Liquidity for early investors,
staff and founders.
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Liquidity for early investors, staff and founders
We provide liquidity to the ambitious founders, employees, and investors building great technology companies.
A few of the companies we have supported
Our criteria
Investing in growth-stage technology businesses with a clear connection to Australia or New Zealand.
Domicile
We invest in Australian and New Zealand companies or founders.
Growth
Stage
Market scale
Product-Market Fit
Investors
From founders
We've partnered with some of the region's most exceptional founders.
“Shareholder liquidity is essential for ambitious private companies like Canva. We were pleased to include SecondQuarter in our recent secondary round. They’ve established themselves as the go-to secondaries provider for emerging tech companies in Australia.”
Cliff Obrecht
Co-Founder, Canva
“Working with Second Quarter Ventures has been an outstanding experience. Their team provided seamless support and expert guidance at every stage of the process. Their professionalism, speed, and genuine understanding of what founders need made a real difference. We’re incredibly grateful for their help and would recommend them to any company looking for a trusted, founder-focused partner.”
Matt Pearson
Co-Founder, Fleet Space
“SecondQuarter’s unique specialisation in secondaries made them a clear choice as a liquidity partner. The team have been exceptional to work with and made the process seamless. We see SecondQuarter as a critical complement to our existing investor base, and we’re excited to have them as our trusted liquidity partner throughout our private market journey.”
Chris Bayley
Co-Founder, Cover Genius
“While we know the real journey and work is still ahead, Go1 has grown to unicorn status and has started to create substantial wealth along the way for our staff and early backers. As a founder, I want to help them unlock some of this value. Being a trusted VC and specialist in this space made SecondQuarter the logical partner to connect our people with. During the first transaction, the team helped us with some of the legal and pricing complexities, which made it very efficient for Go1.”
Andrew Barnes
Co-Founder, Go1
“Providing genuine liquidity to current and future employees has been a very real differentiator in both motivating our best talent and winning new talent. SecondQuarter not only provides that differentiation, but has also been incredibly helpful in setting up the mechanisms to allow that. As humans, the team at SecondQuarter have been brilliant and easy to work with, and I’ve been actively recommending them to my founder circle.”
Sam McConkey
Co-Founder, Bare
“Shareholder liquidity is essential for ambitious private companies like Canva. We were pleased to include SecondQuarter in our recent secondary round. They’ve established themselves as the go-to secondaries provider for emerging tech companies in Australia.”
Cliff Obrecht
Co-Founder, Canva
“Working with Second Quarter Ventures has been an outstanding experience. Their team provided seamless support and expert guidance at every stage of the process. Their professionalism, speed, and genuine understanding of what founders need made a real difference. We’re incredibly grateful for their help and would recommend them to any company looking for a trusted, founder-focused partner.”
Matt Pearson
Co-Founder, Fleet Space
“SecondQuarter’s unique specialisation in secondaries made them a clear choice as a liquidity partner. The team have been exceptional to work with and made the process seamless. We see SecondQuarter as a critical complement to our existing investor base, and we’re excited to have them as our trusted liquidity partner throughout our private market journey.”
Chris Bayley
Co-Founder, Cover Genius
“While we know the real journey and work is still ahead, Go1 has grown to unicorn status and has started to create substantial wealth along the way for our staff and early backers. As a founder, I want to help them unlock some of this value. Being a trusted VC and specialist in this space made SecondQuarter the logical partner to connect our people with. During the first transaction, the team helped us with some of the legal and pricing complexities, which made it very efficient for Go1.”
Andrew Barnes
Co-Founder, Go1
“Providing genuine liquidity to current and future employees has been a very real differentiator in both motivating our best talent and winning new talent. SecondQuarter not only provides that differentiation, but has also been incredibly helpful in setting up the mechanisms to allow that. As humans, the team at SecondQuarter have been brilliant and easy to work with, and I’ve been actively recommending them to my founder circle.”
Sam McConkey
Co-Founder, Bare
“Shareholder liquidity is essential for ambitious private companies like Canva. We were pleased to include SecondQuarter in our recent secondary round. They’ve established themselves as the go-to secondaries provider for emerging tech companies in Australia.”
Cliff Obrecht
Co-Founder, Canva
“Working with Second Quarter Ventures has been an outstanding experience. Their team provided seamless support and expert guidance at every stage of the process. Their professionalism, speed, and genuine understanding of what founders need made a real difference. We’re incredibly grateful for their help and would recommend them to any company looking for a trusted, founder-focused partner.”
Matt Pearson
Co-Founder, Fleet Space
“SecondQuarter’s unique specialisation in secondaries made them a clear choice as a liquidity partner. The team have been exceptional to work with and made the process seamless. We see SecondQuarter as a critical complement to our existing investor base, and we’re excited to have them as our trusted liquidity partner throughout our private market journey.”
Chris Bayley
Co-Founder, Cover Genius
“While we know the real journey and work is still ahead, Go1 has grown to unicorn status and has started to create substantial wealth along the way for our staff and early backers. As a founder, I want to help them unlock some of this value. Being a trusted VC and specialist in this space made SecondQuarter the logical partner to connect our people with. During the first transaction, the team helped us with some of the legal and pricing complexities, which made it very efficient for Go1.”
Andrew Barnes
Co-Founder, Go1
“Providing genuine liquidity to current and future employees has been a very real differentiator in both motivating our best talent and winning new talent. SecondQuarter not only provides that differentiation, but has also been incredibly helpful in setting up the mechanisms to allow that. As humans, the team at SecondQuarter have been brilliant and easy to work with, and I’ve been actively recommending them to my founder circle.”
Sam McConkey
Co-Founder, Bare
“Shareholder liquidity is essential for ambitious private companies like Canva. We were pleased to include SecondQuarter in our recent secondary round. They’ve established themselves as the go-to secondaries provider for emerging tech companies in Australia.”
Cliff Obrecht
Co-Founder, Canva
“Working with Second Quarter Ventures has been an outstanding experience. Their team provided seamless support and expert guidance at every stage of the process. Their professionalism, speed, and genuine understanding of what founders need made a real difference. We’re incredibly grateful for their help and would recommend them to any company looking for a trusted, founder-focused partner.”
Matt Pearson
Co-Founder, Fleet Space
“SecondQuarter’s unique specialisation in secondaries made them a clear choice as a liquidity partner. The team have been exceptional to work with and made the process seamless. We see SecondQuarter as a critical complement to our existing investor base, and we’re excited to have them as our trusted liquidity partner throughout our private market journey.”
Chris Bayley
Co-Founder, Cover Genius
“While we know the real journey and work is still ahead, Go1 has grown to unicorn status and has started to create substantial wealth along the way for our staff and early backers. As a founder, I want to help them unlock some of this value. Being a trusted VC and specialist in this space made SecondQuarter the logical partner to connect our people with. During the first transaction, the team helped us with some of the legal and pricing complexities, which made it very efficient for Go1.”
Andrew Barnes
Co-Founder, Go1
“Providing genuine liquidity to current and future employees has been a very real differentiator in both motivating our best talent and winning new talent. SecondQuarter not only provides that differentiation, but has also been incredibly helpful in setting up the mechanisms to allow that. As humans, the team at SecondQuarter have been brilliant and easy to work with, and I’ve been actively recommending them to my founder circle.”
Sam McConkey
Co-Founder, Bare
Sydney, 13 March 2025 11.56AM
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