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Square Peg's half-year investor letter reports two funds reaching final close, three exits including Talon.One's sale to Adyen, realisations past US$1bn, and a framework for judging AI disruption across its portfolio.
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Square Peg reports 30% portfolio growth, US$1bn+ cumulative realisations, US$138m returned this half, closes two new funds, and outlines an AI disruption framework.
Square Peg led Source's US$1.4 million pre-seed round, with TEN13 and angels including Stripe's former CTO. Source builds AI procurement automation for small retailers; founders Liam Fuller and Yoan Gabison.
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Square Peg led AI procurement startup Source's US$1.4 million pre-seed round, joined by TEN13 and angels including Stripe's former CTO; the platform automates purchasing for small retailers.
Square Peg's half-year investor letter reviews its accelerating AI investing, portfolio companies' progress including several completed raises, listed fund returns, a new data hire, and ongoing fundraising for its 2025 vintage funds.
In its half-year letter, Square Peg explains how it picks AI founders, reports several portfolio companies' recent raises, flags a data engineering hire, and says fundraising for its next funds is well advanced.
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Square Peg's investment note on NexusMD, whose AI agents cut documentation time for hospital doctors; also recalls founder Mike Zhu's prior healthcare startup Baikemy being bought by Bytedance.
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Square Peg announces backing NexusMD, whose AI agents automate clinical documentation for emergency doctors. Founder Mike Zhu earlier started Baikemy, which Bytedance acquired.
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Square Peg's post explains why it led a US$300 million Series F in cross-border payments company Airwallex, its seventh investment since first backing the founders in 2017, citing market scale and regulatory depth.
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A Square Peg investor reflects on interviews with automation veterans, arguing that winning legacy enterprise customers for AI tools hinges on human factors, politics and budget dynamics rather than technology alone.
Square Peg's half-year letter to investors reviews 2024: $146m invested, $220m returned via five exits, fund value up to $3.25bn, plus portfolio raises at Rokt, Constantinople, Exodigo, Cuttable and Supabase.
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Square Peg's half-year investor letter reviews 2024: portfolio growth, $220m returned across five exits, a Rokt secondary at a $3.5bn valuation, and recent raises at Constantinople, Exodigo, Cuttable and Supabase.
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Square Peg's post sets out why it backed GoodWork.ai, whose AI tools give retail teams fast, unified analysis of trading data, in a seed round of AU$4 million.
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Square Peg's post explains its seed investment in GoodWork.ai, profiling three founders with retail and AI backgrounds and the company's AI models giving retailers fast, unified analysis.
Square Peg's investment note on leading Lorikeet's US$5 million seed round with Skip Capital and US angels, profiling the founders, their AI support product, and early customers.
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Square Peg led Lorikeet's US$5 million seed round for its AI customer-support automation platform, joined by Skip Capital and US angel investors, supporting the team's US expansion.
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Square Peg's investment note announces its participation in Cuttable's seed raise and profiles the automated-advertising startup's three founders, its AI technology, and its early brand customers.
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Square Peg's half-year letter launches fundraising for Fund 6, reports US$187 million returned including Deci.AI's sale to Nvidia, and announces promotions, with Leila Lee joining the partnership.
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Square Peg announces its participation in Cuttable's AU$5.5 million seed round. The AI-powered advertising platform was founded by Jack White, Ed Ring and Sam Kroonenburg, and already works with major Australian brands.
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Square Peg's half-year letter reports US$187 million distributed via the Nvidia purchase of Deci.AI plus stake sales in Canva and Bugcrowd, several new investments, team promotions, and a fresh fundraise for its next funds.
Square Peg portfolio manager Ben Hensman explains its listed-markets Global Tech Fund, recalling the Shopify and Vend experience that inspired it, the team behind it, and its strategy of backing early-stage public tech companies.
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Square Peg profiles its Global Tech Fund, a listed-markets strategy applying its venture investing approach to early-stage public tech companies, and outlines its team, edge, and focus on fintech, software and AI.
Square Peg's latest letter to investors reviews 2023 performance, recalls early bets on Canva and Airwallex, and introduces three hires across fundraising, public-markets investing, and people functions.
Square Peg's half-year letter to investors reviews 2023: fewer new bets, portfolio revenue milestones led by Canva, an AI investment thesis, conditions in Israel, and three new hires.
Square Peg's blog carries an AGM conversation in which co-founder Paul Bassat interviews Airwallex co-founder Lucy Liu about scaling the payments fintech, rivals, product strategy and how founders delegate as firms grow.
Square Peg partner James Tynan interviews Neara's chief commercial officer Jack Curtis on the company's 3D modelling of energy networks, doubling grid capacity, and constraints on the energy transition.
Square Peg partners discuss climate tech investing at the firm's AGM: venture's role, regulation, energy cost tailwinds, and startups they flag such as Tomorrow.io, Vow, Neara and Amber; also recalls Occidental buying Carbon Engineering.
