Empress Capital

Empress Capital is an Australian venture capital firm that invests primarily in pre-seed and seed-stage artificial intelligence companies in Australia and New Zealand. Beyond capital deployment, its stated focus is hands-on support for early-stage founders - a position it summarises as the view that AI founders need more than funding to build enduring companies. The firm's mission is described as redefining venture in the age of AI.

The firm operates through three lines of business. Investment activity is complemented by Empress Advisory, a practice advising companies on navigating the AI shift through strategy and execution, and Empress Studio, a venture studio that identifies, prototypes and scales ideas into companies solving real-world problems with AI. Studio capabilities span AI-native product development, rapid prototyping, go-to-market execution, fundraising and venture operations. No fund size, founding date or team size has been disclosed.

Empress Capital maintains two offices, in Canberra and Sydney. Its technical and operational remit covers artificial intelligence, AI-native product development, rapid prototyping, go-to-market execution, venture building and venture operations, applied across its investment portfolio, advisory engagements and studio-built ventures.