Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
Growth investment exited in $140m trade sale
09 Jul 2022 - Performance
A majority private equity-owned company that sells leakproof period underwear is to be acquired by a Swedish company for $140 million.
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A Sydney venture and growth capital firm has taken a stake in an IT equipment supplies company.
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An infrastructure fund manager has announced plans to develop a Queensland data storage campus that could become a $2.5 billion project.
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One of the world's largest alternative assets firms is to invest $584 million in an Australian business which operates a global marketplace for ESG-inclusive commodities.
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An ASX-listed property funds manager is seeking to raise $500 million for a private equity fund.
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A growth capital firm has backed the merger of two defence-focused software companies looking to build a significant player in the space.
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An alternatives investment firm is backing a planned roll-up of Australian metals recycling businesses.
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Funding of $23 million has been raised to develop a heart protection drug derived from deadly spider venom.
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A large superannuation fund is part of consortium that will acquire a US fibre-optic communications company for around $1.3 billion.
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Healthcare start-up cuts staff
02 Jul 2022 - Investee news
A health-tech start-up has cut its staff by half anticipating increasingly difficult funding conditions.
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A global assets manager has taken a stake in Australia's largest energy company months after two indicative acquisition offers were rejected.
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Blackstone has taken control of casinos operator Crown Resorts with the closure of its $8.9 billion acquisition of just over 90% of the company's shares.
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The Future Fund has promoted its head of private markets, Alicia Gregory, to joint deputy chief investment officer status in a management restructure following the sudden departure of the sovereign wealth fund's chief investment officer.
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A new Brisbane-based agri-tech venture fund has achieved a $21 million first close.
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Fund will encourage academics to take commercialisation risks
18 Jun 2022 - New funds and fundraising
A fund set up in Victoria will encourage academics to take commercialisation risks with their research.
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Investors have provided $4.2 million to expand a technology company that describes its service as "Uber for drones".
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Venture funding has been provided for a start-up that has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) driven program for training managers in an online classroom.
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Accelerator, venture firm link to drive scale-ups
16 Jun 2022 - News
A late-stage accelerator of technology companies and an early-stage venture capital firm have joined forces to drive the growth of tech scale-ups.
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A mid-market private equity firm has exited a Sydney-based mining-focused technology company to one of the world's largest manufacturers of mining equipment.
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Research organisation the Black Dog Institute is raising a venture capital fund to address mental health.
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