Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

A Middle East property developer has added a Brisbane-based bakery chain to its growing number of investments in Australian food and beverage businesses.

An Australia-founded company that combines electric vehicle charging stations with digital advertising screens is to acquire a large volume of similar sites in the US.

Institutional investors back $900 million solar farm and battery energy storage project.

A private equityowned medical equipment supplies business has bolted on an service business.

A technology investment firm and an industry super fund have led a $29 million funding round for a start-up drug developer that has a lead candidate that shows promise as a treatment for chronic lung diseases.

The ACT government has committed $23 million to kick-start fundraising for a Canberra region early-stage venture capital fund.

An industry super fund has committed $765 million to a private equity strategy that is investing in midmarket companies that support services provided by critical infrastructure.

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?