Aussie Angels Unveils Ventari Brand
Synopsis
The angel investment platform rebranded as Ventari after growing to more than 3,000 investors and 60 syndicates.
Aussie Angels, the startup investment platform, has launched a new identity as Ventari to better align with a wider network of investors in early-stage investment.
The Ventari rebrand will not impact its investment platform with investor accounts, syndicates and existing startup investments remaining unaffected, the company said.
Founded in 2021, the platform is a connection between wholesale investors and private startups via the syndicated investment mechanism. The company said that it has now expanded its brand to include the diverse mix of participants that it now serves, including angel investors, venture capital companies, family offices and experienced founders.
Startup funding shows stronger activity
The Ventari rebrand arrives as Australia's VC market enjoys a recovery in investment activity following a muted start to the year.
The State of Australian Startup Funding 2025 report by Cut Through Venture and Folklore Ventures found that startups raised a total of A$4.7 billion in total across 414 publicly disclosed funding rounds, up from around A$3.5 billion raised across 418 rounds in 2024.
AI was the biggest funding category, with software, healthcare and climate technology following. It also revealed that funding rounds of greater size primarily continued to attract overseas investors, with U.S., Singapore and U.K. investors being the top three sources of capital for these rounds, and that Australian investors were the main source of seed-stage funding.
Platform keeps operations unchanged
The change in name is meant to better capture the larger private capital ecosystem, but not change how the platform works, the company said. The structure of the existing syndicates, legal frameworks and investment procedures will remain in place.
According to CB Insights, Ventari raised a whopping A$970,000 in 2023 from investors such as AirTree Ventures, Rampersand and Black Nova Group. The platform will remain as a matching service for founders to meet wholesale investors interested in investing in startups.
Australia continues to be one of the top start-up markets in the Asia Pacific region. Sydney was ranked as one of the top 30 start-up ecosystems in the world by the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2025 released by Startup Genome, and the United States is still the largest start-up ecosystem in the world.
More cross-border investment activity was seen in the United Kingdom, Singapore and Canada, where these countries continued to be strong destinations for venture-backed technology companies.
Source: Startup Daily
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