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Kapunda Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm

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Kapunda Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Australia investing in Climate / Energy, Developer Tools. The firm has 18 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
18 companies on record
Partners
2 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Climate / Energy, Developer Tools
HQ
Australia
Check size
Not in our records
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-10-26

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Portfolio

18+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investor activity
Last known investment: 2025

Investment Thesis

Early-stage hard-tech investor focused on renewable generation, grid infrastructure, storage, and electrification. The firm explicitly emphasizes backing difficult, capital-intensive technologies that larger consensus-driven funds often avoid.

How Kapunda Ventures invests

Kapunda Ventures is a vc firm based in Australia. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Climate / Energy, Developer Tools.

Investing since at least 2020, Kapunda Ventures has backed 18 companies in our records, including DIT AgTech, Frontiers Market, HullBot. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2025.

Partners & Team

JA

Jeremy Atkin

Founder & General Partner

energy
industrials
agriculture

Jeremy is an experienced early-stage investor who has built a portfolio of leading Australian hard-tech startups across the energy, industrials, and agriculture sectors as co-founder of Bandera Capital. Prior to founding Bandera, Jeremy was a founding employee of the corporate venture capital funds of Lane Crawford Joyce Group and Woolworths (W23), where successful investments included Eucalyptus, Sonder and Samsara. He began his career as a management consultant at LEK Consulting, where he developed analytical due diligence skills working on Private Equity transactions. He holds a BCom (Liberal Studies) from Sydney University with First Class Honours in Economics.

U

Unknown

GP

Hard-tech
CleanTech
Electrification

Industry Focus

Invests In

Climate / Energy
Developer Tools

Recent Activity

Invested in HullBot

2025 · portfolio records

Invested in Frontiers Market

2025 · portfolio records

Invested in DIT AgTech

2025 · portfolio records

Invested in CounterCurrent

2025 · portfolio records

Invested in Rainstick

2024 · portfolio records

Invested in Conry Tech

2024 · portfolio records

Invested in Crux Group

2024 · portfolio records

Invested in Leaptran

2023 · portfolio records

Portfolio Companies (18)

2025

DI

DIT AgTech

Agriculture·Seed

Cloud-connected dosers on cattle water troughs enabling unprecedented consistency, precision and traceability in nutritional supplementation.

FR

Frontiers Market

Agriculture·Seed

AI-based machine-vision algorithms determining livestock weight to 98% accuracy using a standard iPhone camera.

HU

HullBot

Industrials·Seed

Semi-autonomous free-swimming hull cleaning robots that remove biofouling and improve fuel efficiency by up to 30%.

CO

CounterCurrent

Industrials·Seed

Hyperlocal weather forecast for ships at sea, enabling AI-based routing algorithms that save more than $1,000 in fuel each day.

2024

CO

Conry Tech

Industrials·Seed

World-first high-efficiency miniaturised chillers that reduce energy consumption by ~50% in commercial buildings and data centres.

RA

Rainstick

Agriculture·Seed

Electricity-based seed priming that creates faster-growing, more robust seedlings and increases harvest yields across agricultural crops.

CR

Crux Group

Energy·Seed

Small modular suburban batteries: installable in days with no grid upgrades or council approvals required. 60 units deployed in Sydney and a further 6,000 sites secured.

2023

LE

Leaptran

Energy·Seed

AI-based solar generation and demand forecasting enabling utility-scale asset owners to optimise energy trading.

IN

Infravision

Energy·Seed

Drone-based power line stringing and monitoring: cheaper, safer and faster than legacy helicopter-based approaches.

BU

Bueno

Industrials·Seed

Smart building analytics platform that monitors electrical equipment and automatically generates maintenance work-orders.

How to pitch Kapunda Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Climate / Energy, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
  • •cold outreach ok
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Jeremy Atkin, Founder & General Partner.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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