Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
An Asian regional private equity firm has reportedly walked away from a preliminary offer to buy an Australian fast-food franchise business.
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A New Zealand private equity-backed roll-up of cyber secrity businesses has made its first Australian acquisition.
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Federal funding has led a $50 million investment round which will support manufacturing of satellite telecommunications equipment for export.
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Growth fund closed at $650m
30 Dec 2024 - New funds and fundraising
A private equity growth fund has closed oversubscribed at $650 million.
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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed up to $1.92 billion to major new power lines projects structuring the financing to attract private investors to back the projects that are estimated to cost a total of around $5 billion.
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A healthcare sector private equity firm has raised more than $350 million for its second fund.
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A US growth capital firm is to take a half share in one of New Zealand's leading wealth managment firms.
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An ASX-listed company has rejected an indicative acquisition offer from a global private equity firm after gaining support from its major shareholder.
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A social and environmental focused private equity firm is to acquire a wealth advisory technology business that had earlier been on track for an IPO.
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A private equity firm has made a bid to acquire a New Zealand company it listed ten years ago.
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Federal and state investors have led a $30 million funding round for a quantum technology hardware company.
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Wearable medical device company raises $8 million mainly from individual investors.
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A global private equity firm has made a $2.68 billion indicative offer for an ASX-listed wealth management company. The company has recently come under shareholder criticism for failing to adequately integrate large acquisitions.
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An investee of an Australian private equity firm is to make two acquisitions in New Zealand.
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Private capital firms targeting individual investors
13 Dec 2024 - New funds and fundraising
Global and local private capital firms are stepping up efforts to persuade Australian and New Zealand individual investors to invest in their strategies.
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Growth fund passes $NZ100m target
13 Dec 2024 - New funds and fundraising
With a final close set for December 31, a New Zealand growth capital fund has passed its target of $NZ100 million.
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$22 million in venture capital is being invested in a previously bootstrapped market research technology company to take it global.
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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.
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A Sydney-based waste recycling technology company has attracted overseas investment to prove the commercial value of its process.
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A private equity firm has taken a minority stake in an environmental advisory business.
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