Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

An unlised fund set up by an ASX-listed asset manager less than four years ago to invest in public and private companies is to be wound up.

A growth private equity fund manager has extended the term of its second fund as a second extension of its first fund nears expiry.

A Sydney private equity firm has achieved a partial exit of its investment in an environmental rehabilitation business, selling a division to a global utilities business.

A mid-market private equity firm is in line to achieve a substantial partial exit via an agreed acquisition by a US investor.

A private equity firm is to exit its investment in an ASX-listed company as a result of an agreed acquisiton of the business by a global insurance company.

The exit of a New Zealand-founded car parts procurement online platform to a US buyer for $NZ650 million will provide strong returns to the company's private capital investors.

Online furniture retailer Koala's successful float left the comany's venture capital backers well placed after the company's first day of trading as an ASX-listed company.

Shares in an ASX-listed medical technolgy company some of which are still held by pre-listing investors,

A Sydney private equity firm is to exit its large majority stake in a chain of sushi restaurants to a Japanese listed company which is seeking expansion in overseas markets.

A Sydney venture capital firm says its partial exit of an investment in a cyber security business has taken its fund's return over 3x invested capital.

A venture-backed head lice treatment has been sold to a US pharmaceutical company for $2.59 million more than 25 years after the product was initially approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

A venture-backed parcel delivery service has suddenly ceased operations months after it was merged with two similar businesses in the US.

A private equity-owned discount retail chain has been placed in voluntary administration after recording a $34.9 million loss over the year to the end of June.

A private equity firm is to exit a Bass Strait shipping business to an infrastructure firm with a long-term investment horizon.

The acqauisition of a New Zealand-founded online auto parts sales platform will generate several successful private capital exits.