Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
$2.43bn secondary sale of Canva shares
08 Apr 2024 - Performance
Most of the $2.43bn worth of Canva sales sold in a secondary market sale in March came from past and present employees.
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A struggling ASX-listed company has described a $1.284 billion private equity offer as disappointing and made it clear it would consider offers from other parties.
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Commercial taste test for cultured meat
07 Apr 2024 - Investee news
A venture-backed cultured meat company is to launch its first commercial product served at a leading Singapore restaurant.
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$2bn venture fund under siege
07 Apr 2024 - Performance
Australia's largest venture capital fund is under siege from critics who claim it is an unnecessary expense for a state government that has debts of around $126 billion.
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A private equity firm is to take a 50% stake in an agricultural engineering business.
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An early-stage tech investor has been appointed chief executive of a start-up that has developed a material that simplifies the storage of energy as heat.
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A former Future Fund chief strategist has been recruited to head investing at the largest pension fund in the US.
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Employees still hold by far the largest stake in a Sydney-founded fintech business that is backed by two US internet and software specialist growth investment firms.
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A European firm has joined with local venture firms to back a start-up which has developed an online platform designed to minimise fraud under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
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Software company records 80% revenue increase
01 Apr 2024 - Investee news
A venture-backed software company has reported a more than 80% increase in revenue over a year.
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A new early-stage tech investment firm has made its first venture-scale investment.
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A venture capital-backed cancer treatment development start-up which has raised more than $47 million to date is planning a new capital raise.
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Care equipment company seeking acquisitions
29 Mar 2024 - Investee news
A private equity investee care equipment company that has already made six bolt-on acquisitions is on the lookout for more to increase its market share.
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An international private equity buyout firm has pulled its $1.834 non-binding offer for an ASX-listed company at the end of its period of exclusive due diligence.
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A New Zealand private equity firm is to exit its investment in an Auckland-based skincare company with the business to be acquired by an Australian company.
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A Melbourne-based corporate advisory firm has expanded into private equity fund management achieving a first close for its inaugural fund at $50 million.
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More than $16 million has been invested to scale up an invoice payment platform start-up.
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A private equity firm has backed a management buy-in at Australia's third largest windscreen repair business.
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A private equity firm has taken a substantial stake in an ASX-listed company in a sector in which it is already invested in another company.
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An Australian fund manager has set up a New Zealand feeder fund for its conservative private debt investment strategy that already operates on both sides of the Tasman Sea.
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