Gannet Capital

Gannet Capital is a privately owned investment manager based in Sydney. It works for sophisticated investors, including family offices, and puts capital preservation at the centre of its approach.

What Gannet Capital does

• Venture capital exposure: access to early and growth-stage companies through funds and co-investments.
• Public equities: managed vehicles investing in listed companies.
• Private markets: opportunities that are hard for individual investors to reach on their own.
• Co-investment and partnerships: it works with other global investors and operators, including a California venture platform where its principal is a venture partner and adviser.

Customers and markets

Sophisticated investors and family offices. The firm manages roughly 15 investment vehicles for more than 400 investors and looks for asymmetric risk and reward, strong management teams and long-term structural trends.

Key facts

• Based in: Sydney, Australia
• Ownership: privately owned
• Investor base: more than 400 investors
• Name origin: taken from Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand, home to a large gannet colony