Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

An ASX-listed company has refused to provide non-public information to an infrastructure fund which is considering an acquisition offer.

Local investment firms have led a $100 million investment round in a Brisbane-based global education technology company.

A deep-tech venture capital firm has led a $16 million investment round in a drone delivery company that has proven its business model delivering medical supplies in Africa.

A Melbourne family office has led a funding round for a company that makes an electrically powered foiling surfboard.

The NSW state government has committed $10 million to setting up a female founders-focused venture capital fund.

A $1.16bn indicative offer for an ASX-listed tech company has been withdrawn only hours after the company announced it wanted to negotiate a higher price.

Two federal government-backed funds have invested $15 million in an Australian-owned e-waste recycling business.

Australian venture firms have backed a $20 million fundraising round which will boost the expansion of locally developed digital twin technology in the US power sector.

An Australian private equity firm and a global investment firm are working together on an offer for a listed company that provides church donations technology.

A Sydney-based global forestry and agriculture assets manager is to be acquired by two major Japanese investment firms.

An early-stage investment firm is raising a fund to invest in advanced manufacturing ventures.

Shareholders have voted in favour of casinos company Crown being acquired by global private equity firm Blackstone but delays in gaining regulatory approvals are still holding up the deal schedule.

An Auckland private equity firm has exited its stake in one of New Zealand's leading healthcare businesses to a global alternative assets manager.

Venture funding will progress commercialising an imaging system designed to improve the accurancy of cancer surgery.

A global private equity buyout firm has dropped its interest in a $16 billion Australian listed company just a day after the company confirmed the approach.

A local early-stage venture investor has joined with a US firm to provide a further $65 million in growth capital to an Australian company that provides e-commerce fulfilment technology.

A US firm, which has backed similar ventures overseas, has led a $75 million Series A funding round for an Australian online used car sales platform that was only launched last year.