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AI IN AUSTRALIA
The venture arm of AI in Australia

Most people funding AI startups have never built one.

We have. Twenty years running consulting practices, an AI Lab built inside IQbusiness, and a martech company we built and exited ourselves. Pitch us and you're pitching people who've actually done it, not people reading your deck back to you in a meeting.

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What we look for
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AI-native, not AI-added

AI has to be load-bearing in the business, not a feature bolted on afterward.

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Founders who've built before

Not a requirement, but evidence you can ship counts for more than a deck.

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A real, provable problem

We back a specific, unglamorous problem someone will actually pay to have solved.

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Speed over polish

We'd rather see a rough thing working than a polished thing planned.

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Apply

Tell us what you're building.

No deck required to start the conversation. A clear paragraph beats a beautiful slide.

Funding application

We reply to every serious application, usually within a week.
Goes straight to AI in Australia. Not a mailing list.

Not ready to apply yet?

Read the story behind AI in Australia, or see TruthStack, the first company we built this way.