Active investors. Founders. Operators.
The Mitchell Group was formed in 2008 following the sale of the family's Australian drilling operations — the culmination of nearly four decades building one of Australia's leading drilling businesses, expanding from domestic operations into Indonesia, India, China, Russia, the United States and Africa.
After the sale, Nathan Mitchell established Mitchell Group as a private investment vehicle — with a clear purpose: to invest more widely and actively across the resources and energy supply chains the family knew intimately. The expertise, networks and operational instincts built over nearly four decades in the field became the foundation of a new model. Not a fund. Not passive capital. A family office with the conviction and capability to found, back and build businesses across the full supply chain.
Exploration and drilling remains a significant part of the business, with companies bearing the Mitchell name now operating over 130 rigs across 10 countries — through Mitchell Services (ASX:MSV) and Mitchell Drilling International.
Today, Mitchell Group employs over 900 people across Australia and internationally, with a portfolio spanning critical minerals exploration, natural gas infrastructure, battery energy storage, AI compute and digital infrastructure — in Australia, Africa, Canada, Sweden and the United States.
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Find a better way has been the Mitchell Group's guiding philosophy since its earliest days — and it means more than a tagline.
It shapes how we choose investments. We look for businesses and projects that are solving a real problem, delivering something the market needs, or doing something in a genuinely more efficient, more intelligent or more sustainable way than what came before. We are drawn to founders and operators who share that instinct.
It shapes how we invest. We don't write cheques and wait. We bring ideas, networks, operational experience and commercial rigour to the businesses we back. We ask the same question of ourselves that we ask of every investment: is there a better way to do this?
And it reflects a longer view. Finding a better way rarely happens quickly. It requires patience, conviction and a willingness to stay committed through the cycles that test less patient capital. Mitchell Group has that patience — built into the structure of a family office with no external obligations and a time horizon measured in decades.
Deep engineering
We engineer complex solutions to physical challenges, from concept design and prototyping to custom fabrication. Where we find a problem, we engineer a better way.
Software and systems
We deploy custom software, built and deployed in-house, to improve productivity, visibility and control across the business. Operational, financial, safety and productivity systems that drive real value.
Problem solvers
We are practical problem solvers at heart. We're drawn to businesses and ideas tackling real, unresolved challenges, and we back the people determined to solve them properly.
Creativity
Finding a better way often starts with seeing an old problem differently. We value novel design and creative thought as much as technical rigour, and back founders unafraid to challenge how things have always been done.