Blink and you may have missed it. Here's what some of our portfolio have been up to:
Wonde — received the King's Awards for Enterprise: Innovation, marking Wonde as one of only 46 nationwide to receive this prestigious recognition for outsized innovation.
Wonde continue to strengthen their global education community, supporting safe data management for over 30,000 schools worldwide. They recently returned from #BETT2026, where they hosted educational sessions on how MyLogin solves classroom access headaches and the state of school cyber security in 2026. As well as celebrating new partnerships with SchoolPix, SchoolGPT, Trivela FC, All In School and more.
The Australian team are looking forward to exhibiting at the ISNSW ICT Conference 2026 later this month.
Visionary Machines — hosted international industry experts for a demonstration of their Pandion Sentinel counter-drone system, including Thales UK's Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME) business.
As a sovereign leader in computer vision and passive optical sensing technologies, they were awarded a $2.93 million Australian Department of Defence contract as part of a Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator. They also recently displayed their counter-drone technology at the Team Defence Australia stand at the Singapore Airshow.
Summ — The Block ranked Summ as the #1 crypto tax platform for 2026. The team recently returned from ETH Denver, where they co-hosted builder nights with partners, including MetaMask.
Summ has created a variety of valuable resources for tax season: https://lnkd.in/gH9D3h-y
Sphere — since closing a US$20 million Series A raise from US VC Andreessen Horowitz, alongside Y Combinator, 20VC, Felicis, and others, they have been hiring for a range of roles — as well as welcoming a few more phenomenal hires to the team. A warm welcome to all.
Nicholas Rudder, founder and CEO, recently hosted an event on Ai building with 1,200 engineers at Andreessen Horowitz SF HQ.
SimConverse — explored how their photorealistic AI models helped build market leading training for healthcare professionals: https://lnkd.in/gbTZYPa9
Auror — received awards in Excellence and Collaboration by Crime Stoppers International, as they continue on their journey to reduce retail crime by 50% in five years. They were also named Vendor of the Year at the 2026 Australian Fraud Awards, an honour they've held for the past few years. After being named Vendor of the Year at the UK and Australian Fraud Awards, and in New Zealand.
Auror maintains visibility at key industry events, including Retail Council of Canada's Retail Secure conference, the Loss Prevention Research Council's 2026 Impact Summit and the upcoming Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA).
