Australian Venture Capital Association - AVCAL

https://avcal.com.au/

Last activity: 07.05.2021

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Jul 27, 2017	Australia leads non-core markets in fintech investment deals, but what does the sector need to grow?	Prospa chief executives Beau Bertoli and Greg Moshal. Source: Supplied Australia has emerged alongside Brazil as a leading fintech market after facilitating the largest fintech investment deals outside of the core markets of Asia, Europe an...
Jun 14, 2017	Australian venture capital investment struggling to keep pace with world standards	Australian venture capital investment is struggling to keep up with OECD standards, despite startups contributing to 90% of positive jobs growth, according to a report released this week by the Australian Venture Capital Association Limited...
Apr 19, 2017	Pan-Asian VCs such as Frontier Ventures, Qualgro, Follow the Seed fight local trend	Venture capital funds based offshore have been crowded out by ascendant domestic players over the past three years, but an emerging crop of pan-Asian players are trying to convince promising local founders why they should take their money. ...
Feb 22, 2016	Why limiting startup tax incentives could exclude an important group of early-stage investors	By Jason Zein As part of its innovation agenda the Coalition government is offering a tax offset of 20 cents for every dollar invested into a startup, as well as an exemption from capital gains tax for up to 10 years. However, it has emerge...
Dec 16, 2015	Will the government’s statement deliver Australia a world class National Innovation System?	The Prime Minister’s announcement on Monday 7 December of a National Innovation and Science Agenda is a welcome development. However, the challenge will be for the government to turnaround our National Innovation System (NIS) which has been...
Nov 16, 2015	Deepen the pool of capital or see startup talent ebb away, says AVCAL CEO Yasser El-Ansary	The gap between seed and later-stage funding needs to be “urgently” addressed or Australia will continue to lose its best entrepreneurs and startups overseas, AVCAL CEO Yasser El-Ansary. According the recently released 2015 AVCAL Yearbook t...
Jul 15, 2015	Hey SydStart, looking for female conference speakers? Here are almost 50 women you could call for starters	All-male panels have become an all too common sight. Recently we’ve seen one of Australia’s biggest startup conferences, SydStart, announce its first round of speakers without any women featured, although they’re promising there are female ...
Jun 2, 2015	Tax reform needs to “open up greater access” to venture capital	Any reforms to the Australian taxation system need to place entrepreneurship and innovation front and centre, according to the peak body for the venture capital industry. The Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Limited...
May 19, 2015	Aussie VCs to standardise their legal documents to make it easier and cheaper for startups to access seed capital	Several Australian venture capital funds have come together to standardise their legal documents and make them publicly available in order to make it easier and cheaper for startups to access early-stage funding. The agreement is expected t...
May 19, 2015	Significant Investor Visa misses the mark on VC and innovation	The review of the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) program was pitched by the government as an initiative to spur innovation in Australia. An outline of the revised SIV scheme was released last week, with full details yet to be released. Whi...
May 15, 2015	Labor announces $500 million Smart Investment Fund policy, startups welcome move to ease funding crunch	The startup community has welcomed Labor’s intention to increase the amount of capital available to startups, but some have questioned whether a proposed $500 million startup investment fund is the right mechanism to achieve that goal. Oppo...
Dec 19, 2014	The top 10 Aussie startups of 2014	It’s been a big year for the Australian startup ecosystem. Success stories like Atlassian and Campaign Monitor continue to go from strength to strength and the ecosystem is growing. According to the Australian Private Equity and Venture Cap...
Nov 12, 2014	Venture capital jumps by almost $400m in a year: AVCAL	The amount of venture capital invested in Australian startups rose by almost $400 million from the financial year 2012-13 to 2013-14. There was $516.39 million worth of venture capital invested in Australia in the 2014 financial year, compa...
Nov 5, 2014	Boosting the commercial returns from research: the missing link	AVCAL has long advocated for a stronger nexus between publicly funded research and real economic outcomes. The roadmap towards achieving this, however, has been a matter of much public debate. What the paper doesn’t mention, however, is the...
Oct 23, 2014	Proposed reforms to Significant Investor Visa program could open gateway for venture capital	The Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association has welcomed an indication from the federal government that changes will be made to the Significant Investor Visa to encourage more investment in venture capital. The Significant...
Sep 10, 2014	Super funds need to invest more in domestic equity: AVCAL	It is “vitally important” that Australian superannuation funds allocate more investment to the domestic private equity and venture capital industry, to help drive productivity and innovation, according to the Australian Private Equity and V...
Aug 13, 2014	Australia’s listed technology sector is about to boom	In my last article I responded to an interview in Vox with Marc Andreessen. Andreessen lamented that, in spite of a historic gold rush in technology companies, the IPO is dying in the United States due to zealous over regulation in the form...
Jun 30, 2014	StartupAUS and AVCAL call government to task for funding shortfall	Both StartupAUS and the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL) have called on the federal government to ensure adequate funding is provided to the Commercialising Ideas stream of the Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure ...
May 28, 2014	Private equity deal activity supported by 22% return to investors in 2013	New data released today by the Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) reveals that private equity and venture capital funds in Australia posted returns of 22% in the 12 months to December 31, 2013. The f...
Nov 14, 2011	Are Australian investors overly conservative?	Getting venture capital for any start-up is hard work. Even in the US, the world’s biggest venture capital market and the mecca for start-ups, only two out of every hundred get funded. It’s even more difficult in Australia where there is a ...
Sep 8, 2011	New venture capital code tipped to boost start-ups	A new code of governance for the venture capital industry should inspire more confidence among investors keen to put their money into promising early-stage companies, according to a leading corporate lawyer. The Australian Private Equity an...
	Nicole Connolly speaks to AVCAL on their Diversity role model series for 2017	Having spent the majority of her career as an investor or a business owner, and now working as a Director of Investor Relations at Allegro Funds, Nicole Connolly has covered all sides of private equity. Working with a highly skilled team to...

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Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning Australian Venture Capital Association - AVCAL, among them “Australia leads non-core markets in fintech investment deals, but what does the sector need to grow?” (Jul 27, 2017) and “Australian venture capital investment struggling to keep pace with world standards” (Jun 14, 2017).

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Australian Venture Capital Association - AVCAL is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 7, 2021.