# Direct Capital Private Equity

> Direct Capital Private Equity is a VC fund backing Rental and Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 25%
- Fund size: $270M
- Last fund: Feb 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.directcapital.co.nz

Direct Capital Private Equity is a VC fund in Auckland focused on Rental and Software. Direct Capital is a private equity manager established in 1994. Today Direct Capital remains owned and managed by three of its founding directors, Ross George, Mark Hutton and Bill Kermode. The team has grown to 13 investment professionals, who together have 110 years of private equity experience.Direct Capital seeks to be a pre-eminentprovider of equity capital to Australasian businesses lacking ready access to the stock market, with a focus on increasing shareholder wealth in private companies, and assisting shareholders to release value.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Direct Capital Private Equity. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Direct Capital Private Equity. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/direct-capital-private-equity?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rental | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Insurance | 2 | 17% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 17% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 9 | 75% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 7 | 58% |
| Australia | 3 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ann Grieve | Office Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ann-grieve |
| Craig Prosser | Finance Executive | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-prosser |
| Gavin Lonergan | Investment Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gavin-lonergan |
| Kirsty Keen | Accounts Executive | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kirsty-keen |
| Mark Hutton | Founding Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-hutton |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Active Refrigeration | Active Refrigeration specializes in the usage of sustainable industrial and commercial refrigeration system solutions. |  | Private Equity | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| Bayleys Realty Group | Bayleys Realty Group offers expertise in the marketing and sale of a range of properties, including residential real estate, farms, and commercial property. This tourism leisure asset such as hotels and motel businesses for sale. |  | Private Equity | Jun 28, 2024 |  |
| Wet & Forget | Wet & Forget is a supplier of household cleaners and industrial cleaners. |  | Private Equity | Apr 17, 2024 |  |
| POP | POP is a holding company led by entrepreneurs to build a specialist insurance ecosystem. |  | Private Equity | Apr 17, 2023 |  |
| Fusion Specialty | Fusion Specialty is an insurance industry. |  | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Caci | Caci provides skin treatments, laser hair removal, cosmetic injectables, pigmented lesion, and anti-aging products. |  | Private Equity | Jun 26, 2020 |  |
| Beca | Beca is in its field, providing consultancy services across key sectors including Advisory, Building, Industrial, Transport and Infrastructure, and Water. |  | Private Equity | Feb 21, 2019 |  |
| Momentum Energy | Momentum Energy is an energy retailer based in Victoria, Australia retailing electricity to customers in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Queensland. Momentum provides the retail services for electricity supplied to the Bass Strait Islands on behalf of Hydro Tasmania and also retails natural gas in Victoria. The company is whollyowned by Hydro Tasmania, the largest renewable energy generator in Australia. | $3.2M |  | Mar 10, 2008 |  |
| Enprise Solutions | Enprise Solutions Ltd, a SAP Business One software solution company, develops financial, enterprise resource planning, and customer relationship management software solutions. The company's products include Job Costing, a centralized job management system that enables businesses to prepare quotes for their customers and manage resources, time,staff, and material issuing and purchasing on a job by job basis; Web Timesheet Entry, a solution that facilitates the client's staff to focus on doing their jobs out in the field, rather than entering timesheets in the office; Field Service Pro, a service management solution; Bank Interface, which exports the clients supplier payment runs in various flexible formats for upload to the clients existing desk banking system, as well as imports the clients external bank statements for reconciliation with the general ledger; GL Journal Importer, a solution that offers a tool for importing wage journals, general journals, auto-reversing journals, and business partner journals to SAP Business One. It also provides purchase requisitions, and recurring invoicing and service calls. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand. | $1M |  | Feb 16, 2006 |  |
| GFG Group | GFG Group is a supplier of consumer electronic payments software and card payment solutions. GFG has provided applications, systems integration and IT managed services to customers in 40 countries. | $3M |  | Feb 08, 2005 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Advent International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advent-international) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Moa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moa-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Endeavour Capital Limited](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavour-capital-limited) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NZ Super Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nz-super-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TMT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tmt-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## Similar investors

### Similar industry
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund
- [Shell Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shell-technology-ventures) — VC Fund

### Similar stage
- [Foresight Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foresight-group) — VC Fund
- [YFM Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yfm-equity-partners) — VC Fund
- [Fondaction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fondaction) — VC Fund

### Similar country
- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund
- [Enterprise Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-angels) — VC Fund
- [K1W1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k1w1) — VC Fund

## Featured in investor lists
- [Transportation Investors in New Zealand](https://shizune.co/investors/transportation-investors-new-zealand)
- [Transportation VC Funds in New Zealand](https://shizune.co/investors/transportation-vc-funds-new-zealand)
- [Enterprise Investors in New Zealand](https://shizune.co/investors/enterprise-investors-new-zealand)
- [Enterprise VC Funds in New Zealand](https://shizune.co/investors/enterprise-vc-funds-new-zealand)
- [SaaS Investors in New Zealand](https://shizune.co/investors/saas-investors-new-zealand)
- [SaaS VC Funds in New Zealand](https://shizune.co/investors/saas-vc-funds-new-zealand)

## FAQ

### What does Direct Capital Private Equity invest in?

Direct Capital Private Equity invests primarily in Rental, Software and Insurance startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Direct Capital Private Equity?

Public channels for Direct Capital Private Equity include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Direct Capital Private Equity?

The team at Direct Capital Private Equity includes Ann Grieve (Office Manager), Craig Prosser (Finance Executive) and Gavin Lonergan (Investment Director), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co