Alternative Investment.

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Alternative Investment.

Artesian Capital Management is a global alternative asset manager founded in Sydney in 2004, running specialist debt and venture platforms across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.

The two are not managed alike. Debt prioritises capital preservation and income by pricing credit, duration, liquidity and structure. Venture accepts illiquidity and deeper uncertainty in pursuit of outlier returns. Each platform keeps its own team, governance and portfolio construction.

What unites them is a view of where active management earns its place: markets where risk is mispriced, structure matters and specialist judgement can outperform scale.

Artesian manages $1.5 billion across its debt and venture strategies, with more than 40 staff in nine offices across five countries: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Shanghai, Singapore, London, New York and Austin. The venture portfolio has been built through more than 600 investments since 2010.

Artesian's debt business is conducted by Artesian Capital Management Pty Ltd (ACN 136 833 192), a corporate authorised representative (No. 339915) of Artesian Funds Management Pty Ltd (ACN 089 486 445), which holds Australian Financial Services Licence No. 259457.

The venture business is conducted by Artesian Venture Partners Pty Ltd (ACN 112 089 488), which is owned by Artesian Capital Management and holds AFSL No. 284492 in its own right. Individual funds may have their own issuer, responsible entity and investment manager, named in that fund's offering documents.

Venture Capital as a Service (VCaaS) is Artesian's model of building and operating a dedicated venture fund for a single institution, rather than pooling institutions into one generalist fund. The backer sets the mandate, covering sector, geography, stage and concentration; Artesian supplies the infrastructure, sourcing, diligence, execution and portfolio management. It gives an institution full venture capability without building an internal team. Fourteen mandates operate on this model, for governments, corporations, universities, industry bodies and superannuation funds.

In debt, Artesian runs five fixed income funds across Australia, New Zealand and the United States: corporate bonds, green and sustainable bonds, short duration credit, and a Nasdaq-listed green bond ETF.

In venture, it backs early-stage companies across six themes: climate and energy transition, agrifood and natural resources, health and human systems, AI, autonomy and infrastructure, defence and sovereign capability, and frontier and emerging themes. Hardware, deep tech and applied science sit alongside software rather than behind it.

Artesian has invested across both venture capital and debt since 2004, which is uncommon and shapes how it approaches both. Rather than separating the growth and risk disciplines, the firm brings a risk manager's focus on downside protection alongside the conviction to back high-growth companies, looking for mispriced or overlooked situations, embedded optionality and asymmetric return profiles. It prioritises focus over scale, investing where it has established expertise and market context, which allows more selective deployment and the ability to act when opportunity and timing align.

Artesian works with government organisations, superannuation and pension funds, corporations, wealth managers, industry bodies, universities and family offices. On the debt side they access income strategies with disciplined risk frameworks and a capital preservation focus. On the venture side they access early-stage opportunities through dedicated mandates aligned to their own sector expertise or strategic priorities. Artesian calls the companies it backs builders, and the institutions deploying capital through it backers.

Artesian's five debt funds are available in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, through investment platforms, directly, or on-exchange in the case of the Nasdaq-listed green bond ETF. Each fund page lists its offering documents. Venture works differently: rather than a fund open to subscriptions, Artesian builds a mandate around a single institution's strategy, so the first step is a conversation about what that institution is trying to achieve.