Partnering with the extraordinary
A strategic growth investor in lighthouse technology, passionate about scaling great products and leaders to deliver Revenue Bearing Relationships TM
Our Story
Telstra Ventures is a strategic growth investor in technology companies that are commencing scale.

We are Australia’s largest Venture Capital fund and have invested over US$450 million in 70 companies, generated more than US$280 million in revenue for our portfolio companies and managed 24 liquidity events.
We provide venture capital investment via a “Strategic Growth Investment” approach. This offers entrepreneurs access to genuine revenue growth and shortens the time to reach global scale. We support and accelerate this through investment capital, leadership and our heritage.
We’re backed by our strategic investors Telstra, one of the 20 largest telecommunications providers globally, and HarbourVest, one of the world’s largest private equity funds.
Our Focus

Cloud
Data, SAAS &
Infrastructure

Security
Behavioural
analytics &
next-generation
security models

Network
5G, SDN, IoT

Consumer
Marketplace, DTC
& Sports

Media
Blend Broadcast
and IP & Data &
efficacy

Mobile
Consumer & Mobile
Apps
Our Difference
Access to Talent & Capital
We actively source and place Board and Executive positions for our portfolio companies through our network of relationships with founders, CxOs, Board Members, and Executive Search professionals. Additionally, through our extensive networks in VC and corporate partners, we access, source and place capital with our portfolio companies. They also benefit from our governance and ability to get executive sponsorship at the most senior levels of the Global 2000 corporates to ensure the adoption of new technologies.
Revenue Bearing Relationships™
Grow with our Strategic Platform
Our association with Telstra and our partner ecosystem provides our companies a “Strategic Platform” for growth. This enables them to build revenue bearing commercial relationships and investment connections across Australia, New Zealand, China, Asia and Europe. Tapping into this ecosystem also allows access to large IT buyers via Telstra, its customers, our partners and our portfolio of investees.
We also provide our portfolio partners premium access to Telstra’s annual business expo ‘Vantage’ which attracts over 7,000 invite-only attendees.