John Wylie’s Tanarra Capital is courting major superannuation funds and global institutional investors as the local asset management giant doubles down on a strategy for buying up start-ups emerging from universities.

While Tanarra and its $3 billion in funds are largely invested in equities, private equity and credit, the firm has run a separate fund known as Tin Alley Ventures with the University of Melbourne since 2022. Wylie, a former Credit Suisse investment banker, started Tanarra in 2015.