Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

Individual investors have provided $5 million in a capital raising round which a start-up is using to commercialise a technology that can analyse breath to detect medical conditions.

An artificial intelligence-powered software platform that provides advanced warning of problems in pregnancy and childbirth is one of four medical technolgies to be funded by a NSW government fund.

A drone detection system created by a Sydney software company is one of 14 technologies to be developed through a $40 million Defence Department accelerator program

A venture-backed company that is building new generation scientific instruments has been awarded a $4.9 million federal grant.

UK angels have backed a New Zealand start-up that offers a platform to assist academic research.

A UK angels investors group has led a $NZ1 million funding round for a New Zealand start-up that offers an online platform to assist academic research.

Individual investors with deep experience of early-stage technology businesses have backed a new Queensland business specialising in providing loan funding to the sector.

Wearable medical device company raises $8 million mainly from individual investors.

Entertainment industry figures have backed a seed-funding round for an online live entertainment booking platform.

A Victorian start-up that has developed a wearable AI-enabled device for pregnancy monitoring has been allocated federal government funding of $2.6 million.

An angel investor syndicate has provided $2.6 million in seed funding to a technology start-up that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enable online testing for the eye disease glaucoma.

The first scale-up grants under the federal Labor government's Industry Growth Program include companies in the areas of fermentation technology and advanced battery manufacturing.

Members of a family that has twice successfully partnered with private equity are to acquire a food products business out of administration.

A prominent agriculture figure has invested a further $6 million in digital agriculture technology platforms that link land management with verification and sale of carbon credits.