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Startmate
Accelerator
Startmate runs an accelerator and related programs for founders, operators and investors in Australia and New Zealand. It invests in early-stage startups and runs a community of mentors, angels and operators.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsStartmate lists 189 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 57% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (21%), Healthcare & Biotech (14%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (11%). 63% of its companies are based in Australia. It invests most often alongside Blackbird, Y Combinator and Investible.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Startmate, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Startmate's whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 189. 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.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 57% |
| Series A | 29% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 14% |
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 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 99th | 189 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 74th | 57% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 58th | 3% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 18th | 21% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 95th | 10 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 21% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 14% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| Education | 11% | 7% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Blackbird | 12 |
| Y Combinator | 10 |
| Investible | 9 |
| Flying Fox Ventures | 8 |
| Main Sequence | 6 |
| NZVC | 6 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
| Outset Ventures | 5 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18497%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company53%
- 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 Startmate head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Startmate| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Feb 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 1 Feb 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 30 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 22 Sept 2025 | Series C+ | |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Series A | |
| 23 May 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Startmate
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Startmate's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
189 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agtuary provides a rural property data platform for agents, valuers, lenders, and investors in Australia. | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | |||
| AirRobe allows users to buy, sell, and rent clothing and other wardrobe items. | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Alloovium provides a voice-activated system to manage site operations | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Alt.leather produces a plant-based leather alternative for various industries, including footwear, accessories, fashion, furniture, and automotive. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Amplifier Therapeutics doses patients in clinical trials and develops treatments for metabolic disease | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Andromeda connects AI teams with high-performance compute | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides personalized robot companions for aged care and assisted living residents | Healthcare & BiotechRobotics & Hardware | Sept 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Ansight provides a tool for coding agents to check mobile changes in connected iOS or Android apps | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| ANT61 delivers autonomous mission assurance for the new space era, protecting critical infrastructure and making it more resilient, connected, and reliable. | Space & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Antares develops, integrates and enables high-value technological solutions for industry, institutions and mission-driven applications. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aquila permanently invests in world-class software companies | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Arlula automates how Earth observation data is discovered, tasked, sold, delivered, and governed – reliably and at scale with your existing systems. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Astrix Astronautics produces inflatable deployable components for spacecraft of all sizes | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Atlasshorts aggregates, curates and delivers short film and visual media to hundreds of classrooms and libraries globally. | EducationEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Bardee transforms food waste into protein and fertiliser with insects. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Baresop creates and sells plant-based skin care and personal care products | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| BioScout provides airborne crop disease surveillance using AI-powered devices that sample and analyze airborne particulate matter | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| BioticsAI is an AI-powered software that validates the completeness and quality of fetal anomaly screenings, localizes fetal vulnerabilities, and automates report generation. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Black.ai develops artificial intelligence solutions for retail using existing camera footage | AI & Machine LearningReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- startmate.com
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 May 2025
- Companies checked
- 189
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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