DE Capital Management
decapital.co.nz Direct investor
DE Capital Management operates private equity and private debt strategies targeting established New Zealand mid-market businesses. It invests equity or equity-linked instruments for control or influential minority positions, and provides senior secured loans with equity options.
DE Capital Management is a private equity firm headquartered in New Zealand. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in broad sector focus, excluding property-led businesses and excluding primary agriculture. Its stated cheque size is up to $20 million (Private Equity); $1.5 – 5 million (Private Debt).
“We invest in established businesses — typically founder-led or closely held — where patient capital, disciplined execution, considered stewardship and long-term alignment support sustainable value creation.”
— DE Capital Management, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Headquarters
- New Zealand
- Invests in
- New Zealand
- Sectors
- broad sector focus, excluding property-led businesses, excluding primary agriculture
- Cheque size
- up to $20 million (Private Equity); $1.5 – 5 million (Private Debt)
Team, as DE Capital Management publishes it
- Jane Gold CFO
- Matthew Houtman Managing Director and Investment Committee
- Will Little Investment Director
- Tom Miller Investment Committee
- Nicholas Ross Investment Committee
- James Wallace Investment Director
- Michael Whitehead Investment Committee
Names and roles exactly as listed on decapital.co.nz. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 10 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- NZGCP 2 shared companies: quantifiphotonics.com, icehouseventures.co.nz
- Auckland UniServices Limited 1 shared company: quantifiphotonics.com
- Nuance Capital 1 shared company: quantifiphotonics.com
- Pacific Channel 1 shared company: quantifiphotonics.com
- Punakaiki Fund 1 shared company: quantifiphotonics.com
- Foggy Valley Aotearoa 1 shared company: icehouseventures.co.nz
- Hiraya Ventures 1 shared company: icehouseventures.co.nz
- Navigate Ventures 1 shared company: icehouseventures.co.nz
- New Zealand Fintech Fund 1 shared company: icehouseventures.co.nz
- Victoria Link Ltd t/a Wellington UniVentures 1 shared company: kiwinet.org.nz
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page DE Capital Management publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://decapital.co.nz/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, people, status
Record 21246 · added 2026-11-10 · link last verified 2026-11-10 · confidence high
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