Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
A Brisbane-founded online fraud prevention company is to receive substantial investment from Microsoft’s venture fund.
Full storyOnline lender seeking strategic investment
31 Mar 2020 - Investee news
A profitable online lender is seeking strategic investment to grow its loan book.
Full storyA technology company co-founded by an Australian entrepreneur has raised $US20 million in the US.
Full storySeed fund makes first investment
30 Mar 2020 - Investment activity
A recently launched New Zealand seed fund has made its first investment.
Full story$433m backing for neobank
29 Mar 2020 - Investment activity
A Middle East investment firm has committed $433 million to an Australian banking start-up.
Full storyFashion chain in administration
29 Mar 2020 - Performance
A private equity-owned women’s fashion chain has been placed in administration.
Full storyExisting Australian technology could be used as a platform for COVID-19 self-tests.
Full storyTwo Maori groups are in line for a substantial return on a direct private equity investment.
Full storyOne of the pioneers of venture capital in Australia has been appointed chair of the country’s largest biotechnology commercialisation fund.
Full storyFunding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will bring a ground-breaking Australian vaccination technology closer to use for vaccinating children against measles.
Full storyRetail chain investment exited to founders
25 Mar 2020 - Performance
The founders of a well-known retail chain have bought out their private equity investor.
Full storyRetail network deal may not proceed
23 Mar 2020 - Investment activity
A recently agreed private equity acquisition of a majority stake in an Australia-wide retail network is now in doubt.
Full storyA venture credit fund has provided $3 million to a data analytics company.
Full storyThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is partnering with the Wellcome foundation and Mastercard to set up an accelerator and commit $US125 million in seed funding to speed up development of treatments for COVID-19.
Full storyExit expected to return more than $500m
21 Mar 2020 - Performance
A Sydney private equity firm is expected to generate a return in excess of $500 million after exiting an investment to a major US firm.
Full storyCurrent uncertain times have not discouraged wholesale investors from investing in alternative credit, an investment firm has shown.
Full storyPrivate equity bidders are still in talks with an ASX-listed company despite its share price falling 76 per cent.
Full storyPrivate capital is to be invested alongside government funding to provide $53 million to develop drugs to fight heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes, some of the most common causes of premature death.
Full storyA Melbourne company which produces a mark-up tool for PDFs has attracted US venture capital.
Full storyListed healthcare company rejects $2.1bn offer
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