Kilara PRIVATE EQUITY

We invest in companies that are resilient and focussed on generating significant profits together with significant climate positive outcomes.

Kilara Transition Fund (KTF) - launched 2025, currently raising capital

KTF is a small cap, private equity fund, empowering the growth of SMEs in critical markets.

The investment strategy is focused on the supply chains that are critical to achieve the economic transition. KTF creates real economy transition pathways by layering proven decarbonisation technologies into existing SMEs.

If you would like to hear more about KTF, please reach out through our contact page. KTF is for wholesale investors only.

Our Approach

We partner with scalable small to medium businesses, with proven track records in their sector, to deliver sustainable returns to our partners and investors.

Our focus is on catalysing businesses with deep criticality that will be positioned to have high differentiation and drive the economic transition. There are two key categories of business activities that we are targeting:

1)     Transformation of existing products & services into a decarbonisation solution.

2)     Scaling of existing decarbonisation products & services.

Investment Criteria

If you have an investment opportunity which fits the following criteria, please contact Dougal McOmish at dougal@kilaracapital.com.

What kind of business do we look for?
  • Meaningful revenue
  • Underlying profitability
  • Supply chain criticality
  • Privately owned
  • Proven track-record
How do we invest?
  • Significant minority to majority shareholding
  • Equity and preferred equity
How do we partner?
  • Operational expertise
  • Board seats and governance
  • Support founders with domain expertise, corporate partnerships, networks and resources
  • Strategy development and support
  • Acquisitions and exit structuring
Investment Sectors

The Kilara Transition Fund will focus on three key sectors that are critical to the transition.

Energy Efficiency & Green Molecules
Resource Efficiency & Materials
Manufacturing & Industrial
Kilara Investments

If you would like to hear more about these investments or how to invest in Kilara Transition Fund, please reach out through our contact page.

Fund 1 – Kilara Growth Fund (KGF) is an Australian small-cap, impact focused investment fund supporting private market investments in the transition to a low carbon economy. KGF closed in June 2022 at a fund size of A$40m and is fully deployed.

JET Charge

JET Charge is Australia’s leading electric vehicle charging installer for households, apartments, shopping centres, car parks and public charging. They are leading the way in developing hardware and software solutions to help integrate EV charging into the electricity grid, from energy management, to smart charging, to electricity grid transforming demand response and vehicle to grid.

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Sircel

Sircel built a market-leading system for processing high volumes of electronic waste (e-waste) while recovering >93% of contained valuable materials. Sircel is the only company in Australia, and among only a handful of companies globally, that can process e-waste end-to-end, including the recovery of gold and other precious metals.

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Grounded Packaging

Grounded Packaging built a data driven packaging procurement and management platform to allow businesses to transition away from fossil-based, virgin plastics and into sustainable alternatives.

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Tasman Environmental Markets

Tasman Environmental Markets (TEM) enables consumers and corporates to connect with highly credible and verified land-based carbon projects. It provides carbon trading, portfolio structuring and technology-enabled API’s for corporates to manage their carbon liabilities.

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Loliware Inc

Loliware is an advanced materials company and a global leader in seaweed-based bio resins. They are developing a portfolio of bioplastic materials derived from regenerative, carbon-capturing, ocean-farmed seaweed that replace single use plastics at scale using existing manufacturing infrastructure.

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Mosa Meat

Mosa Meat is a global leader in the development of clean meat production via cell-based cultures, with their products mitigating significant environmental costs associated with the current meat industry and democratize access to high protein diets for a growing global population.

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Wattwatchers

Wattwatchers is a digital energy technology platform enabling fast, powerful, scalable solutions to monitor, analyses and control electrical circuits in real time through the cloud.

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Amber Electric

Amber Electric offers direct access to real time wholesale electric prices for a fixed monthly fee, whilst unlocking an entirely new market for smart devices and optimisation services.

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Climate Friendly

Climate Friendly is a carbon farming project developer under the $2.5b Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF). With more than 100 projects nationwide, Climate Friendly has seen huge improvements in land health and regeneration, and over 7m tonnes of carbon saved from being emitted into the atmosphere since 2015. Platform, Exited 2019

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