All Capital Is Not Equal

Dorado is a principal investor in private markets — deploying our own capital alongside partners across seven distinct asset classes.

Private Markets

Why Private Markets?

Private markets offer access to a broader opportunity set, higher return potential, and lower correlation to public markets. As a principal investor, Dorado aligns its interests directly with our partners — we invest our own capital alongside yours.

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Our Private Markets Approach

Disciplined manager selection, rigorous due diligence, and active portfolio management across alternative asset classes.

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Manager Selection

Rigorous screening and due diligence on fund managers across geographies and strategies.

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Portfolio Construction

Diversified allocation across asset classes, vintages, and risk profiles to optimize returns.

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Active Oversight

Ongoing monitoring, rebalancing, and engagement with managers to protect and grow capital.

Asset Classes

Click each category below to explore sub-strategies and focus areas.

Private Equity

Private equity encompasses direct investments in private companies through various strategies, from growth capital to distressed situations.

Buyout Growth Equity Venture Capital Distressed Carve-outs GP Staking Secondaries
Buyout

Control acquisitions of established businesses, typically using a combination of equity and leverage. Focused on operational improvement and strategic growth to drive value creation.

Growth Equity

Minority or majority investments in fast-growing companies that are past the venture stage. Focus on scaling revenue, expanding markets, and building institutional capabilities.

Venture Capital

Early-stage and expansion-stage investments in innovative, high-growth companies. Higher risk profile balanced by significant return potential.

Distressed

Investments in financially stressed or operationally challenged companies, typically at significant discounts. Requires deep operational and restructuring expertise.

Carve-outs

Acquisition of non-core divisions or subsidiaries from larger corporations. Opportunity to unlock value through focused management and strategic repositioning.

GP Staking

Minority equity investments in private equity and alternative asset management firms. Provides exposure to management fee streams and carried interest across diversified portfolios.

Secondaries

Purchase of existing limited partner positions in private equity funds, often at discounts to NAV. Provides diversification, accelerated J-curve, and shorter duration.

Private Credit

Non-bank lending strategies providing debt capital to companies and assets across the credit spectrum, from senior secured to structured products.

Direct Lending ABL / Specialty RE Debt Structured Credit Venture / Trade / Litigation Distressed Debt
Direct Lending

Senior and unitranche loans to mid-market companies, typically secured by assets and cash flows. Provides predictable income with downside protection.

Asset-Based Lending / Specialty

Loans secured against specific asset pools — receivables, inventory, equipment, or intellectual property. Specialty lending to niche sectors with specialist underwriting.

Real Estate Debt

Debt investments secured by real property — mezzanine, preferred equity, bridge, and construction loans. Complements Dorado's core real estate credit platform.

Structured Credit

Investments in CLOs, ABS, and bespoke structured products. Typically targets specific tranches to optimize risk-return within the capital structure.

Venture / Trade / Litigation Finance

Niche credit strategies including venture debt, trade finance, and litigation funding. Higher yields driven by specialist underwriting and non-correlated risk profiles.

Distressed Debt

Acquisition of debt in financially distressed situations — corporate restructurings, insolvencies, and workout situations — typically at significant discounts.

Real Estate

Direct and fund-based investments in real property across the risk spectrum, from core stabilized assets to opportunistic development and specialty sectors.

Core Value-Add Specialty Sectors Farmland
Core

Stabilized, income-producing properties in prime locations — office, industrial, retail, and multifamily. Low-risk, yield-focused strategy with predictable cash flows.

Value-Add

Properties with upside potential through repositioning, renovation, lease-up, or operational improvement. Moderate risk with enhanced return potential.

Specialty Sectors

Emerging and alternative property sectors — data centres, life sciences, self-storage, student accommodation, healthcare, and logistics. Driven by structural demand trends.

Farmland

Agricultural land investments providing inflation-protected income and long-term capital appreciation. Increasingly attractive as a real asset class with ESG alignment.

Infrastructure

Essential assets that underpin economic activity — from traditional infrastructure to next-generation digital and energy assets.

Core Infrastructure Renewable Energy Digital Infrastructure Social / Transport
Core Infrastructure

Established, essential-service assets with regulated or contracted revenue streams — utilities, toll roads, airports, and ports. Stable, inflation-linked cash flows.

