Side Stage Ventures

Item: Side Stage Ventures
Rating: 6.9

Founder-led seed fund backing early-stage Australian startups.

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6.9/10MABTU rating

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DESKTOP · 1440 × 11,507/ ↗

MOBILE · 390

Section outline · Home

01heroPink gradient panel, wordmark, mono manifesto900
02manifestoOne mono statement per screen on black4,320
03featuresAccordion items beside gradient tile1,060
04portfolioStrip of portfolio company images and names590
05testimonialFounder portrait with long quote1,116
06teamRow of partner portraits1,444
07valuesRow of small gradient squares1,060
08blogPastel and yellow article cards528
09footerContact links and legal disclaimer301

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Visual design7.0

UX & clarity6.0

Originality7.3

Craft & consistency6.6

Motion6.5

Performance & a11y9.0

This page scores 6.9; the site score weights the home page double.

Main colours

Dark·black background·vivid

Typography

Quadranttextmonotrialheading · font · self-hosted ABC Diatypebody · sans · self-hosted Deniminkaccent · font · self-hosted

Stack & style

GSAP ScrollTrigger Lenis Swiper GSAP Webflow jQuery

Minimal Gradient-heavy Marquee Smooth scroll Testimonial slider Text reveal

Also: Cloudflare

Design DNA

Opens on a full-width pink-to-lilac soft gradient panel with a heavy grotesque wordmark top-left and a centred all-caps typewriter mono manifesto. The rest runs on near-black #141414, split by a single vertical hairline down the centre, with one short mono statement per screen. A how-we-invest accordion sits beside a teal-lilac gradient tile, then a portfolio logo strip, a large founder portrait with a quote, a row of team portraits, gradient squares for ethos and a row of pastel and yellow article cards before a dense legal footer.

Worth borrowing

Run one centre hairline down the full page to tie sparse dark sections together.
Set manifesto lines in all-caps typewriter mono against a heavy grotesque wordmark.
Let the soft pink-lilac gradient of the hero return as small tiles lower down.