Folklore Ventures

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Congratulations to Folklore-backed @AurorHQ - a testament to the incredible Retail Crime Intelligence platform the team has built, supporting thousands of stores around the world to reduce retail crime, prevent loss, and harm.

A warm welcome to our newest Folk, Florencia Quinteros! As the team continues to grow, we’re excited to welcome Flo to the operations team. After 7 years at Australian Ethical Super managing strategy, innovation and operations, and recently as chief of staff at a health tech scale-up, she brings new rigour, warmth and hustle to Folklore's operations. Welcome Flo, we’re excited to have you on the team.

Supercharge your career with the role of a lifetime. Explore opportunities at @ansarada, @AurorHQ, @UptickHQ and more – roles.folklore.vc/jobs

⚡ The bar for "AI" has shifted: investors are prioritizing industrialized infrastructure (especially data centres) and scaled vertical applications that enable the previously impossible. 🧑‍🔬 Deep Tech shows resilience. We love "unsexy and hard" companies, like @TeamHullbot

"If 2024 was a year of correction, 2025 was the year the Australian ecosystem proved its resilience—and then its roar." Read Albert @bielinko's take on liquidity, the "AI-Native graduation", state of DeepTech, the Silicon Valley bridge and outlook for 2026, in the latest 2025 State of Australian Startup Funding Report: folklore.vc/insights/capit…

We're hiring for a Founding Recruiter at Sphere. This would be someone who would work directly with me and Alex Bowcut. You'll be building out our SF-based eng team, scaling our global GTM hires and setting up the right processes and systems before we go turbo. Must haves: Early stage recruiting experience in technical domains Strong networks within engineering communitieis (ideally in SF) Get sh#@t done mentality Able to withstand Australian accents Enquire within

Paying taxes across multiple countries creates unnecessary friction for global businesses. @get_sphere built an automated tax payment workflow using Airwallex’s Platform APIs, removing the need for manual international wires and complex reconciliation. By embedding Airwallex directly into its platform, Sphere enables customers to fund wallets and pay tax authorities in local currency automatically. All within a single, seamless workflow. “What Airwallex has allowed us to do is take what was previously a very time-consuming, multi-step workflow and completely remove that burden from both parties.” – Nicholas Rudder, Founder & CEO, Sphere This is how embedded finance turns complex global operations into simple, scalable workflows. Read the full case study 👉 bit.ly/4amEDST #EmbeddedFinance #GlobalPayments #TaxCompliance #Fintech #AirwallexAmericas"

🌍 A world class destination for global capital. Capital will find the best companies regardless of postcode, like @a16z investing in @get_sphere. Thanks to Chris Gillings (@cutthroughvc), as well as @Folklorevc #VentureCapital" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lnkd.in/eQZvbtXBhashta…

We’re proud to unveil the latest 2025 State of Australian Startup Funding Report. Now in its 5th year, this Report draws together 1,000 contributors from our technology industry, a community of founders, venture capital firms, investors, operators, Universities, service providers and Governments; sharing data and insight on the Australian startup landscape and emerging investment trends. Access the Report: folklore.vc/insights/2025-…

Join us in Melbourne on the 11th February as we celebrate another year of Aussie founders and their big ideas, with the launch of the latest State of Australian Startup Funding Report, made in partnership with Cut Through Venture: luma.com/9uqrh1qp

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Join us in Sydney on February 4th, to celebrate the incredible achievements of Aussie founders and their teams, and the launch of the latest State of Australian Startup Funding Report 2025: luma.com/nev48n1l As well as an off-the-record discussion on the state of the market, and some predictions for the future, with panelists Alister Coleman, Chris Gillings, Justine Carzino, CFA and Navleen Prasad.

We're hosting events across Australia – celebrating the incredible achievements made by Aussie founders and their teams over the past year, and allowing leading investors an off-the-record forum to share live and unique insights on the state of the market. Thanks to the thousands of founders and investors who contributed to this years State of Australian Startup Funding Report, made in partnership with @cutthroughvc. RSVP to the Sydney and Melbourne founder events: Sydney – 4th February: luma.com/nev48n1l Melbourne – 11th February: luma.com/9uqrh1qp

Hear @alistercoleman unpack what makes Aussie founders so exceptional in building software companies, how Folklore evaluates new startups and the success stories we've seen to date – including the likes of @ansarada, Hullbot, @kry10_limited and @AurorHQ. youtube.com/watch?v=KOXOWX…

Blink and you may have missed it. Here’s what a few of our portfolio companies have been up to: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Your 2025 Auror Wrapped is here! 🔗 1M dots connected 💰 Hundreds of millions recovered 🚨 4M+ crime events reported In addition to preventing loss, you kept your teams and communities safer. A massive thank you for your work! See you in 2026 🚀

@dealroomco : Australian VC ecosystem is the 2nd-fastest growing in the world, produces more unicorns per $1b invested than anywhere else. We spoke to @alistercoleman from @Folklorevc about the exciting opportunities in Aussie VC in our latest episode: equitymates.com/episode/best-o…

Supercharge your career with the role of a lifetime. Here are a few opportunities at our portfolio companies, inc @get_sphere, @kry10_limited, Komodo Wellbeing, @AurorHQ, @ansarada, @Simconverse, @UptickHQ and Visionary Machines – roles.folklore.vc/jobs

"Founded by Australian @nrudder_, @get_sphere launched in December last year as a tax engine that uses large language models to analyse tax law all over the world to help start-ups navigate their obligations. The company has just closed a $32 million capital raising from some of the biggest venture capital firms in the world, including @a16z, @ycombinator and @felicis Ventures. It’s also backed by local firm @Folklorevc and has partnered with big fintech players, including @stripe and @airwallex to assist with remittances." Read more by @ameliamcguiree in the Australian @FinancialReview: lnkd.in/gd9YEkJS