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Aura Ventures

Founders Calvin Ng Eric Chan

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 2.27
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 2
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Logistics
Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Sydney. The fund was located in Australia.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Aura Ventures, startups are often financed by Wavemaker Partners, Adam Schwab, Walden International. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TNB AURA, tryb Group, Robert Phillpot. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Artesian VC, RTL Group Investments, Alium Capital.

This organization was formed by Calvin Ng, Eric Chan. We also calculated 14 valuable employees in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Australia. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ynomia, Bookwell, Shippit. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, CRM.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hatch

Human Resources
Professional Services
Recruiting
$5M19 Feb 2024 Australian Capital Territory, Australia

VycoLend

Blockchain
Lending
$500K18 Apr 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

GAMURS Group

eSports
$12M05 Oct 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Layer

Gaming
Marketplace
Media and Entertainment
Video Games
$2M09 May 2022 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Foodbomb

Agriculture
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Travel
$3M04 Aug 2021 Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Everee

FinTech
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$10M16 Apr 2020 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Foodbomb

Agriculture
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Travel
$1M20 Dec 2019 Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Shippit

Delivery
E-Commerce
Logistics
Shipping
Software
$5M02 Dec 2019 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bookwell

Beauty
Internet
Wellness
$1M01 Oct 2019 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Total investments 25
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 2.27
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hatch

Human Resources
Professional Services
Recruiting
$5M19 Feb 2024 Australian Capital Territory, Australia

VycoLend

Blockchain
Lending
$500K18 Apr 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

GAMURS Group

eSports
$12M05 Oct 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Layer

Gaming
Marketplace
Media and Entertainment
Video Games
$2M09 May 2022 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Foodbomb

Agriculture
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Travel
$3M04 Aug 2021 Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Everee

FinTech
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$10M16 Apr 2020 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Foodbomb

Agriculture
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Travel
$1M20 Dec 2019 Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Shippit

Delivery
E-Commerce
Logistics
Shipping
Software
$5M02 Dec 2019 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bookwell

Beauty
Internet
Wellness
$1M01 Oct 2019 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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