Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

A global growth capital firm is to make a strategic investment in a Melbourne-based wealth advisory business.

Breakthrough Victoria has led a $3.5 million investment round in a company that has develped an improved low environmental impact water purification material.

A global private capital firm is involved in an Abu Dhabi consortium which is offering $28.9 billion cash for an Australian oil and gas company.

A private equity buyout firm is leading a $471 million bid for a struggling listed recreational vehicles hire business.

A mid-market private equity firm is believed to be close to investing in a $60 million deal in which it will take a controlling stake in one of Australia's largest suppliers of doors for homes.

A European impact investor has led a $45m new funding round for a Melbourne company that produces management technology for home batteries.

A start-up that claims its artificial intelligence (AI) clinical scribe is the most widely used by Australian medical practitioners has raised $12 million for product development and overseas expansion.

A climate focused investment firm is to acquire the renewable energy business of an ASX-listed company.

A US investment firm has led an oversubscribed $38.5 million investment round in an Auckland-based marketing technology company.

Confirmation of a likely private equity offer sent shares in an ASX-listed building services company up 20% after they had slid 50% since the beginning of the year.

A local biotech investment firm and a US early-stage venture capital firm have invested $4 million into a company which is seeking to improve the IVF process especially for women aged 35 and above.

Existing investors have provided $13 million in additional funding to an online share trading platform as it continues to expand into adjacent areas.

A Sydney-based real-time video analytics company has raised $17 million which it plans to use to boost its sales in overseas markets.

The world's largest producer of lithium has invested in an Australian start-up that has developed a lightweight material for electric motors that is expected to make electric vehicles significantly more efficient.

The country's three leading independent venture capital firms have participated in a $466 million late-stage funding round for a fintech company that is now based overseas.

Sovereign wealth fund The Future Fund has acquired just under 10% of NSW and ACT electricity transmission utility Transgrid in a $1 billion-plus deal.