Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
Women’s magazines business up for sale
11 Jul 2025 - News
A private equity firm has confirmed it is seeking to exit a magazines business that owns Australia's two best know women's print titles.
Full storyVenture funding falls back
09 Jul 2025 - News
Investors pulled back from providing venture capital funding across Australia in the second quarter of 2025, with female founders disproportionately affected.
Full storyGlobal investors sought for energy storage technology
02 Jul 2025 - News
An international investment bank is seeking investors globally for an Australian company that has develped a novel technology to store energy as heat.
Full storyLocal start-ups lead in sharing equity with employees
13 Jun 2025 - News
A report by a managed services provider has found that Australian and New Zealand technology start-ups outperform counterparts in the US in sharing equity with employees.
Full storyBuyout firm to move quickly to refloat airline
05 Jun 2025 - News
Bain Capital is to move quickly to re-list Virgin Australia on the ASX, seeking to capitalise on the airline's current good financial performance.
Full storyCompetition concerns keep planned $475m exit on hold
31 May 2025 - News
A planned $475 million private equity exit remains on hold after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) reported it had preliminary competition concerns about the business being acquired by the dominant business in the sector.
Full storyBrookfield's decision to abandon hospitals operator Healthscope was no surprise but it is difficult to predict what will happen next.
Full storyInstitutional investment is being sought for a business that has developed early warning technology for faults in electricity networks.
Full storyCanadian plan for a viable small-cap stock exchange
20 May 2025 - News
The operator of a Canadian alternative stock exchange plans to take over an existing operation to develop a viable small-cap stock exchange in Australia.
Full storyParking technology company abandons acquisition plan
13 May 2025 - News
A New Zealand parking technology company has abandoned plans to acquire an Australian rival after the competiton regulator expressed concerns about the merger.
Full storyPrivate capital in Australia has achieved superior performance to North America as the sector battles economic turbulence globally.
Full storySovereign wealth fund sticks with private equity
06 May 2025 - News
Australia's sovereign wealth fund has maintained a substantial allocation to private equity as it deals with increasingly difficult global market conditions.
Full story$185m in federal funding for industry research
02 May 2025 - News
Federal government funding of $185 million is to be provided to three new Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) projects.
Full storyA barrister acting for a co-founder of a tech company which allegedly raised venture capital after falsifying it's financial posiition has denied his client confessed to fraud.
Full storyGlobal individual investor interest in private markets has grown by 15% over a year according to a recent survey.
Full storyLate-stage venture attracting private equity interest
15 Apr 2025 - News
The growing size of Australian late-stage technology start-ups is increasing investment interest from private equity firms according to a recent venture capital survey.
Full storyTen parties have registered interest in buying assets of a software company that collapsed after fraud allegations.
Full storyA venture capital firm has taken court action to try to recover $10.4 million it invested in a software company.
Full storyThe NSW Labor government has released a policy document which it plans to follow to retain the state's leading position in the technology start-up sector.
Full storyA Melbourne technology scale-up company has been placed in administration in the wake of an investor alleging it misrepresented its financial position.
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