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Investors in Australia, the US and India have provided seed funding for a Sydney start-up that has developed an AI-powered tool to identify faults in software products.

Investment from a Silicon Valley growth capital firm has boosted a Sydney technology company to a billion-dollar-plus valuation.

Overseas investors have led an $80 million growth funding round for a Mebourne software company that provides demand-driven valuations for cars.

A global private capital firm has led a $14 billion debt package for an innovative Australian data centres developer.

A venture-backed data centre developer has received a $100 million investment from an ASX-listed construction industry company.

A former investment banker and a growth sector investor have joined forces to launch a Sydney-based growth capital investment firm.

An Australian private equity firm is to acquire an Asia-Pacific regional pharmaceutical business for $2.37 billion.

$20 million in federal government funding has been committed to a $75m target current fundraising round for a start-up that is attempting to use current silicon chip manufacturing technology to simplify the develpment of a quantum computer.

The value of Australian venture capital exits rose by 62% in 2025 making it the strongest year for exits since venture valuations turned down sharply in late 2022.

A leading industry superannuation fund has taken a stake in its administration software provider in a down round.

A US specialist software venture capital firm has led a $32.5 million Series A investment round in a scale-up that offers an artificial intelligence driven program to manage the work of in-house legal teams.

A Sydney venture capital firm says its partial exit of an investment in a cyber security business has taken its fund's return over 3x invested capital.

The federal government-funded National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) has led a $57.8 million funding round which will be used to scale up a company which is producing autonomous electric vehicles for industrial use.

A venture-backed head lice treatment has been sold to a US pharmaceutical company for $2.59 million more than 25 years after the product was initially approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

A South-East-Asia regional venture firm has provided a $20 million credit facility to an Indonesian technology scale-up that is backed by a leading Australian firm.

A private equity-backed construction tendering online platform has acquired a European business to accelerate its international expansion.

A $4.64 billion acquisiton will take a global private capital business into the secondaries market which is expected to more than double by 2030.