Giant Leap

Giant Leap (Giant Leap Fund.au) is Australia's first venture capital fund dedicated 100% to impact start-ups aEUR" rapidly scalable businesses that blend financial returns with real and measurable positive social and environmental impact. The firm was established in 2016 as part of the Impact Investment Group (IIG) platform, Australia's leading impact-investment manager, and operates from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Giant Leap invests across seed and Series A stages in Australian and selectively cross-border impact-focused start-ups across climate / clean-technology, healthcare / digital health, social-inclusion and education, food-systems and agri-technology, future-of-work, and adjacent impact-investing themes. The firm has raised multiple institutional funds (Giant Leap Fund I AUD 16 million in 2016, Giant Leap Fund II AUD 30 million+ in 2020) with aggregate AUM in the AUD low-tens-of-millions range. Typical initial check sizes are in the AUD 250,000 to AUD 1.5 million range at seed and early Series A. Notable portfolio companies include CarbonCloud, Goterra, Who Gives A Crap, Your Grocer, Sendle, Amber Electric, and others.