OneVentures, an Australian venture capital firm, has launched its second fund seeking to raise $100m from institutional investors and high net worth individuals over the next 12 months.
OneVentures Innovation and Growth Fund II will focus on emerging Australian companies with global ambitions across healthcare, education, mobile, media, cloud computing and data, security and privacy, machine learning, sensors and robotics, and food security.
Led by Dr Michelle Deaker, Managing Partner, and newly named partner Dean Hawkins, OneVentures has already managed the first OneVentures Innovation Fund, which was formed as an Early Stage Venture Capital Limited Partnership in 2010.
A Portfolio company, Smart Sparrow, this month announced it had raised $10m (read here).
FinSMEs
28/03/2014