of business owners.
WayFinder Capital is Australia’s first institutional fund to exclusively focus on investing in Search Funds and Searcher-led transactions.
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Our mission is to invest behind and support exceptional entrepreneurs and aspiring business leaders in their quest to find, buy and grow enduring mid-tier businesses.
Search Funds: a proven model for success
“A Search Fund is an investment vehicle through which investors financially support an entrepreneur’s efforts to locate, acquire, manage, and grow a privately held company. The model offers relatively inexperienced entrepreneurs with limited capital resources a quick path to managing a company in which they have a meaningful ownership position.”
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Our aim is to generate attractive returns for entrepreneurs and investors alike. The success of the Search Fund model is due to close collaboration between Searchers and Investors.
Our portfolio
We support entrepreneurs to acquire mid-market companies that provide diversification, stability and superior returns. We are currently co-investing in the following Search Funds.
We’re also invested in, and active in these acquisitions:
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Getting Search Ready is a self-paced online course developed by WayFinder Capital. It is the only Australian program designed specifically to help entrepreneurs and aspiring leaders embark on a Search Fund journey to business ownership.
Even if you’ve completed an Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (EtA) program at an off-shore university in the past, we’ve found that participants get value in the program through a guided approach to developing an investment thesis for their Search. Add to that the mentoring, psychographic and capability measurements used in the program, it provides for a comprehensive entry point to Search.