Artesian VC

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

$1.5M

Amount

Grant

Stage

16.02.2021

Date

3

all rounds

$67M

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
Artesian VC is a global venture capital firm that offers an end-to-end platform for startups at seed, angel, and growth stages.

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Sector :

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founded date

01.03.2004

Number of employees

Last funding type

Grant

IPO status

Private

Description

Founded in 2004, Artesian Capital Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Sydney, Australia with regional offices in Melbourne, Singapore, Jakarta, Shanghai, New York, London, and Adelaide. The firm specializes in debt, venture capital, and impact investment strategies, managing over $1 billion in assets under management and investing in sectors such as media, healthcare, energy, clean energy, diagnostics, education, and life sciences. Artesian is also the most active early stage VC in Asia Pacific, with over 500 startup investments, and offers a Venture Capital as a Service (VCaaS) platform for government organizations, corporations, industry groups, and family offices. The firm also focuses on transformational impact investments in areas such as climate and gender equality, with compelling risk/return metrics.
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People

Founders
6
Matthew Clunies-Ross
Matthew Clunies-Ross

Matthew Clunies-Ross

Matthew co-founded Artesian in 2004 and is the Chief Investment Officer. Matthew is based in Artesian's Melbourne office.

current job

Artesian VC
Artesian VC

Matthew Clunies-Ross

Jeremy Colless
Jeremy Colless

Jeremy Colless

Jeremy Colless is managing partner of Artesian Capital Management an alternative investment fund manager spun out of ANZ in 2004. As well as being a principal investor in early stage ventures in Australia and China, Artesian partners with accelerators, incubators, angel groups and universities to create early stage venture capital co-investment funds such as the $10M Sydney Angels Sidecar Fund and Newcastle-based Slingshot Venture Fund. Prior to founding Artesian in 2004, Jeremy spent 18 years trading global bond/credit markets for investment banks including SG Warburg and Lehman Brothers in New York and Hong Kong.

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VentureCrowd
VentureCrowd

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2

Jeremy Colless

Felix Zhang
Felix Zhang

Felix Zhang

Mr. Felix Zhang serves as Partner at Artesian Capital Management. He also serves as Chief Financial Officer & Director at Category Leader Partner Corp 1. Prior to joining Artesian in 2005, he worked in investment banking for 5 years with Banco Comercial Portuguese, Rand Merchant Bank, Morgan Stanley and CIBC in roles including alternative investments, quantitative research, equity research and derivatives trading/risk management. He has a BSc in Applied Math, Computer Science and Business from the University of Wisconsin, a Master of Business Administration from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and a Master in Finance from the London Business School.

current job

Artesian VC
Artesian VC

organization founded

1

Felix Zhang

Gilles Planté
Gilles Planté

Gilles Planté

Mr. Gilles Planté serves as Chief Executive Officer of International & Institutional Banking Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Limited. Mr. Planté served as the Chief Executive Officer of Asia Pacific of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Limited since November 1, 2012. He served as the Chief Executive of Asia Unit - America at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. since March 1, 2012 and served as its Chief Executive of North East Asia, Europe and America from January 2010 to March 1, 2012; Managing Director of Global Markets since 2007 and its Joint Managing Director of Markets since 2005. He serves as Chairman of ANZ China at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. He has been a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of AMMB Holdings Berhad since October 8, 2012. He serves as Direct of Shareholder at Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. He holds an Master of Science from Ecole Speciale de Mechanique et d'Electricite, Paris and an Master of International Finance, Institut d'Administration des Entreprises Sorbonne, Paris.

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Artesian VC

organization founded

1

Gilles Planté

Employee Profiles
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David Rohrsheim

David Rohrsheim

Portfolio Manager, South Australian Venture Capital Fund

Vicky Lay

Vicky Lay

Managing Director

Matthew Clunies-Ross

Matthew Clunies-Ross

Managing Partner

Tim Heasley

Tim Heasley

Partner, COO

Jeremy Colless

Jeremy Colless

Managing Partner

John McCartney

John McCartney

Managing Partner

Stuart Fox

Stuart Fox

Partner

Edwin Chan

Edwin Chan

Team Member

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