S

Starfish Ventures

14 employees

Starfish Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm focused on information technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies.

Investor insights

Sectors invested in

Software18
Analytics9
Health Care7
Biotechnology6
Information Technology6
Enterprise Software6
Medical5
Mobile5
Artificial Intelligence5
Marketing5
Life Science4
Internet4
SalesForce4
Commercial Operations4
sales operations4
Agile Marketing4
SFDC4
pharmaceutical4
sales force effectiveness4
Veeva4

Funding rounds participated in

$3.9M sweet spot round size

Most of their 50 investments are in rounds between $2.3M and $6M

Investor type

Venture Capital

Basic info

Industry

venture capital and private equity principals

Sectors

Investing in Growth
Investing in Technology
Investing in People
Finance
Building Business into Global Companies
Information Technology
Venture Capital

Date founded

2001

Investments made

D

DesignCrowd raised $7.6M on February 1, 2021

Investors: ALIUM Capital, Ellerston Capital, CVC Capital Partners, Regal Funds Management, AirTree and Starfish Ventures

M

Marani raised $1.5M on August 12, 2019

Investors: Southeast Minnesota Capital Fund LLC, CAPITA3 and Starfish Ventures

A

Aktana raised $18M on June 8, 2016

Investors: Safeguard Scientifics and Starfish Ventures

P

Protagonist Therapeutics raised $40M on July 16, 2015

Investors: Adage Capital Management, Canaan, Inbio Ventures, RA Capital Management, L.P., Lilly Ventures, Foresite Capital and Starfish Ventures

D

DesignCrowd raised $4.7M on February 4, 2015

Investors: AirTree and Starfish Ventures

B

BugHerd raised $931K on August 24, 2014

Investors: Tank Stream Ventures, 500 Startups and Starfish Ventures

N

Nitro, Inc. raised $3.1M on October 9, 2013

Investors: Starfish Ventures

O

Ourcast, Inc. raised $200K on September 1, 2013

Investors: Starfish Ventures

A

Aktana raised $5.5M on June 24, 2013

Investors: Starfish Ventures

P

Protagonist Therapeutics raised $14M on June 4, 2013

Investors: Inbio Ventures, Lilly Ventures and Starfish Ventures

FAQ