Capital and conviction for founders building intelligent and decentralised systems.
Helu Ventures backs AI/ML and Web3 founders from pre-seed through Series A. AU$2B under management, 620+ companies backed since 2020, from a Perth-headquartered firm deployed globally.
AU$2B
Assets under management
620+
Companies backed since 2020
500+
Active portfolio companies
70
Exits to date
50
Acquisitions
AU$2M
Minimum first check
Two theses, one conviction: durable technical advantage wins.
We back founders building the infrastructure, models, and applications that make machine intelligence useful in the real world, from foundation models to the vertical copilots running on top of them.
- Applied AI systems that ship measurable ROI inside regulated or high-stakes industries
- Infrastructure for training, evaluating, and deploying models at production scale
- Autonomous agents that safely take action on behalf of people and businesses
- Silicon and edge compute purpose-built for inference-heavy workloads
We invest in the protocols, rails, and market infrastructure that bring verifiable ownership, settlement, and identity to the internet, built by teams who take security and compliance as seriously as growth.
- Institutional-grade custody, settlement, and market infrastructure
- Real-world asset tokenisation and on-chain capital markets
- Decentralised identity, compliance, and risk infrastructure
- Consumer-grade wallets and rails that abstract away the chain
From the first cheque to the Series A board seat.
Pre-Seed
AU$2M – AU$4M
Founder-market fit is clear, the product is early or pre-launch. We move fast, often as the first institutional cheque in, and roll up our sleeves on hiring and architecture.
Seed
AU$3M – AU$8M
Early signal is in market: design partners, a working protocol, or initial usage. We help design the go-to-market motion and build out the founding team.
Series A
AU$8M – AU$25M
Repeatable growth is emerging. We lead or co-lead rounds, join the board, and back founders through the scaling decisions that follow: org design, category strategy, and global expansion.
620+ companies. A handful of favourites.
“Helu wasn’t the biggest cheque on our cap table, but they were the first call we made before every major decision. That’s the difference between a fund and a partner.”
Building in AI/ML or Web3? We’d like to see it early.
Minimum first cheque of AU$2M, from pre-seed through Series A.