Venture capital firm

Folklore Ventures

Australian venture capital firm backing early-stage technology founders in Australia and New Zealand

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TrustList summary

Folklore Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Australia that invests in early-stage technology founders. It backs teams in Australia and New Zealand and aims to stay alongside them from the first investment onward. Its partners are former founders and builders who say they want to be the investors they wished they had.

Products and services

Early-stage investment: it invests first, at the very start of a company's life.
Long-term partnership: the team describes itself as a coach in the founder's corner as the business grows.
Office hours: founders can book a session with the team to talk through their plans.

Who it works with

Technology founders and their teams in Australia and New Zealand, particularly at the earliest stage. One company featured on the site is Arkeus, which is building sensing and decision software for autonomous systems.

Key facts

Based in: Redfern, New South Wales, Australia
Focus: early-stage technology companies
Stated values: long-range ambition, diversity, founder vision and the power of teams

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Rankings

Folklore Ventures is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #35.

Every ranking orders its listings by their reviews, how complete the profile is and the Trust Score. Folklore Ventures has no reviews yet and 3 of the 10 profile details we look for. Where no listing on a page has been reviewed, the order follows the profiles alone.

Venture capital firm · 1 ranking

#35of 91
Series b
It is one of 23 here listing seed stage and one of 31 here listing series a.
Of the top 71 here, 42 also cover series and 31 also cover series a; 8 also work in London and 6 also work in New York City.
Behind Flashpoint Venture Capital, ahead of Framework Venture Partners.

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