01Stage
We back emerging founders early, with conviction at pre-seed and seed.
Most funds treat the earliest cheque as an option. We treat it as the whole job: often the first money in, and backed hard.
Announcing our US$350k investment in Fluent BCI
We back emerging founders when others are afraid
Pre-seed capital for globally ambitious founders building new technology. First cheques of A$200k–500k, written from Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco.
Est. 2020
What we believe
Pre-seed is not a lottery ticket. It's a category.
02Sectors
AI, software and hardware.
AI-native teams, and the physical and deeptech products most funds skip. If it is hard to build, that is usually the point.
03Approach
We challenge you, and we're on your side.
Early-stage specialists who push your thinking instead of nodding along. Australia-first and globally minded — hands-on here, with an active San Francisco arm for when it is time to expand.
Who we back
We back founders, not markets. You'll know if it is you.
The hungry builder
Learns anything fast, ships before they're ready, out-works the incumbents.
The scientific operator
Deep research turned into a product the market didn't know it could have.
The domain native
Lived the problem for years, rebuilding their industry from the inside.
Portfolio
Backed early. Building what's next.
First VC in. New categories out.
Relevance AI
Relevance AI is a world leader in AI Agents, enabling businesses to build teams of agents that deliver human-quality work. Galileo invested in their pre-seed round when the team helped companies unlock their qualitative data using vectors and AI workflows. RelevanceAI is growing fast, and used by enterprises around the world with offices in Sydney and San Francisco.
Tixel
Tixel is the leading ticket resale community trusted by millions of fans around the globe. Tixel is a fair marketplace that instantly verifies ticket uploads and puts caps on ticket pricing, pioneering ethical resale globally.
Andromeda
Andromeda Robotics is a robotics and AI startup on a mission to revolutionise human-robot interactions. Founded by a team of passionate engineers, their vision is to create companion robots that are not just smart and functional, but also warm and empathetic.
Varicon
Varicon is the leading cost management platform for construction contractors providing critical data in realtime for project managers. With over $130m worth of projects on the platform and some of the leading civil contractors as early adopters of the platform.
CarbonHQ
CarbonHQ is your all-in-one platform making it easy to manage carbon projects across teams. Internal and external.
TrueState
TrueState, founded by Will Ashford, provides platform for enterprises to adopt high-impact AI agent-driven solutions across multiple sectors and without the need data science and engineering resources. TrueState's mission is to enable the next wave of AI adoption. "We believe the focused and responsible deployment of AI makes the world a better place; delivering increased efficiency, transparency, fairness and standards of living for all."
Kite Magnetics
Kite Magnetics is developing the technologies required for a new age of electric aviation. One that is safer, quieter, significantly cheaper and emissions-free. Kite has invented a new type of nano-material that makes electric motors lighter and more efficient.
Isaacus
Isaacus is a legal AI research company building sovereign, hallucination-free legal models. Its models are trained on the Blackstone Corpus, one of the world's largest proprietary repositories of legal data, covering legislation, cases, regulations, contracts, books and journal articles from around the world. The Kanon model family handles embedding, reranking, enrichment, extraction and zero-shot classification of legal text, benchmarking 26% more accurate and 30% faster than general-purpose alternatives. Isaacus also maintains semchunk, the most widely used open-source semantic chunking algorithm, at over 4 million downloads a month.
SyncTech
Sync Technologies builds a Digital Twin as a Service platform for the insurance and construction industries. Its reality-capture technology combines data capture, 3D visualisation and AI to create detailed digital twins of properties, so assessors can inspect, measure, scope and collaborate on a claim from their desktop rather than on site. Work that used to move through long chains of PDFs and email now runs in one place, cutting inspection time and costs by up to 75%. The platform is used by more than 5,000 people and is part of the Guidewire Vanguards program.How to apply
No intros needed. Feedback to all.
- 01Start the conversationTell us what you're building in your own words. No warm intros needed.
- 02Chat and applyKeep chatting to get instant feedback, or jump straight to the full application.
- 03A partner reviews itEvery submission is read by a partner within 7 days.
- 04Real feedback, either wayYes or no, you get a considered reply — not silence.
Team
Three partners. You pitch a decision-maker.
The AU venture stack is top-heavy. Pre-seed got handed to unstructured angels. We're fixing that.
I'm always excited to work alongside founders in the early messy days.
Don't try to be something you are not, just be yourself. People can respect that.
Field notes
Insights from the field, not the sidelines.
Reports
State of AI 2026 Report
Market data, investment trends and builder insights from our State of AI 2026 — post-event report.
Advice
Founders Corner: Hard Won Lessons from Building in 2025
From surviving crisis calls at 2 AM to navigating Australia's fundraising landscape —the unfiltered insights from last year's Founders Corner.
Letters
Is Australia’s golden goose really a battery hen?
Are we going to totally miss the AI revolution?
Backed
Announcing our US$350k investment in Fluent BCI
Our pre-seed investment in Fluent BCI, a brain-computer interface company using AI to translate intended speech directly to text.
If you're building it, we want to hear from you.
No warm intro required. Start a conversation today and hear back from a partner within a week — whatever the answer.