Ventia

What Ventia does

Ventia is an essential infrastructure services provider operating across Australia and New Zealand, delivering projects that maintain critical services for government, industry, and communities. The company is publicly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange under ticker VNT and is partly owned by CIMIC Group, a major Australian construction and mining services conglomerate. With more than 10,000 employees headquartered in North Sydney, Ventia operates as a multi-disciplinary infrastructure services platform spanning telecommunications network contracting (via the 2021-acquired Kordia Solutions Australia business), energy infrastructure delivery (including a 2026 joint venture role in the 150-MW Kowhai Park solar project with Contact Energy and Lightsource bp), construction services (reinforced by the 2025 acquisition of PowerNet Constructions), and asset management for airport, government, and industrial clients.

The company's service portfolio is built around operational delivery rather than proprietary technology products. Capabilities include network connection infrastructure, construction management, and geospatial/digital engineering services, as evidenced by its work with Brisbane Airport Corporation. While the product and technology stack is not publicly detailed, the 2021 Kordia acquisition and the 2025 PowerNet deal indicate an inorganic growth model to add technical capability and scale into adjacent infrastructure verticals, particularly telecommunications and renewable energy. Ventia's revenue model is contract-based, generating multi-billion dollar annual revenue (approximately $4.1B in 2025) through long-term essential services contracts with government agencies and enterprise clients across the ANZ region. Customer segmentation follows a vertical approach: Government (primary), Industry (telecommunications, energy, infrastructure — primary), and Communities (secondary, as beneficiaries of project delivery).

Name

Ventia

Legal name

Ventia

Website

https://ventia.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Ventia is an ASX-listed essential infrastructure services provider operating across Australia and New Zealand, serving government agencies and enterprises in telecommunications, energy, and infrastructure sectors with over 10,000 employees and multi-billion dollar annual revenue.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

North Sydney

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Core offering

Ventia is an essential infrastructure services provider operating across Australia and New Zealand, delivering projects that keep essential services running for government agencies, telecommunications, energy, and infrastructure clients. The company provides a unified portfolio of services including network infrastructure, construction, and asset management, and manages network connection infrastructure for major projects such as the 150-MW Kowhai Park solar project. Following its 2021 acquisition of Kordia Solutions Australia, Ventia expanded its telecommunications network contracting capabilities.

Product overview

Ventia operates as an essential services infrastructure company delivering projects across Australia and New Zealand. The company provides a unified portfolio of essential services including network infrastructure, construction, and asset management. Following the 2021 acquisition of Kordia Solutions Australia, the company expanded its telecommunications contracting capabilities. Services are delivered through close customer partnerships to keep essential services running.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kordia Solutions Australia (KSA) Network contracting business providing telecommunications infrastructure services in Australia, acquired by Ventia in 2021 to expand scale in the Australian telco market.
• Geospatial and Digital Engineering Services

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• Contact EnergymajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Joint venture partner in the 150-MW Kowhai Park solar project located behind Christchurch Airport. Contact Energy and Lightsource bp formed the JV, with Ventia managing network connection infrastructure. The project spans 230 hectares with approximately 300,000 solar panels.
• Lightsource bpmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Joint venture partner in the 150-MW Kowhai Park solar project located behind Christchurch Airport. Lightsource bp and Contact Energy formed the JV, with Ventia managing network connection infrastructure. Once operational, the facility will generate electricity for approximately 36,000 homes annually.
• ChinteccoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2026Construction partner handling the construction of the Kowhai Park solar project. Ventia managed network connection infrastructure while Chintec handled construction activities for the 150-MW project.
• Kordia Solutions Australia (KSA)coreOthers · 1 January 2021Ventia acquired Kordia Solutions Australia from Kordia Group to increase scale in the Australian telco market. The acquisition was completed later in 2021 as part of Kordia's strategy to refocus on cloud, cyber security, and ICT services.
• Christchurch International Airport LimitedminorOthersLand owner providing site for the Kowhai Park solar project. The project was developed on land owned by Christchurch International Airport Limited and Environment Canterbury.
• Environment CanterburyminorOthersLand owner providing site for the Kowhai Park solar project. The project was developed on land owned by Environment Canterbury and Christchurch International Airport Limited.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Bilfinger: Bilfinger is a European-listed industrial services provider focused on process industry consulting, engineering, maintenance, and energy-transition infrastructure. Its diversified critical-infrastructure services and energy-transition positioning mirror Ventia's essential-infrastructure and renewables strategy.
• Service Stream: Service Stream is an ASX-listed infrastructure services provider focused on design, construction, and maintenance of essential networks across telecommunications, utilities, and energy in Australia. The overlap with Ventia's post-KSA telco network contracting business and broader utility asset-management offering is highly material, particularly in the NBN and energy-network maintenance segment.
• Downer EDI: Downer EDI is an ASX-listed infrastructure services company providing operations and maintenance across transport, utilities, and energy in Australia and New Zealand. It is the closest direct peer to Ventia given overlapping ANZ essential-infrastructure footprint, similar government and utility customer base, and similar multi-disciplinary services portfolio spanning telecom, energy, and asset management.

Broad incumbents

• Lendlease: Lendlease is an ASX-listed international real estate and infrastructure group with established Australian construction and infrastructure operations. Its services overlap with Ventia in infrastructure delivery and asset management for institutional and government clients across ANZ.
• CIMIC Group: CIMIC Group is Ventia's part-owner and one of Australia's largest infrastructure groups (including CPB Contractors and Leighton Asiacon). It operates across the same ANZ infrastructure services value chain at much larger scale, with overlapping exposure to government and resources infrastructure, making it the natural broad- incumbent benchmark.
• Worley: Worley is an ASX-listed global energy, chemicals, and resources project and operational services provider with strong ANZ roots. While larger and more upstream-focused, it competes for the same major energy customer relationships and renewables project work that Ventia is targeting through the Kowhai Park JV and similar renewables pipeline.
• Balfour Beatty: Balfour Beatty is a UK-listed international infrastructure group with operations in construction, support services, and infrastructure investments. Dean Banks (Ventia's outgoing CEO) is a Balfour Beatty alumnus, and the group offers a global benchmark for the kind of diversified infrastructure-services business Ventia is becoming in ANZ.
• Quanta Services: Quanta Services is a US-listed infrastructure construction leader focused on electric and gas transmission, renewables, telecom, and pipeline infrastructure. It illustrates the upside scale for a network-focused infrastructure-services model similar to Ventia's KSA-integrated telecom and renewable-connection offering.
• John Holland: John Holland is an Australian infrastructure and tunnelling contractor owned by CCIG. It is comparable to Ventia on water, transport, and energy infrastructure construction across ANZ, serving similar government and utility clients with overlapping civil and mechanical services capabilities.

Emerging players

• MasTec: MasTec is a US-listed infrastructure construction company operating across communications, utility, oil & gas, and clean-energy infrastructure. It is an emerging comparable for Ventia given heavy overlap in telecom-network contracting and renewable-energy BoP/connection work — the very segments Ventia has built with the KSA acquisition and Kowhai Park JV.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A2 records

Investments

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