Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

Australia's largest industry superannuation fund has written off more than $1.1 billion on a US venture capital investment.

An Indian venture capital firm has doubled down on its support for a Sydney-based fintech business financing company leading a $35 million investment round.

A Sydney-based firm has made the first investment from its new growth capital fund in a New Zealand-based cross-border payments platform.

A government investor is in line for a 70x return with an ed-tech company accepting strategic investment from a US private equity firm.

A female founder-focused venture capital firm has begun fundraising for its second fund.

Global payments company Klarna plans to re-launch the Laybuy buy-now-pay-later platform after acquiring the New Zealand assets of the company out of receivership.

Listed auto parts business Bapcor has confirmed it has had no engagement with Bain Capital since it rejected a $1.8 billion indicative buyout offer from the private equity firm in July.

A growth capital firm has exited its stake in a school management software company to a global private equity firm.

A leading super fund has led a $13.8 million investment round in a company which is developing a drug to treat agitation and aggression in dementia.

A technology venture studio which operates a similar business is behind the planned refinancing of an ASX-listed real estate fractionalisation investment platform.

Investment from the federal government's green bank is helping boost the uptake of electric vehicles in Australia.

An angel investor syndicate has provided $2.6 million in seed funding to a technology start-up that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enable online testing for the eye disease glaucoma.

Local investment activity is expected from an Asian region private equity fund which is targeting to raise $18.74 billion.

The first scale-up grants under the federal Labor government's Industry Growth Program include companies in the areas of fermentation technology and advanced battery manufacturing.

The founder of a seed-stage venture capital firm has announced an above target final close for the firm's first fund.

An ASX-listed company that suffered a 46% fall in its share price over about eleven months has revealed it rejected a $3.42 billion private equity acquisition proposal.