Investing In Growth

  • Investors and partners

We focus on investing in and partnering with high growth sustainable businesses

  • Australia and New Zealand

We work with businesses based in Australia and New Zealand

  • Supporting Growth

We support and fund growth and expansion plans

About Atlantic

Atlantic Growth Capital focuses on investing in and partnering with businesses in Australia and New Zealand to support their growth and expansion plans.

We have a flexible mandate and partnership approach. We are able to participate as a significant minority or as a controlling shareholder on a case by case basis.

Our co-investors include highly successful Australian and international business leaders, and their family wealth offices.

We offer capital solutions for:

► Growth and expansion including capex investment, channel expansion, and enhancing export capabilities
► Founder succession
► Buyout of legacy and ‘no longer value adding’ minority shareholders
► Supporting existing or new management to buy into the business
► A combination of the above

  • We work with our partners to assist our companies in establishing strong expansion and export capabilities
  • We consider most sectors but generally exclude venture or start up, property, primary resources
  • We assist with complimentary and synergistic acquisitions to diversify channel, customer, and product exposure and increase scale
  • Synergies include new channel distribution, export resources and contacts, supply chain and sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and back office functions

Our Value Add Approach

Invest Growth Capital

► Provide capital to support growth plans

► Recapitalisation of businesses or assist with normalising the capital structure

► Partnership approach with existing shareholders/founders

Support cross channel and export growth

► Leverage group capabilities

► Domestic geographic expansion

► Offshore expansion and growth steering committee

►Market and product viability analysis

► Access to leading distribution channels

Assist with further business development

► Broaden executive team

► Product and category innovation

► Research capabilities

► Best practice manufacturing (Lean and six sigma principles)

► Direct to consumer selling capabilities

► Develop strategic partnerships

Enhance operational capability / build a 'platform'

► Safety

► Governance and policy

► Teambuilding and culture

► IT Systems

► Plant and equipment

► Supply chain and procurement

► Sales and marketing

► Logistics

► Working capital management

► Financial management

Identify and execute synergistic acquisitions

► Corporate finance and transaction support with a disciplined approach

► Opportunistic but professional

►Identifiable and tangible synergies

► Ability to easily merge into the group ‘platform’

►Value add

Our Team

Experienced investment and growth capital professionals

Gregory Roberts-Baxter

Co-Founder

Dani Sher

Co-Founder

Advisory Board

Experienced value adding advisory board with deep sector knowledge

David Smollan

CEO, Smollan Group

Peter Cowan

Martin Drinkrow

Investment Criteria

  • Businesses seeking expansion capital and/or assistance to expand
  • Independent and challenger brands or products with differentiation or intellectual property, including brand value
  • Preference to support existing management and/or founders rather than provide buyout capital
  • We consider most sectors. We have significant domain expertise in the FMCG sector and a desire to support “better for you” category brands with a sustainable base
  • Seek significant minority to 100% stake with ideally part of the transaction focussing on new capital into the business to support growth
  • Businesses >$3m EBITDA

Contact Us

Level 12, 167 Macquarie Street, Sydney, 2000

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