Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

A private capital-backed medical technology company has launched a $25 million IPO and plans to list on the ASX this month.

A Melbourne-based private capital firm is believed to have agreed to sell a software company to a US growth capital firm that provided it with a similar exit 12 months ago.

Creditors of a collapsed venture capital-backed company have voted for the business to be liquidated.

A lower mid-market prlvate equity firm has achieved a trade sale exit of a Gold Coast skin care brand to a Hong Kong-based company.

The sale of a Sydney software company to a US venture firm is likely to return two local investment firms around 10x their investments.

Two underperforming retail assets have been sold by a Sydney private equity firm, probably for a token figure.

Crossover investment firms that made pre-IPO investments in a financial data company nearly four years ago have now gained their rewards with the company being acquired for probably more than $150 million.

A private equity firm is to exit its majority stake in a hydraulics enginering business to another private equity firm.

An ASX-listed company has agreed to pay $377 million to acquire a hazardous materials handling contractor from two private equity firms.

An Auckland-based venture capital-backed computer components testing business is to be acquired by a US listed company.

Two Australian investment firms are to sell down shares worth $52 million in a a company that sells high-end bikes and bike parts online.

A private capital-backed supplier of beer kegs has been placed in voluntary recievership after a lender declined to extend further credit to the business.

A mining software business is to be exited for $1.31 billion 18 months after a previously agreed sale of the business for $900 million was called off.

A specialist technology private equity firm has exited its investment in a superannuation payments software company to a consortium led by a global investor.

A venture backed electic bikes company is in receivership with the company and/or its assets for sale.

An Australian growth capital firm has sold its investment in a pricing and rebates software platform to a US company which claims global leadership in the rebates management technology space.

A Sydney retailing software company that raised $60 million in venture capital has been acquired out of receivership by a US business.

A private equity firm has exited an education management software company to an international education business.