Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

A Sydney venture capital firm says its partial exit of an investment in a cyber security business has taken its fund's return over 3x invested capital.

The federal government-funded National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) has led a $57.8 million funding round which will be used to scale up a company which is producing autonomous electric vehicles for industrial use.

A venture-backed head lice treatment has been sold to a US pharmaceutical company for $2.59 million more than 25 years after the product was initially approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

A South-East-Asia regional venture firm has provided a $20 million credit facility to an Indonesian technology scale-up that is backed by a leading Australian firm.

A private equity-backed construction tendering online platform has acquired a European business to accelerate its international expansion.

A $4.64 billion acquisiton will take a global private capital business into the secondaries market which is expected to more than double by 2030.

A first installation of venture-backed Australian energy grid stabilising technology has been completed in the UK.

A private capital funds manager that was founded in Sydney 25 years ago has closed its latest global infrastructure secondaries fundraising at over $1.62 billion.

A global special situations investment strategy has been launched from Sydney.

Federal government funding has helped boost a Queensland space technolgy company to unicorn status.

A managing partner has left a leading Sydney private equity firm little more than 12 months after being a key figure in raising a $660 million fund.

$36 million in government and venture funding will keep a novel brain mapping technology - which has signifiant potential for personalised medicine - Australian owned.

A private equity owned building project managment consultancy has merged with a rival company to create a business that will generate more than $150 million in annual revenue.

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

An Auckland venture capital firm has led an oversubscribed $NZ15 million funding round for a company that has developed colour CT scanners for medical imaging.

Venture investment will develop a digitised service to simplify the administration of deceased estates.

A green energy retailing company, which is an investee of an impact investment firm, has made a bolt-on acquisition.

A private capital-backed cyber security roll-up has made an acquisition only weeks after on-boarding the IT engineering team of a another business.