Sydney Seed Fund

Sydney Seed Fund is a seed-to-Series A initiative deploying capital from European institutional investors into companies in Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region, backed jointly by Odra Venture and Red Queen Fund. It describes itself as investing in a concentrated set of founders, offering access to a network of consortium co-investors, technology grant pathways and introductions to enterprise buyers. Its structured entry points range from formation-stage support with company and cap-table setup through go-to-market hiring support to later-stage scale rounds, in exchange for equity stakes that increase at each stage. Odra Venture and Red Queen Fund together are described as having backed startups across Europe over two decades, operating across several countries; the fund lists prior exposure to companies working in multi-agent system infrastructure, AI-assisted cyber defence, payments infrastructure, energy orchestration, carbon market reporting and robotic cardiovascular diagnostics.