Start-Up Australia Ventures

start-up australia is a specialist at start-up and early stage ventures. we have more than 15 years of experience at equity investment. more recently, we have begun to make available our experience on a consulting basis. our background of success in venture give us a broad understanding of what is needed to add value to an early sage venture. as a private equity investor, start-up australia has an enviable track record of delivering attractive financial returns to investors. across two recent funds, our investors contributed $47.7 million. from this invested capital, start-up australia has returned $85.3 million in cash. the result is that these investors received a cash return of 2.2 times cash invested with an internal rate of return (irr) of 13.6% per annum (after payment of our management fees, carried interest and other costs). this compares favourably with the top quartile return to limited partners (that is, investors) of us venture funds (2001 vintage), which is 5.4%.