Early stage funding syndicate Aspect Stage Ventures, which is backed by a number of founders, together with Linktree cofounders Anthony and Alex Zaccaria, has moved into mainstream VC 15 months on, elevating $15 million for its first fund.
The Zaccaria siblings, together with What the Well being founder Emily Casey, UNIFIED Music Group’s Jaddan Comerford, and others, initially launched Aspect Stage in April final yr with a posse of musicians, entertainers, and founders as traders. The syndicate of greater than 100 folks poured funds into the likes of alcohol-free beer startup Heaps Regular, hospitality ordering platform Mr Yum, together with Delegate Join, which rebranded as Joyn and final month acquired veteran occasion administration enterprise Arinex to turn out to be
The brand new iteration of Aspect Stage has seen Go1 cofounder Andrew Barnes, Airtasker CEO Tim Fung and UK-based VC and fund-of-funds, LocalGlobe, signal on as restricted companions.
Aspect Stage Ventures will make $500,000 investments on the Seed degree in Australian startups and the fund has already backed three corporations in well being, generative AI and HR, together with on-line ache administration platform, Extra Good Days. They’re describing it as “the seed fund that we want we had after we have been beginning out”.
Anthony Zaccaria stated Aspect Stage “is based by founders for founders”.
“Most of us are nonetheless operating our personal corporations proper now and so perceive what it takes to construct and scale international corporations. This offers us a singular capacity to grasp and help founders alongside the journey,” he stated.
“That’s actually what Aspect Stage Ventures is about — a particular neighborhood of founders backing different founders with the identical ardour and enthusiasm and perception that we now have in our personal corporations.”
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