About Macdoch Ventures
Macdoch Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011. It is primarily based out of Sydney, Australia. As of Jul 2025, Macdoch Ventures has invested in 42 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in Australia based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Brainfish Overall, Macdoch Ventures portfolio has seen 3 IPOs and 8 acquisitions including key companies like SiteMinder, Mad Paws and ezyCollect. A lot of funds co-invest with Macdoch Ventures, with names like Justus Hammer sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Macdoch Ventures has team of 2 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Soonicorns
Macdoch Ventures' List of Top Investments
Macdoch Ventures has a portfolio of 42 companies. Their most notable investments are in GreenCom Networks and AmazingCo.Their portfolio spans across Australia, United States, United Kingdom and 2 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Retail and 14 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Macdoch Ventures:
1. Canva
Cloud-based collaborative design platform. It enables users to create various digital content, including social media posts, presentations, and videos, through its drag-and-drop editor. The platform provides access to thousands of templates, photos, and fonts, and offers AI-powered tools for users to enhance design abilities. It allows users to edit images for presentations, invitations, posters, flyers, business cards, and more. The platform offers pre-designed templates and effects. It also provides a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and images.
Key facts about Canva
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Surry Hills (Australia)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series F
- Total Funding till date: $589M
- Employee Count: 14,588 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Dragoneer Investment Group, Next Round Capital and 53 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series F, May 01, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. SiteMinder
Provider of a hotel commerce platform for marketing, sales, and management. The platform empowers hotels to grow their business from a single location. It offers tools for guest acquisition, revenue management, and guest experience enhancement. The platform provides integrations for property management, revenue management, and central reservation systems.
Key facts about SiteMinder
3. Mad Paws
Mad Paws is an online marketplace that connects pet owners with sitters in the neighborhood. Users have to enter the suburb & address details and will be able to see available pet sitters in the locality. Users can arrange a meeting with multiple sitters and select one based on the needs. The platform allows booking on the platform and payments for the services. Charges 15% commission on the transactions. Based out of Sydney.
Key facts about Mad Paws
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Sydney (Australia)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $7.1M
- Employee Count: 219 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Seven West Media, Qantas and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Feb 16, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. Mable
Online marketplace for finding and booking caregivers. The platform enables the user to search, book, and make payments to the caregiver using the online dashboard. Caregivers are categorized under social support, domestic assistance, therapy support, nursing, personal care, independent living, travel, and work support. The support workers can create a profile on the platform.
Key facts about Mable
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Sydney (Australia)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $119M
- Employee Count: 2,059 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: General Atlantic, Ellerston Capital and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Sep 12, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Cloud-based back-end management solutions for omnichannel retailers. Its features include order and inventory management, shipping, fulfilment, returns management, reporting, analytics and more. Its software solution integrates with retailers existing online platforms and enables click and collect, ship from store, omnichannel returns and fulfilment management and more.
