Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

Quinbrook Infrastructure is no longer represented on the board of the company set up to realise Mike Cannon-Brookes plan to supply solar power from the Northern Territory to Singapore via an undersea cable.

A Sydney-based debt collection technology company which is backed by a number of Austrailan venture capital firms, has made a further US strategic acquisition.

An ASX-listed technology investment firm has increased the valuation of one of its investments by 49% in line with a pending third-party investment.

A private equity firm's retail chain investee has acquired a rival in a move that looks likely to set up the long-held business for an exit via listing on the ASX.

A venture-backed plastics re-cycling company has signed a 10-year offtake agreement with an internatonal clothing company.

A San Francisco "growth accelerator" has led a pre-seed fundraising round for an Australian start-up that claims its technology will disrupt market research globally.

Technology developed by a venture-backed Australian company has been licensed for use by two Chinese solar panel manufacturers.

A private equity-owned company has turned around its business alongside winning tenders to operate a large number of the urgent care clinincs set up under the Labor federal goverment.

An online real estate investment advisory business has laid off most of its Australian staff two months after it raised $25 million led by a local investment firm.

A private equity-owned petfood manufacturer has cut production and is involved in talks with staff about restructuring as it faces multiple economic challenges.

An initial clinical test is underway in New Zealand of a brain implant that can be used to monitor potentially dangerous pressure.

A private equity-backed software aggregator has made its ninth acquisition.

A venture-backed provider of online digital technology courses has acquired another company in the space to widen its range of courses.

A Sydney-based human resourses software company is to enter the Canadian market with a $112 million plus acquisition.

A New Zealand private equity-backed roll-up of cyber secrity businesses has made its first Australian acquisition.

An investee of an Australian private equity firm is to make two acquisitions in New Zealand.

Australia's competition watchdog the ACCC has outlined preliminary concers over the proposed sale of a private equity investee to a major rival.