The horror run of losses at Kogan.com has continued in the first half of the 2023 financial year, with the online retailer’s statuary loss doubling on 12 months ago to $23.8 million as revenue and sales plummeted by around a third. Releasing its half-year results to December 2022 today, Kogan.com (ASX: KGN) saw gross sales… Read more »
GetSwift CEO Bane Hunter fined $2m, banned from managing companies for 15 years MD and cofounder Joel Macdonald fined $1m, banned for 12 years Company fined $15m Judge says pair show no contrition or remorse GetSwift raised $104m, investors receive 1c in $1 in class action The founders of former ASX-listed logistics tech startup GetSwift,… Read more »
Share trading and superannuation fintech Superhero has rehired one of its first employees, Rachel Hopping, as its first head of strategy. She comes to the business after a brief stint at Fintech Australia as head of strategic partnerships and will lead overall business strategy, reporting to CEO and cofounder John Winters. She joins the executive leadership… Read more »
ASX-listed WiseTech Global’s ongoing M&A spree continues with the US$414 million (A$602m) acquisition of US rail logistics company Blume Global. The deal comes just three weeks after Sydney-headquartered cargo software behemoth announced it was acquiring US logistics management software startup Envase for US$230 million (A$327m). WiseTech’s billionaire founder and CEO, Richard White, also snapped up… Read more »
ASX-listed Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech Openpay has been placed in the hands of receivers after it failed to bank working capital from its key funder. The payments platform has been shut down, effectively sealing the company’s fate. The collapse comes a week after the company’s quarterly results on January 31, which flagged delays in receiving the… Read more »
ASX-listed shipping platform WiseTech Global has acquired yet another tech company, snapping up the US logistics management software startup Envase for US$230 million (A$327m). Founded in 2020, Envase Technologies supplies transport management system software for intermodal trucking and landside logistics in North America. The acquisition deal is with private investment firm Firmament, and several other… Read more »
The Australian Stock Exchange has pulled the pin on its much-vaunted blockchain project after seven years of work and at a loss of about $250 million. The ASX has been working with tech firm Digital Asset (DA) to develop a replacement for its Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) based on distributed ledger technology since the… Read more »
Renewable energy activist Mike Cannon-Brookes has succeeded in his campaign to shake up the board of energy giant AGL with shareholders voting at today’s annual general meeting to appointment four new directors to the AGL board on the recommendation of the Atlassian cofounder’s family VC firm, Grok Ventures. Former Energy Security board chair Kerry Schott,… Read more »
ASX-listed accounting platform Xero has more than doubled its net loss on the previous year to the chagrin of investors who wiped more than $1 billion from the company’s valuation following the announcement and news that CEO Steve Vamos is stepping down after nearly five years at the helm. The New Zealand tech company’s half… Read more »
Shares in ASX-listed Elmo Software (ASX: ELO) soared on Wednesday after the company confirmed it was in potential takeover talks. After stories emerged in the financial press that Accel-KKR was once again back in discussions with the HR, payroll and expense management, the company issued a “Response to Media Speculation” statement to the ASX mid-morning… Read more »
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has launched Federal Court legal action against ASX-listed tech company Nuix and its board for alleged breaches of disclosure laws, as well as misleading or deceptive conduct around growth predictions, in the wake of the company’s IPO in December 2020. ASIC alleges that Nuix (ASX:NXL) made misleading or deceptive… Read more »
Atlassian billionaire Scott Farquhar and his venture capitalist wife Kim Jackson look set to win control of ASX-listed Genex Powerafter upping its takeover bid for the renewable energy company. The Genex (ASX: GNX) board rejected a $0.23 cents per share offer made in late July on August 1, but left the door open for a… Read more »
Mapping software company has seen its shares pop by a third on Monday after revealing that it had been in takeover talks with US private equity company Thoma Bravo. The takeover price of $2.10 cash per share values the business at around $1.055 billion and is an 83% premium to Nearmap’s closing price of $1.15… Read more »
Nine years after it listed on the ASX as one of the 2013’s biggest floats, the board of comparison website iSelect has agreed to sell the business to rival Innovation Holdings Australia (IHA), owner of Compare the Market, in a deal that values the business at $72 million. Startup investor Thorney Investment Group, which has… Read more »
Two months after Mike Cannon-Brookes made an audacious but ultimately doomed takeover bid for AGL, his Atlassian co-founder and co-billionaire Scott Farquhar is making his own energy play with a $320 million tilt at ASX-listed Genex Power Limited (ASX: GNX). Genex shares jumped as much as 50% on the news on Monday before closing 45%… Read more »
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