HorizonTwo Capital Partners

HorizonTwo Capital Partners is a private equity firm that specialises in advanced manufacturing companies

 We are disciplined, patient and hands-on investors that seek to establish long-term partnerships with owners and founders and share in the long-term risk and reward of building globally competitive manufacturing companies. 

Our team has over 100 years collective experience in running, growing, and exiting local and international manufacturing companies. We bring deep operational capability and world class leadership to the firms we work with. Our mission is to grow globally competitive manufacturing companies, like Germany’s Mittelstand. 

What we look for: 

We invest in companies with unique manufacturing capabilities that stand to benefit from global trends and favourable industry tailwinds. We arrange our thematic investing across four main pillars:

• Smart Manufacturing: We look for high value products and technology that are underpinned by advanced knowledge, advanced processes, and advanced business models. 
• Defence & Aerospace: The AUKUS agreement represents a long-term geo-strategic partnership that seeks to build resilient global supply chains and sovereign capabilities with opportunities due to local content requirement. 
• Healthcare and wellness; Aging populations, personalised healthcare, and strong healthcare inflation are causing structural changes in the healthcare systems locally and around the world. 
• Food and beverage: The F&B industry is resilient through economic cycles and has enjoyed multi-decade stable growth with high margins due to Australia’s trusted high standards. 

How we work with companies:

We provide ‘smart capital’ to transform companies. This means we actively work with companies we invest in. We drive growth by leveraging our local and global networks, knowledge, specialist operator experience, and help companies to transform into the information age. We bring operational coaching and manufacturing insights to help ambitious teams achieve their next growth horizon. 

We seek partnerships with owners and founders to deliver exceptional income, wealth preservation and wealth creation by enabling family business founders a smooth, successful and safe transition, allowing them to achieve life balance, preserve legacy, realise the benefits and dreams of a life of hard work. 

Allocation of capital: 

• Cheque sizes of $5m - $25m, typically held 5+ years
• Growth capital for international expansion and new management capability
• Replacement capital for successful family businesses looking for financial security while preparing the company for the next phase of growth

We are active investors and take board seats to support management teams to collaboratively develop and execute growth plans. 

We take minority and majority shareholdings, typically between 30% - 80%.