Wunala Capital Emerging Opportunities Fund
Invest in unique, high-growth private and public technology companies in Australia, the USA and offshore.
The Wunala Capital Emerging Opportunities Fund (the ‘Fund’) backs high-growth private and public companies in Australia, the USA and internationally. Our investment strategy has delivered a strong compounding return to investors since inception. We typically invest across growth, late-stage/pre-IPO and listed stages.
We pursue capital growth for our investors, and believe we can generate alpha by finding companies poised to benefit from change and disruption. We are particularly interested in founders and leaders working on solutions to big problems in the following areas:
- Electronic payments & financial services
- Data, analytics and AI
- Enterprise SaaS
- Digitisation of work and retail
- Decarbonisation and digital infrastructure
Key highlights of the Fund:
- Target return of 20% IRR (pre-tax, post fees) to investors through actively managing a portfolio of up to 25 positions.
- Focus on finding and investing in high-growth companies with proven product-market fit, with our capital being used to accelerate growth and drive value.
- We are set up as an open-ended crossover fund which gives us the flexibility and patience to allocate capital across private and public strategies to wherever it generates superior risk-adjusted returns.
- We aim to strike a balance by structuring our private investments in a way that reduces downside risk yet maintains upside risk (for our investors as well as founders).
The Fund is focused on investing in private opportunities (growth capital, late stage venture capital and bridge/pre-IPO financing), with a smaller portion dedicated to certain Listed opportunities as well. It will back fast-growing technology and tech-enabled businesses who can leverage key themes to increase revenue and profits even when the wider economy is not growing.
The Manager targets Australian and international companies (predominantly in the United States and New Zealand), seeking those with near-term catalyst events to rerate higher such as M&A or other revaluation drivers. For private companies, those working towards an IPO (ideally on the ASX) or other near term exit/realisation event such as a sale to a strategic partner are preferred.
The Fund’s investment objective is to generate returns (primarily via capital growth) on Invested Capital in excess of the Hurdle, after Management fees and Fund expenses but before taxes. This is a target only and the Fund may not be successful in meeting the investment objective and neither capital or returns are guaranteed.
Wunala Capital is a Corporate Authorised Representative (CAR No. 1281806) of AFSL 238198. The Fund is open to wholesale investors only, as defined in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Wunala Capital is not authorised to provide financial product advice to retail clients, and information on this website does not constitute financial product advice to retail clients. The information contained on this website and in any document accessed from it is of a general nature only and does not take into account the objectives, financial situation or needs of any particular person. The past results of Wunala Capital’s investment strategy do not necessarily guarantee the future performance or profitability of any investment strategies devised or suggested by Wunala Capital.
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Wunala Capital was founded in 2019 to provide Investors with an entry point into opportunities not otherwise made available to them. Our focus is to provide high quality funds management to like-minded Investors, and our highly qualified and experienced Investment Committee and will manage the Fund’s investments.
All members of the Investment Committee have co-invested in the Fund, ensuring an alignment of interests with our Investors.
While the Manager’s executives have cultivated deep relationships with introducers, brokers and investment banks to ensure high quality deal flow, they also have strong connections with executives and venture capital backers of target portfolio companies in Australia and the US. This provides a point of difference to other fund managers as Wunala Capital originates a portion of its investment opportunities for the Fund directly.
Scott has over 17 years of investment and corporate finance experience in a wide range of transactions across three continents. His experience includes making equity and debt investments totalling over $5 billion in publicly-listed and private technology, IT, financial services and sustainable energy companies.
Prior to founding Wunala Capital, Scott was with the Macquarie Group, spending 13 years (including 8 years in New York) investing its balance sheet in a range of equity and debt transactions in Australia, the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom.
During his time at Macquarie, Scott also spent several years as CFO and a board member leading one of Macquarie’s US portfolio companies in a successful turnaround prior to a profitable sale, and served for 6 years on the investment committee of one of Macquarie’s public US investment funds.
Beau has over 10 years of experience in technology investments in private and listed equities. He joined Wunala in early 2022 from Hudson where he as Head of Ventures, leading their corporate VC team. At Hudson, Beau was responsible for origination and execution of investments, in particular those that were transformational in improving Hudson’s product and service offering.
Prior to Hudson, Beau was an Investment Manager with Deloitte in their corporate VC fund. Before his role with Deloitte, Beau grew up and was educated in the Netherlands.
He started his career at Dasym Investments, a €1.5bn AUM hybrid private/public fund where he focused on the TMT sector with investments in the US, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Before moving to Australia, he also worked for Walvis Ventures, which focused on venture capital investments in early and later stage tech companies.
Evert is an experienced lawyer and corporate finance executive, focused on developing businesses through driving entrepreneurial growth as well as through strategic M&A. He is currently a co-founder and CEO of Software Combined, an Australian software investment company.
Previously a Managing Director at Macquarie Group for 11 years, Evert was responsible for leading over $5 billion in transactions ranging from investments, divestments and debt fundraising. In particular his expertise was in making principal investments in technology and financial services companies across the world.
Prior to Macquarie, Evert held a number of legal and financial roles in the Netherlands, including as a partner at Vondel Finance, a leading private equity and corporate finance firm. He was also General Counsel for a European technology firm, where he led its IPO at a €12 billion valuation.
Evert is a senior advisor to Wunala Capital with a focus on IPOs, investment execution and strategy.
With a strong background in first line and second line risk management, Chris brings a deep understanding of risk identification, management and mitigation to Wunala Capital.
Chris currently serves as the Chief Risk Officer (Oceania) for MUFG Bank, Ltd., which is a Japanese bank that forms part of the wider MUFG financial services company. MUFG Bank, Ltd. is currently the fifth largest bank by assets globally.
Prior to MUFG, Chris spent time as a regulator in Australia (with the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority) and the UK (at the Financial Services Authority). He has consulted to financial institutions and governments globally, specialising in designing and implementing risk mitigation approaches.
Chris is a senior advisor to Wunala Capital, helping it identify and manage risks in its investment and operational strategy.
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