Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

A Melbourne family office has led a funding round for a company that makes an electrically powered foiling surfboard.

A $1.16bn indicative offer for an ASX-listed tech company has been withdrawn only hours after the company announced it wanted to negotiate a higher price.

Australian venture firms have backed a $20 million fundraising round which will boost the expansion of locally developed digital twin technology in the US power sector.

An Australian private equity firm and a global investment firm are working together on an offer for a listed company that provides church donations technology.

Shareholders have voted in favour of casinos company Crown being acquired by global private equity firm Blackstone but delays in gaining regulatory approvals are still holding up the deal schedule.

Venture funding will progress commercialising an imaging system designed to improve the accurancy of cancer surgery.

A global private equity buyout firm has dropped its interest in a $16 billion Australian listed company just a day after the company confirmed the approach.

A local early-stage venture investor has joined with a US firm to provide a further $65 million in growth capital to an Australian company that provides e-commerce fulfilment technology.

A US firm, which has backed similar ventures overseas, has led a $75 million Series A funding round for an Australian online used car sales platform that was only launched last year.

A Canadian pension fund's infrastructure investment arm is to become Australia's largest independent transmission towers company with the $950m acquisition of TPG Telecom's towers.

A growth capital firm has made a key addition to its retail platform acquiring a major youth apparel retail chain.

Technology billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has returned to the battle for control of power company AGL Energy, building a significant stake in the ASX-listed company.

A Sydney-based private equity firm has moved to almost full ownership of New Zealand's largest healthcare group Tāmaki Health.

Private equity may be behind acquisition offers made for listed church contributions management software company Pushpay.