Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

The Victorian state government's $2 billion venture capital fund has invested in a protein enhanced food products company that uses protein processed from crops grown in Victoria.

US technolgy giant NVIDIA has contributed to a $330 million capital raise which will be used to develop a large data centre campus in Tasmania.

An Auckland private capital firm has taken a majority stake in New Zealand's leading e-waste re-cycling company.

Australia's second largest industry super fund has allocated almost $1 billion to a fund that is investing green energy opportunities in Australia and overseas.

A leading venture capital firm has led a $4.2 milion capital raising round for a New Zealand start-up that offers an AI-powered verbal note-taking assistant for financial advisers.

Australian and New Zealand venture firms have backed a New Zealand early-stage company that has developed an artificial intelligence driven software platform that analyses shipping data to identify maritime risks from biosecurity to illiegal fishing.

A private equity firm and other investors are pay $70m to acquire a worksite surveillance technology business.

Early-stage investors have boosted to $3 million, seed funding for a start-up which is developing treatments for degenerative diseases.

New funding will enable a technolgy-driven producer of custom earpieces for hearing aids to move into largely automated production of custom dental prosthetics.

A growth investment-focused private equity firm has led a $38 million funding round for a company that has developed robotics warehouse systems technology for e-commerce companies.

A private equity firm has taken a majority stake in a family-owned business which is one of Australia's major meat processors.

A global life sciences investor has led a nearly $90 million investment round which will take a Queensland company closer to commercial distribution of its needle-free vaccine technology.

The due diligence period for an Abu Dhabi government-backed consortium to make a firm bid following an indicative $28.9 billion offer for oil and gas company Santos has been further extended.

An emerging companies investment firm has led a funding round for a business that has developed heavy machine control software for the mining and earthmoving sectors.

A global private equity firm is to acquire an ASX-listed flower growing and wholesaling business to combine with a similar Vietnam-based business it already owns.

A Chinese venture capital firm has provided $8.5 million in stategic funding to a Sydney-based solar equipment retailer which is seeking to step up its overseas expansion.