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Main Sequence Ventures

Founders Bill Bartee Martin Duursma Mike Nicholls Mike Zimmerman Phil Morle

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Total investments 78
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 11.14
Lead investments 24
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.45
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning
  • Quantum Computing
Summary

Main Sequence Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The venture was found in Australia. The main department of described VC is located in the Sydney.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Information Services. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lumachain, Maxwell Plus, Intersective. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Australia. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 65 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

This organization was formed by Bill Bartee, Martin Duursma, Mike Nicholls, Mike Zimmerman, Phil Morle.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Main Sequence Ventures, startups are often financed by Blackbird Ventures (Australia), muru-D, RCL Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Blackbird Ventures (Australia), Horizons Ventures, muru-D. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by muru-D, Uniseed Ventures, Square Peg Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cauldron Ferm

Biotechnology
$6M18 Mar 2024 Orange, New South Wales, Australia

RIOS

Artificial Intelligence
$13M05 Mar 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Amber Electric

E-Commerce
Energy
Renewable Energy
$21M30 Jan 2024 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Arkeus

Information Technology
$3M04 Dec 2023 Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Eden Brew

Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$17M03 Oct 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Plotlogic

Mining
$30M30 Jul 2023 Bowen, Queensland, Australia

Number 8 bio

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Farming
Life Science
$1M14 Jun 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Endua

Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Semiconductor
$5M23 May 2023 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Fivecast

Artificial Intelligence
Security
Software
$21M11 Apr 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
News
Prospection Secures $45 million to Accelerate Growth of its Powerful Healthcare Insights Technology

– Prospection has successfully raised $45m from institutional investors in a Series B round, cornerstoned by new investor Ellerston JAADE with participation from existing shareholders Main Sequence and Horizons Ventures.
– Prospection uses real world data, powering evidence to deliver better patient outcomes. Its powerful AI algorithms follow millions of de-identified patients over time to search for patterns in their health and treatment journey. Uniquely, these algorithms can ingest multiple longitudinal patient and commercial datasets globally from varied sources such as governments, insurers, healthcare providers/institutions and health records, to produce rich and accurate insights at high speed.
– These datasets are turned into actionable, medical insights to help determine the best treatment plan for a patient, locate patients who would benefit from improved therapeutic decisions and be written into publishable evidence for scientific journals.

Quantum Brilliance Raises $9.7M in Seed Funding

– Quantum Brilliance is a full-stack quantum accelerator startup based in Canberra, Australia and Stuttgard, Germany.
– The company closed a USD$9.7m seed funding.
– The round was co-led by the QxBranch founders’ and Main Sequence investment consortium with participation from CP Ventures, Investible, Jelix Ventures, MA Financial (formerly Moelis Australia) Growth Ventures Fund, R3I Ventures, and Ultratech Capital Partners.
– The new funding will be used to hire for 20 roles including VP of Engineering and scientists, physicists, software engineers and control engineers.

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Total investments 78
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 11.14
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.45
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cauldron Ferm

Biotechnology
$6M18 Mar 2024 Orange, New South Wales, Australia

RIOS

Artificial Intelligence
$13M05 Mar 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Amber Electric

E-Commerce
Energy
Renewable Energy
$21M30 Jan 2024 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Arkeus

Information Technology
$3M04 Dec 2023 Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Eden Brew

Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$17M03 Oct 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Plotlogic

Mining
$30M30 Jul 2023 Bowen, Queensland, Australia

Number 8 bio

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Farming
Life Science
$1M14 Jun 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Endua

Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Semiconductor
$5M23 May 2023 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Fivecast

Artificial Intelligence
Security
Software
$21M11 Apr 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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