Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

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.

A private capital funds manager that was founded in Sydney 25 years ago has closed its latest global infrastructure secondaries fundraising at over $1.62 billion.

A Singapore-based venture firm is offering credit investment to Australian and New Zealand growth stage technology companies.

A venture secondaries investment firm that focuses on Australia and New Zealand linked technology companies is raising capital for a third fund.

An early-stage ventre firm is nearing a final close for a new $100 million fund despite a months-long legal battle to recover one of its investments.

Two experienced private investors have launched a new smaller business-focused growth capital firm that will make minority investments in founder-led businesses.

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

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

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

A new early-stage venture capital firm has made its first investment, in a start-up which has developed an artificial intelligence-driven platform to cut wasted expenditure on cloud services.

A deal-by-deal growth capital firm has started fundraising for its first multi-investment fund.

A Brisbane-based early-stage venture capital firm has been added to the pool of investment firms investing the state government financed Queensland Venture Capital Development Fund.

Fundraising for a first Australian venture capital secondaries fund-of-funds has been launched.