About Self Funded.
Self Funded is a public index of Australian and New Zealand venture capital. It exists because the equivalent global directories — the Crunchbases and the Pitchbooks — are paywalled, US-centric, and frequently wrong on Australian entries. The local ecosystem deserves a better record.
What we do
We curate publicly available information from fund websites, partner announcements, ASIC and ACN filings, the AIC, and the firms themselves. The result is a single, navigable index — funds, partners, fund sizes, stages, portfolios — that anyone can read without an account.
What we don't do
We don't publish unverified figures. If we can’t find a credible public source for a valuation or a round size, we leave the field empty. We also don't resell access — the entire dataset is free to read, and corrections from founders and operators are welcomed and published quickly.
Methodology
- Each entry is normalised against a shared schema (see the JSON in
/data/). - A reviewer (currently human) validates founder names, round sizes and dates against at least one independent public source.
- Numbers are converted to AUD at the round close exchange rate where applicable.
- Entries are versioned. The index is rebuilt on every commit.
Contribute or correct
Spot something wrong? Run a fund or company we've missed? Email hello@thisisstudioself.com with a source link. We'll update the record and credit the contributor.
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