I am a private venture capitalist on the lookout for proposed or early development enterprises in Australia. Ideally, this business will have a well prepared plan, at least some of the required individuals to fulfill it, and the capacity to act in the near future. Partial or full funding can be provided up to 4 million initially, with further input in the future, depending on performance. Interested to hear from anyone who fits this description, including young or first time entrepreneurs. Located in Sydney but can attend meetings elsewhere if required. Please no MLM schemes or related crap, just solid business models (creative or left-field is OK if you believe it will work).

I've recently inherited a modest estate from my father and although I plan to spread this capital over a few different activities I'd also like to invest in 2-3 small businesses which require a silent partner. I'm willing to do this as I am willing to tolerate a level of risk in the hope of gaining a better return on this part of the portfolio. To give a rough idea, I can invest about $300,000 total but I'd like to disperse this between more than one small business to spread the risk. Feel free to contact me in regards to your planned start up businesses or those you're looking to acquire.

Our firm has a small number of partners and through our success we'd like to share an opportunity with a promising new business.  We're based in Sydney, NSW but are happy to invest elsewhere.  Myself and the other partners have backgrounds in law and accounting so we are able to assist in establishment, governance and any contract preparation required.

At this point we'd like to invest about $1,500,000 and if required we can extend to $1.8M if necessary.  Please contact us when you're well prepared.

I'm a recently retired engineer looking for a project or two to help me maintain my sanity!  I have roughly $500,000 available to invest in one or a small number of businesses, I do also have some management/governance experience.  Serious offers only, I'm happy to be hands on or off depending on the enterprise. Thanks.

We are offering to invest in one promising new business in each state of Australia. Minimum amount offered will be $2 Million.  Obviously there will be some competition, but,  you gotta be in it to win it! and we're willing to be open minded.  The maximum amount available for Australian businesses is $14 million.  E-Mail submissions via this site welcome.

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I have a moderate amount of capital to invest and a background in Manufacturing and Marketing.  Feel free to contact me with any product or service offerings that you believe to have a future in the Australian or New Zealand markets.

Approx. $400k capital available.

Looking to invest in a new tech startup in the realm of hosted applications or business systems. Proper planning and qualified operators essential.  And of course, a good product offering!

Investment capacity: approx $2.5M