FAQs

We invest in strengths, not the absence of weaknesses. We love meeting founders with:

• Deep domain expertise.
• The ability to evangelise their vision to attract future capital and exceptional hires.
• Commercial hustle and resiliency to pivot if needed.
• Self-awareness to constantly adapt in a rapidly changing environment.

We focus on backing exceptional people going after world-changing market opportunities. Currently we only invest across business-to-business sectors – typically from Seed to Series B investment stage.

We start with the founding team:

• Do you have deep domain expertise?
• A visceral connection to the problem?
• Are you making it your life’s work to try and solve it?
• Is your vision changing the game?
• Can you evangelise your vision to attract future capital and exceptional hires?
• Do you have the commercial hustle and resiliency to pivot if needed?
• And the self-awareness to constantly adapt?

Then we look at the problem being solved:

• Is it a big problem for a large customer market?
• Is the problem relevant to Japanese market – most are but we want to see relevance in order for us to add particular value?
• Are your execution processes (growth, distribution) scalable?
• Can you build a category defining business?
• Does your market have near unlimited potential?

We’re based in Central Melbourne, but we’re just a Zoom call away from anywhere.

No – InterValley is a Australian ESVCLP fund – however some its fund has been raised in Japan and it has an office in Tokyo for its Japan based partners. As a result of its strong ties to Japan it leverages its networks in both Japan and Australia to offer its portfolio companies unique support in both countries and indeed globally given the very strong international experience of its partners.

The majority of our partnerships are with Australian entrepreneurs as that’s where we can add the most value – helping build your team, connecting you with other founders, and providing access to expertise.

However, we are actively looking for companies that are market leaders globally and they’re looking for our help to expand into the Australian or Japanese markets.

When those companies are also in a space that’s particularly relevant to Australia or Japan - then it’s a no-brainer for us to get involved.

It’s likely that we will ask to be involved at the board level as Board Observers Founders typically want to use our experience and track record to help them anticipate the challenges to come.

We don’t leave our impact just for the formal meetings – we have a strong preference for fluid and regular communications – to provide support and guidance to our founder teams.

No, we in fact we prefer to co-invest with other great investors who can bring value to the table and have a strong track record of doing so.

Our typical investments range between $250k and $3m.

Tobacco, drugs, alcohol, gambling, indecent or offensive media or weapons – they aren’t for us.