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EQT Holdings faces a potential bidding war as BGH Capital's higher cash offer for the trustee group tops TPG Global's bid from days earlier; both proposals remain conditional and non-binding.
Live entertainment and ticketing group TEG has promoted Karen Chapple to an expanded customer and product leadership role and hired Cameron Curtis, previously at News Corp Australia, into a new marketing and data position.
Roundup of seven raises across the Tasman spanning fintech, marine tech, agtech, defence and AI, plus a first close for an ACT venture fund.
The Australian government is lifting its industry-policy focus on space; the National Reconstruction Fund has already put $200 million into local space companies, among them Gilmour Space Technologies and Southern Launch.
CRDC marks Allan Williams' 2026 industry service award with a career retrospective, covering his decades across cotton research bodies and his recent departure as the corporation's executive director.
Steadfast has agreed to a takeover by a Dragoneer- and KKR-backed consortium valuing it near A$7.7 billion, with Amwins Australasia set to take its underwriting unit and the bidders keeping the broking operation.
Steadfast Group has agreed to a cash takeover at AUD 6.00 a share, valuing it near AUD 7.7 billion on an enterprise basis, with its underwriting agency arm set to pass to Amwins.
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Insurance broker Steadfast is set for an A$7.7 billion take-private by a KKR-backed consortium, with Amwins and Dragoneer taking its two businesses, amid a wider Australian public-to-private wave.
SCX.ai's shares fell up to 30 per cent in their first ASX days after the cloud computing firm raised $40 million, with Ellerston Capital, Frazis Capital Partners and Wilson Asset Management anchoring the offer.
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Australian banking-tech firm Constantinople has closed a large Series B co-led by returning backers, per Dealroom; the piece recalls its earlier seed and Series A and highlights a client bank's full platform migration.
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Insurance broker Steadfast Group is headed for delisting after an unnamed three-party consortium confirmed a $7.7 billion takeover offer following a due-diligence period, Street Talk reports.
Capital Brief's roundup: superannuation policy plans, a NSW data centre planning dispute, KPMG resisting a break-up, Stripe and Canva leaders on AI, Stripe's local Treasury push, and Culture Amp's data policy change.
Melbourne GRC startup CyberHeed has released Live Integrations, which continuously pulls configuration signals from tools like GitHub and Microsoft products to assess compliance controls in context, extending its SmartPrep capability.
IIF has secured fresh backing from Verdex Capital, with existing supporters AgFunder and Investible also taking part, to drive its expansion into Canada after recently winning regulatory approval in New Zealand.
Proud Poppy Clothing entered voluntary administration in early August; administrators Hall Chadwick have since shut another store while the womenswear label keeps trading, with pop-up shops planned for Canberra and Adelaide.
Talent and influencer agency Click is broadening past gaming into new categories, appointing Gianni Borrelli and promoting Tilly Barker, under a year after GameSquare acquired it.
Defence Trailblazer showcases its researchers, ventures and projects at an Adelaide defence summit, citing over $140 million in industry support, as it prepares to hand over to AUSDII.
Beaten Zone Venture Partners announces Fund 1 joined Activate Capital and UNSW in a seed round for Seitec, a Canberra defence startup whose seismic sensors find unexploded ordnance and hidden drones.
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Worldwide private equity firm Advent is acquiring a controlling stake in clinical research group NZCR Group; financial terms stay secret, and existing shareholders keep a sizeable minority holding.
Roundup of agrifood industry news: funding for Farmbot, Nbryo, Oceanloop and others, Homestead Capital's fund close, two acquisitions, executive appointments, and other sector developments.
Seitec, a Canberra defence technology maker, has landed a $4 million round with ACTivate Capital leading and Beaten Zone Venture Partners and UNSW participating, funding overseas expansion, product development and hiring.
Also Startup Daily
Farm-investment platform IIF has raised a fresh round with Verdex Capital leading and AgFunder and Investible also taking part, as it prepares to launch in Canada.
India's biggest PR firm has bought a majority holding in Australian communications consultancy SenateSHJ, its first purchase outside India; terms undisclosed, with the target keeping its brand, teams and leadership.
Advent International is to take a majority holding in trans-Tasman clinical trials operator NZCR, whose existing backers, among them Waterman Capital, will keep a minority position, with a fourth-quarter close anticipated.
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Australian security-workforce software firm Guardhouse has bought US patrol-verification company Mobohubb, with growth-equity backer Sundance Growth — whose first fund closed at US$125 million last year — supporting the deal.
