Atlassian founder Mike Cannon-Brookes is looking for a place at the AGL board table after routing the company’s CEO and chairman and derailing the company’s demerger plan, and may make a third takeover bid for Australia’s biggest energy supplier. Cannon-Brookes spent around $650 million through his family venture capital firm, Grok Ventures, to take an… Read more »
Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has spend $650 million via his family investment firm, Grok Ventures, for his stake in AGL, including $600 million in cash and $50 million in debt. The Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO is waging a public campaign to stop a demerger plan for Australia’s biggest energy company. While the initial stake was… Read more »
ASX-listed gig economy marketplace Airtasker is acquiring services platform Oneflare for $9.8 million. The company (ASX:ART) will help pay for the acquisition by raising $6.25 million via an underwritten placement of approximately 14.5 million new fully paid ordinary shares at $0.43 cents. Airtasker shares have been placed in a trading halt at $0.51 cents. Oneflare… Read more »
Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has wasted no time in becoming an activist shareholder after taking an 11.3% stake in energy giant AGL. The billionaire launched a campaign with the slogan “Keep it together” to oppose AGL’s plans for a demerger, creating two separate ASX-listed companies, just hours after news emerged that he’d become AGL’s largest… Read more »
Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has picked up his pen once again, looking to take a minority stake in ASX-listed AGL Energy through his family investment firm Grok Ventures. In an announcement via JP Morgan’s equities desk after the market closed on Monday, the broker said Grok Ventures and its affiliates are looking to acquire a combined… Read more »
Buy now, pay later market leader Afterpay posted a staggering $345.5 million loss after tax for the six months to end 2021, a 336% increase on the $79.2 million loss the fintech posted in the corresponding period in 2020. The figures are the first published by the BNPL since Jack Dorsey’s US payments platform Square… Read more »
Digital broker Stake is joining competitors such as Superhero and the Commonwealth Bank to offer cryptocurrency investing on its platform. The move to embrace crypto follows research commissioned by the platform last year that revealed crypto was second only to stocks in the portfolio for Australian investors under 40. Last November, CBA announced plans to… Read more »
AGL has rejected a revised takeover bid from Mike Cannon-Brookes and Brookfield The $8.25 a share bid was a 10% increase on their first bid two weeks ago and worth $5.5 billion Cannon-Brookes said their consortium won’t make a further bid AGL is planning a demerger that it says will offer better value Atlassian billionaire… Read more »
Zip shares fell 7.7% following resumption of trade on Tuesday after the company announced a $491 million all-scrip takeover of US BNPL Sezzle. The merger, offering a 31.7% premium on Sezzle shares based on the 30-day volume weighted average price, is another sign of an expected consolidation of the crowded BNPL market following Square’s takeover… Read more »
ASX-listed buy now, pay later (BNPL) fintech Zip plans to acquire rival Sezzle in a $491 million all-scrip merger. The offer, now under a definitive agreement, will see Sezzle (ASX: SZL) investors swap their holding for 0.98 Zip (ASX: Z1P) shares, with Sezzle priced at $1.78 and Zip, $2.21. The transaction offers 22% premium on… Read more »
Shares in Block, the ASX-listed company formed out the A$39 million merger of Afterpay with Jack Dorsey’s payments platform Square, surged up to 40% in Friday trade after the US parent company released a Q4 trading update that beat expectations. Block (ASX:SQ2) shares hit $165 during Friday trade, having closed at $116.05 on Thursday. The… Read more »
A mining tech venture spun out of an ASX-listed mining services company has tanked on debut, falling 46%. Perth-based Orexplore Technologies (ASX:OXT) demerged from parent company Swick Mining Services (ASX:SWK) and made its debut today having raised $2.44 million at $0.25 per share. Orexplore shares closed at $0.135, down 46% amid a general hammering for small… Read more »
Payday lending fintech Beforepay had the $35 million value of its IPO wiped away on debut on the ASX today, with the company’s share price plunging 44% in its first day of trade. Making an early bid for 2022’s worst opening day – the drop saw Beforepay (ASX: B4P) float at $3.41 per share, but… Read more »
My Foodie Box listed on ASX on Friday, making an impressive public debut with its shares closing up 25% on their first day of trade. The three-year-old subscription startup (ASX: MBX) raised $6 million at $0.20 per share, with the parent company behind the ANZ distributor of the $2000 cult kitchen device Thermomix, Magnet Investments,… Read more »
ASX-listed fintech MoneyMe is hoping to acquire one of the country’s original fintechs, SocietyOne in a deal worth $132 million. Surprisingly, the merger does not deliver an immediate exit for several key backers of the peer-to-peer personal lending marketplace over the last decade. Leading media companies including News Corp, Seven West Media, and Consolidated Press… Read more »
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