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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:

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

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

2024 – Shearwater turns six and we have $100m for founders

December 20, 2024

This year Shearwater Capital marked our sixth year. Plenty has changed in the world since September 2018, when Mike, Charles and myself first sat together in a small, windowless room at the Hub in Darlinghurst and tried to work out what Shearwater Ca… Read More

Launching the Shearwater Scouts Network

November 8, 2024

Recently, we launched the Shearwater Scouts Network and kicked things off with a breakfast alongside an incredible group from our network. The Scouts Community is focused on introducing us to founders building great businesses we can help support. Fr… Read More

Our Investment in Vivi

July 19, 2024

Shearwater Capital has recently completed a founder secondary in Vivi, an edtech company from Melbourne. Vivi’s innovative technology is trusted by over 2,000 schools, 100,000 classrooms and 625,000 teachers and students.  Vivi is expanding rapi… Read More

How VCs Become Assholes – and why we try not to

June 14, 2024

Rayn Ong from Archangel Ventures recently posted an article on LinkedIn titled: How VCs Become Assholes. So much of what Omri touched on resonated with my own journey as an investor. I’ve been a founder and I chose to invest with this experien… Read More

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