Southern Cross Venture Partners

Southern Cross Venture Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to supporting promising entrepreneurs in building successful companies with global potential. The firm focuses its investments on technology, energy, and resources, including renewable technology, across seed, early, and growth stages. They aim to assist entrepreneurs by providing crucial connections, sharing valuable experience, acting as a trusted partner, and collaborating on the vision to build impactful companies.

Founded in 2006, Southern Cross Venture Partners was established by veteran venture capitalists who brought extensive operating experience, having successfully built and sold technology companies themselves. This entrepreneurial background allows the partners to deeply understand the challenges faced by startups and to cooperatively work with management teams through all strategic company-building issues. The firm has a global outlook, with a presence in the United States, Australia, and Asia, facilitated through partnerships such as with SBCVC (Softbank China Venture Capital).

The firm's investment portfolio spans a wide array of sectors, including renewable energy, software systems and services, internet applications, big data, digital commerce and media, telecommunications, semiconductors and electronics, medical devices, security, and advanced materials. Notable investments have included companies like Sunman Energy, Geli, MIPS, Bigtincan, Mocana, and Quantenna. Southern Cross Venture Partners typically invests in various funding rounds, from Seed to Series D and Growth stages, with a focus on companies targeting large, growing markets ripe for disruption and offering differentiated, defensible technology-based solutions.

The leadership team at Southern Cross Venture Partners includes Managing Directors Bob Christiansen, John Scull, and Dr. Mark Bonnar, along with Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Whitehouse. Collectively, the partners possess over 60 years of venture experience, leveraging their operational expertise to guide portfolio companies. The firm operates with offices in both Sydney, Australia, and Palo Alto, California, reinforcing its commitment to supporting global expansion for its portfolio companies.