SciVentures believes that new businesses must begin with a global market focus to build the strength to survive and grow.

Thus the funds managed by SciVentures have been designed to focus, from the outset, on investment in opportunities with the potential to hold a differentiated, sustainable market position globally.

SciVentures Objectives

•   Grow successful private capital investment in globally sustainable and scalable businesses based on Australian technology.

•   Achieve upper quartile investment returns in the Australian venture capital industry and thus provide competitive returns to SciVentures investors.

•   Develop successful and enduring Australian high technology-based businesses.

•   Provide sustainable career opportunities in Australian high technology-based enterprise development.

•   Support the development of a lasting innovation entrepreneur skill-base and culture across Australian Pre-Seed Fund Eligible Institutions and in SciVentures invested entities.

Background

The SciVentures Pre-Seed Fund is directed towards research outcomes that can be grown into globally-competitive, high growth businesses.

The SciVentures investment process permits staged development of these concepts through to their maturation as "investment-ready" opportunities for later stage investment capital sources.

The SciVentures Pre-Seed Fund is oriented to the full spectrum of scientific disciplines.

SciVentures has developed associations with research institutions situated in all Australian States and Territories.

SciVentures believes that this breadth mitigates, to some extent, the risks that are inherent in very early stage investment by providing diversity of institution, geography, scientific discipline, stage of development and a spectrum of lead times to technology commercialization.

The intended breadth also enables SciVentures to calibrate and assemble the opportunities to achieve the best possible results.

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International studies have shown that the movement of a research finding from the laboratory to the market is an inherently "lossy" process.

Thus, SciVentures has created a fully integrated process that takes account of recognized early innovation stage characteristics and integrates training and facilitation at eligible institutions with a multi-staged investment process through the pre-seed phase.