Investing across the digital ecosystem

For more than 20 years, Macquarie’s teams have been investing across the digital ecosystem and leveraging knowledge in interconnected sectors to support communities around the world in benefitting from the digital revolution.

5 GW

Macquarie Asset Management’s total planned hyperscale data centre capacity1

185

software transactions - worth over $A125b - advised on since 20172

2 m+

Clients served by our Australian digital-first bank

Together with our partners, we are investing in the data centres of the future, growing fibre networks and telecommunications infrastructure, financing cybersecurity and software advancements, and supporting the energy systems needed to power it all.
 

Developing and scaling businesses across the digital ecosystem

As the world continues to digitalise at pace, communities are using, creating, moving and storing more data than ever before. For more than two decades, Macquarie Asset Management has been identifying opportunities to bring together capital and expertise to build digital infrastructure businesses, including data centre platforms, around the world.

Accelerating the growth of a market-leading data centre platform

Macquarie Asset Management has been pivotal to the rapid growth and expansion of Aligned Data Centers across the Americas to help meet the demand for data, cloud services and artificial intelligence.

Advising on one of the largest-ever acquisitions by an ASX-listed technology company

Macquarie Capital acted as joint financial adviser to WiseTech Global on its $US2.1 billion acquisition of supply chain software platform e2open.

Global trends in digital infrastructure

Ed Burley, Head of Digital Networks & Data, Australia and New Zealand, Macquarie Capital, joined Macquarie Group Managing Director and CEO, Shemara Wikramanayake, to discuss key global trends driving the evolution of digital infrastructure.

Investing in AI-powered, inclusive recruitment software

Barb Hyman, Founder and CEO of Sapia.ai, shares how the AI-driven inclusive hiring technology company is expanding from Australia into the UK market with the help of Macquarie Capital Venture Capital.

We take a long-term view of where communities are heading and identify unmet needs that can be addressed through a range of capabilities: 

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We invest in and finance new opportunities and grow businesses across the digital ecosystem.

Our specialist expertise and advice support businesses driving innovation in their sector.

Through assets we manage, we are digitalising industries and expanding digital infrastructure.

We provide technology finance across the full capital spectrum.

We are innovating in digital banking, applying technology to enhance the customer experience and security.

Our expertise spans the full interconnected network of infrastructure, systems and digital services that facilitate economic activity, progress social development, address community need and advance long-term prosperity.

Examples of our activity

Data centres 

Fibre networks

Towers and communication

Software and digital services and banking

As at October 2025. *By enterprise value; Macquarie Asset Management led the sale on behalf of two of its privately managed infrastructure funds.

1. As at 31 March 2025.
2. Estimate of Macquarie Capital activity 2017-YTD, Dealogic