Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
Motor racing investment finally exited
19 Dec 2021 - Performance
A private equity investment in motor racing has finally been exited after a challenging decade long hold period.
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Venture backed Australian blood sample collection technology has been licensed for use in the Japanese market.
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A private equity firm is to exit an aged care business to a non-profit operator for an undisclosed sum believed to be around $700 million.
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US scale-up firm leads record $458 million venture investment in Australian-founded company.
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Local venture firms are backing global marketing of an Australian technology that has potential to cut the cost of drug development by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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An Indian venture capital firm has led an unusually large $18 million seed funding round for an online ordered direct delivery groceries business.
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Wealth manager to be acquired for $475m
15 Dec 2021 - Performance
A global private banking firm is to acquire an Australian wealth manager for $475m.
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Buyout firm bids $607m for IVF business
14 Dec 2021 - Investment activity
One of Australia's largest buyout firms has made a $607 million take private offer for an ASX-listed IVF services company.
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One of Australia's largest private equity firms has exited for $1.167 billion a surgical products distribution business it pieced together over the last three years.
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A second major global investor has backed an Australian business that sets up carbon farming projects to offset carbon emissions.
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Software exit generates 4.3x money
13 Dec 2021 - Performance
An international trade sale of a reg-tech software company is believed to have generated a Sydney private equity firm 4.3 times its money after an investment period of less than two years.
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A global venture firm has led a $129 million Series B fundraising round for a Sydney-based healthcare artificial intelligence company.
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A Sydney private capital firm has sold a 25% stake in its business to an ASX listed company for $65 million and committed to invest the proceeds alongside its investors.
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A private equity firm is close to exiting its large majority stake in a private hospitals business to two of Australia's largest institutional investors.
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$38m raising could be pre-IPO round
10 Dec 2021 - Investment activity
Investors in the latest capital raising round for an online marketplace technology company suggest an IPO is imminent but the company is in no rush to go public.
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A private equity firm appears to have generated a gross return of more than 2x on the sale to a listed company of a business it acquired little more than two years ago.
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Recognising the inconvenience in lugging home bulk packs of dog food provided the inspiration for Australia's latest tech unicorn.
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New Zealand's largest venture capital firm has led a $NZ30 million funding round for a company that has developed a retail theft prevention technology platform.
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$US1bn-plus listing planned for investee
08 Dec 2021 - Performance
An overseas investee of a local venture capital firm is to be acquired by a SPAC and listed on NASDAQ at nearly $US1.2 billion.
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Investment of more than $350 million by two US scale-up investors has propelled a Brisbane-based software company to unicorn status.
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