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Facebook, Google face crypto class action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
Sydney-based law firm JPB Liberty has filed a class action against Facebook and Google for the losses suffered by Australian cryptocurrency providers after their bans on cryptocurrency advertising. JPB Liberty is seeking damages for the losses the cryptocurrency ...

Amazon launches climate VC fund

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
The US$1.38 trillion technology giant has launched a US$2 billion venture capital fund, set to invest in companies building products, services, and technologies that protect the planet. Amazon said its newly launched Climate Pledge Fund would help the ...

Asset devaluation continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... on the individual investment and the age of its most recent independent valuation. The funds private equity and venture capital investments have also been devalued, for similar considerations, by 15% on average. In a letter the fund reassured its members ...

Atlas Advisors adds to leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... Cashwerkz, Wisr and Xinja. "Craig has experience building investment products in a wide range of asset classes from venture capital to farmland, designed to suit investor needs first, resulting in success in outraising competitors for over 15 years," ...

QIC names new head of global private capital

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... capital office in San Francisco. Whatmore has invested across all of QIC's private equity strategies, including venture capital, buyouts, secondaries and co-investments in the US. He has been at QIC since 2008. Prior to this, he was MLC's global head ...

Gender diversity remains static, women still disadvantaged

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... positive beat, Morningstar argues that female startups still struggle, receiving a disproportionately small share of venture capital. But there is hope for change. "Morningstar subsidiary PitchBook found that VC investment into U.S. companies where at ...

Preqin opens Australian office

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... clients in Australia. Most recognisably, it tracks the activity in Australia's $30 billion private equity and venture capital industry for the annual report published by Australian Investment Council (formerly Australian Private Equity and Venture ...

Super sector to dominate by 2034

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... in moving into ownership of other (related party) financial services businesses, usually via private equity or venture capital," Rice Warner said. "As these risks are borne by members, little capital is required at present. However, the process is not ...

Afterpay slides in global fintech rankings

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... annual KPMG and H2 Ventures FINTECH100 list is a collaboration between the global consulting firm and Sydney-based venture capital investment thought leaders, H2 Ventures, which ranks the top 50 most innovative fintechs and the next fintechs to shake ...

US real estate manager eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... and Canadian investors, Akindred head of sales David Edwards said. Unison was set up in 2006 and has attracted venture capital from Citi Ventures, F-Prime (Fidelity) and Royal Bank of Canada in previous raisings. Earlier this year, Akindred took on the ...