Galileo Ventures
Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
Sydney, Australia
Countries of investment
- Australia
- United States
- New Zealand
- Singapore
Investment stages
- Pre-seed
- seed
- Series A
Industries
- AI
- Fintech
- Health Tech
- Blockchain
About
Galileo Ventures is an Australian pre seed to seed VC with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and San Francisco. It backs emerging founders building new technology for global markets, providing early capital typically 200k to 500k dollars, hands on support, and a pathway to US scale up for AI, robotics, enterprise software, and deep tech startups.
Galileo Ventures is an Australian pre seed to seed VC with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and San Francisco. It backs emerging founders building new technology for global markets, providing early capital typically 200k to 500k dollars, hands on support, and a pathway to US scale up for AI, robotics, enterprise software, and deep tech startups.
Investment Thesis
Galileo’s thesis is to back emerging and first time founders with earned insight and global ambition, writing the first cheques at pre seed and seed into radically new products across AI, software, hardware, and deep tech. It invests in founders, not sectors, and supports expansion from Australia into the US.
Manager's Experience
Led by James Alexander (Managing Partner), former software engineer at pre-VC Atlassian, founder of INCUBATE (supporting 200+ startups), and backer of 25+ seed-stage AI/deeptech startups; Hugh Stephens (General Partner), bootstrapped Sked Social to 10,000+ global brands without VC capital; and Julia French (Partner), Silicon Valley veteran who personally backed 125+ startups and worked with Atlassian, Dropbox, and WhatsApp.
Team
James Alexander - Managing Partner (Sydney / SF)
Hugh Stephens - General Partner (Melbourne)
Julia French - Partner (Sydney / SF)
Portfolio
Andromeda
BuildAI
CarbonHQ
Curiious
Dromeda
Envirometrics
Envited
Huey
Kinder World
Kite Magnetics
Relevance AI
Sizle
Steppen
Tempest Engine
Tixel
TrueState
Varicon
WiseList
Zendir