Artesian Australian Venture Capital

About Artesian

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group’s capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian’s founding partners, purchased ANZ’s stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff.

Since 2004, Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets.
In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai.

In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early-stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian’s VC strategy is to partner with best-of-breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus.

Overview

• $1.14 Billion AUM
• 40 employees in 8 centres globally
• Specialist public & private debt manager with ESG focus
• Transformational impact investments with compelling risk/return metrics
• Most active early-stage VC in Asia Pacific
• VC as a Service (VCaaS) platform for government, corporations and industry groups
• Advisory services and customised solutions to help build sustainable innovation ecosystems.

Artesian Venture Capital Funds

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Artesian Venture Capital Fund 1

Artesian Venture Capital Fund 2

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Opportunity

The fund aims to:

• Provides eligible investors with unique access to a diversified portfolio of high growth-potential early-stage investment opportunities;
• Presents fund investors with a pre-screened and de-risked pipeline of later-stage direct investment opportunities into startups with material traction and a relatively short path to exit;
• Delivers investment returns that are exempt from Australian income and capital gains tax;
• Achieves portfolio diversification away from traditional equity and fixed-income investments; and
  Supports entrepreneurs, job creation, innovation, new business ventures and economic growth in capital cities and regional Australia.
• Gain exposure to a diversified portfolio of the highest quality early-stage investment opportunities across Australia.
  Follow-on into the best opportunities emerging from the early-stage pipeline as well as additional contiguous later-stage deals qualified via Artesian’s broader network.
• Invest agnostically across all industry sectors, verticals and horizontals but with a particular focus on 3 sectors – agrifood, clean energy and MedTech (~15% of total FUM per sector).
• Invest ~15% of FUM into seed-stage deals, 35% angel and pre-Series A, and 50% into Series A and later-stage growth opportunities.
• Provide co-investment opportunities in pre-screened and de-risked later-stage deals to the fund’s limited partners (LPs).

Strategy

The investment strategy of the Fund is to:

• Gain exposure to a diversified portfolio of the highest quality early-stage investment opportunities across Australia.
• Follow-on into the best opportunities emerging from the early-stage pipeline as well as additional contiguous later-stage deals qualified via Artesian’s broader network.
• Invest agnostically across all industry sectors, verticals and horizontals but with a particular focus on 3 sectors – agrifood, clean energy and MedTech (~15% of total FUM per sector).
• Invest ~15% of FUM into seed-stage deals, 35% angel and pre-Series A, and 50% into Series A and later-stage growth opportunities.
• Provide co-investment opportunities in pre-screened and de-risked later-stage deals to the fund’s limited partners (LPs).

Pipeline

Qualified startup investment opportunities are sourced from:

1. Dedicated accelerator, incubator, university program and angel ESVCLPs including Sydney Angels, the Actuator, SproutX, Slingshot and the Clean Energy Seed Fund
2. Artesian’s contiguous network, including:
   • additional pre-approved accelerator programs
   • agrifood, clean energy and MedTech industry networks
   • the broad Artesian founders’ alumni
   • referrals from late-stage co-investors whose mandates do not include early-stage investments

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