Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
An Indian venture capital firm has led an unusually large $18 million seed funding round for an online ordered direct delivery groceries business.
Full storyWealth manager to be acquired for $475m
15 Dec 2021 - Performance
A global private banking firm is to acquire an Australian wealth manager for $475m.
Full storyBuyout 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.
Full storyOne 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.
Full storyA second major global investor has backed an Australian business that sets up carbon farming projects to offset carbon emissions.
Full storySoftware 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.
Full storyA global venture firm has led a $129 million Series B fundraising round for a Sydney-based healthcare artificial intelligence company.
Full storyA 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.
Full storyA private equity firm is close to exiting its large majority stake in a private hospitals business to two of Australia's largest institutional investors.
Full story$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.
Full storyA 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.
Full storyRecognising the inconvenience in lugging home bulk packs of dog food provided the inspiration for Australia's latest tech unicorn.
Full storyNew Zealand's largest venture capital firm has led a $NZ30 million funding round for a company that has developed a retail theft prevention technology platform.
Full story$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.
Full storyInvestment of more than $350 million by two US scale-up investors has propelled a Brisbane-based software company to unicorn status.
Full storyA US specialist growth capital firm has made its first investment in Australia to back category defining software.
Full storyNew backer for waste services consolidation
07 Dec 2021 - Performance
Growth capital investors are to exit their stakes in a waste services consolidation strategy to a mid-market private equity firm.
Full storyDebt funding for parking technology
06 Dec 2021 - Investment activity
Smaller business private equity firm provides debt funding to parking technology company.
Full storyA global private markets investor has led a $US23 million investment round in an Australia-founded cybersecurity company.
Full storyAn industry superannuation fund has recycled its returns from an investment via a private equity fund manager in a direct investment which includes the same asset.
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