Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

A Sydney health-tech investment firm has led a $25 million investment round in a company that is using artificial intelligence to improve management of radiation treatment in cancer care.

A private capital-backed e-waste recycler has pulled out of a run-up to an ASX listing with the share prices of listed comparable companies falling over recent weeks.

A family office is investing in an international payments technology company that offers services to migrants sending money to their home countries.

Shares in a venture-backed online car sales platform slipped 7% in first day trading after the company listed on the ASX.

A venture firm has reported an 3.5% quarterly increase in net asset value driven by an uplift in valuation of one investment.

The federal government funded National Reconstruction Fund Corporation has invested in an Australian founded now US company that has developed an electronic chip which, when implanted in the brain, enables a paralysed person to control an electronic device through their thoughts.

A health insurance company's planned $159 million acquisition of a general practice clinics business will generate an exit for a private equity firm.

A venture capital-backed e-waste recycling company has confirmed that it plans to list on the ASX, possibly before Christmas.

A $475 million exit agreed twelve months ago has been completed after the acquirer agreed to make divestments in West Australia required by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Has Treasurer Jim Chalmers undermined established legal provisions in acquisition deals by intervening in a matter currently before the Foreign Investment Review Board?

The Future Fund's allocation to private equity was reduced during the September quarter as the sovereign wealth fund further adjusted its portfolio to deal with moves toward a "more multipolar world".

A Perth company that has developed technology to produce alternative materials to plastics has raised a $16 million Series A round led by a European investment firm.

Receivership is to be sought over assets of an individual and company alleged to have raised $131 million for private equity investment much of which appears to have been spent on gambling.

A turnaround specialist private equity firm is seeking to raise $800 million for a new fund in a challenging environment.

An undisclosed US investor has contributed to a $NZ15 million Series A capital raising round by a New Zealand cancer therapeutics company.

A New Zealand venture capital firm has closed the country's first venture capital secondary fund above target at $NZ50 million.

Early-stage venture fund manager Uniseed has recruited an innovation and commercialisaton specialist with 20 years' experience as its new chief executive.