Key facts about Fluent Commerce
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Surry Hills (Australia)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $59.7M
- Employee Count: 127 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Five V Capital, Arrowroot Capital Management and 34 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Feb 17, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Macdoch Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Macdoch Ventures has invested in 42 companies over the last 11 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 2 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Flagship and most recent follow-on round was in Brainfish.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Macdoch Ventures' Investments by Stage
Macdoch Ventures has made 11 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.11M and 6 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $3.24M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 11 |
Series A | 6 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Macdoch Ventures' Investments by Sector
Macdoch Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, FinTech, Retail and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 40 Tech companies, 31 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 25 Software companies and at least 21 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 11 |
Consumer | 7 |
FinTech | 4 |
Retail | 4 |
Vertical SaaS | 4 |
Others | 21 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Macdoch Ventures' Investments by Geography
Macdoch Ventures has made most investments in Australia (15), followed by Germany where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Australia | 15 |
Germany | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Macdoch Ventures' recent investments
Macdoch Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Macdoch Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 10, 2025 | Australia | Seed | 4460 | [+2] | |
Apr 02, 2025 | Australia | Seed | 4944 | [+1] | |
Sep 18, 2024 | Australia | Seed | 3476 | [+4] | |
Jun 11, 2024 | Australia | Series A | 3582 | ||
May 06, 2024 | Australia | Seed | 3356 | [+2] |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Macdoch Ventures' Portfolio
3 of Macdoch Ventures' portfolio companies have become public. SiteMinder got listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), in Nov 2021 at marketcap of $1.05B and Terragen Biotech got listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) at marketcap of $15.2M.Here are Macdoch Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 08, 2021 | - | - | 1933 | |
Dec 11, 2019 | - | - | 8533 | |
Dec 11, 2015 | - | - | 1332 |
Acquired companies in Macdoch Ventures' Portfolio
8 companies from Macdoch Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were ezyCollect in Oct 2025 by Sidetrade.Here are Macdoch Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 13, 2025 | Nov 01, 2019 | Series A | 5402 | |
Jul 23, 2025 | Oct 07, 2015 | Seed | 8487 | |
Nov 17, 2022 | - | - | 3249 | |
Aug 29, 2022 | Apr 17, 2018 | Series A | 8904 | |
Jul 14, 2022 | - | - | 1187 |
Team profile of Macdoch Ventures
Macdoch Ventures has a team of 2 members including 2 Partners located in Australia. Macdoch Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Macdoch Ventures
Over the past 11 years, 82 investors have co-invested in Macdoch Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Macdoch Ventures: Sydney Seed Fund, Tank Stream Ventures and 12 others have invested in rounds before Macdoch Ventures. There is 1 company where Sydney Seed Fund has invested before Macdoch Ventures and 1 company where Tank Stream Ventures has invested before Macdoch Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Macdoch Ventures: 27 investors entered a company along with Macdoch Ventures. These include investors like Justus Hammer (2 companies).
- Invested after Macdoch Ventures: A total of 41 investors have invested in Macdoch Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Seven West Media (1 company), Qantas (1 company) and Microequities (1 company).
Recent News related to Macdoch Ventures
•
AI startup BrainFish reels in $9.8 million to expand in the USSmartCompany•Jul 10, 2025•Brainfish, Prosus, Peak XV Partners, Macdoch Ventures and 1 other
•
Flagship Secures $3.75M Seed Funding, Expands US MarketRetail Technology Innovation Hub•Apr 02, 2025•Flagship, Veridical, Tidal, Macdoch Ventures and 3 others
•
Fintech Primary banks $3.5 million Seed round to give SMEs better bankingStartup Daily•Sep 18, 2024•Primary, Carthona Capital, Macdoch Ventures, AfterWork Ventures
•
Sydney agtech Farmbot raises $4.6m for faster roll-out of water monitoring SaaSBusiness News Australia•Jun 11, 2024•Telstra, Macdoch Ventures, FarmBot
•
Farmbot raises $4.6 million to sow seeds in US marketSmartCompany•Jun 10, 2024•FarmBot, Macdoch Ventures, Telstra
•
Fast-growing AI-backed customer support platform Brainfish raises $3.85mBusiness News Australia•May 06, 2024•Brainfish, Peak XV Partners, Macdoch Ventures, Black Sheep Capital and 1 other
•
Retail tech startup Flagship secures $2 million in seed fundingSmartCompany•Sep 14, 2023•Flagship, Tidal, Afterpay, Macdoch Ventures
•
Reask raises $6.55m total in investment fundingReinsurance News•Jun 15, 2023•reask, Mastry Ventures, Collab Fund, Macdoch Ventures and 2 others
•
Climate tech software startup Cecil raises $2.2 millionStartup Daily•Feb 25, 2022•Cecil, Global Founders Capital, Macdoch Ventures, Tenacious Ventures
•
Chillax accommodation booking site Riparide gets away with $4 million raiseStartup Daily•Nov 24, 2021•Riparide, Upswell Ventures, Macdoch Ventures
