |
Companies named in AfterWork Ventures's articles, most-covered first.
Investors named in AfterWork Ventures's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Afterwork Ventures | 26 | |
| Square Peg Capital | 3 | |
| Entrée Capital | 2 | |
| Global Founders Capital | 2 | |
| Black Nova Venture Capital | 1 | |
| Black Nova Ventures | 1 | |
| Canvas Ventures | 1 | |
| Func Ventures | 1 | |
| HAX | 1 | |
| Investible | 1 | |
| Main Sequence Ventures | 1 | |
| Metagrove Ventures | 1 | |
| Possible Ventures | 1 | |
| Sprint Ventures | 1 | |
| Tidal Ventures | 1 | |
| Wildcard Ventures | Venture fund for sports, health and entertainment tech startups | 1 |