# AustralianSuper

> AustralianSuper is a VC fund backing Information Technology and Mineral. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/486545/
- Website: https://www.australiansuper.com/

AustralianSuper is a VC fund in Melbourne focused on Information Technology and Mineral. AustralianSuper is run only to benefit members, offering low fees and strong long-term investment returns.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for AustralianSuper. Shizune tracks 5 team members at AustralianSuper. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/australiansuper?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 20% |
| Mineral | 2 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 13% |
| Hotel | 1 | 7% |
| Solar | 1 | 7% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 3 | 20% |
| Series D | 2 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 13% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 4 | 27% |
| United States | 3 | 20% |
| India | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Short | Head of Analytics, Insights and Measurement | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-short |
| Heather Ridout | Chair | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heather-ridout |
| Derek Chu | Head of American Real Assets | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-chu-ce56 |
| Ian Silk | Chief Executive | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-silk-681c |
| Mark Delaney | Chief investment Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-delaney-75a1 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DataBank | DataBank is a leading information management and security company, offering customized technology solutions designed to help organizations manage risk and improve their business performance. | $2B | Private Equity | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| Generate Capital | Generate Capital is a finance company that builds, owns, and operates sustainable infrastructure to deliver affordable and reliable resource solutions. The company operates and finances assets in energy, mobility, and water resources. | $1.5B | Private Equity | Jan 31, 2024 |  |
| Vantage Data Centers | Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across five continents in North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability,efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands. For more information, visit https://www.vantage-dc.com/.Why Vantage?As IT infrastructure consumes more than 300 kW of power, the electrical, mechanical and design architectures have a greater impact on IT operating and capital expenses. Vantage offers customers more control over critical design and infrastructure (which means more control over capital and operating expenses and critical data center capabilities and attributes) than traditional wholesale data center developers. As a result, Vantage gives its tenants the opportunity to outperform its competitors on key performance metrics, including capital and operating efficiency, ability to grow within an existing space without disruption and the advantage of having a dedicated substation near the data center. | $1.6B | Private Equity | Sep 11, 2023 |  |
| JSW Steel | JSW Steel is in the business of manufacturing and distributing steel products. The company manufactures and exports high-quality stainless and coated steel. | $86.1M | Post-IPO Equity | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| Jervois | Jervois Mining explores and evaluates mineral properties in Australia. The company explores for scandium, copper, nickel, cobalt, iron, and gold deposits. It holds 100% interests in the nickel/cobalt/iron laterite resource located near Young; the Syerston project located to the south east of Fifield; and the Summervale project located thenorth west of Nyngan in New South Wales. | $5.1M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 28, 2023 |  |
| Peel Ports | Peel Ports is a unique network of strategically situated ports, terminals, hubs, shipping lines, and state-of-the-art services. |  | Secondary Market | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| SiteMinder | SiteMinder is the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, ranked among technology pioneers for opening up every hotel’s access to online commerce. It’s this central role that has earned SiteMinder the trust of tens of thousands of hotels, across 150 countries, to sell, market, manage and grow their business. The global company, headquarteredin Sydney with offices in Bangkok, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila, generated more than 100 million reservations worth over US$35 billion in revenue for hotels in the last year prior to the start of the pandemic. | $65.3M |  | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| SiteMinder | SiteMinder is the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, ranked among technology pioneers for opening up every hotel’s access to online commerce. It’s this central role that has earned SiteMinder the trust of tens of thousands of hotels, across 150 countries, to sell, market, manage and grow their business. The global company, headquarteredin Sydney with offices in Bangkok, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila, generated more than 100 million reservations worth over US$35 billion in revenue for hotels in the last year prior to the start of the pandemic. | $73.2M | Series D | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| Generate Capital | Generate Capital is a finance company that builds, owns, and operates sustainable infrastructure to deliver affordable and reliable resource solutions. The company operates and finances assets in energy, mobility, and water resources. | $2B |  | Jul 20, 2021 |  |
| Generate Capital | Generate Capital is a finance company that builds, owns, and operates sustainable infrastructure to deliver affordable and reliable resource solutions. The company operates and finances assets in energy, mobility, and water resources. | $2B | Private Equity | Jul 20, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does AustralianSuper invest in?

AustralianSuper invests primarily in Information Technology, Mineral and Financial Services startups, most often at Private Equity and Series D stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact AustralianSuper?

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### Who are the partners at AustralianSuper?

The team at AustralianSuper includes David Short (Head of Analytics, Insights and Measurement), Heather Ridout (Chair) and Derek Chu (Head of American Real Assets). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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