Current Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Journal

February 2019, Year 28 Issue No. 294

 

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New Funds & Fundraising

• Additional $150m raised for renewable energy fund
• Shanghai biotech initiative could boost local investment

Investment Activity

• Overseas investor to take hospitals company private in $4.4bn deal
• Software company in favour of $2bn-plus take-private offer
• Listed company conditionally recommends take private deal
• $NZ218m plus New Zealand bus company investment
• $NZ270m acquisition bulks up smart metering business
• US firm invests $22.5m in workforce management technology
• Electrical power supply equipment firms merge
• New private capital business makes first corporate investments
• Agreement reached for $NZ2.56bn take-private deal
• $US32m in venture funding for autonomous vehicle ‘vision' system
• $135m backing for small business loans provider
• More acquisitions for email marketing business
• US firm invests in cross-border merger of Melbourne software company
• Indonesian corporate venturer leading $US45m fintech deal
• Bank leads $40m investment round in online home loans business
• $NZ3.5m raised for reusable satellite launch vehicle
• Agricultural fund manager invests in wine company recapitalisation
• Venture firms invest in whistleblower technology
• Natural cleaning products company in new capital raising
• Sydney investors back New Zealand edutech start-up
• $2m for global launch of heart surgery recovery app
• Commercialisation fund backs wildlife drone technology
• US investment bank increases stake in local R&D lender
• Seed rounds raised for Perth technology start-ups

News

• EDITOR'S LETTER - Increased investment re-shapes strategies
• Private markets investment platform to merge with US counterpart
• Downturn in consumer spending expected to delay exits
• Alcohol company launches corporate venturing division
• New bank-affiliated global private equity firm
• Islamic investment firm seeks non-Muslim investors

Performance

• Shares take off after Israeli fintech raises $12m on the ASX
• Bankruptcy blamed on ‘lousy private equity deal'
• Returns generated by sale of US wind farm project
• Exit provides start-up investors with 6x return

Investee News

• Agritech raising capital to treat costly dairy industry disease

Features

• ASIC clamps down on offers of stub-equity in public to private deals
• Private equity float statistics
• REARVIEW MIRROR

People Moves

• Resignations, appointments at embattled listed alternative assets manager
• Former Intel executive to lead autonomous vehicle developer
• Global investment manager recruits super fund's head of private capital
• Professional services firm appoints new private equity head
• Super fund appoints new director, growth assets
• Super fund chief executive resigns
• New investment head for sovereign wealth fund
• New partner for growth capital firm
• Super fund chief executive to head life insurance company
• New chair for state public sector employees super fund

Conferences & Roundtables

• Coming Events