Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
A bid to take an ASX-listed online travel agency business private is providing intriguing private equity theatre and it looks like there will be some twists in the script still to come.
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The competition regulator has given a green light to an acquisition that will allow to private equity firms to exit a specialist hazardous materials handling and clean-up contractor.
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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is investing up to $6 million to enable an electric vehicle-as-a-service business to lease trucks for use in delivering groceries to homes.
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A universities-backed early-stage venture capital firm is supporting a start-up which is seeking to commercialise a revolutionary process to produce clean-green uranium.
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Shares in a private capital-backed medical technology company have risen 53% from the IPO price in four days since listing on the ASX.
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Fund incubator acquisition approved
02 Jul 2025 - Investment activity
The Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has approved the acquisition of a leading Australian private capital fund incubator by a Hong Kong-based business.
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Global investors sought for energy storage technology
02 Jul 2025 - News
An international investment bank is seeking investors globally for an Australian company that has develped a novel technology to store energy as heat.
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Asian regional buyout firm adds to Sydney team
01 Jul 2025 - People moves
An Asian regional private equity buyout firm has recuited a new member to its Australian team from a rival Sydney buyout firm.
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A global growth capital firm is to make a strategic investment in a Melbourne-based wealth advisory business.
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Breakthrough Victoria has led a $3.5 million investment round in a company that has develped an improved low environmental impact water purification material.
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Global asset management firm Brookfield is to exit retirement homes business Aveo for a record $3.85 billion.
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Senior executives leave investment firm
28 Jun 2025 - People moves
The two most senior executives have left Mike Cannon-Brookes' investment firm Grok Ventures.
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A global mid-market private equity firm has taken a majority stake in a Brisbane company that provides software mining companies use to determine when heavy equipment should be serviced.
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Investor lifts valuation of stake by 49%
26 Jun 2025 - Investee news
An ASX-listed technology investment firm has increased the valuation of one of its investments by 49% in line with a pending third-party investment.
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A global private capital firm is involved in an Abu Dhabi consortium which is offering $28.9 billion cash for an Australian oil and gas company.
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A private equity buyout firm is leading a $471 million bid for a struggling listed recreational vehicles hire business.
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A US technology growth investment firm has led a $NZ165m funding round in a New Zealand agritech company.
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Dividend recap anticipated in re-financing
23 Jun 2025 - Performance
A private equity firm is expected to use the refinancing of an investee company to generate a return for its limited partner investors.
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A mid-market private equity firm is believed to be close to investing in a $60 million deal in which it will take a controlling stake in one of Australia's largest suppliers of doors for homes.
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A climate venture capital firm has so far raised more than $90 million of its $125 million target for its second fund.
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