Flying Fox Ventures

Flying Fox Ventures is an early-stage investment firm based in Melbourne, Australia, backing startups across Australia and New Zealand. The firm invests sector-agnostically and across early company stages, providing capital alongside resources, guidance and expertise to portfolio founders. Its stated mission is to help Australian and New Zealand founders take their ideas to the world.

Alongside investing, Flying Fox builds a community of early-stage investors and runs two structured programmes. Flying Fox Angel School offers practical instruction in startup investing, aimed both at people learning to invest and at those seeking to think like an investor. The F4 program is a cohort-based pre-accelerator providing founder education and mentoring to female founders in Victoria.

The firm positions itself as willing to rethink traditional investing approaches and to back what it describes as founders who break the rules. Beyond the transaction itself, portfolio companies are supported with ongoing resources, guidance and expertise - a model that pairs deployment of capital with education and community-building on both the investor and founder side. Geographic focus remains concentrated on Australia and New Zealand, with particular activity in Melbourne and Victoria.