Joint Venture Investments

Read about IBA's joint venture partnership in the Gagadju Lodge Cooinda, Northern Territory

Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) is an integral partner within the Government’s Indigenous Economic Development Strategy, which seeks to close the gap between Indigenous Australians and other Australians’ standard of living.

IBA identifies, develops and assesses potential joint venture investment opportunities that promote self-management, self-sufficiency and economic independence for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

We build mutually respectful and responsible partnerships with Indigenous corporations, communities and individuals, private sector business and industry partners to invest in sustainable, commercially viable businesses and ventures that provide profit distribution, create employment opportunities and foster asset accumulation.

By providing the means to both invest (through access to capability partners and equity) and to succeed (through ongoing support and training), IBA encourages Indigenous Australians to participate in the mainstream economy and:

• develop a better understanding of the business environment
• learn more about corporate governance, managing and operating a business, and
• assume long term independent management and control of their own wealth, assets and financial future.

IBA’s ultimate goal with its investments is to sell down its equity to its Indigenous partners so that over time the asset becomes totally owned or controlled by those partners.

IBA undertakes a rigorous financial, legal and technical due diligence appraisal of all potential business ventures through its Joint Venture Assessment Process.

Our Portfolio Profile indicates our current areas of investment interest, or you can read some of our joint venture partnership Good News Stories.

We invite Indigenous organisations, communities, private sector businesses and industries with commercially viable proposals to Contact Us.