We invest in talented entrepreneurs aiming to buy and manage a single company with a focus on long-term value creation and sustainable growth. Our approach emphasizes strategic and operational improvements. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand the challenges you'll face throughout the entire process: from searching for your target, through acquisition, management, and potential exit.

The person behind Search Fund Oz

I didn’t come to search funds through a textbook. I came through deals.

I’m Chris Davey, founder of Search Fund Oz, and founder and Managing Director of Accountica, a boutique accounting and M&A advisory firm on the Gold Coast. I’m an FCPA and a GAICD, and I’ve spent the better part of six years helping build the entrepreneurship through acquisition ecosystem in Australia, back when “search fund” got you blank looks at most Australian networking events.

Through Accountica, I sit on the advisory side of real SME transactions: financial due diligence, quality of earnings, deal structuring. Through Search Fund Oz, I back the people doing the acquiring: self-funded searchers looking for a good Australian business to buy and run, and the investors who want exposure to this asset class.

Along the way I’ve ended up doing some ecosystem building I didn’t plan on. I guest lecture on search funds and ETA at Bond University. I led the petition for an SBA-equivalent government loan guarantee for SME acquisitions, which received a formal ministerial response, and the policy conversation is still live. I’m also writing The Entrepreneur’s Shortcut, a practical guide to buying an Australian SME, because I got tired of watching capable Australians talk themselves out of buying a business for want of a playbook. You can join the waitlist to get it first.

If you’re a searcher trying to buy well, an owner thinking about succession, or an investor who wants to understand this space before it gets crowded, that’s exactly who I built this for.

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