H2 Ventures was founded in 2013 by brothers Ben and Toby Heap. Investing in founding teams and the best emerging talent from day zero, we become venture partners for life, providing more than just capital. We bring networks, mentoring and operational guidance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas in Fintech, Data and AI. And we provide curated career paths for the best and brightest talent emerging from Australian tertiary education institutions.
After years of working with some of Australia’s most talented and innovative startup founders, we believe that an organisation’s greatest innovation advantage is, in fact, its people. For this reason, we launched the H2X Talent Development program in 2023.
H2X Talent Development Program
Are you looking for a way to fast-track your career and leverage your quantitative expertise in an in-demand, fast-growing field that is making a positive impact on the world? Look no further! Our unique program offers a rare opportunity for individuals like you to acquire industry-specific skills and secure exciting roles in leading companies.
The H2X program recognises and values expertise in areas such as data engineering, data science, and software engineering. You will hone your data analysis, machine learning, and programming skills, while gaining exposure to real-world industry data sets and challenges. You will interact with industry mentors, subject matter experts as well as prospective employers. With this training, you will be poised to take on high-impact roles that rely on big data to make strategic business decisions. With our strong emphasis on community and skills development, our program offers a unique and compelling value proposition for top talent seeking to make a meaningful impact in the field of AI and analytics.
This is your chance to kick-start your career and to make a meaningful difference in the world in a field that is only growing in importance. Join our program today and take the next step towards a fulfilling career in big data and artificial intelligence.
Positions in this program are strictly limited and we will select based on merit.
We’ve never been afraid to take the riskiest leaps with founders at the earliest stages. We don’t need to see anything built, developed or launched for us to invest. Candidly, it’s never too early. By bringing smart, passionate and daring people together from day zero, we believe more startups will succeed faster.
We back founders with purpose, ingenuity and instinct. They tend to have tons of energy, unique industry insight, an enthusiasm for learning and a respect for others.
Stockspot
Stockspot is Australia’s first fully online automated investment adviser and fund manager.
Edstart
Edstart is a peer to peer nancing solution providing loans for education fees funded by socially conscious investors.
Simply Wall St
Simply Wall St helps investors make better informed investing decisions by turning complicated data into simple visuals.
Forage
Forage help leading companies attract, rank and hire student talent at scale.
Equitise
Equitise is the Trans-Tasman Investment Platform for equity crowdfunding in Australia and New Zealand.
Spriggy
Spriggy helps parents teach kids about money, with a prepaid card and app for 8-18yr olds that helps parents teach kids through real world experiences.
Nod
An artificial intelligence platform that produces personalised documents for experts to provide to their clients in real-time.
Weel
The streamlined spend management platform. With digital corporate cards and smooth systems for managing money.
Sempo
Financial inclusion for everyone: Simple, Transparent, and Instant Digital Cash Transfer
ClaimSpace
Innovating the traditional claim experience across the life insurance industry.
Valiant
Valiant is Australia’s trusted business loan marketplace - dynamically matching business loan seekers with the best loan providers.
FloodMap
FloodMapp reduces the losses suffered by insurers due to flooding, by providing their customers with real time, personalised, warnings.
Triggr
Triggr is a b2b lead generation and predictive analytics platform powered by technographics.
Finhay
Finhay is a platform that helps millennials micro-invest in financial products in Vietnam.
Inspitrip
Connecting you to local experience. Find local insiders and experience the destination as if you live there.
EnterOffer
Buy & sell preloved designer products.
Lumaway
Lumaway's AI matches learners to skills, career opportunities, and learning journeys.
DueToday
An integrated payments, billing and customer contact solution.
Principals
We have been investing in early-stage startups for the better part of 10 years.
For the past five years, we have invested on a cohort basis, in 8-16 startups at a time. All our portfolio companies have participated in our 6 month in-house pre-seed program. We are currently taking some time to work more closely with our portfolio companies.
The H2 Ventures team, our mentors and alumni network continue to help founders for the life of their company and beyond.
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Alumni
It’s a privilege to champion our founders.
Fintech100
Since 2014 we have been publishing an annual Fintech100 report which compiles a list of the best fintech innovators from around the world.
"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change."
