Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
Industry figures back live entertainment online booking platform
08 Nov 2024 - Informal venture capital
Entertainment industry figures have backed a seed-funding round for an online live entertainment booking platform.
Full storyA Victorian start-up that has developed a wearable AI-enabled device for pregnancy monitoring has been allocated federal government funding of $2.6 million.
Full storyIndividual investors provide more than $15m for cancer drug trial
03 Oct 2024 - Informal venture capital
Individual investors have provided a Melbourne drug development company with more than $15 million to carry out its first clinical trial of a treatment for ovarian cancer.
Full storyAn angel investor syndicate has provided $2.6 million in seed funding to a technology start-up that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enable online testing for the eye disease glaucoma.
Full storyThe first scale-up grants under the federal Labor government's Industry Growth Program include companies in the areas of fermentation technology and advanced battery manufacturing.
Full storyA spacetech company has been awarded a $3.7 million federal government grant to link with Indian space projects.
Full storyA Melbourne family office is backing the formation of a venture capital partner network to support Australian sportstech start-ups.
Full storyFamily 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.
Full storyA prominent agriculture figure has invested a further $6 million in digital agriculture technology platforms that link land management with verification and sale of carbon credits.
Full storyMeat subscriptions business targets direct grocery customers
26 Jan 2023 - Informal venture capital
The customer list of a failed direct delivery groceries business is to be used to market direct to customer meat subscriptions.
Full storyAn online platform that enables mining workers to share information about the equipment they use has received most of its $3 million in seed-funding from mining industry executives.
Full storyThe NSW government has allocated $40 million to a new Biosciences Fund that will provide backing for entrepreneurs and early-stage ventures in priority sectors.
Full storyIndividual investors provide Series A funding for serviced offices business.
Full storyAn Australian syndicate of individual investors has backed an Indonesian start-up that provides workers with early access to their pay.
Full storyGovernment-backed fund invests $12m in e-commerce logistics
11 Jun 2022 - Informal venture capital
A business investment fund backed by the federal government and major banks has invested in an e-commerce last-mile delivery logistics company.
Full storyTwo federal government-backed funds have invested $15 million in an Australian-owned e-waste recycling business.
Full storyApplications for grant funding from West Australian government financed health and medical innovation seed fund will soon close.
Full storyGovernment-sponsored fund backs business development software
23 Apr 2022 - Informal venture capital
A federal government-sponsored growth fund has invested in software that guides the development of complex corporate technology systems.
Full storyA family office has invested in a 'death-tech' start-up at double the valuation at which the company raised seed funding just seven months ago.
Full storyIndividual investors back strategy management software for small businesses.
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