WE BELIEVE IN WILDCARDS.
Those with the talent and courage who commit to making amazing things happen from the very start of their journey.
Wildcard Ventures is a venture capital fund built to turbocharge SportsTech* startups and their founding teams from the very beginning of their journey. Led by Tennis Australia and backed by some of the biggest names in world tennis, we invest in founders with global ambitions and an enormous will to succeed.
*Sports, Health, Entertainment.
If this is you, get in touch.
WHAT KIND OF COMPANIES
We are 100% focused on investing in technology led startups that impact the sports, health and entertainment industries. We are SportsTech focused, but we take a wide view of SportsTech. Simply speaking, if you are building innovative technology that aims to solve very real and large global problems that has application in the sports, health and entertainment industry then we would like to hear from you.
WHAT WE OFFER BEYOND MONEY
We consider ourselves a highly strategic fund - as we bring much more than money to our investments. Tennis Australia is one of the most innovative sports organisations anywhere in the world. It governs the sport at the grass roots level, manages the elite pathway, owns events and tournaments including the Australian Open, as well as a large media business that produces the AO. This platform alongside the people that make it happen will help supercharge your business with advice, testing, market trials and introductions to our vast network across the sports, health and entertainment industry.
WHEN WE INVEST
Our preference is to back founding teams from the very beginning at pre-seed and seed stages, but we will also write our first cheques in series A rounds. We believe we hold unique insight into the sports and entertainment industry, which enables us to back exceptional teams with a big vision well before others feel comfortable. We also want to dramatically help supercharge your business, working with you to achieve product market fit and rapidly expand your network across the globe.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
We are on the search for exceptional founding teams who are technology led and bring unique insights and opportunities to solving large global problems with an application in the sports, health and entertainment industry. You might have a vision where sport is the only place you will play or simply a launchpad to other adjacent industries like media, health or medical. And just like sport, we take a genuinely global view, believing that exceptional talent can come from anywhere in the world.
OUR PROCESS
There will be a few hoops to jump through prior to becoming a Wildcard, but we always try to make the process as pain free for founders as possible. The process has two broad steps. Once the Wildcard investment team has agreed terms and allocation with you, we then offer the opportunity to our players who invest together with us in our vehicle. This adds a small amount of additional time to the process, but is definitely worth the step. You can read more about our investment process here.
