EQT

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization with EUR 246 billion in total assets under management (EUR 134 billion in fee-generating assets under management), divided into two business segments: Private Capital and Real Assets. EQT owns portfolio companies and assets in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas and supports them in achieving sustainable growth, operational excellence, and market leadership.

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General Atlantic

General Atlantic is a leading global growth investor with more than four decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 520 growth companies throughout its history. Established in 1980, General Atlantic continues to be a dedicated partner to visionary founders and investors seeking to build dynamic businesses and create long-term value. Guided by the conviction that entrepreneurs can be incredible agents of transformational change, the firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with and scale innovative businesses around the world. The firm leverages its patient capital, operational expertise, and global platform to support a diversified investment platform spanning Growth Equity, Credit, Climate, and Sustainable Infrastructure strategies. General Atlantic manages approximately $100 billion in assets under management, inclusive of all strategies, as of October 1, 2024, with more than 900 professionals in 20 countries across five regions.

Pacific Equity Partners (PEP)

PEP is Australasia’s oldest and largest private equity firm, with A$12 billion AUM across various investment strategies. Since its founding in 1998, PEP has made more than 200 investments including bolt-ons, has engaged in close to A$50 billion of transactions, including both acquisitions and exits, and has delivered a 28% average Net IRR p.a. across the closed end funds. These results are built on a team-based approach of apprenticeship, long term experience, aligned incentives – and a disciplined investment focus, that has delivered ‘best in class’, consistent results for our investors and partners over the last 26 years. Our long-term investors include the world’s largest and most experienced investment institutions and sovereign wealth funds, as well as private wealth investors. PEP has been the recipient of various industry awards over the past 26 years, including most recently the 2024 Firm of the Year Award from the Australian Investment Council (AIC).

KPMG Australia

KPMG is a global organisation of independent professional firms, providing a full range of services to organisations across a wide range of industries, governments and not-for-profit sectors. We operate in 146 countries and territories and have more than 227,000 people working in member firms around the world. In Australia, KPMG has a long tradition of professionalism and integrity combined with our dynamic approach to advising clients in a digital-driven world.

Anacacia Capital

Anacacia Capital is a leading Australian private fund manager, including focused on smaller mid-market growth buyouts. The firm has won numerous awards historically including the Australian Investment Council Firm of the Year and Best Small Cap Investment of the Year. Anacacia is raising Anacacia Private Equity IV in 2024 after a successful first close late in 2023.

Anacacia manages >A$800m and invests into established small-medium enterprises that are managing ownership change and growth. The firm’s private equity funds make buyout and control investments into unlisted companies. The firm also manages the synergistic funds that can invest into small listed companies, that helps differentiate Anacacia’s private equity offering to business owners. Anacacia provides strategic insight and capital to outstanding management teams to help businesses achieve better growth and diversification.

Anacacia typically focuses on profitable companies with annual revenues of $20 million to $500 million per annum and has formerly led investments in successful businesses including Appen, Big River, Home Appliances, Lomb Scientific, Rafferty’s Garden and Yumi’s Quality Foods.

Bain & Company

We're a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future.

Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes.

Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment.

We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies.

Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.

Blue Owl

Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives.

With over $235 billion in assets under management, we focus on providing businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and can offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation.

Together with over 1050 experienced professionals globally as of September 30,2024, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional.

Crescent Capital Partners

Founded in 2000, Crescent Capital Partners is one of the oldest and most successful private equity and alternative asset management firms in Australia.  Crescent’s returns typically come from a value-add strategic approach to all investments with a team of 30 investment professionals in its core fund (Crescent Capital Partners VII - $1bn fund size).  Crescent is the largest investor in healthcare in Australia with typically 50% of each fund invested in the sector, with the balance in industrial technology and services businesses. Today Crescent runs a multi fund strategy alongside its core PE fund in Consumer Health, Corporate Credit and active Listed Equities.

