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Ex-Macquarie equities boss seeks $100m for investment firm

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Jun 4, 2025 – 5.17pm

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A Sydney-based investment firm that bets on early-stage healthcare, education and lifestyle businesses has pressed play on an equity raising, seeking to stock up its balance sheet with $100 million from family offices and high-net-worth investors.

Dan Ritchie, the former head of Australian equities at Macquarie Bank, now heads up Factory Capital.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.

Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.