First to believe.
First to invest.

Backing the most ambitious founders to come out of ANZ, from day zero, wherever they're building – as they rewrite the world from software to atoms.

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Capital deployed
$100m+
Portfolio cos.
0
Locations
Syd · Melb · SF
Years investing
0
Who we back

We invest with conviction – before the world catches up.

Inception, pre-seed and seed cheques into ambitious Aus/NZ founders – wherever in the world you've planted the flag. We lead or co-lead, reserve deeply for follow-on, and stay close for a decade. Concentrated in AI-native software, vertical AI, and the deep tech that defines the next platform shift.

Born ANZ. Building anywhere.

From Surry Hills to San Francisco, Cremorne to New York, Auckland to London – we back the global ANZ diaspora doing audacious things. We don't care where you are, only what you're building.

If you're an Aussie or Kiwi founder building something amazing – talk to us.

Capital deployed
$100m+
Invested principal across four funds since 2013.
Portfolio companies
0
Invested across AI, deep tech, climate and life sciences — from Sydney to San Francisco.
Years investing
0
One of the longest-running seed specialists in Aus/NZ.
Vertical AI AI Agents B2B Software Future of Work Spatial Computing Life Sciences × AI Climate & Robotics Quantum & Deep Tech
What we back

We back the hard things.
The audacious. The early.

Three shapes of conviction. AI rebuilding entire industries. Founders putting software inside atoms. AI doing the work itself. If your company would scare a generalist firm, you're talking to the right people.

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How we help

Your full stack.
Not just a cheque.

Early stage is a race to answers – the right intro, the pricing call, the 2am problem. We built three layers for exactly that, and every founder runs on all of them from day one.

01

Capital

The cheque

Lead / co-lead reserves clean docs legal & hiring help

02

Counsel

The people

Partners Product Counsel Code & Coffee Giant Warm Intro US front door 80+ fns

03

Compute

The infrastructure

OpenAI Anthropic Microsoft day-one credits model eval help perk stack

Compounding runs through all three
The Rampersand Universe

Anyone in tech.
Anywhere. 1.3
hops, median.

Partners

Paul, Andrew, Taryn · on speed-dial

03

Tier-one VCs & SF funds

Sequoia, A16z, Index, Accel · Warm

80+

Top operators

Walmart, Stripe, Canva, Atlassian, Culture Amp

400+

Top functional leaders

CPOs, Heads of GTM, Design, Data

120+

Global LPs

Family Offices, Endowments, Funds of Funds

60+

Portfolio founders

40 companies, opt-in graph

40+
Meet the partners →

The Rampersand network runs deeper than our rolodex. Partners, LPs, venture partners and operator-advisors opt in to the Giant Warm Intro graph – so the intros you need land in days, not months.

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TarynTaryn
AndrewAndrew
PaulPaul
Index
Sequoia
A16Z
Stripe
Walmart
Canva
Atlassian
Culture Amp
Portfolio Founders
Lightspeed
Shopify
Seek
Heads of GTM
CPOs · ex-Figma
Data / AI
Design Leaders
Global LPs
Family Offices
Founders on Rampersand
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