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The Shearwater team like to share our thoughts and updates on our LinkedIn profile. Please follow us there. Here are some of our previous posts:

Company structure at inception – what founders need to think about

February 19, 2026

When setting up a company, most founders focus on product, hiring and capital. Structure often feels administrative. It isn’t. At the outset, Australian startups typically choose between two models: A single trading company that owns the IP A HoldCo… Read More

Our Investment in Contented

February 10, 2026

We’re excited to share that Shearwater Capital has invested in Contented, a New Zealand-based AI company transforming how businesses turn conversations into formal documents. Founded by Lucy Pink and Hannah Hardy-Jones, Contented converts recorded me… Read More

Our Investment in Lokol

January 7, 2026

We’re excited to share that Shearwater Capital has invested in Lokol, an AI-native company reimagining how consumers discover culture. Lokol is building what it describes as “AI with taste” – technology designed to deliver more thoughtful, cura… Read More

2025 Shearwater Christmas Party

December 5, 2025

In December we hosted our annual Shearwater Christmas party at Bopp & Tone, bringing together our founders, scouts, and the broader group of people across our network who support us throughout the year. It was a great afternoon spent over a long… Read More

Our Investment in Factory

December 5, 2025

Shearwater Capital has led the Series A investment in Factory, a Sydney-based software company building workflow and job management tools for metal fabricators and small manufacturers. Factory replaces paper, spreadsheets and generic accounting syste… Read More

Zabidou’s pre-seed round

November 12, 2025

Shearwater has participated in Zabidou’s pre-seed round alongside Main Sequence, Antler and Metagrove Ventures to develop ultra-vision for manufacturing robotics. Many production lines in recycling and heavy manufacturing still rely on manual… Read More

Catching Up with the Shearwater Scouts Network

July 25, 2025

We hosted our second Shearwater Scouts Network breakfast, bringing the group together for a chance to reconnect and check in. We were excited to welcome Simon Scarf, CCO of Updoc, to the Scouts Network, adding further depth and experience to the grou… Read More

Our investment in EvenBetter.ai

February 11, 2025

We’re excited to invest in EvenBetter.ai – a SaaS platform that uses advanced AI and market benchmarks to show companies powerful insights and effective actions to close the gender pay gap. By way of background, when I was building my di… Read More

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