Seed Space Venture Capital

Seed Space Venture Capital is a specialist fintech early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018, with dual-hub offices in Sydney, Australia and Geneva, Switzerland. The firm is led by Founder and Managing Partner Dirk Steller — a former banker-turned-VC and prolific writer on how early-stage fintech founders can navigate the funding valley of death — alongside a team that includes Cathryn Lyall, Tobias Snoad, Arthur Lo, and Tom Mackay. Seed Space invests exclusively in founders building technology-driven, scalable solutions for the financial services sector, applying a rigorous, evidence-based approach to due diligence across payments, capital markets infrastructure, regtech, wealthtech, blockchain and tokenisation, and embedded finance. The firm backs companies at seed and Series A, with initial checks in the $100,000 to $1 million range, and has made more than 20 investments since inception. Two early-stage portfolio companies have progressed to IPO, and the majority of the broader portfolio has gone on to raise successful Series B and Series C follow-on rounds. Named portfolio companies include Redbelly Network — a high-throughput public blockchain with full EVM parity that was selected for the Reserve Bank of Australia's Project Acacia CBDC pilot (most recent disclosed investment, August 2024) — Liquidise (an asset-tokenisation platform that has tokenised over $800 million in unlisted private equity on the Redbelly network), and MIST (financial software). Seed Space's dual-market footprint across Australia and Europe gives portfolio companies a structural advantage in accessing licensed financial-services markets on both sides of the world simultaneously. The firm's combination of deep regulatory domain knowledge and cross-border LP relationships positions it to support fintech founders through both product validation and the complex compliance pathways that define the sector.