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Navitas Ventures is the education venturing arm of Navitas. With teams in 50 cities around the world, we build, invest and partner in education innovation. We are a dynamic team that works with founders, entrepreneurs, tertiary institutions and industry partners in flexible ways. Navitas Ventures does not have a set amount of capital which must be invested in a limited period, but seeks to invest approximately $10m per year. It is looking for long-term investments in companies which will work in synergy with the Navitas education business. Typically, it will look to initially own between 5-15% of a company's equity, with potential to grow this in follow-on rounds. Navitas was an Australian education startup 20+ years ago and pioneered the pathways business model, now a global multi billion dollar industry. In 2014, Forbes ranked Navitas one of the world's most innovative growth companies and today Navitas is a $2b education company serving more than 80,000 students in 50 countries.

Fairfax Digital Ventures is part of Fairfax Media, a leading multi-platform media company in Australasia. Fairfax Digital Ventures invests in early and growth stage internet based companies. Its current portfolio includes businesses in digital publishing, online dating, weather services, e-health, online education, subscription video-on-demand, online jobs search and online tenders. Digital Ventures welcomes approaches from companies with proven traction seeking investment funds (either through cash or investment-in-kind through advertising) to expand their existing business in Australia, or seeking assistance to launch a proven overseas business model locally in Australia.

Backing great Australian start-ups is in our DNA. We are a team of investors, entrepreneurs and business leaders with a passion for building businesses and we have been successful in doing so. To date, Aura Group has been an integral part of the success stories of a number of local start-ups from a variety of sectors. These include Catapult Sports (global leader in wearable analytics), Finsure (Australia's fastest growing mortgage aggregator) and InStitchu (Australia's leading online provider of tailored menswear). The Aura Investment Doctrine has been shaped through the years of experience we have in this asset class both as founders and investors. It is a widely referenced document within our firm and has become our philosophy for the Venture Capital landscape. This Doctrine outlines key criteria that must be observed when identifying new opportunities and includes engaging with a proven concept, Identification of positive thematics, Deep assessment of the business environment, Ensuring a clear path to profitability and Partnering with a strong management team. If a company does not possess all of these characteristics we simply will not invest.

Talu Ventures is an early stage technology investor in Australia, with a particular focus on biotechnology, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Talu was founded in 2012 by three of the partners of CM Capital. Talu's founders have dedicated their careers to the IT and biotech industries and they understand the challenges of building companies from the ground up. In collaboration with Talu's Industry Advisors, portfolio companies can draw upon more than a century of leadership roles within a broad spectrum of successful companies. Talu has been the lead investor in more than 90 percent of its investments.

The Foundry invests in health, wellness and beauty brands based in Australia. The Foundry was set up by Michael Da Gama Pinto, the former CFO of Swisse Wellness, an Australian health supplements brand sold in 2015 for US$1.5bn. The Foundry has an experienced management team with expertise in product expansion, both into local and offshore markets, including China.

We connect entrepreneurs with corporates and investors to solve the world's greatest challenges with technology. We help entrepreneurs design and build their pilot products in exchange for equity. We also typically invest up to $50,000 from our partners and VC fund(s) and provide training through our program supported by a team of full time entrepreneurs in residence (EIR). We are a team of 50 people with deep knowledge in achieving product-market fit, raising capital and establishing pilots. We have substantial expertise in development for web and mobile, as well as experienced senior people in product management and marketing. We are privately backed by some of the most respected family offices in Australia and the US. We invest in non-coding entrepreneurs who hold deep domain knowledge in their chosen industry (we look for founder-market fit) and we look for companies which have strong operational models. We then help our startups raise follow-on funding from our investor community and venture capital funds as well as help them hire their own engineering teams. We typically invest up to $250,000 in selected later stage companies on a follow-on basis. By connecting with our corporate partners to set up pilot trials, we help startups gain commercial traction.

Alceon Private Equity is a modern, ambitious and flexible private equity firm that does things a bit differently. We are diversely skilled business, operations and finance specialists within the $6 billion FUM Alceon Group. We invest in mid-market growth companies where we believe we can help more effectively and rapidly realise those companies' potential and consequently deliver outstanding returns to shareholders, founders and investors. We use modern tools, processes and playbooks that build from historically proven approaches but evolved to suit the future, not the past. As part of the successful Alceon Group, we have access to a large network of loyal investors with appetite to grow their wealth through investing in a variety of asset classes. Combined with Alceon Group's significant balance sheet, we think of this as our permanent capital. We then work with corporate advisers and company owners to identify high potential investment opportunities in which to deploy that capital as either a minority or majority stake. But we bring more than just money. We leverage our proven processes, governance and playbooks to work with our portfolio companies to level up their weaker operational areas and accelerate their growth plans. Unlike many of our competitors, we recognise each company has its own timeline so while we work to a successful exit, we do so on a schedule that will generate the best results for the business's shareholders.

Moat investments is the Investment vehicle of professional investor Cyril Jinks . His Family Office Solely focuses on emerging profitable industrial services and technology businesses with a large addressable market , a point of difference and improving unit economics . Particularly interested in technology and high returning services business who are founder led .

Arowana is an investment holding group that invests in, builds and operates businesses across AI infrastructure, renewable energy, electric vehicles, education, circular economy and enterprise software. Its venture exposure includes the Vivarium venture studio.

PieLAB Venture Partners, now operating as PieLAB Capital, partners with established, profitable Australian small and medium-sized businesses through long-term ownership, across sectors, and prefers never to sell the businesses it invests in. It began in 2016 with a fund that invested in businesses providing services to the real estate sector, and now invests through the evergreen PieLAB Council Capital Fund.

Focusing on providing Series A funding to high-growth technology startups, Full Circle is an entrepreneur-led venture capital firm that builds value-added partnerships between investors and founders. Full Circle connects both sides of the VC equation, helping realise value held at both the limited partner and portfolio level. We look for software companies with revenue and strong growth that need venture capital to expand their business.