Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

A US-based firm that has been one of the largest investors in the Australian private capital sector over the last 30 years, has raised $6.80 billion for its latest global co-investment fund.

A long established New Zealand venture capital firm is nurturing a new source of investment funding, foreign individual sophisticated investors.

A new defence technology fund has now raised more than $20 million primarily from high net-worth individual investors.

A leading university is reaching out to the venture capital industry and institutional investors seeking interest in creating a new vehicle to invest in companies spun out of its research programs.

An Australian deep-tech venture firm has put back fund raising for a new fund until late this year or early next year.

A seed-stage investment firm backed by technolgy start-up founders has reached first-close on its second fund.

A New Zealand superannuation fund manager has committed to back a Kiwi venture and growth capital investment firm.

Members of a private equity team that have worked to invest on behalf of industry super funds have spun out their own investment firm.

A new privage equity firm has recruited two senior team members as it contines capital raising for an inaugural fund.

A new fund that has reached a $10 million first close of a $50 million target has a madate to invest in public as well as private equities.

The federal government's green bank, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, is to cornerstone a new private markets ethical investment fund with the transfer of assets worth up to $125 million.

After years of operating on a deal-by-deal-basis, a Sydney-based lower mid-market private equity firm is raising its first fund.

A new fund is seeking to raise capital to invest in decarbonisation technologies for hard-to-abate industries such as cement, steel and chemicals production.

An investment syndicate that has invested more than $120 million in technology start-ups has widened its focus to also include the entrepreneurship through acquisiton segment.

A pre-seed investment fund is well on the way to raising a $15 million-target second fund.

An Australian institutional investor has cornerstoned a $250 million first close for an international debt fund for growth stage businesses.