The TEN13 portfolio is firing. New products are live, fresh rounds are closing, and traction is building. From a Robbie Williams partnership to multiple funding rounds announced, new investments, and our first institutional investor mandate, thereās plenty happening.
Weāre scaling Australia and New Zealandās largest syndicated investor platform with 500+ investors backing the next generation of founders. In just 5 years, weāve invested over $115m into 55 companies across Australia and the globe.
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Our flagship conference - Runway 2025 is back!
Runway is TEN13ās flagship event in Brisbane (Nov 27) - a full day with Australiaās leading founders, investors, and innovators, all under one roof. Last year sold out, and this year will be no different. Weāve opened 100 exclusive pre-sale tickets, on sale NOW!
šļø Pre-sale price: $149 (full price $219).
Grab your ticket below to join our must-attend event of the year.
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Join us in Sydney for the biggest tech mixer!
Be part of the tech festival buzz in Sydney and join us from 6pm on Tuesday 14 October where we will bring together around 400 of the best founders, operators and investors from the Aussie tech community.
TEN13, Vanta , OIF Ventures , Folklore Ventures, Gandel Invest, and Deel are joining forces for an evening of all-inclusive food, drinks, entertainment / music and standup comedy!
TEN13's first institutional mandate with Queensland Venture Capital Development Fund (QVCDF), managed by QIC
Over the last 5+ years, TEN13 has built a platform to enable angel investors & family offices to access and invest in the most exciting emerging technology companies around Australia and wider. The next evolution of TEN13 includes expanding our investor base to include institutional investors, on top of our core LPs (angel investors and family offices).
Further to this and close to our heart, we have supported the Queensland startup sector for almost a decade - from running the State's biggest annual startup conference, to investing in many great Queensland based companies over many years.
With these two aspects combined, we're honoured to be entrusted with our first institutional mandate under QIC's $130m Queensland Venture Capital Development Fund, meaning that we will have extra committed capital to support technology companies building from Queensland with more firepower and commitment into the future.
Queensland's startup scene is going from strength to strength, vastly punching above its weight. We look forward to contributing further to the tangible momentum we see and feel on a day to day basis. Ā
Read more in Startup Daily here
We're backing OneMRI - A full body MRI platform
On the theme of backing Queensland based innovators, we're excited to announce our investment in OneMRI co-leading their Seed round with OIF Ventures.
Led by Gopi Sara, a longtime and early TEN13 supporter, and joined by Andrew Barnes and Vu Tran, two of the co-founders of TEN13 Portfolio company Go1, OneMRI is leveraging advances in technology and medical imaging to deliver preventative health solutions at scale.
Starting with whole-body MRIs through a unique partnership-led model, the team's long-term vision is to build a comprehensive preventative health platform that uses automation and AI-driven diagnostics to scale early disease detection across multiple tests and modalities.
We're proud to partner with Gopi, Vu, and Andrew at the earliest stages on this ambitious journey to reimagine the healthcare industry.
Read more in the Sydney Morning Herald
We're backing Source to automate procurement
We are excited to back Source, an early AI company redefining how retailers order and manage inventory. Built by 18-year-old Liam Fuller, Source connects into a retailerās data - from emails to sales systems to automate purchasing decisions and remove manual workflows. Liamās sharp execution and global vision stood out early. In just months he turned a cold outreach to leading investors into a $2.1m pre-seed round, relocating from Dublin to Paris to build a category-defining platform.
Our venture partner Brendan Hill met Liam during a trip to Sydney and quickly saw his drive and ability to attract top talent and capital. Source now counts some of the worldās best early-stage backers, including Square Peg and former Stripe CTO David Singleton. We believe Liam and his team are positioned to modernise procurement for retailers in the same way Stripe transformed payments.
Arintra raises US$21m for autonomous coding
Weāre proud to have backed Arintra again in their US$21m Series A lead by Peak XV Partners, as they build the AI backbone for the future of healthcare revenue assurance.
Arintra is solving one of healthcareās most stubborn financial challenges: coding inefficiency. Hospitals face a mission-critical challenge - getting paid quickly and accurately for the care they provide. With over 100,000 possible medical codes and complex payor rules, coding errors cost the healthcare system billions each year.
Arintra is changing that. Founded by Nitesh Shroff and Preeti Bhargava, PhD , theyāre redefining revenue assurance in healthcare, helping providers secure full, compliant reimbursement while easing the burden on frontline teams. Game-changing impact for an industry under pressure.
We first invested in Arintra in 2023, when they had just signed their first customer. Today, theyāre scaling across specialties, have a rapidly growing customer base, are integrated into the largest EHR systems in the US, and are proving themselves against entrenched incumbents.
Read more about Arintra's raise HERE
Everlab raises A$15m for the future of longevity
We are also thrilled to have backed the team at Everlab for a second time, as they announced their A$15M Seed round to build the future of healthcare
In a system that reacts to illness, Everlab is doing something different: making world-class preventive care accessible, scalable, and deeply personalised. Itās now possible to detect disease years before symptoms, allowing enough time to reverse risk factors and prevent the most destructive chronic diseases.
Everlabās model combines advanced diagnostics, AI-powered clinical insight, and a deeply embedded care network to shift healthcare from reactive to proactive.
Weāre proud to partner with Everlab as they scale across Australia (and eventually, the world).
