Rhapsody Venture Partners

It's our mission to accelerate a Tough Tech company's journey from ideation to commercialization by providing access to a unique combination of investment, infrastructure, and community. Long-term Capital The Engine Fund provides long-term capital to meet the unique needs of Tough Tech companies solving the world’s most urgent challenges. Labs, Equipment, Tools & Space The Engine Infrastructure provides access to specialized equipment and labs, both on-site and through a network of partner facilities, giving portfolio companies the tools and space necessary to work efficiently and economically. Connections The Engine Network facilitates the creation of long-term mutually beneficial relationships between founders, startups, corporates, government, strategic partners, and others.

We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale. Everything we do revolves around a single problem: What are the best ways to reconcile economic growth with human and planetary health? We invest in teams and solutions that address multi-decade problems that humanity has no choice but to solve. Our focusing questionsHow can we decouple improving living standards from resource depletion? How can we ensure food, energy and materials supply security when confronted by deglobalization, multipolarity and the distractions of the attention economy? How can we improve life on Earth and unlock future economic growth potential by leveraging next-generation computing and exploring outer space? How can the clean industrialization of biological processes reduce humanity’s impact on our planet? How we invest in unstoppable founders We look to problems and unmet needs first and then to which technologies and solutions have the potential to address those problems effectively. We don’t push any one type of technology or limit ourselves to one field. We look for founders and companies at the pre-seed and seed stages leveraging the three basic disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology) to engineer economically viable solutions. We look for teams that are uniquely suited to address the opportunity and its inherent challenges and for solutions that are radically better, technically viable, and defensible. Some of the areas we are keen to continue exploring include clean commodities, space technology, industrial decarbonization, electro- and green chemistry, next-generation computing, new materials & production methods. How we partner for the long-term Starlight is a Pre-Seed and Seed investor and ideally the first institutional check into your company. Having been in your shoes as founders and scientists ourselves, we will serve as an ally in the journey ahead. Here’s what you can expect from working with us: We will lead or co-lead your first institutional round. We reserve capital for follow-on investment in later rounds, and we have to ability to partner with our LPs to augment our participation in future opportunities. We will be personally invested in your success, as a large portion of our fund comes from our own team. We will put a particular focus on ensuring that your roadmap is focused on the key risks and milestones unique to addressing the most pressing problems. We will work with you to establish rock-solid governance and operational practices that hold up to the scrutiny of the world’s best institutional investors. We will help you line up and credibly engage the right future investors for your business and trajectory. Let’s partner and make change happen.

The world has hard problems to solve, and answers are urgently needed. We help entrepreneurs on a mission to solve these hard problems build companies. We believe Singapore has the resources and capabilities to tackle the pressing challenges impacting people around the world. SGInnovate has been established to help these ambitious and capable people to build 'technology-intensive' products borne out of scientific research, leveraging the full power of the Singapore ecosystem to achieve this mission. Investment Capital Singapore has over $1b+ of private-market funds and another $1b+ of public-sector funds. Government Singapore remains one of the most attractive and trusted places to build companies, in large part due to our economic competitiveness, as well as political and operational stability. Research A global research and innovation hub, S$25B has been committed to Singapore's latest Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) five-year plan, covering domains such as healthcare, sustainability and manufacturing, through to 2025. Corporate Backing Singapore brings together over 7000 regional and global corporations who represent go-to-market help, joint product development, investment funding and possible exits. World Class Institute of Higher Learning Singapore is home to two of the top 20 globally-ranked universities.

The global carbon transition is underway. Many billion-dollar climate technology companies will be founded this decade, creating new markets and swiftly overtaking incumbents across the modern economic system. A generation of climate-motivated founders is leveraging the technological opportunity enabled by years of foundational research and development in materials science and energy alongside breakthroughs in computing, sensing, and biotechnology. Defined by superior product performance, competitive unit economics, and growing demand from businesses, consumers, and governments worldwide, these new technology companies are reshaping the foundation of the global economy. This is a market opportunity worth trillions.

Many of IAG's innovations began as seed ideas in Firemark. We identified their potential, invested in their development and accelerated their growth. By building an incubation ecosystem across industry, venture capital, academia and government, we identify systems of opportunity to explore, evaluate and commercialise. Four cities Our cross-functional hubs in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Auckland, provide access to a breadth of talent and depth of experience to develop ideas that deliver business impact. Three functions Futures. Ventures. Labs. The ability of our different functional areas and skill sets to work (and play) together gives us a competitive advantage.

Unreasonable inventors are combining cutting edge scientific discoveries with the world's biggest challenges to build the next generation of global companies. These are the companies we create and invest in at Main Sequence. We have over $500m under management from lean-in LPs who help our portfolio to prosper. We are investing in the difficult to build companies others struggle to support. Our co-founder is Australia's $1.3b annual budget science agency - CSIRO We invest from seed to Series B, starting our journey as early as possible, driving advantage into our portfolio. Our Advantage Deep tech inventors need more. We have custom built Main Sequence to be ready to help you solve some of the world's greatest challenges with science. We are hands-on and have built a services offering to support founders alongside our capital. Our story Main Sequence was created by CSIRO to address the ‘valley of death’ between research and commercialisation. It solves the world’s greatest challenges by turning our scientific breakthroughs into the next century’s giants. Main Sequence’s origins within CSIRO reflect its commitment to amplifying connections between industry, research and infrastructure to accelerate deep technology development, and reinvesting economic returns from commercialisation back into science. CSIRO Innovation Funds 1 and 2 managed by Main Sequence, have invested in 39 companies since establishment in 2017. These companies have created over 1,200 jobs by working with partners in industry, CSIRO, and 22 Australian universities. The $240 million first CSIRO Innovation Fund , built on a cornerstone investment by government and CSIRO has completed its portfolio and invested in 27 companies since establishment in 2017. The second $300 million CSIRO Innovation Fund commenced investing mid-2021 and had already invested in 12 companies by the end of 2021. Following the Government’s announcement on 1 February 2022 of a reform agenda to accelerate commercialisation of research and collaboration with industry, including $150m support for CSIRO investment in future CSIRO Innovation Funds, Main Sequence welcomes the opportunity to continue to work closely with universities to commercialise Australian research and build Australian companies addressing global challenges. Each of our portfolio companies has some advantage delivered by either one of Australia's 43 universities or an industrial research organisation such as CSIRO. In some cases this exists before we invest, in others we facilitate it as part of the companies pathway to scale and impact.