Indoor Skydive Strategic Growth

High-growth entertainment and experiential businesses can quickly come under pressure when debt structures, cash flow constraints, and operational expansion outpace available funding capacity.

This case study explores how Vantage Performance supported the successful turnaround and refinancing of indoor skydiving and immersive experiences operator during a period of significant financial and operational pressure.

The business required immediate liquidity improvement and strategic restructuring support to stabilise operations while the Board evaluated longer-term growth and refinancing options.

Vantage Performance was engaged to improve cash flow, manage stakeholder relationships, and lead a broader restructuring and refinancing process designed to restore stability and position the business for future expansion.

Key initiatives included:

• Development and implementation of multiple cash flow improvement initiatives to stabilise liquidity

• Strategic stakeholder management to restore confidence among financiers and creditors

• Project management of a debt restructuring process involving the group’s two major secured creditors

• Leadership and coordination of a competitive refinancing process, ultimately resulting in Causeway Financial being selected as the successful refinancing partner

• Negotiation of approximately $1M in unsecured creditor write-downs

• Coordination with legal advisers including Hamilton Locke throughout the restructuring process

A major focus throughout the engagement was creating sufficient financial stability and stakeholder alignment to allow management and the Board to transition from crisis management toward strategic growth execution.

The outcome:

• Successful debt restructure and refinance of the business

• Significant improvement in operational cash flow and liquidity

• EBITDA improvement of approximately $2.5M for the half-year period

• Increase in net equity of approximately $7.7M

• Share price growth of approximately 1,000% during the period of involvement

• Preservation of approximately 82 jobs

Repositioning of the business to pursue growth opportunities across Virtual Reality, immersive training, and simulation sectors

As noted by the CEO :

“The result has positioned us on a stable footing to now focus on growth opportunities including the continuation of the rollout of Virtual Reality facilities, and the development of its immersive training and simulation business.”

The result wasn’t simply a financial restructure, it was the successful repositioning of the business onto a stable growth platform capable of supporting future innovation and expansion.

This is where Vantage Performance operates: helping businesses navigate restructuring, refinancing, and strategic growth transitions through disciplined execution and stakeholder leadership.