Read more about Everlab's rapid rise - AFR article HERE
On the topic of Everlab, Co-Founder Dr Steven Lu caught up with Mark Bouris AM to discuss preventative health, understanding health warning signs and risks, and how heād fix a broken health care system.
A great watch for anyone just getting into their own preventative health journey.
What's going on in our portfolio?
š From shower grout to startup greatness - The Bookipi Story: A decade ago, Tim Lee was a recently immigrated tiler in Bankstown trying to fund his university education. Today, his company Bookipi provides accounting tools to hundreds of thousands of SMBs across the world. The Bookipi story is the quintessential startup success story. Tim spoke with Channel 9 recently to share his journey from Korea to working as a tradesperson and finally, founding an 8-figure revenue startup - a truly inspiring story.
š» Robbie Williams is Feeling Thirsty: Robbie Williams spent late 2023 touring Australia. After a can of non-alcoholic Heaps Normal following a show, Robbie was amazed. The pop superstar hasnāt drunk alcohol in 20 years and was hooked on the quality of the product. Here began an eventual investment and partnership with the company, detailed in the AFR. TEN13 first invested in Heaps Normal in 2021 as part of their Seed funding round.
āļø How Two Teenagers Built a $100m E-Commerce Giant: Sachin Shah and Adam Miller are creating some of the most in depth, revealing content on the Australian start-up scene out there. Their documentaries earn tends of thousands of views, including 83k on the story of Instant . A few years ago 17yo founder Liam Millward and co-founder William Gao (who met through LinkedIn) turned a university project into a startup that would secure funding from TEN13 and Blackbird and now serve thousands of customers. Itās a great watch on a budding Australian company and insight into the minds of two stellar young founders.
ā±ļøAfter reaches #102 on the Inc 5000: Death is devastating. Amongst the grief, family members are forced to navigate the funeral planning process through an archaic, expensive system. After.com is changing that with simple, affordable cremations, organised within clicks in the United States. Today, After is the fastest growing and highest rated funeral home in the United States.
Inc 5000 recognises the fastest-growing private companies in America each year. In 2025, After.com ranked #102 on the list. An incredible achievement for a company being built from a Utah bedroom just a few years ago.
šŗ Documentary - Inside Raenest: The startup changing how you get paid: This documentary follows the journey of Raenest , a fintech company transforming cross-border payments for freelancers, remote workers, and global businesses. It explores how CEO Victor Alade ās personal experience sparked the idea, how he teamed up with co-founders Sodruldeen Mustapha and Richard Oyome , and how their flagship product Geegpay helps users get paid faster and cheaper across borders.
š Go1 - Building a $3 billion business from their friendās garage: From a flooded Brisbane basement to a $3 billion global edtech leader, Go1 has transformed workplace learning for 50 million users. Co-founder and CEO Chris Eigeland credits his time at Griffith University for shaping the skills and ambition that helped build the company, from writing Go1ās first contracts to thinking globally from day one. Now entering its second decade, Go1 is harnessing generative AI to deliver hyper-personalised learning and free people from repetitive tasks, creating more time for meaningful growth.
šø Pearler launching Super and Home-Saving products for the younger generation: pearler has launched Pearler Super, a low-cost ETF-based super product built for younger Australians who want control and transparency in their retirement savings. Alongside it, Pearler is introducing HomeSoon, an open banking tool to simplify the First Home Super Saver Scheme, making it easier for first-home buyers to contribute, track, and withdraw savings for a deposit. The launch targets younger investors seeking simple, self-directed options to grow wealth and get on the property ladder.
š£ Qsic is powering 7-Elevens 12k store radio and advertising network across the US: One of the largest in-store audio networks in the US is powered by QSIC through its partnership with 7-Eleven, driving the rollout of Gulp Radio to 12,000 stores. Its plug-and-play technology delivers targeted music and ads at scale, using sensors to automate volume, verify ad delivery, and zone audio by product area. QSIC is turning retail media into a high-performing, data-driven channel for both 7-Eleven and its brand partners.
What weāre consuming:
āļø Ā Coatue's East Meets West 2025 Report: Coatue is an American Investment Firm with tens of billions under management and a portfolio that has included Spotify, Databricks and ByteDance, among many other unicorns. Their EMW report covers their latest thoughts and theses on the underlying trends driving public and private markets right - a fascinating, data driven presentation.
š«£ Mary Meeker's AI Trends Report: After a six-year silence, Mary Meeker is back with a 340-page āTrends - Artificial Intelligenceā report arguing that AI isnāt just the next wave, itās the substrate reshaping business, power, society and geopolitics.
š¶ The Chainsmoker - Music & Markets - Invest Like the Best: You would know the Chainsmoker for hits like Closer and Paris, but you probably didn't know they also run a VC called Mantis investing in Seed to Series A companies. Really interesting listen on a duo of artists who are striving to reach the top of a completely new game.
šµ The Innovation Stack by Jim McKelvey: Square's co-founder Jim McKelvey tells the Square story, and all the lessons learnt along the way. A glassblower, Jim lost a sale as he was unable to accept an American Express payment. Over the next decade Jim and Jack Dorsey would go on to build a payment processing powerhouse. From the description: "The innovation stack is a cascade of interdependent business decisions that create a competitive advantage. In Square's case, it was a series of fourteen inventions from free signup to immediate settlement that formed an impenetrable defense against copycat competitors."
A reminder about who we are:
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