Five V Capital

Five V Capital is excited to introduce Ryley Lucas as the newest member of our investment team. Ryley’s experience includes advising on a number of transactions across industrials, technology, consumer and healthcare sectors at Deutsche Bank. Prior to this, he held a finance and operations-focused role with one of Australia’s leading hospitality businesses. Welcome Ryley! Feel free to contact Ryley directly for a conversation.

Penten and Amiosec have announced an intention to merge, creating the leading AUKUS cybersecurity technology firm. Both businesses have revolutionised secure communications of classified information for defence and critical enterprise. With 100% wholly owned and globally unique IP across software and hardware, the company is primed for continued growth in all Five Eyes markets. The merged business has over 300 employees that have created products in cryptography, secure mobility, network engineering and artificial intelligence. Huge congratulations to both teams. As an investor since 2021, Five V Capital is delighted to support the continued success of this exciting global technology platform.    Matthew Wilson Greg Barsby Sarah C. Bailey Justin England Elliott Whelan Matthew Coffey

VENTURE CAPITAL EXIT: We are delighted to share the news that VendorPanel, from our Five V Capital Venture Capital portfolio, has merged with Unimarket, a global source-to-pay procurement platform backed by Accel-KKR. Together they serve close to 450 customers across US, Canada, Australia and NZ, helping them achieve greater value, efficiency and innovation in procurement.  Big congratulations to James Leathem and the whole VendorPanel team on the achievements to date. We are excited for VendorPanel and Unimarket’s future growth and look forward to seeing their continued global success! Five V are proud to have been part of VendorPanel's journey since 2021, following our investment through Venture Capital Fund I. To read the full press release, see below. Ed Bigazzi Shaina Brown Chris Gillings Joyce Lu

Five V Capital is excited to introduce Monique Iannella as a new member of our investment team. Monique spent her career in New York, working on an array of investment and advisory deals across sectors including Healthcare, Technology, Retail, Financials, and Industrials. Prior to joining Five V, she worked at M3 Partners, JP Morgan, and National Australia Bank. Welcome Monique Iannella! Feel free to contact Monique directly for a conversation. #team #investment #growth #growthequity #privateequity #finance #entrepreneurship #fivevcapital #australia #newzealand #newyork #careers #hiring #welcome

Adrian MacKenzie recently featured on Emanuel Whybourne & Loehr's podcast to discuss Five V Capital's partnership-led approach to investing and opportunities we see in the Australian and New Zealand mid-market. Our flagship private equity fund (Fund V) has $770m of capital available to partner with leading founders and managers of fantastic growth businesses, and we welcome a chat with the team to learn more. Thank you to the EWL team for hosting us - podcast links below!

📣 The Five V Capital Venture Capital team is excited to announce our lead investment in Attekus’ $5 million funding round, investing alongside QIC.  Attekus the market leading booking and event management platform for local councils and government asset owners. The flagship product, Bookable, automates and streamlines booking processes for local councils and the broader community. Our investment in Attekus will be used to scale the business across new markets, as well as expanding the current product suite. “Attekus has become a trusted partner to local governments, providing an essential platform that meets the complex needs of councils for managing bookings and events. The Bookable platform is loved by its customers – evidenced by the fact that Attekus has yet to lose a customer. Their vision for the product’s broader applicability is exciting, and the team has demonstrated the operating metrics that VCs love to see.” – Five V’s Chris Gillings. “My co-founder Andrew and I chose to build and grow Attekus in a way that ensured we could survive without external funding,” said Co-Founder and CFO Thomas Muller. “The business has now reached a size, and the opportunity ahead of us is large enough that we saw this as the right time to raise capital.” Attekeus’ CEO, Peter Suchting, said, “The Attekus team is excited to bring Five V and QIC on board as our first institutional investors. Their combined experience in helping businesses scale across venture capital, growth, and private equity is a huge value add for us as we scale, and their networks have already opened new business opportunities for us.” Thank you to Corrs Chambers Westgarth and CTO Labs for their support on the transaction.   Congratulations to Attekus and all parties involved! Chris Gillings Ed Bigazzi Shaina Brown Joyce Lu

