Mercury Capital
mercurycapital.com.au Direct investor
Mercury Capital is a private equity firm based in Sydney that makes partnership investments in private businesses across Australia and New Zealand. It is currently investing its fourth fund, Fund twenty2, with A$1 billion of committed capital.
Mercury Capital is a private equity firm headquartered in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2010. It invests directly in companies, at buyout, in technology, professional services, healthcare and education. Its stated cheque size is $50-200m. 27 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Mercury Capital invests across a diverse range of industries, backing strong founders and management teams by providing strategic advice, operational support and the capital needed to help companies grow, scale, transform, and strengthen their market position.”
— Mercury Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Stage
- Buyout
- Invests in
- Australia, New Zealand
- Sectors
- technology, professional services, healthcare, education, consumer, manufacturing & industrial, recycling & sustainability, financial services
- Cheque size
- $50-200m
- Founded
- 2010
- Portfolio
- 27 companies
Team, as Mercury Capital publishes it
- Clark Perkins Chairman of Fund 2, Fund 3 and Fund Twenty2, and CEO of the Manager
- Ben Hawter Partner
- Chris Criddle Partner
- Oliver Tompkins Partner
- Joshua Constantinis Investment Director
- Samara Insoll Director of Fund Operations
- Joshua Patience Investment Director
- Dean Pagonis Investment Director
- James Penn Investment Manager
- Jillin Yan Associate
- Nick Healy Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on mercurycapital.com.au. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Mercury Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.mercurycapital.com.au/name, is_investor, layer, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.mercurycapital.com.au/portfoliotype, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.mercurycapital.com.au/teampeople
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