Focus on investments: Airtree Ventures
Updated on 13 May 2025 | 5 minute read
Early and late-stage venture capital investments bring an exciting edge to our investment portfolio. Our partnership with Airtree Ventures (Airtree) aims to harness some of the best growth opportunities coming from emerging innovators and late-stage disruptors.
Image caption: Airtree’s Surry Hills HQ
About Airtree
Founded in 2014, Airtree was born from the belief that founders could build world-class technology businesses. Airtree is a venture capital firm with $2 billion funds under management, and a portfolio of more than 110 fast-growing and category-defining technology companies in Australia and New Zealand. As one of the largest and most active early-stage investors in Australia and New Zealand, Airtree Venture’s portfolio includes, Canva, Employment Hero, Go1, Pet Circle and Linktree.
Our investment
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has invested in Airtree since 2016. As one of its first institutional investors, our support has played a key role in expanding Airtree’s portfolio and helping to position it as a high-performing venture capital firm. Partnering with high-quality managers in private equity is critical, as the difference in performance between top and bottom quartile managers can be vast.
Why we invest in Airtree?
ART is one of Australia's largest superfunds. 2.4 million Australians trust us to take care of over $330 billion of their retirement savings. Our scale and size mean we can invest in a broad range of local, national, and global investment opportunities to help us grow members’ super savings and maximise their retirement outcomes. Investing in Airtree offers:
An investment with strong return prospects, and access to a diverse range of investments across its portfolio, including emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The opportunity to invest with a high-performing manager that has demonstrated an ability to deliver strong financial returns and can grow with us as we continue to increase in size and scale.
An open and transparent partnership, with opportunity for ART to co-invest alongside the firm, allowing us to lower costs and gain increased exposure to investments.
Future focus
Airtree is in an exciting phase of expansion within both the venture capital and growth space, which will present new investment opportunities for ART and enhance the diversification of our portfolio.
Outlook
ART expects to continue to support Airtree’s growth and future development, offering members attractive returns, and increasing our exposure to a diverse range of investments within its portfolio.
Learn more about our investments
Your clients can review their investments anytime by logging into Member Online or through the Australian Retirement Trust app.
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