Manuka Ventures was founded around a simple observation: the process of creating startups has historically been fragmented, expensive and heavily dependent on intuition.
Venture creation as a system.
Quietly ambitious.
Institutional intelligence + startup speed.
Melbourne roots, global ambition.
Ignite helps answer what could be built. Lattice helps answer whether it should be. Experiments tell us what reality says.
“What could we build?”
“Should we build it?”
“What does reality say?”
What deserves to become a company?
Manuka Ventures is based in Melbourne. We believe ambitious companies can be built from anywhere when connected to global technology, talent, capital and markets.
The idea every part of the studio is built around.
Manuka Ventures is an AI-native micro venture studio based in Melbourne. We discover, evaluate, validate and build new companies — internally and with corporate partners.