Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

An investee of an Australian private equity firm is to make two acquisitions in New Zealand.

Global and local private capital firms are stepping up efforts to persuade Australian and New Zealand individual investors to invest in their strategies.

With a final close set for December 31, a New Zealand growth capital fund has passed its target of $NZ100 million.

$22 million in venture capital is being invested in a previously bootstrapped market research technology company to take it global.

A planned $2.18 billion private equity acquisition of a large part of an ASX-listed financial services business has been thrown into doubt by the ATO seeking a much larger tax take than had been previously been expected.

A private equity firm has taken a minority stake in an environmental advisory business.

A lower mid-market private equity firm has reported returning $625 million to investors in 2024, largely as a result of one successful exit.

A listed software company has shifted its preferred sale from a special acquisition company to a revised private equity deal.

An impact infrastructure investment firm is to form a development joint venture with a Melbourne-based retirement villages operator.

Australia's competition watchdog the ACCC has outlined preliminary concers over the proposed sale of a private equity investee to a major rival.

A leading Australian private equity firm is to acquire Singapore Post's Australian logistics business in a deal that values the asset at just over $1 billion.

Defence sector-focused investment firm Salus Ventures has recruited as advisers two high-profile military figures and a former Australian ambassador to the US.

The federal government-funded Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has taken a stake in a company that is making green energy accessible to apartment tenants.

A private equity firm has gained majority control of an ASX-listed dental centres business almost 12 months after it put forward a first indicative bid.

A super fund has extended its commitment to a deep tech innovation fund to $435 million with a further commitment of $125 million.

A venture capital firm has led a $2 million seed round for a start-up that has developed artificial intelligence (AI) driven software to pursue consumer complaints.