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Websitestarfishvc.com
Twitter@starfishvc
Phone+61 3 9654 2121
Emailadmin@starfishvc.com
Employees
Founded12/01
DescriptionAustralian venture capital manager

Funds

Pre Seed Fund
Starfish Technology Fund I
Starfish Technology Fund II

Offices

East Melbourne, AUS
Level 1
120 Jolimont Road
East Melbourne, VIC 3002, AUS

People

Investment Principal
Investment Principal
Investment Director

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Starfish Ventures

Starfish Ventures is an experienced venture capital manager that understands the challenges of seeding, building and managing high growth technology businesses from an Australian base.

Their investment focus includes high growth information technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
MetaCDN 10/12Venture Round$2.3M2
Ourcast 10/12Series A$500k1
MetaCDN 10/12Series A$2.3M2
ScriptRock 6/12Angel$1.2M10
Ourcast 4/12Series A$1.3M1
Nitro 4/12Venture Round$3.5M1
StyleTread.com.au 3/12Series C$12.5M4
Styletread 3/12Series C$12M3
StyleTread 3/12Series C$12M1
BugHerd 1/12Venture Round$500k1
Aktana 12/11Series A$5M1
DesignCrowd 11/11Venture Round$3M1
icix 10/10Series B$6M2
Evostor 3/10Venture Round$3M3
Audinate 1/10Venture Round$4M2
Ausra 4/09Series D$25.5M5
Ofidium 3/09Series A$3.89M1
ZoomSystems 2/09Series E$20M6
Evostor 11/08Series A$5M3
Evostor 11/08Series A$5M3
5th Finger 6/08Series A$7M1
Aruspex 6/08Series A$3.77M1
Audinate 6/08Series A$3.71M3
Monitoring Division 2/08Series A$3.85M2
Austhink Software 11/07Series B$3.77M1
Quickcomm Software Solutions 12/06Series A$4.1M1
Impedance Cardiology Systems 11/06Series B$5M2
Protagonist 9/06Series A$9M3
G2 Microsystems 7/06Series B$14M4
Engana Pty 9/05Series B$6.1M4
Xelor Software 9/05Series B$6M4
Distra 4/05Venture Round$3.85M1
G2 Microsystems 3/05Series A$6.6M4

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  4. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
    StartupSmart (startupsmart.com.au) [edit]
    Delimiter (delimiter.com.au) [edit]
  5. MetaCDN Completes US$2.3M Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
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  7. Starfish Ventures leads US $2.3M investment in Australian web content acceleration startup MetaCDN (prweb.com) [edit]
  8. Facebook founder Thiel buys into Australian start-up (afr.com) [edit]
  9. Weather App Ourcast Launches With $1.3M From Starfish Ventures (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  10. Nitro, the other PDF software company, raises $3.5 million (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  11. Zappos Clone StyleTread Secures $12 Million To Keep Australia Heeled (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. Zappos Clone StyleTread Secures $12 Million To Keep Australia Heeled (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. Zappos Clone StyleTread Secures $12 Million To Keep Australia Heeled (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  14. BugHerd takes $500K venture capital investment (delimiter.com.au) [edit]
  15. Aktana Launches Suggestion Engine Designed For Sales People In The Field (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  16. CrowdSourcing Platform For Creative Projects DesignCrowd Raises $3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. ICiX Wraps Up $6M For Supply Chain Risk Management (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  18. EvoStor Raises $3 Million Venture Capital Funding (venturedeal.com) [edit]
  19. Australia, Audinate Raises Additional $4M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  20. AUSRA ANNOUNCES NEW FUNDING FACILITY (solarindustrymag.com) [edit]
  21. Ofidium Secures A$6M Series A Funding for 100 Gigabit-per-second Telecommunications (reuters.com) [edit]
  22. Zoom Systems Secures $20 Million In Financing (vendingmarketwatch.com) [edit]
  23. Evostor packs away $5M for storage software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  24. Evostor packs away $5M for storage software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  25. Mobile Marketing's 5th Finger Raises $7M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  26. Aruspex gets $4M for employee planning software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  27. Audinate's $4m to fund US expansion (audinate.com) [edit]
  28. Monitoring Division, Inc. Secures $3.85 Million in Series A Funding (monitoringdivision.com) [edit]
  29. EDGAR [edit]
  30. Quickcomm secures US$4.1 million in Series A financing (quickcomm.com) [edit]
  31. Impedance Cardiology raises $5 million (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  32. PROTAGONIST SECURES US$9 MILLION FINANCING FOR NOVEL THERAPEUTIC PROGRAMS (protagonist-inc.com) [edit]
  33. G2 Microsystems Secures $14 Million in Series B Funding (g2microsystems.com) [edit]
  34. Australia's Engana, a 4-year old supplier of wavelength selective switches, raises $6.1m in Series B round (opticalkeyhole.com) [edit]
  35. Xelor Software Secures $6 Million in Series B Financing, Appoints Bill Stuart and Craig Moore to... (allbusiness.com) [edit]
  36. Distra announces investment by Starfish Ventures 15.04.05 (starfishvc.com) [edit]
  37. EDGAR [edit]
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