Shearwater Growth Equity
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Shearwater Growth Equity is an Australian venture capital firm that invests its own capital in technology companies across Australia and New Zealand. It invests at various stages from inception to growth, including secondaries, and focuses on founders with integrity and recurring revenue business models.
Shearwater Growth Equity is a venture capital firm headquartered in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2018. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to growth, in software, technology, business software and recurring revenue. Its stated cheque size is Our first cheques have been $200k in some cases, and $5m+ in others.. 25 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest our own capital, which allows us to operate without the constraints of traditional fund structures.”
— Shearwater Growth Equity, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Australia, New Zealand
- Sectors
- software, technology, business software, recurring revenue, adtech, martech, legaltech, media
- Cheque size
- Our first cheques have been $200k in some cases, and $5m+ in others.
- Founded
- 2018
- Portfolio
- 25 companies
Team, as Shearwater Growth Equity publishes it
- Zac Zavos Managing Partner
- Matthew Parbhu Partner
- Mike Gregg Founding Partner
- Beliz Ozturk Senior Investment Associate
- Greg Stevens Financial Controller
- Charles Gibbon Founding Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on shearwater.co. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 15 co-investors found.
- OIF Ventures 2 shared companies: goideally.com, sitemate.com
- AfterWork Ventures 2 shared companies: lyka.com.au, runn.io
- ETF Partners 1 shared company: amber.com.au
- Giant Leap Fund 1 shared company: amber.com.au
- Square Peg Capital 1 shared company: amber.com.au
- Virescent Ventures 1 shared company: amber.com.au
- Bonfire Ventures 1 shared company: fuel50.com
- Town Hall Ventures 1 shared company: playground.xyz
- Perennial Value Management 1 shared company: buildxact.com.au
- Tidemark Management Company LP 1 shared company: nexl.cloud
and 5 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Shearwater Growth Equity publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.shearwater.co/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, description, founded, status, confidence
- https://www.shearwater.co/how-do-we-approach-investing/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.shearwater.co/companies/portfolio_count
- https://www.shearwater.co/partners/people
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Record 1777 · added 2026-08-29 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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