Venture Capital Australia | Aust. VC Fund 2 (AFOF2)

AUSTRALIA VC FUND 2 (AFOF2)

The Fund:

provides eligible investors with unique access to a diversified portfolio of high growth-potential early stage investment opportunities;
presents fund investors with a pre-screened and de-risked pipeline of later stage direct investment opportunities into startups with material traction and a relatively short path to exit;
delivers investment returns that are exempt from Australian income and capital gains tax;
achieves portfolio diversification away from traditional equity and fixed income investments; and
supports entrepreneurs, job creation, innovation, new business ventures and economic growth in capital cities and regional Australia.

The investment strategy of the Fund is to:

gain exposure to a diversified portfolio of the highest quality early stage investment opportunities across Australia.
follow-on into the best opportunities emerging from the early-stage pipeline as well as additional contiguous later stage deals qualified via Artesian's boarder network.
invest agnostically across all industry sectors, verticals and horizontals but with a particular focus on 3 sectors - agrifood, clean energy and medtech (~15% of total FUM per sector).
invest ~15% of FUM into seed stage deals, 35% angel and pre-Series A, and 50% into Series A and later stage growth opportunities.
provide co-investment opportunities in pre-screened and de-risked later-stage deals to the fund's limited partners (LPs).

Qualified startup investment opportunities are sourced from:

Dedicated accelerator, incubator, university program and angel ESVCLPs including Sydney Angels, the Actuator, SproutX, Slingshot and the Clean Energy Seed Fund
Artesian's contiguous network, including:
- additional pre-approved accelerator programs
- agrifood, clean energy and medtech industry networks
- the broad Artesian founders alumni
- referrals from late stage co-investors whose mandates do not include early stage investments