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.
We were first
Founded in 2000, Uniseed is Australia’s longest-running venture fund. We know what early stage science looks like before it works and what it takes to help make it successful.
We're inside the labs, and we're early - when early matters
Uniseed is an independent venture investor, owned by the country’s leading research organisations and CSIRO: partners who fund more than 60% of Australia’s research.
And we have the track record
Being early only counts if you’re right. We are experts in deep tech early stage venture, and our methodology works.
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
