Kapunda Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm
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
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- Not in our records
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-26
Pre-Seed, Seed
18+ companies
2 partners
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
Jeremy Atkin
Founder & General Partner
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.
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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
DIT AgTech
Cloud-connected dosers on cattle water troughs enabling unprecedented consistency, precision and traceability in nutritional supplementation.
Frontiers Market
AI-based machine-vision algorithms determining livestock weight to 98% accuracy using a standard iPhone camera.
HullBot
Semi-autonomous free-swimming hull cleaning robots that remove biofouling and improve fuel efficiency by up to 30%.
CounterCurrent
Hyperlocal weather forecast for ships at sea, enabling AI-based routing algorithms that save more than $1,000 in fuel each day.
2024
Conry Tech
World-first high-efficiency miniaturised chillers that reduce energy consumption by ~50% in commercial buildings and data centres.
Rainstick
Electricity-based seed priming that creates faster-growing, more robust seedlings and increases harvest yields across agricultural crops.
Crux Group
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
Leaptran
AI-based solar generation and demand forecasting enabling utility-scale asset owners to optimise energy trading.
Infravision
Drone-based power line stringing and monitoring: cheaper, safer and faster than legacy helicopter-based approaches.
Bueno
Smart building analytics platform that monitors electrical equipment and automatically generates maintenance work-orders.
- •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.
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