Investors / Cardinia Ventures
Cardinia Ventures
Venture capital
Cardinia Ventures is an investment firm that supports technology founders across Australia, the United States and South East Asia. It invests in software and hardware companies and offers an advisory team to help portfolio companies across their journey.
Invests inEducationAI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces
In its own wordssoftwarehardwaretechnologymarketplaceslogisticsai
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Or find every investor that fitsCardinia Ventures lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Education (18%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (18%). 50% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Airtree, ACVC Partners and Accel.
No funding round on record names Cardinia Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Cardinia Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 10. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 18% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 18% | 6% |
| Cybersecurity | 12% | 4% |
| Media & Entertainment | 12% | 4% |
| Food & Agriculture | 6% | 3% |
| Consumer | 6% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Airtree | 2 |
| ACVC Partners | 1 |
| Accel | 1 |
| Anti Fund | 1 |
| Ascension | 1 |
| Blackbird | 1 |
| Bowery Capital | 1 |
| Breakthrough Victoria | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 8th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Cardinia Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
10 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdRoll creates, manages, and optimizes online advertising campaigns across multiple channels from one dashboard. | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Cadmus enables universities to deliver assessments end-to-end, in one streamlined platform. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides observability platforms for Kubernetes and other systems, helping to monitor and troubleshoot their performance. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Drop Water offers smart water refill stations for offices, gyms, hotels, and other locations. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Edrolo provides a comprehensive system to support teaching and build measurable student results through curriculum-aligned learning and practice for students. | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| Explorate provides a digital platform for managing supply chains and freight forwarding | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Nura creates personalized sound products, including earbuds and audio transmitters, using adaptive acoustic technology. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Select Star provides a modern data governance platform with data catalog and lineage tools | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Spice AI serves enterprise data to agents securely and at scale on object storage | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Tribe provides a platform for influencer marketing and creator community management for brands and agencies | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- cardiniaventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 10
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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