We’re woven into the universities
where Australia’s best research begins,
and connected all the way to the
global market, backing deep-tech and
life-science companies from the lab bench
to impact and exit.
We’re woven into the universities where Australia’s best research begins, and connected all the way to the global market — backing deep-tech and life-science companies from the lab bench to impact and exit.
venture fund
We are embedded
For over twenty-five years we’ve worked inside Australia’s leading research universities, alongside their tech transfer teams every day. We see promising science as it emerges and help shape it into something investable.
We lead with purpose
We use what we’ve learned to lift the whole sector: connecting experts, helping our companies find the right people, and giving Australian deep tech a national voice.
We fuel global ambition
We connect Australian spinouts with investors, partners and markets in the US, Europe and Asia, so breakthroughs made here can grow into companies that matter everywhere.
We are embedded in the commercialisation offices of ten of Australia’s largest research organisations, who together lead more than 60% of the nation’s research. These ten organisations are the primary investors in Uniseed's Commercialisation Fund. All our companies come from the labs of the institutions that back us.
Commercialisation Fund
Works at the earliest stage, inside the universities, turning research into companies. Returns are one of several measures here, alongside discoveries commercialised, companies formed and real-world impact.
Venture Fund
Backs the strongest of those companies as they develop and scale, focusing on financial return as the measure of success.
We also manage investment funds on behalf of other major investors, including $100m for one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, UniSuper.
Why this makes us a better investor
The two funds aren’t parallel - they feed each other. By the time a company reaches the Venture Fund, we’ve already backed it through the Commercialisation Fund: we’ve worked the science, tested the market and watched the team perform. When we invest at venture stage, we’re backing a company we’ve already helped de-risk from the inside.
Co-investors, industry experts, experienced operators and the commercialisation offices of our ten partners - introductions that would take a founder years to earn. We have co-invested with over 160 venture funds and partners over the last 10 years alone.
The Uniseed Ecosystem
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