Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

Funds under management by Australian family offices have grown to at least $323 billion making up a significant proportion of the nation's private investment capital.

The competition regulator has approved the cut-price acquisiton of an Australian-owned superannuation admininstration technology company by a foreign-owned competitor.

New Zealand private capital firms have contributed to a first institutional capital raising by a North Island founded start-up that has already won defence forces contracts in the UK and New Zealand.

An Auckland private equity firm is backing a Sydney company which is focusing on recovering and recycling waste as an alternative to sending it to landfill.

An ASX-listed company has agreed to provide initial due diligence access to a US-based private equity suitor after the firm lifted its offer to $2.134 billion.

Australian superannuation funds have invested in a $660 million continuation fund raised by a global intrastructure investor to support the growth of an Australia-founded energy transition-focused international mass transit systems operator.

ASX-listed petroleum fuels business Ampol is to pay $225 million to acquire a leading privately-owned electrical vehicle charging business.

A due diligence company used by leading Australian private equity firms has been acquired by a big four commercial services firm.

A Sydney private equity firm is to exit its long-held stake in a New Zealand health care business with the company to be sold to investors including an Auckland private equity firm.

A venture firm has led a $6 million investment round in a company that is building a market for software that manages image-based data on the condition of physical infrastructure.

A private equity firm has invested in the merger of a technology investee with a consulting firm that specialises in cybersecurity protection.

Land-lease communities operator Ingenia (ASX: INA) is considering a further revised private capital acquisition offer which imposes a tight time limit on conditional agreement.

A private capital-backed international clinical trials business is to acquire an Australian bioanalytic research business for $160 million.

A Sydney venture capital firm has contributed to a $US200 million funding round for a US space tech company.

An international student recruitment business has rejected a $695.8 million acquisition offer from a global private capital firm describing it as opportunistic.

An Australian venture firm has led overseas investors in a $483 million round which will accelerate commercialisation of Melbourne-developed medical scribe technology.

A global investment manager has led the latest fundraising round for a Melbourne-based renewable energy provider as the company steps up expansion in Europe.