Crescent has specialist consultant teams responsible for each of the related investment strategies and a large team of 45 investment and management professionals.

In its 25 years, Crescent has been a consistent global top quartile investment manager (as measured by Cambridge) in DPI, TVPI and IRR. This success is founded on a well-disciplined investment process as well as a stable partnership group and strong relationships in the Australian financial market.

The strength of our relationships has led us to expand our offering to investors which includes launching a unique Corporate Loan Fund into the private credit market.

Our Consumer Health fund is a natural extension of our expertise in healthcare, where we see a high level of proprietary growth investments in the affiliated and aligned consumer health space.

In the Listed Equities market, our investment strategy is aligned with our PE business taking advantage of our analysis in different industry sectors and applying these learnings in a listed environment alongside identifying high quality, high growth investments.

Crescent Capital Partners is proud to support the AVCJ Conference in 2025.

Folklore Ventures

Folklore Ventures is a leading Australian early stage VC firm investing in ANZ software and advanced technology startups.

Founded in 2014, Folklore performs in the top decile for all of its funds. With $150m AUM, Folklore has made investments into globally successful companies such as Auror, Wonde and HealthMatch.

Folklore is known for its investment rigour and allocating discipline. As a 'first cheque to forever' VC, Folklore aims to be the first investor into a startup and to compound returns by allocating throughout the investment lifecycle. Its long term focus areas include AI and data networks, robotics and automation, health tech and B2B SaaS.

Lexington Partners

Lexington Partners is a leading global alternative investment manager primarily involved in providing liquidity solutions to owners of private equity and other alternative investments and in making co-investments alongside leading private equity sponsors. Lexington Partners is one of the largest managers of secondary acquisition and co-investment funds with $55 billion in committed capital since inception. Lexington has acquired over 3,900 secondary and co-investment interests through more than 1,000 transactions with a total value in excess of $69 billion, including $17 billion of syndications. Lexington also invests in private investment funds during their initial formation and has committed to more than 550 new funds in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Lexington has offices strategically located in major centers for private equity and alternative investing - New York, Boston, Menlo Park, London, Hong Kong, Santiago, São Paulo and Luxembourg.

Navis Capital Partners

Navis Capital Partners (“Navis”) was founded in 1998. It has over two decades of experience in partnering and growing distinctive companies in Southeast Asia. Navis has made over 90 control growth buyout investments and over 80 follow-on investments. Our 25 years of investing experience, focused on transforming and growing middle market businesses with a distinctive competitive advantage, has delivered top quartile returns.

Navis manages several private and public equity capital commitments totalling over ~USD 5 billion, and whose investors include a number of well-known US, European, Middle Eastern and Asian institutional investors and family offices.

Navis operates 6 offices across the region and has over 100 professionals comprising of 15+ nationalities. This strength in numbers and longevity in the region results in all of Navis’ companies to be leaders or near leaders in their fields. Industries/segments in which Navis has invested include healthcare, education, food processing, F&B, industrial products amongst others.

The firm contributes both capital and management expertise to its portfolio companies with the objective of directing strategic, operational and financial improvements, typically through initiatives that drive growth, margin improvement and asset efficiency. 80% of Navis’ realised returns have been driven by revenue and EBITDA growth.

Navis’ investment model places a low reliance on leverage to drive its equity returns.

Navis has launched its Navis Asia Credit platform to leverage on the firm’s extensive and deep sourcing capabilities in the region, and will seek to provide liquidity solutions to high quality middle market family owned businesses.

VSS

Headquartered in New York, VSS is a private investment firm that invests in healthcare, business services and education companies. Since 1987, VSS has partnered with lower middle-market companies, working closely with management teams, to facilitate their next stage of growth. VSS provides capital for growth financings, recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions, and buyouts with the flexibility to invest control or non-control capital, based on the needs and objectives of each company. VSS has managed $4 billion in committed capital across 8 funds and has completed 101 platform investments and over 600 add-on acquisitions.