What does Direct Capital invest in?
Direct Capital invests most often at Venture and Series C (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Private Companies.

New Zealand · Investor
Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Dec 2024, closing $525M. Last cheque observed Mar 2009.
QuietNew fund $525M, Dec 2024Private equity
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6 rounds on record
Mostly Venture and Series C: 100% of its rounds
Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $3.1M
Direct Capital invests in the New Zealand and Australian mid-market private company sector in expansion, succession and pre-IPO situations.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first6 appearances
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
We hold 10 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
Who backs their funds
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: fund news.
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Direct Capital Direct Capital VII | - | - |
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
The investors most often in the same rounds as Direct Capital. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
Episodes that name Direct Capital in their description, not their title.

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Direct Capital invests most often at Venture and Series C (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Private Companies.
6 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Mar 2009.
The median round it joins is $5.1M. It says it writes cheques of $30M to $100M.
Rarely, if at all: none of its 6 investments on record names it as the lead.
Most of the companies it backs are in New Zealand (50%), the United States (33%) and Australia (17%).
No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Mar 2009.
Most often Advent International (3 rounds together), Endeavour Capital Limited (2 rounds together) and Jolimont Capital (2 rounds together).
Direct Capital is a private equity firm based in Auckland, New Zealand.
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