Five V was excited to take our SaaS Summit to Brisbane this week with support from our friends at QIC, TEN13, Tidal Ventures and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We welcomed 80 founders and leaders from Queensland SaaS startups for a half-day of content, discussion, and networking.  We are grateful for the contributions of our partners as well as special guests: Alexander Dreiling (CEO & co-founder of Clipchamp, exited to Microsoft), Ian ORourke (scaling expert and Adthena founder) and Denver Naidoo 🌴 (founder of Zeligate). A couple of key takeaways for us...    - The expert panel of An Vo (TEN13), Fee Lal (Tidal), Nick Capell (QIC), and Five V’s own Shaina Brown discussed funding and investment trends in SaaS – expertly moderated by Mark "Z" Zmarzly 🦄 (AWS). If you’re an early-stage founder, avoid later regrets by: keeping an eye on dilution early on, being across your legals (especially warrant shares and interest on convertible notes), and doing as much diligence on your investors as they do on you. - Zeligate’s Denver Naidoo and Tidal’s Samadhi Pelenda shared their perspectives on building and investing in AI startups. As a founder, building tech and infrastructure agnostic gives you choice down the track, whilst looking at what the market is already building on will give you velocity. Investors want to see clear domain expertise in founders to unlock niche vertical applications of AI. - Ian O’Rourke presented a master class on making the most of meetings via the tried and tested methodologies he used to scale Adthena to 150 people across three continents. Time is scarce for SaaS leaders at all stages – and meetings can either be a massive time suck or a time multiplier. One simple hack is to split strategic and operational topics into their meetings to ensure focus and true problem-solving.  - Alex Dreiling and Stew Glynn discussed taking Clipchamp from launch to exit – including four pivots along the way! Being in a competitive space meant having the technological advantage was even more critical. Investing in a pricing study of your product will be worth its weight in gold since just because you are a founder does not mean you will know how to price your product. For Clipchamp, this unlocked 50% more revenue without impacting customer numbers.  Ed Bigazzi Chris Gillings Shaina Brown Joyce Lu

Each year, Five V Capital brings together the CFOs across our Private Equity and Venture Capital portfolio to learn, share experiences, and spend time with each other. We often lean on our CFOs to be the daily bridge into the portfolio and benefit hugely through having access to such a talented group.   This year, the forum focused on strategic decision making and exit readiness – as well as sharing a fantastic dinner with the Five V team. We were privileged to have outstanding presenters to facilitate the discussion: 📈 Stephen Hosie, Phillip Benedetti, and James Bevin from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) started with an engaging discussion and case-study session around the strategic role of the CFO in driving decision making and clear communication of information. The interactive format got the group talking, debating, and sharing their own experiences to benefit from the collective experience in the room. 💡 Hung Tu (CFO at Five V portfolio company Orikan), Kriss Pachauri (Houlihan Lokey) and Jon Griffiths (PwC Australia) joined Five V’s Elliott Whelan in a panel discussion to bring a unique but highly aligned perspective to exit readiness. In the always-busy world of the CFO, being prepared for exit through structured record keeping, data sophistication and hygiene and a strong support team can smooth the process when the time comes! Thank you to all presenters and CFOs for your preparation, engagement, and ongoing support. The forums rely on the commitment and interaction of all parties involved. We are proud to collectively deliver another successful event!

Five V Capital's Adrian MacKenzie took the stage at the recent Australian Investment Council conference to speak alongside Michael Rees (Blue Owl Capital), Kelvin Mak (Future Fund) and Cathy Hales (Mercer) on evolving GP stakes opportunities within the Australian private capital landscape. The panel explored the rise of GP stakes as an asset class as well as providing the audience insights into the benefits for GPs: an aligned shareholder providing growth capital for further investment and succession planning amongst others. Five V have seen this first-hand with our partners at Pinnacle Investment Management Group. We continue to see strong demand for private capital investment across private equity, growth equity, venture capital and our Horizons Fund. We’d welcome a call or chat with our team to learn more.

Five V were privileged to share the stage at the recent Australian Investment Council panel focused on the future of sovereign capability. Justin England, Mary Manning, Sonny Foster and Ali Moore discussed the importance of investing in this space. What is ‘this space’ – 1. Businesses that produce things that Australia simply must be able to produce, and 2. Businesses that have a unique advantage to compete globally. Five V has seen this first-hand. From Cyclotek Pty Ltd manufacturing critical inputs that are used in cancer diagnostics every day, to Penten providing its cyber security technology to a global defence audience. We are proud to partner with companies targeting both of these needs and recognise the significant opportunity in doing so.