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About

Classic venture. Rebuilt for the AI era.

Tall Order is a seed fund based in Melbourne. We write the first institutional cheque into AI-native companies, keep writing them as the company proves itself, and have been doing this at seed for more than ten years.

The name

Building a company from nothing is a tall order

Before the market agrees, before anyone wants in, it’s just you and a belief you can’t prove yet.

Being first to back you is a tall order too. First money in, before there’s anyone to follow, on judgement alone. We called ourselves Tall Order because what we do is hard. But we like hard, because:

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Hard-to-spot founders become the biggest breakouts.

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Hard discipline on price and pacing makes returns more reliable.

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Hard-wiring AI into the firm actually changes how VC works.

One poppy grown far above the rest of the field, lit from somewhere above it
Manifesto

Venture starts with a person and something they noticed

Ten years on a factory floor, watching an old process break the same way, knowing what would fix it but not enfranchised to try.

AI can’t read this founder. There is no dataset for the new “right” that could change the industry. As AI transforms every other workflow in venture, human judgement remains the first and only gate.

The team

A small team with the coverage of a fund ten times our size

Rohan Workman Maxine Lee Shahirah Gardner Sam Henderson Tracie Clark Justine Lum Chris Camilleri