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Uniseed
Venture capital · Australia · Asia Pacific
Uniseed is an Australian venture fund founded in 2000 that invests in deep-tech and life-science companies spun out of university research. It runs a Commercialisation Fund that works at the earliest stage inside partner research institutions, and a Venture Fund that backs the strongest of those companies as they scale.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsdeep techlife sciencesuniversity spinoutsresearch commercialisationbiotechnologyearly stage
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Or find every investor that fitsUniseed lists 29 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 9 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 33% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (44%), Industrial & Manufacturing (20%) and AI & Machine Learning (17%). 96% of its companies are based in Australia. It invests most often alongside Stoic VC, Main Sequence and Brandon Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Uniseed, 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 Uniseed's whole history. Rounds on record name 9 companies; its own site lists 29. 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 | 11% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 22% |
| Series B | 22% |
| Growth | 11% |
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 | 1 |
| '26 | 5 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 66th | 29 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 44% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 96th | 28% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 78th | 44% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 44% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 20% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Consumer | 2% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 2% | 8% |
| Education | 2% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 2% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Stoic VC | 10 |
| Main Sequence | 6 |
| Brandon Capital | 5 |
| Brandon BioCatalyst | 4 |
| GrainCorp Ventures | 2 |
| Startmate | 2 |
| ATP Fund | 1 |
| Angel CoFund | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers29100%
- 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 Uniseed 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 Uniseed| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Series B | |
| 26 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 2 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Series A Led | |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Series B | |
| 22 Sept 2025 | Series C+ |
Round details for Uniseed
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Uniseed's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
29 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aravax is dedicated to developing next-generation immunotherapies for the treatment of food allergy | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Axelia Oncology develops therapies for cancer patients using the body's immune system. | Healthcare & Biotech | 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 | ||
| BT Imaging designs and builds manufacturing tools used by the manufacturers of photovoltaic bricks, wafers and cells. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Cardihab provides digital cardiac rehabilitation solutions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Celosia invests in and creates companies in the therapeutics sector | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Currus Biologics is developing its proprietary BEAT technology for solid tumours | Healthcare & Biotech | 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 | |
| Diraq is building quantum computers using spin qubits based on modified silicon transistors | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| ENA Respiratory is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing antiviral host defense enhancers for the prevention of severe complications from respiratory viral infections in vulnerable populations. | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| The company develops and produces clean ammonia technology using a unique catalyst that unlocks a new way of producing ammonia directly from air and water. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Ferronova develops a surgical oncology tracer system to improve treatment guidance and staging of complex cancers | Healthcare & Biotech | Dec 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Foventa is a biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics for retinal diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Kinoxis Therapeutics develops therapeutics targeting central nervous system indications | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Lucia Bio is developing highly selective spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitors for potential application in peripheral immunology, neurology and haematology/oncology. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Morse Micro develops Wi-Fi HaLow products for long-range wireless connectivity | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Sept 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| NatureHelm is a biodiversity intelligence platform that helps businesses understand, manage and report their impact on nature. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells probiotic drinks. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Plasmaleap builds and designs plants for the local production of fertilisers, fuels and chemicals. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Progel produces gelatin and collagen hydrolyzate for the food, pharmaceutical, and nutritional supplement industries. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- uniseed.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 29
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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