Home topics news Main Sequence team: (left to right, top) Virginia Crawter, Bill Bartee, Mike Nicholls, Phil Morle; (left to right, bottom) Stella Xu, Mike Zimmerman, Jen Baxter | Main Sequence Featured Funding | Investment News Featured Main Sequence announces $250 million deep tech fund to make the world a better place Guillermo Troncoso April 27, 2021 Australian deep tech venture firm Main Sequence has announced a $250 million fund to increase its focus on solving some of the world’s biggest issues in areas such as climate and food. Main Sequence aims to turn scientific and research endeavours into successful companies, in turn providing more experts in various fields with further resources to craft tangible technology. When it comes to finding and then funding companies, Main Sequence looks at integration as a key approach, building a startup with science, people, and investment in the fold. The firm has six ambitious areas of focus: feeding 10 billion people, decarbonising the planet, democratising health access for everyone, supercharging industrial potential, providing society with the tools needed to adapt to the future, and unlocking the benefits of space for humanity. The sizeable fund comes thanks to support from several major investors, including Horizons Ventures, Hostplus, Lockheed Martin and Temasek, as well as family offices and private investors from Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Mutual Trust. Chapter Two This marks the second major fund of this kind from Main Sequence, following its first fund launched in 2017. Backed by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO,