Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

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.

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 $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.

A private equity firm appears to have achieved an excellent return exiting a roll-up strategy it backed less than four years ago at around double the valuation at which it bought in. But the new private capital backer has a stong record in roll-ups and clearly sees this one as having a long way to roll.

Two local investment firms are to receive strong returns from the sale of a Sydney-based software company to a global growth investor in a deal which is believed to value the business at more than $500 million.

After ten months on hold, the planned $475 million exit of an agricultural supplies and services business has been conditionally approved by the competition regulator.

A former private equity investee company, sold recently at a substantial loss, has been placed in administration by its purchaser and is now being offered for sale.

Strong performances by private markets investments helped the Future Fund return double its target for the 2025 financial year.

A bank venture fund has generated a $66.8 million return from exiting its stake in a fast-growing cross-border payments business.

A mid-market private equity firm's stake in a technology company is to be exited to a global firm four years after its initial investment.

The $1bn-plus exit of a cybersecurity company built up through multiple acquisitions is expected to generate a strong return for a leading Australian private equity firm.

One of Australia's leading IT services providers is to be exited by one private equity owner to another.

A listed infrastructure investor has conceded that it expects no return on a retirement villages investment it is exiting, alongside a sovereign wealth fund.

A health services business, in which two private equity firms are invested, has agreed to sell its elder care services unit for $70 million.

A super fund is to exit an agriculture business it has built up over seven years to a global private investment firm.

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.