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ACTivate Capital
Venture capital · Canberra, Australia · Asia Pacific
ACTivate Capital is a Canberra-focused venture fund that provides pre-seed, seed and series-A investment to local startups. It evolved from the Epicorp incubator and ANU Connect Ventures, and is backed by the ACT Government as an initial limited partner.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & ManufacturingEducation
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Your fit with ACTivate Capital
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Or find every investor that fitsACTivate Capital lists 16 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 17 funding rounds, 5 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 38% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (20%), Industrial & Manufacturing (17%) and Education (17%). 88% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Activate Capital, Spark Capital and Activant Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name ACTivate Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 13% |
| Series A | 38% |
| Series B | 13% |
| Growth | 38% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 11 | 4 |
| '26 | 6 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 91th | 7 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 55th | 13% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 17th | 20% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 17% | 7% |
| Education | 17% | 7% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 7% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 3% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Activate Capital | 9 |
| Spark Capital | 4 |
| Activant Capital | 3 |
| Eclipse | 3 |
| Lowercarbon Capital | 3 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 3 |
| Air Street Capital | 2 |
| Climate Investment | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1594%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company16%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Activate Capital
Compare ACTivate Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with ACTivate Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 1 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 30 Jul 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 20 Jan 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Nov 2025 | Series A | |
| 27 Oct 2025 | Series B |
Round details for ACTivate Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in ACTivate Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
16 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerones provides robotic wind turbine inspection and maintenance services | Robotics & HardwareSpace & Defense | Jun 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Antora develops and deploys thermal battery storage systems for industrial heat and power | Industrial & ManufacturingEducation | Jul 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
Legal & Compliance | Jul 2025Round | Funding round | ||
| Cardless provides technology, operations, and infrastructure for companies to create and manage their own credit card programs. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Sept 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| The company provides cloud-based artificial intelligence infrastructure and services | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Oct 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Ekho provides a vehicle commerce platform that automates transactions and uses AI sales agents to manage leads | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Jetson Home installs and manages intelligent systems for heating, hot water, and electric vehicle charging in homes. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jan 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Kin Insurance provides home and auto insurance services, including homeowners, condo, landlord, and flood insurance, as well as mortgage and refinancing options. | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Sept 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Muon Space designs, builds, and operates high-performance satellite constellations | Space & Defense | Jun 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| The company provides an embedded electricity platform for other companies to offer their own electricity plans and manage energy-related services | EducationReal Estate & Construction | Sept 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| The company provides computing services using solar power at the point of generation | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Seitec develops and provides passive seismic sensing technology for detection and tracking purposes | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Stuut.ai provides an AI-powered platform to automate order-to-cash processes for businesses | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Ardent AI Labs, Inc. creates copies of Postgres databases for coding agents to verify their code works in production. | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Voltus operates a virtual power plant and provides a distributed energy resource technology platform | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| XNRGY Climate Systems specializes in thermal management for data centers, healthcare, clean rooms, and life sciences. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2025Series B | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- activatecapital.com.au
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Jun 2025
- Companies checked
- 16
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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