We invest in high quality, growth phase companies and partner
with Australia’s leading founders and management teams.

Our firm

We are a private equity firm which invests in high quality, growth-phase Australian companies. Our firm was established in 2016 to serve the needs of high-potential companies as they scale up.

We look to invest between $10m and $50m in companies with strong management teams, high-performance cultures, clear product-market fit and substantial growth potential. Our previous investments have focused on the consumer, software, services and healthcare sectors.

The Whiteoak team is based in Sydney and Melbourne.​ We also draw on the expertise of our advisory board and professional network to help our companies make a step-change in performance through robust strategic planning and clear delivery metrics.

Our structured approach to value creation helps our portfolio companies to win in their markets. We prioritise strong relationships and fact-based decision making to deliver impact and create long-term value.

If you are looking for investment, we would love to hear from you.

Our people

Our focus

We partner with Australia’s highest quality founders, managers and businesses.

We partner with Australia’s highest quality founders, managers and businesses.

We provide flexible capital for significant minority partnerships through to majority partnerships. Typically we look to invest between $10m – $50m.

We are sector agnostic, however traditionally we have focused on four sectors: Consumer, Technology, Business Services and Healthcare.

We invest in businesses that are headquartered in Australia, typically with global growth ambitions.

Our impact

Through our portfolio, we’re excited to be:

  • Supporting corporates to deliver their largest, most complex transformation programmes
  • Raising the bar on health, safety and customer experience in the piercing industry
  • Creating beautiful fashion products which are built to last
  • Enabling retailers to understand their customers more deeply so they can provide more magical experiences
  • Empowering mothers with young children to live healthier, happier lives
  • Enabling the world’s leading venues to deliver spectacular events for their customers
  • Empowering cost engineers to deliver more accurate forecasts for billions of dollars of infrastructure projects

Working with us

Working with us

Investment focus

We choose to partner with Australia & New Zealand’s highest quality founders, managers and businesses, while committing a significant portion of our own personal capital.

We partner with businesses that demonstrate unique and differentiated capability in their specific niche, and that have a track-record of growth, delivering profitable success. We combine our breadth of experience with the founder’s and manager’s depth of expertise, and lean into our deep investor network to unlock significant value-creation initiatives.

Our goal is to build on the best of the business today – through flexible capital solutions, enhanced strategic focus, amplified investment capability, technology-enablement and international impact.

The results are market-leading, internationally competitive and sustainably scalable businesses.

We provide flexible capital for significant minority partnerships through to majority partnerships. Typically we look to invest between $10m – $25m.

We are sector agnostic, however traditionally we have focused on four sectors: Consumer, Technology, Business Services and Healthcare.

We invest in businesses that are headquartered in Australia, typically with global growth ambitions.