EVP

EVP's investment decisions are made by its full team of eight named professionals, which includes principals Adrian Di Marco, Mike Ford, Chloe Lim, Russ Bennett, Tiziana Bianco, Damon Pezaro, Craig Butcher, and Joe McShanag. The firm does not publicly identify a single CIO or managing partner with sole decision-making authority. Its website presents the group as a collective investment team without hierarchical titles.

EVP invests across early-stage, startup, expansion, and late-stage growth rounds in B2B software companies. The firm typically enters at the earliest stages and follows on in subsequent rounds, maintaining a concentrated portfolio rather than running a broad, index-style book. Their known positions include companies that have progressed from seed rounds to significant scale, such as Deputy and SiteMinder.

EVP operates as a venture capital firm, not a single-family office. It was established in 2014 as a formal fund manager to back early-stage software companies in Australia and New Zealand, building on the principals' individual investment activity from the late 1990s. There is no disclosed connection to a specific family wealth pool.

Publicly available information describes EVP only in terms of direct investments into portfolio companies such as Deputy, SiteMinder, Practice Ignition, and Shippit. The firm has not disclosed any fund-of-funds activity, co-investment vehicles alongside external GPs, or commitments to third-party venture funds.

EVP's stated focus is exclusively on B2B software; its website and public portfolio list no investments in consumer technology, hardware, life sciences, or climate technology. The firm's centralized thesis and concentrated portfolio suggest it avoids sectors outside enterprise and business-facing software.

EVP has not publicly disclosed assets under management or total capital deployed. No Australian regulatory filings or press reports available in this review state a specific fund size, deployment figure, or target raise amount for its vehicles. The scale of the firm is not a matter of public record.

EVP sources deal flow primarily through its team's long-standing operator and investor networks in the Australian and New Zealand software ecosystems. The principals began investing in the late 1990s, well before Australia's venture capital industry matured, giving them relationships with founders and repeat entrepreneurs who often return for backing at the earliest stages.