A $4 million round for Canberra defence sensing firm Seitec is led by ACTivate Capital with UNSW and Beaten Zone co-investing; the ACT Government-backed fund earlier closed $23 million of a possible $50 million.
A Queensland livestock-reproduction startup has grown its seed round to $20 million, drawing $2 million from a newly launched state government fund whose manager had already backed the company.
Short-term rental manager Hometime has hired Alison Walsh, previously CMO at Chatime Australia and a 17-year Guzman y Gomez veteran, as its chief marketing officer, reporting to co-founder and CEO Billy Crock.
ASX-listed lender Beforepay reports passing two million registered users as it expands from Pay Advance into personal loans, with CEO Jamie Twiss calling the milestone a sign of momentum for broader ambitions.
Australian adtech firm Veridooh adds ex-Interpublic chief executive David Bell to its advisory council; the write-up also covers his career and Veridooh's 2022 Series A raise.
Bower, an Australian startup, has closed a $2 million pre-seed round led by TEN13 with Admiralty Capital Group, Edale Capital and angel backers, funding ambient AI that captures laboratory work as structured research records.
Queensland agtech startup Nybro, working on beef genetics via reproductive technologies, raised a $20 million Seed round with QIC Ventures leading and the Gates Foundation participating, per Startup Daily.
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Queensland beef genetics biotech Nbryo has doubled its seed round to $20 million, with backing from QIC, as the state backs biotech for beef genetics.
Energy One has agreed to buy gas software firm GMSL from Fluxys in an all-scrip deal valuing GMSL at A$99.8 million, with Fluxys taking an 18.26% stake in the combined group.
ASX-listed Energy One has agreed to acquire UK-based GMSL from Fluxys for about A$99.8 million in shares, gaining European energy software operations, with completion targeted for November 2026.
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Satellite analytics firm Eartheye Space signed a memorandum of understanding with risk-management firm IN2, giving IN2 access to its sensor data for client briefings on infrastructure, disaster response and environmental monitoring.
Newcastle battery firm 3ME Technology will show its EdgeVOLT portable power system to the US Defense Innovation Unit under a prototyping effort, with a low-temperature version built on South 8 cells, advancing AUKUS cooperation.
Ablano's boron nitride nanomaterial flew on a suborbital rocket and its coated panels were recovered for analysis in Australia; partners Research Sat and Implement Space helped run the test toward commercialising durable components for reusable launch vehicles.
At a Sydney event, Canva's co-founder explained how soaring compute bills forced a delay to its AI relaunch, and how homegrown models cut serving costs; he also recalls early government backing.
Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht says its AI engineers now work side by side in a shed at the Surry Hills campus, tackling problems behind delayed AI products, speaking alongside Stripe's John Collison.
Dealroom reports Energy One, a Sydney-listed energy software provider, is acquiring GMSL, the UK software arm of Belgium's Fluxys, which in exchange becomes the listed company's largest shareholder.
Smartgroup has pulled out of the sale contest for ASX-listed fleet leaser FleetPartners, leaving Orix, SG Fleet and Element Fleet Management as the remaining suitors, per Street Talk.
A Wollongong hydrogen spin-out is shortlisted for a national award recognising research commercialisation; the profile recaps its electrolyser technology, Port Kembla headquarters, jobs and backing.
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Brandon Capital's blog interviews Denteric's operating chief about its gingipain-targeting therapy for periodontitis, trial progress, and its origins in University of Melbourne oral health research.
Private equity firm TPG Global has launched a non-binding $657.7m bid for embattled ASX-listed EQT Holdings, whose stock slid amid the First Guardian collapse and ASIC litigation; the board is evaluating the proposal.
Earned wage access provider CashD has added James Haslam and Gordon Starkey, both veterans of ELMO Software, to its executive team, with CEO Marcus Lasarow highlighting their scaling and profitable growth expertise.
Brookfield has made a $4.1 billion cash offer for Reliance Worldwide, with the board yet to recommend it, as the plumbing manufacturer reports a steep FY26 profit decline and skips its final dividend.
Forbes Australia profile of wine e-tailer Vinomofo: CEO Justin Dry on its 95% rejection rate, $90m annual turnover, a shelved 2021 float, and its whisky side business.
Guardhouse, which builds workforce software for security firms, has acquired field-operations tool Mobohubb, with investor Sundance Growth backing the deal; the article also recalls Sundance's $125m debut fund from 2025.
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