Artesian Venture Partners

The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm focused exclusively on mid-market growth businesses valued at up to $400 million. Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has invested in more than 520 transactions. We bring strong operational and financial resources and pride ourselves on being a good partner. We prefer to partner with sellers seeking to remain involved in the company as we work together to enhance processes, expand product offerings and attract new customers. We move quickly for compelling opportunities, and can close transactions within 30 to 90 days.

BGH Capital is an Australian private equity firm founded in 2017. It focuses on buyout and growth investments across a range of industries in Australia and New Zealand.

Wingate is a leading Australian private credit investment manager, specializing in real estate and mid-market corporate debt solutions.

Portland House Group manages the capital of the Australian-based Hains family. Portland House invests in equities (local and global), fixed income, currencies, and asset managers including hedge funds.

LJCB Investments is the primary investment vehicle of the Australian-based Liberman family. LJCB and the Liberman family have a diverse portfolio of investments spanning real estate, technology and other sectors. LJCB Investments stands for Lee, Joshua, Cassy and Berry Investments.

Thorney Investment Group is Alex Waislitz’s private investment group, investing in listed and unlisted equities, digital currency and real estate. It manages the listed Thorney Opportunities and Thorney Technologies investment companies.

Advent Partners is a Melbourne based private equity firm specialising in mid-market businesses. It is one of Australia's most experienced managers, having invested in more than 90 companies over more than 30 years. Advent has a clear investment criteria: it focuses on privately owned businesses in growing markets, with strong management tearms, operating profits if $5 to $30 million, and enterprise values of $20 to $150 million. Advent can do both minority and majority investments, with shareholdings ranging from 33 to 95%. It usually seeks to exit within three to five years. Advent has a broad industry focus, with the only exceptions being property development, agriculture and resources.

Tanarra is a diversified investment manager investing for superannuation funds, financial institutions and family offices across private and public equity, debt, venture capital and special situations; its venture activities include Tanarra Ventures and Tin Alley Ventures.

Blackbird is an Australia and New Zealand venture capital firm backing ambitious technology companies from the earliest stages through later growth. It invests across software, deep tech, climate, fintech, health and other technology-led sectors, with portfolio companies including Canva, SafetyCulture, Culture Amp, Zoox and Halter.

Brandon Capital Partners (Brandon Capital) is a life-sciences venture capital firm investing from seed through expansion capital and managing Brandon BioCatalyst, a life-science investment collaboration.

Square Peg is a venture capital firm that invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy in Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and Israel.

Bioscience Managers is an international healthcare investment firm that finances and enables innovative science and technology with the potential to transform healthcare. Bioscience Managers invests in private and public healthcare companies with clear technological and market advantages in any territory, where we are confident that our engagement with management will deliver commercial success and returns for investors. We are both geographically and therapeutically agnostic. We invest in public and private healthcare companies in any territory which work in therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics or digital health, which are in or near clinical development or commercialisation. Our strategy is to take a a meaningful stake in our investee companies, including board representation, advisory and or hands-on-roles to augment existing skills and to build a proactive and supportive relationships. We are part of the PhillipCapital Group, which has £30bn under management across 16 offices around the world.

Light Warrior is Radek Sali's private investment firm. Radek Sali was previously the CEO of Swisse vitamins and led the business over a 10 year growth period to a $1.7bn sale in 2015. Light Warrior invests in a variety of businesses, from early stage startups to more established businesses. Light Warrior is a socially minded, positive and principle-driven investment firm. Investments to date include an investment in Jimmy Grants food outlets, Hydralyte, Made by Cow, and Stratosphere Agency.

The CEM Group is a Melbourne based private investment group focussed on investing in and growing innovative businesses. CEM seeks to control investments in niche-oriented companies where we can partner with existing management teams to build industry leading businesses through internal growth and selective add-on acquisitions. The firm's original background was real estate (including Quest Apartments and a large number of real estate development assets), however it has since broadened its horizons. Since founding in February 2015, CEM has invested in over 25 companies.

Nash Capital is a private equity manager with $150m of funds under management. We invest between $10m-$30m in SME's across Australia and New Zealand, and seek to acquire companies between $10m to $100m in Enterprise Value.

RCF Innovation is Resource Capital Funds’ growth private equity strategy focused exclusively on mining equipment, technology and services companies.

Jagen is the Melbourne-based family office of Justin Liberman, a member of the well-known Liberman family, Jagen is very active in real estate investing, as well as venture, growth and private equity.

REA Group is a listed digital advertising business focused on property. It operates property websites and related services and holds strategic investments in other businesses.