Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

Close to $17 million has been provided by venture and growth investment firms to back the commercialisation of AI-driven compliance checking software developed by a Sydney-founded start-up.

Members of a private equity team that have worked to invest on behalf of industry super funds have spun out their own investment firm.

A growth capital firm has made two new investments with a common theme; both back brothers who will continue to run tghe businesses.

A New Zealand venture capital firm has led an oversubscribed funding round for a start-up developing a highly sensitive 'digital nose'

A new privage equity firm has recruited two senior team members as it contines capital raising for an inaugural fund.

A new fund that has reached a $10 million first close of a $50 million target has a madate to invest in public as well as private equities.

Australian venture firms have provided most of an $11 million Series A fundraising round for a Melbourne digital technology business that is now generating most of its revenue in the US.

The federal government-backed Australian Business Growth Fund is providing investment for a software business to expand overseas.

The federal government's green bank, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, is to cornerstone a new private markets ethical investment fund with the transfer of assets worth up to $125 million.

A venture firm has led a $9.9 million seed-funding round for a start-up which has developed technology that is already being used by leading software companies.

A mid-market private equity firm is in line to achieve a substantial partial exit via an agreed acquisition by a US investor.

A leading industry superannuation fund has appointed a new head of private equity.

After years of operating on a deal-by-deal-basis, a Sydney-based lower mid-market private equity firm is raising its first fund.

A private equity firm is to exit its investment in an ASX-listed company as a result of an agreed acquisiton of the business by a global insurance company.

The exit of a New Zealand-founded car parts procurement online platform to a US buyer for $NZ650 million will provide strong returns to the company's private capital investors.

A new round of investment has doubled the valuation of an advertising technology start-up to $100 million.