Portland House Group

Grok Ventures is the private investing vehicle of Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Atlassian and one of Australia's most successful technology entrepreneurs. Grok Ventures invests in fast-growing technology-enabled businesses with world-class management teams who are solving big problems. Grok particularly likes food and energy companies. We have private, patient, long-term capital, with the flexibility to participate from early-stage or seed financing through to late stage funding rounds (although we prefer to be involved earlier).

Thorney Investments is one of Australia's most successful private investment groups. Thorney was founded by Alex Waislitz and invests in a variety of listed and unlisted opportunities in Australia and the United States. As a private investing vehicle / family office, Thorney Investments has a lot of flexibility in its investment strategies. A large part of this strategy has involved investments in small (typically sub A$200 million market cap), high-growth businesses listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Since 2013, Thorney also has separate funds open to other investments including Thorney Opportunities (listed on the ASX) and Thorney Technologies. Thorney was founded in 1991 when Richard Pratt, founder of Amcor (the world's leading packaging company), seeded Alex Waislitz with $1.15 million of investment capital.

Sandbar Investments is the family office of the Barry and Sandra Smorgon family, investing across private equity, listed equities, property, and alternative assets.

Prisma Investment is an early stage investment firm focused on direct investment into companies working to improve or disrupt public services and indirect investment into other technology-related startups. Prisma works with venture partners including Blackbird Ventures and OneVentures who typically undertake the first round of filtering. As each Venture Partner fund accelerates its own follow-on investment, in certain select circumstances Prisma may choose to significantly concentrate investment. In exceptional circumstances - and solely within early stage companies targeting public sector disruption or public discussion - we will act as the lead funder. Prisma is the investment vehicle of Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, a member of the well known family that founded Transfield Services.

Tozer and Co is the family office investing vehicle of Craig and David Tozer. Craig and David Tozer are experienced investors, advisors and managers. We look at a wide range of investments, from early stage venture capital through to distressed and turnaround situations. We frequently partner with other investors.

The Future Fund is an Australian sovereign wealth fund. The Future Fund aims to generate strong risk adjusted returns over a long-term horizon and operates independently of the Australian government. The Future Fund does not make direct investments. We employ a small number of specialist external managers across asset classes including equities, private equity, venture capital, special opportunities, property, infrastructure, debt and alternatives. The Future Fund has an annual return target of 6%.