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What does Side Stage Ventures invest in?
Side Stage Ventures invests most often at Pre-seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Venture Capital & Private Equity.
Side Stage Ventures highlights
- 01
1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Pre-seed: 100% of its rounds
What they do
Side Stage Ventures is a founder-led seed fund backing outlier founders in Australia.From their own website
- Type
- Angel network (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $2.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Based in
- Melbourne, Australia
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Jul
- 2025
1 round
- Jul
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Side Stage Ventures's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: fund news.
Canva1 fundFund Vintage Committed Side Stage Ventures Fund II - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
16 of 35 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.