Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

Improved performance following easing of COVID-19 restrictions has enabled a New Zealand listed company to negotiate a higher offer from a private equity-led acquisition consortium.

A global alternative investment manager has made an indicative multi-billion-dollar bid to acquire AMP.

A listed company has agreed to provide a private equity consortium with non-exclusive due diligence while indicating it considers a revised $2.86 billion bid still too low.

Virgin Australia will begin its life under private equity with a new chief executive.

Two buyout firms have made an indicative $2.77bn bid for a listed share registries business.

An Asian private equity firm is to provide debt funding to finance a competitor to Qantas and Virgin Australia on Australia’s major air routes.

The producer of a live theatre show shut down by COVID-19 restrictions has accepted investment from a private equity-owned technology business.

A family office has led a $US30 million fundraising round for a music rights marketplace business.

A company set up to commercialise an agricultural discovery has attracted funding mainly from strategic investors.

An Australian venture capital firm is continuing to back a start-up which has attracted US investment for its stroke prediction technology.

A conviction investor is seeking co-investors a for medical technology growth investment.

An Australian venture firm has provided follow-on funding for a weather intelligence platform.

A large public-to-private buyout deal has finally been given the green light.

A specialist investor has increased its stake in a buy-now-pay-later company which is about to list on the ASX.

A growth capital fund has taken a majority stake in a business which sells secure mobile phone mounts for bicycles.

New Zealand’s sovereign wealth fund is to take a 50% stake in the country’s largest pathology provider.

Venture funding will help monitor social distancing in offices.

A fintech which plans to disrupt business banking has received substantial venture capital in its seed round.

A technology which will improve soil quality while sequestering carbon has received government and private funding.