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Ten13 led Bower's A$2m pre-seed round for a voice-first AI assistant that helps scientists capture lab observations hands-free, founded by a four-person team with backgrounds at Microsoft, Google and Atlassian.
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Ten13's post explains why it joined the robotics company's latest raise alongside Blackbird, Neotribe, Startmate and Horizons, covering its autonomous scanning device, dialysis focus, founders, and US rollout plans.
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Ten13's post explains why it led Flyweel's pre-seed round with QIC, Antler and angel investors, backing a platform bringing real-time financial visibility and funding to advertising spend.
Ten13's post sets out its reasons for backing Appetise's A$7 million Series A with OIF, Icehouse, NZVC and K1W1, highlighting the grocery platform's shopper dataset and growth.
Ten13 announces its pre-seed investment in Atrium, an AI assistant for managing professional relationships, with AirTree Ventures also taking part, and explains the market case and the founders' backgrounds.
Ten13's monthly newsletter reports its first institutional mandate via Queensland's QVCDF, new seed investments in OneMRI and Source, follow-ons in Arintra and Everlab, and portfolio progress including Go1, Qsic, Pearler and After.com.
Ten13 announces its appointment as a manager under Queensland's $130m VCDF, run by QIC, and its first investment through it: co-leading a $2.5m seed round for OneMRI, a Brisbane healthtech company, alongside OIF Ventures.
Ten13 profiles angel investor Tracie Clark, tracing her path from property and wealth management into early-stage investing, her founder-focused diligence, syndicate work championing women investors, and a new syndicate backing Plus Eight alumni.
Ten13's blog post sets out why it backed Atelier, a beauty-manufacturing platform, in a post-seed deal roughly a year ahead of Atelier's Macquarie-led $10m Series A.
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TEN13's investor letter celebrates passing $100 million deployed, plus fresh backing for iion and Switchboard, team promotions, AutoGrab's overseas growth and NZ-arm sale, and the Mr Yum–Me&U merger.
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Ten13's post explains why it led iion's seed round with Archangel and PixCapital, describing the gaming adtech platform, its three adtech-veteran founders, and the under-penetrated in-game advertising market.
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Interview with entrepreneur Mick Dempsey recalling founding payments firm Ezidebit, its 2014 sale to Global Payments, his family office's early-stage tech investments, plus his new legal-tech venture EzyLegal.
TEN13 announces Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineering leader formerly at Meta, as its first Venture Partner, reinforcing the firm's AI investing focus; its early bets include Rockfish Data, Arintra and Qsic.
Ten13's blog announces Sophie Robertson's promotion to partner after three years leading investor relations there, alongside a Q&A tracing her move from investment banking and a Startmate fellowship into venture capital.
TEN13 newsletter reporting Chipper Cash's US$150m unicorn round, Mr Yum's Tiger Global-led Series A, and new investments in Payhippo, Preezie, Pushas and Heaps Normal, plus portfolio updates.
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Ten13's year-end post recaps nine new portfolio additions, follow-on support for existing holdings, the Mr Yum and Me&U merger, Go1's Blinkist acquisition, Smileyscope's FDA clearance, and community events.
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Dom Pym discusses his journey from engineering to founding Up Bank and now investing via Euphemia, focusing on social good and underrepresented founders.
Interview with Sydney angel investor Daniel Johnson covering his 71 investments, first backing of FloodMapp, and his group's recent takeover of document-automation software firm Tensis, where he now chairs.
Ten13 announces it led Cartelux's Series A alongside co-investor QIC, outlining the digital retail-marketing platform's founder Josh Williams, its automotive brand customers, traction across ten countries, and its global Google partnership.
Interview with angel investor Carl Hartmann covering his Temando exit, co-founding Compono and Lyre's, what he looks for in founders, and his early-stage portfolio strategy.
Interview with angel investor Natalie Collins, Woolworths Group commercial partnerships head, discussing her 25-startup portfolio, investment thesis and Coca-Cola Amatil venture background.
Deals recorded from Ten13 portfolio's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bower | Pre-seed | 12 Aug 2026 | $2m | |
| Vexev | Seed | 6 Aug 2026 | $6m | |
| Appetise | Series A | 20 Feb 2026 | $7m | |
| Atrium | Pre-seed | Dec 2025 | $1.3m | |
| Atelier | Series A | 21 Oct 2024 | $10m | |
| iion | Seed | 13 Jun 2024 | - | |
| Switchboard | Seed | May 2024 | $1.5m | |
| Heaps Normal | Series A | 13 Mar 2024 | $8.5m | |
| Preezie | Series A | 13 Mar 2024 | $5.5m | |
| Pushas | Pre-seed | 13 Mar 2024 | $2m | |
| Everlab | Pre-seed | Dec 2023 | $3m | |
| Mr Yum | Series A | 30 Nov 2021 | $89m | |
| Amplified Intelligence | Seed | 1 Oct 2021 | $3m |
Companies named in Ten13 portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
Investors named in Ten13 portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Ten13 | 20 | |
| Startmate | Early-stage investment and mentorship for founders | 6 |
| OIF Ventures | 4 | |
| Archangel Ventures | 3 | |
| Blackbird Ventures | 3 | |
| AirTree Ventures | 2 | |
| PixCapital | 2 | |
| Afterwork Ventures | 1 | |
| Alameda Research | 1 | |
| Athletic Ventures | Venture firm backing early-stage companies | 1 |
| Everywhere Ventures | 1 | |
| FTX | 1 | |
| Horizons | 1 | |
| Investible | 1 | |
| K1W1 | 1 | |
| Macquarie Capital | 1 | |
| Neotribe Ventures | 1 | |
| NZVC | 1 | |
| Ordinary Equity | 1 | |
| Skalata Ventures | 1 | |
| Tiger Global | 1 | |
| Touch Ventures | 1 |