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Square Peg's blog runs a conversation from its 2023 AGM in which partner James Tynan interviews Neara's chief commercial officer Jack Curtis about the company's grid-modelling software and the energy transition.
Square Peg explains why it backed Lounge's AU$4m seed round, profiling the community and events app for young people started by two former BCG colleagues and inviting candidates to apply for open roles.
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Square Peg's analysis argues generative AI enables startups to attack the databases companies run on, drawing lessons from cloud-era winners and citing its portfolio company Partly as a new-category example.
Square Peg's note announcing it has joined XFlow's US$10 million pre-Series A, describing the startup's cross-border payments platform for India and its founders' earlier years building Stripe there.
Square Peg's note on why it led an A$32 million seed investment in Constantinople, a platform modernising bank operations, with AirTree Ventures and Great Southern Bank participating; profiles founders Mac and Di.
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Square Peg's note on leading a A$32 million seed investment in banking-software startup Constantinople, with AirTree Ventures and Great Southern Bank participating; the bank is also the platform's first client.
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Square Peg announces James Tynan as its newest partner, with reflections from Vow's CEO and Square Peg's investment team on his approach, plus his board roles at Partly and Neara and sector outlook.
Square Peg's Piruze Sabuncu explains the firm's seed investment in Kula, whose products help companies source and hire talent through employee networks, and profiles the recruiting backgrounds of founders Achu, Sath and Suman.
Square Peg's retrospective of 2019: five new portfolio companies, several large rounds it led or co-led, two acquisitions, two IPOs, new team members, and its capital deployed across new and follow-on deals.
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Square Peg's podcast episode features OwnHome co-founder James Bowe explaining its rent-to-own home purchase model, and recalls the Australian fintech's $31 million Series A led by Square Peg's Dan Krasnostein and Casey Flint with Commonwealth Bank.
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Square Peg podcast episode with Athena Home Loans' founders Nathan and Michael on lessons from building the mortgage challenger, their earlier ventures iSelect and NABTrade, and its record raise from local backers.
Podcast episode where Vero's co-founder discusses bootstrapping, later raising venture capital, and how Startmate helped validate the messaging platform with customers.
Square Peg's half-year letter to investors reports a 32% net IRR, $582m returned across eleven exits, conservative revaluations amid market uncertainty, and a slower investing cadence ahead.
Square Peg's investment note explains why it co-led predictive growth platform Voyantis' $19 million seed round with Target Global, covering the founders' backgrounds and the market shift toward predicting customer lifetime value.
Square Peg's investment note covers its backing of Indonesian e-commerce software firm Desty's pre-A round, alongside earlier supporters East Ventures, Jungle Ventures and 5Y Capital.
Square Peg explains why it invested in Blinq's five million dollar seed round alongside Blackbird, describing the digital contact-sharing product and founder Jarrod Webb's background.
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Square Peg led a thirty-seven million dollar Series B in animation platform LottieFiles, with XYZ Venture Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, Automattic and returning backers 500 Startups, M12 and Adobe also taking part.
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Square Peg explains its rationale for leading Athena's Series B, joined by Hostplus and Airtree, with analysis of the Australian mortgage market, the challenger lender's model, and its founding and senior team.
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Square Peg's post explains why it led mortgage platform Athena's $70 million Series C, with Hostplus and Airtree reinvesting and Australian Super, NAB Ventures and Salesforce Ventures joining as new backers.
Square Peg reflects on backing Puresec's Series A, a serverless security company founded by Israeli cyber veterans, alongside co-investors TLV Partners, and explains why serverless computing demands new security approaches.
Square Peg announces it led Zeller's AU$6.3 million seed round with Apex Capital co-investing, profiling co-founders Ben Pfisterer and Dominic Yap and their merchant payments and business banking offering ahead of launch.
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Square Peg's investment note explains why it backed e-scooter operator Neuron's US$18.5 million Series A with GSR Ventures, highlighting the company's city-permit strategy across Australia and New Zealand.
Square Peg announces a $6 million Series A investment in Zero Co, a refillable home and personal care startup that this week set an Australian crowdfunding record, raising $5 million from 3,082 retail investors.
Square Peg's investment notes explain why it led Aidoc's US$27 million Series B, covering the founders' background, the strain on radiologists, and how the company's imaging AI improves patient care.
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Square Peg Capital's investment note on leading Doctor Anywhere's US$27 million Series B with co-leads EDBI and IHH Healthcare, describing the Singapore telehealth platform's integrated Southeast Asian care delivery business.
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Square Peg's investment note recounts co-leading HealthMatch's $6 million Series A after an accelerated five-day process, profiling founder Manuri Gunawardena's clinical trial matching platform and existing backer Tempus Partners.
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Square Peg looks back on putting US$6 million into Airwallex's Series A+ alongside Tencent, Sequoia China, Gobi Partners and MasterCard, explaining why cross-border payment infrastructure needs fixing.
Square Peg's investment note explains its reasons for backing Deputy's US$81 million Series B with IVP, Openview and Equity Venture Partners, describing the workforce scheduling platform's growth, customers and team.
