Meet the Team

Eric Chan, Managing Director

Eric Chan is a co-founder and Managing Director of Aura Group.

Eric is a Managing Director and Co-Founder at Aura Group, an alternative funds management firm with over A$1.5 billion of assets under management or advice across venture capital, private equity and alternative credit.

At Aura Group, Eric focuses on Aura Ventures and leads early-stage investments across Australia. Aura is a thesis led investor with a focus on seed stage companies. He led the firms seed stage investments into Shippit, Catapult Sports, Haast and many others and serves on the boards of various portfolio companies. He is an active advisor, connector and mentor to the venture ecosystem.

Before starting his founder journey in 2010 with Aura Group, Eric was a lawyer at Clayton Utz specialising in Private Equity and Credit. Eric studied a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and a Bachelor of Laws (UTS). Eric is a graduate of the University of Technology Sydney and holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and a Bachelor of Laws.