Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

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.

A roundtable event to discuss globalisation for high growth companies will be launched in Sydney on 2 June.

A private equity firm is to pay a record $530 million for a leading Sydney tourist hotel months after a rival firm paid $315 million for a similar establishment nearby.

A Canadian pension fund's infrastructure investment arm is to become Australia's largest independent transmission towers company with the $950m acquisition of TPG Telecom's towers.

Australia's largest superannuation fund is to invest $13 billion in private equity over the next two years lifting its allocation to the sector from 5% to 7%.

A software specialist venture capital firm has launched fundraising for a $100 million new fund confident the raise will not be affected by the downturn in value of listed tech stocks flowing on to private markets.

A venture-backed trades-focused online marketplace has been acquired for less than a quarter of its implied value six years ago.

A turnaround specialist private equity firm has raised $750 million for its latest buyout fund.

A growth capital firm has made a key addition to its retail platform acquiring a major youth apparel retail chain.

A private equity investee has been able to generate a substantial return of capital despite the company's operations being affected by COVID-19 restrictions.

An Australian investee of a global private equity firm is to be exited to a US-based investee of the same firm but the deal has transparency with both the transaction value and the exited company's 2021 revenue disclosed.

Local private capital funds have reached a record total of almost $90 billion as overseas investors continue to see Australia as one of the world's most attractive investment markets.