Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
Soft serve generates ‘terrific return’
05 Feb 2024 - Performance
A Melbourne growth capital firm says an overseas trade sale exit will generate a "terrific return" for its investors.
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Leading venture firm appoints new partner
04 Feb 2024 - People moves
One of Australia's three largest venture capital firms has appointed a new partner.
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A Sydney investment firm backed by individual investors is to provide new capital to a buy-now-pay-later company that was de-listed from the ASX last year.
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Early-stage venture capital has been invested in a company working on a genetic solution to the problem of carbon emissions from livestock.
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Family company to buy desserts business out of administration
01 Feb 2024 - Informal venture capital
Members of a family that has twice successfully partnered with private equity are to acquire a food products business out of administration.
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A growth capital investor has made a strategic investment in a Brisbane-based software company with global ambitions.
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Two venture capital firms have led a $6.15 million funding round in a software company that offers software to manage procurement in construction projects.
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Tesla chair Robyn Denholm is among individual investors who have backed a Melbourne alternative "leather" start-up.
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A growth investment in an Australian software-as-a-service business is to be exited to a NASDAQ-listed company.
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A venture backed company has launched a first product made from plastic produced from seaweed.
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A Netherlands water specialist venture capital firm is to back a Sydney technology company as it seeks to enter the US market.
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Two leading Australian venture capital firms are to sell down some of their stakes in one of their most successful investments, online graphic design tools company Canva.
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US firm invests $15m in sunscreen brand
25 Jan 2024 - Investment activity
A New York private equity firm has invested $15 million for a stake in an Australian sunscreen brand.
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The founder of a telehealth business has stepped back from the chief executive role with the company to now seek a professional for the role.
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A resources sector investment firm has taken a stake in a decarbonisation start-up that is commercialising modular gas from biowaste systems.
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$64 million has been raised to further develop a drug which tests indicate can counter peanut allergy without risk of triggering an allergic reaction.
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Sovereign wealth fund reduces private equity exposure
23 Jan 2024 - News
Private equity has slipped to third spot among the asset classes in which the Future Fund is invested.
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CSIRO to help healthcare technology developers
22 Jan 2024 - News
CSIRO is offering free R&D training for selected developers of digital health and medical technologies.
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Payments tech company raises $15m
21 Jan 2024 - Investment activity
A tech company that has developed software that links new payments technologies to banks' core payments systems is believed to have raised $15 million in new investment.
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Mid-market firm exits beauty products
19 Jan 2024 - Performance
A mid-market private equity firm has exited a beauty products company it has owned for nearly ten years.
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