Significant Ventures champions critical technology innovation in Australia – building the next generation of high-value companies, capabilities, and industries.
We’re uniquely positioned to back breakthroughs in their earliest stages. Our unrivalled pipeline of investment opportunities is powered by our deep industry relationships, grown through investing in science-based innovation since 2000.
Our Story
Founded by the Hindmarsh family, people are at the heart of everything we do. We invest in brilliant minds and make their success our business. We’re passionate about helping founders bring incredible innovations to market, backing exceptional talent, and delivering great returns to our investors.
Significant Ventures is a fund committed to investing in and supporting early stage innovation. Bringing together a team of business builders, investors and venture scalers who understand our effort is as valuable as our capital.
A small but active fund that works alongside some of the country’s largest education institutions, sources of innovation and peer funds to co-operate, co-invest and help attract the human, financial and intellectual capital needed by early-stage companies.
Our Vision
Significant Ventures exists to champion critical technology innovation in Australia – building the next generation of high-value companies, capabilities, and industries.
Our Values
Take Action
We all have the power
to make a difference.
Make Connections
We bring people together to achieve what they couldn't alone.
Have Conviction
We always stand up for what we believe in.
Stay Humble
We help others reach great heights but we keep our feet firmly on the ground.
Our Investment Approach
We remain sector agnostic and look for technologies that demonstrate market advantage that’s hard to replicate.
We look for founding teams that are deeply committed, seek collaboration and knowledge, and have high conviction in the impact they want to achieve.
We always take a guiding hand by directly mentoring, finding industry experts, bringing together exceptional advisory and governance boards, and sourcing the next critical funding.
We are the enablers, not the experts. Technology evolves at lightning pace and our founders remain the experts in their field.
We focus on building the foundations of strong market-fit, early industry engagement and commercially investible business models.
We know our primary job is to invest when others wont and help founders build a business that can access the capital and talent it needs.
What we look for
Origins
We seek out the teams and technologies that have their origins in the Knowledge-led economy. By collaborating with Australia’s top universities, we look for brilliant minds that use Deep and Applied technologies and innovations to build the businesses of the future.
Journey
Our goal is to find the teams and technologies that can go from Concept to Global. It’s a challenging and demanding journey that needs grit, determination, and resilience. We support founders who have the skills and emotional intelligence to succeed in that journey and who are likely to become the repeat founders of the future.
Impact
We look for technologies and teams with the potential to shape the future through the power of applied technology. We will delve into anything from autonomy to productivity, education to leisure. These businesses will lead the economy of the future, create the jobs and wealth of the next generation, and entrench the values that become our social norms.