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Tony Holt

Founder of Square Peg

Greater Sydney Area

Overview 

Tony Holt is a Partner and Co-Founder at Square Peg, a venture capital firm in the Greater Sydney Area. With a background in private equity and investment banking, Tony has successfully co-founded Victoria Capital and held senior roles at Macquarie Group, Citi, and Merrill Lynch, making significant investments in companies like AgriDigital, Prospa, and CAIS. Tony's career highlights include co-founding successful ventures, leading investment banking teams, and driving strategic investments in emerging companies across various sectors, showcasing his expertise in private equity, mergers & acquisitions, and financial structuring.

Work Experience 

  • Partner, Co-Founder

    2012 - Current

    Square Peg was founded in 2012 and has grown into a global investment firm with teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore. Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy. Square Peg has over US$2.5 billion in assets under management across multiple funds and has invested in companies including Fiverr, Canva, StashAway, Airwallex, Kredivoand Tomorrow. In 2021, Square Peg expanded into global listed technology investing.

Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy in Australia and New Zealand, South-East Asia, and Israel.

  • Co-Founder

    2012 - 2013

    Victoria Capital, VicCap, invests in growth stage businesses focused on the technology, media, online and related industries. VicCap was founded by Tony Holt and Paul Bassat in October 2012. We invest our own capital alongside investment partners on a deal by deal basis, to create a model that combines the best elements of principal investment with the best elements of private equity. Leveraging our combined experience, we aim to support our investments to achieve significant growth in the short to medium term. Our goal is to become capital of choice for Australian, New Zealand & international businesses in our target sectors.

  • Senior Managing Director

    2008 - 2012

Macquarie Infrastructure Company Owns, operates and invests in a diversified group of infrastructure businesses.

  • Managing Director, Head of TMT

    2006 - 2008

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.

Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

  • Head of TMT, Australia

    1991 - 2005

The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.

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