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Square Peg's investment note explains its A$5.5m Series A backing of AgriDigital, a grain supply-chain platform, citing its blockchain first and a founding team with deep agriculture experience.
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Square Peg Capital's investment note explaining why it led energy retailer Amber's seed round, covering Amber's wholesale-priced electricity model, its founders' backgrounds, and the case for pass-through renewable energy pricing.
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Square Peg marks small-business lender Prospa's stockmarket debut, recalling its 2017 investment and praising founders Greg and Beau for clarity, culture and resilience after a shelved float the year before.
Square Peg Capital announces its pre-seed investment in Earlywork, an early-career talent community with a job board, backing founders Dan, Marina and Jono alongside Archangel Ventures and PhaseOne Ventures.
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Deals recorded from Square Peg Capital portfolio's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source | Pre-seed | 22 Jul 2025 | $2.1m | |
| NexusMD | Seed | 23 Jun 2025 | $6.3m | |
| Airwallex | Series D+ | 21 May 2025 | $232m | |
| Rokt | Unnamed stage | 2025 | - | |
| GoodWork.ai | Seed | 8 Dec 2024 | $4m | |
| Neara | Series C | 31 Oct 2024 | $45m | |
| Lorikeet | Seed | 3 Oct 2024 | $9m | |
| Cuttable | Seed | 22 Jul 2024 | $5.5m | |
| Constantinople | Series A | 5 Apr 2024 | $50m | |
| Lounge | Seed | 8 Nov 2023 | $4m | |
| XFlow | Seed | 25 May 2023 | $10m | |
| Voyantis | Seed | 18 Jul 2022 | $19m | |
| Desty | Series A | 22 Jun 2022 | - | |
| Blinq | Seed | 17 May 2022 | $5m | |
| LottieFiles | Series B | 16 May 2022 | $37m | |
| Constantinople | Seed | May 2022 | $32m | |
| Athena | Series B | 20 Apr 2022 | $25m | |
| Doctor Anywhere | Series B | 7 Apr 2022 | $27m | |
| Deputy | Series B | 7 Apr 2022 | $81m | |
| Earlywork | Pre-seed | 21 Mar 2022 | $700k | |
| OwnHome | Series A | 4 Feb 2022 | $31m | |
| AgriDigital | Series A | Dec 2021 | $5.5m | |
| Zeller | Seed | 30 Jun 2020 | $6.3m | |
| HealthMatch | Series A | 6 Nov 2019 | $6m | |
| Rokt | Series C | 31 Oct 2019 | $70m | |
| Canva | Unnamed stage | 17 Oct 2019 | $125m | |
| Neuron | Series A | 4Q 2019 | US$18.5m ($26.7m) | |
| Q-CTRL | Series A | 11 Sep 2019 | $22m | |
| Amber Electric | Seed | 11 Sep 2019 | $2.5m | |
| Athena | Series C | Sep 2019 | $70m | |
| Aidoc | Series B | 2Q 2019 | US$27m ($38.4m) | |
| Airwallex | Series C | 26 Mar 2019 | $141m | |
| Lightbits Labs | Unnamed stage | 1Q 2019 | US$50m ($68.8m) | |
| Puresec | Series A | 2018 | $7m |
Companies named in Square Peg Capital portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
Investors named in Square Peg Capital portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Square Peg Capital | 58 | |
| AirTree Ventures | 5 | |
| Hostplus | 3 | |
| 500 Startups | 2 | |
| Adobe | 2 | |
| AustralianSuper | 2 | |
| Great Southern Bank | 2 | |
| GSR Ventures | 2 | |
| NAB Ventures | 2 | |
| Salesforce Ventures | 2 | |
| Skip Capital | Private fund investing in technology and infrastructure | 2 |
| Ten13 | 2 | |
| 5Y Capital | 1 | |
| APEX Capital | 1 | |
| Archangel Ventures | 1 | |
| Automattic | 1 | |
| Blackbird Ventures | 1 | |
| Data Collective | 1 | |
| East Ventures | 1 | |
| EDBI | 1 | |
| EVP | 1 | |
| GreatPoint Ventures | 1 | |
| Horizons Ventures | 1 | |
| IHH Healthcare | 1 | |
| Insight Venture Partners | 1 | |
| Jibe Ventures | 1 | |
| Jungle Ventures | 1 | |
| Kaedan Capital | 1 | |
| Kamet Capital | 1 | |
| M12 | 1 | |
| Main Sequence Ventures | 1 | |
| OpenView | 1 | |
| Operator Partners | 1 | |
| Pavilion Capital | 1 | |
| Phase One Ventures | 1 | |
| SA Government | 1 | |
| Schusterman Family Investments | 1 | |
| Sequoia | 1 | |
| Sierra Ventures | 1 | |
| Target Global | 1 | |
| TDM Growth Partners | 1 | |
| Tempus Partners | 1 | |
| TLV Partners | 1 | |
| XYZ Venture Capital | 1 |