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Beaten Zone Venture Partners
Venture capital · Brisbane, Australia · Asia Pacific
Beaten Zone Venture Partners is an Australian venture capital firm that funds early-stage teams building defence and space technologies. It invests across the sea, land, air, space and cyber domains, focused on lethality, survivability and defendability, and supports portfolio companies in getting systems into the hands of defence users.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsdefencespacedual-useautonomous systemssovereign capabilitycritical technologies
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Or find every investor that fitsBeaten Zone Venture Partners lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (85%), Space & Defense (8%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (8%). 40% of its companies are based in Australia. It invests most often alongside Salus Ventures, ACTivate Capital and ATP Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Beaten Zone Venture Partners, 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 | 60% |
| Series A | 20% |
| Series B | 20% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 12th | 7 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 60% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 100th | 57% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 94th | 85% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Salus Ventures | 2 |
| ACTivate Capital | 1 |
| ATP Fund | 1 |
| Airtree | 1 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| Anorak Ventures | 1 |
| BOKA Group | 1 |
| D3 | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 85% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 8% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Beaten Zone Venture Partners 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 Beaten Zone Venture Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Sept 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 8 Sept 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Beaten Zone Venture Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Beaten Zone Venture Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
7 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkeus builds AI-powered sensing systems for autonomous platforms | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Deteqt develops and manufactures chip-scale quantum sensing platforms using diamond-on-chip technology for magnetic field-aware intelligence. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| HEO delivers non-Earth imaging at scale, providing high-volume imagery and insights across key low-Earth orbit satellites | Space & Defense | Sept 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Seitec develops and provides passive seismic sensing technology for detection and tracking purposes | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Tiberius Aerospace develops and manufactures defense systems, including missiles and analytics platforms. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Zendir helps satellite operators, engineers and analysts prepare for any scenario using systems-integrated digital twin environments. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ZeroMark develops an AI targeting layer for intelligent defense against drone threats | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- beatenzone.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 7
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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