Renewable Energy

Solar, wind, battery storage, and green hydrogen projects. Accelerating demand driven by decarbonisation mandates and falling technology costs.

Digital Infrastructure

Data centres, fibre networks, towers, and edge computing facilities. Critical enablers of the digital economy with strong secular demand.

Social / Transport

Hospitals, schools, affordable housing, and transport systems developed and operated via public-private partnerships. Stable demand underpinned by government contracts.

Natural Resources

Investments in physical resource assets and the companies that extract, process, and distribute them. Natural inflation hedges with commodity exposure.

Energy Minerals & Mining Agriculture Water
Energy

Traditional and transitional energy investments — upstream, midstream, and downstream. Focus on assets positioned for the energy transition with strong ESG frameworks.

Minerals & Mining

Critical minerals, base metals, and precious metals. Growing demand from electrification, defence, and technology supply chains — particularly relevant to Australia.

Agriculture

Agricultural production, processing, and agtech investments. Long-term demand growth driven by population expansion, dietary shifts, and supply constraints.

Water

Water rights, treatment, distribution, and technology investments. Increasingly scarce resource with critical importance to agriculture, industry, and urbanisation.

Hedge Funds

Actively managed strategies seeking absolute returns with low correlation to traditional asset classes. Diversification and downside protection within broader portfolios.

Long/Short Equity Event-Driven Global Macro Credit-Focused
Long/Short Equity

Fundamental stock picking with both long and short positions. Seeks alpha from security selection while managing market exposure and drawdown risk.

Event-Driven

Strategies exploiting corporate events — mergers, spin-offs, restructurings, and activist situations. Returns driven by catalysts rather than market direction.

Global Macro

Top-down strategies trading currencies, rates, commodities, and equities based on macroeconomic views. Highly liquid with potential for strong returns in volatile markets.

Credit-Focused

Long/short credit strategies across investment-grade, high yield, and structured credit markets. Income-oriented with asymmetric return profiles.

Specialty & Alternative Investments

Non-traditional asset classes that offer diversification, unique return drivers, and low correlation to traditional markets.

Royalties & IP Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) Transportation Collectibles & Sports
Royalties & Intellectual Property

Music royalties, pharmaceutical royalties, patent portfolios, and IP licensing revenue. Predictable cash flows from contractual rights with long-duration income streams.

Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS)

Catastrophe bonds, collateralised reinsurance, and sidecars. Truly non-correlated returns driven by natural catastrophe risk rather than financial markets.

Transportation

Aircraft, shipping, rail, and container leasing. Essential assets with long useful lives, contracted revenue, and residual value protection.

Collectibles & Sports

Sports franchises, fine art, wine, rare collectibles, and luxury goods. Alternative stores of value with unique demand dynamics and cultural significance.

Search Funds

Dorado invests in search funds — entrepreneurship-through-acquisition vehicles where a principal (the "searcher") raises capital to identify, acquire, manage, and grow a single private company. Search funds combine the entrepreneurial drive of a dedicated operator with the discipline of institutional capital.

Search And We Shall Fund

Traditional Search

Funded search with investor backing for the search period and acquisition capital.

Self-Funded Search

Entrepreneur-led search with Dorado providing acquisition capital at deal stage.

Accelerator Funds

Pooled vehicles backing multiple searchers across sectors and geographies.

Managers and Funds

A representative selection of managers and funds within the Dorado private markets portfolio.

Asset Class Example Manager 1 Example Manager 2 Example Manager 3
Buyout KKR Blackstone Apollo Global Management
Growth Equity General Atlantic Warburg Pincus TA Associates
Venture Capital Sequoia Capital Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Accel Partners
Direct Lending Ares Management Blue Owl Capital HPS Investment Partners
Core Real Estate Brookfield Asset Management Nuveen Real Estate CBRE Investment Management
Core Infrastructure Macquarie Asset Management Brookfield Infrastructure Global Infrastructure Partners
Renewable Energy Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Orsted Brookfield Renewable
Critical Minerals Resource Capital Funds Orion Resource Partners Trafigura Mining Group
Global Macro Bridgewater Associates Man Group Tudor Investment Corp
Search Funds Relay Investments Ambit Pacific Lake Partners

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Dorado deploys capital as a principal investor alongside select partners. Contact us to discuss co-investment opportunities.

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