Company
Every published round Accenture took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies Accenture has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio companies recorded yet. | ||||
Fund closes reported for Accenture, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Accenture has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Accenture did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio company of Accenture is recorded as having been acquired. | ||||
Companies Accenture acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Company | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CyberCX | Acquisition | 18 Aug 2025 | $1b+ | The Mandarin, ARN (ARNnet) |
| Electro 80 | Acquisition | 4 May 2021 | $30m | ARN (ARNnet) (Fri 2 Jul 2021), ARN (ARNnet) (Tue 4 May 2021) |
| Apis Group | Acquisition | 3 Dec 2019 | - | ARN (ARNnet), Eaton Square |
| Cloud Sherpas | Acquisition | 2015 | US$350m+ ($450m+) | ARN (ARNnet), Future Now Ventures portfolio |
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Sergej Divkovi | MD | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Scott Hahn | A/NZ Tech Lead | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Peter Burns | Boss | Startup Daily, ARN (ARNnet) |
| Paolo Dal Cin | Global Lead | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Mike Kelly | MD | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Michael Buckley | Managing Director (former) | SmartCompany |
| Matt Gollings | Global Defence Industry Lead | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Louise May | A/NZ Health and Public Service Practice Leader | Eaton Square |
| Leopold Lucas | Strategy Consultant (former) | Afterwork Ventures portfolio |
| Karthik Narain | Cloud First Global Leader | ARN (ARNnet) |
| James Madigan | Leader of the Oracle Business Across A/NZ | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Ian Halse | MD | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Glenn Heppell | Resources Lead for Australia and New Zealand | ARN (ARNnet) |
| David Whiteing | Partner (former) | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Chris Dwyer | AI Lead (former) | Startup Daily (Mon 13 Apr 2026), SmartCompany, Startup Daily (Fri 3 Apr 2026) |
| Alex Trott | Banking Lead | Australian FinTech |
Stories naming Accenture. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
French consulting group Sia has bought Australian business transformation firm Seven Consulting, adding roughly 130 consultants and East Coast offices. The deal follows Sia's earlier acquisitions and Blackstone's minority investment earmarked for expansion.
Also consultancy.com.au
AFR cybersecurity topic page rounding up recent stories: Origin Energy's data breach investigation, Point Wild's planned ASX float, AI models hacking companies, and a CyberCX–Monash University cybersecurity degree partnership.
Google Cloud has committed US$750 million to a new partner fund for agentic AI resources and incentives, unveiled at Cloud Next; the piece also recalls Google's March acquisition of security firm Wiz.
A roundup of five Australian startups that together raised $30.1 million this week, spanning compliance AI, chemical-industry software, insurance automation, women's health diagnostics and an AI receptionist for trades.
Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·theaustraliatoday.com.au
Sydney AI startup Rosella, which automates commercial insurance brokerage work for small and mid-market firms, has secured pre-seed capital co-led by Peak XV Partners and Intact Private Capital.
Also Forbes Australia·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily
Melbourne's Affinda Group has bought AI training firm Pathfindr for $15 million in an all-share deal, adding it as the group's fourth business alongside Draftable and Vesparum.
Accenture plans to buy Melbourne cybersecurity firm CyberCX, a transaction reported at over a billion dollars that still needs foreign investment approval. CyberCX was co-founded by John Paitaridis and Alastair MacGibbon.
Accenture is buying CyberCX, a Melbourne-founded cyber security services provider with some 1400 staff, in its biggest such deal yet; the price is reported at more than $1 billion, pending regulatory approvals.
Also The Mandarin
Antler in Australia has started its thirteenth residency, gathering upwards of ninety founders in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to build ventures and pitch for pre-seed backing.
Blackbird's note explains why it led Lorikeet's nine-million-US-dollar round alongside co-investors, describing the startup's workflow-first approach to harder support tickets and its results with Eucalyptus.
Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily
Weekly roundup covering seven Australian companies' fresh capital: EV charging, satellite IoT, sovereign cloud, wearables, workplace messaging, plus two crowdfunding raises on Birchal.
Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·@AuManufacturing
Startupbootcamp Australia's blog profiles DoGood, a sustainable fintech whose SaaS platform turns corporate ESG goals into employee tasks, noting its large clients and its place in SBC's accelerator program.
Digital consulting startup FORMM has raised a $600,000 pre-seed round from individual investors who also take on leadership, board and advisory roles, to help mid-sized businesses digitise.
Also SmartCompany
Ignition Lane's weekly tech roundup covering record Australian VC fund raises, several green-tech startup funding rounds, Deliveroo's administration, the FTX collapse, and takeover offers for ELMO and Nitro.
Also Techboard
Australian crypto startup Clanz has launched Thematic investment products offering diversified blockchain exposure, and reports a $4 million seed round led by private investment, with further public funding still being raised.
Main Sequence announces Danielle Haj Moussa as a new part-time investment analyst, highlighting her mechatronics degree, University Medal, startup program experience and her co-founding of a tech-for-good community.
Sydney IT consultancy Cloudwerx has raised $7 million from CVC Emerging Companies Fund, its first external capital, to fund expansion, double staffing and pursue acquisitions.
US IoT security vendor Armis has launched a Melbourne APAC office and hired nine staff under former Nutanix manager Andrew Draper; the piece also recalls its 2020 acquisition and 2021 investment round.
AfterWork Ventures explains why it invested in Ripe Robotics, a Shepparton startup building fruit-picking robots that graduated from Startmate, while US competitor Abundant Robotics shut down.
Accenture has bought cloud infrastructure firm CS Technology, continuing an acquisition run that recently included Perth's Electro 80, reportedly for $30 million, and digital services company Industrie&Co.
Accenture has bought Perth-based operational technology specialist Electro 80, reportedly for $30 million, with three of its leaders moving into managing director roles at the acquirer.
Also ARN (ARNnet)
Ignition Lane's weekly column rounds up Australian raises including Octopus Deploy, Neara, Mr Yum and Archistar, ThinkTilt's sale to Atlassian, Latitude's ASX listing, and US moves by Tiger Global, UiPath and Squarespace.
Also Startup Daily
Fuel50 has raised a US$15.5 million Series B with PeakSpan and Shearwater leading the round, bringing lifetime funding to about $28.2 million as the talent marketplace firm plans growth across three regions.
Evergen has appointed Lucy Carpinelli as solution architect and Emad Nashed as senior software engineer to build its energy trading technology; CEO Ben Hutt says the hires support growth and battery orchestration plans.
Blackbird introduces seven new team members for 2020 across legal, operations and investment roles, while recalling a $100 million GP-led secondary, a raised New Zealand fund, and its earlier Startmate investment in Perx.
Eaton Square advised the shareholders of Canberra consulting firm Apis Group on their sale of the business to Accenture, announced December 2019.
Also ARN (ARNnet)
Profile of quantum computing software firm QxBranch, covering its origins, team and locations, and noting its July 2019 acquisition by California-based Rigetti Computing.
Also Startup Daily
Quantum control software firm Q-CTRL has raised $22 million led by Square Peg Capital, while ASX-listed Archer Exploration reports building a qubit prototype component and receiving a $15,000 NSW Government grant.
Future Now Ventures announces a partnership with Microsoft Australia and a fund, open to outside investors, backing software vendors built on Microsoft cloud platforms.
Also ARN (ARNnet)
Video creation platform 90 Seconds closed a US$20 million Series B from SIG, Airtree Ventures, Sequoia India, Qualgro, Atami Capital and Right Click Capital to scale automation and its creator network.
Also Startup Daily
Design software company InVision has bought Australian file-collaboration startup Trunk, whose team joins InVision while its product winds down; separately, Seek has bought graduate jobs platform GradConnection.
Accenture has bought Adelaide-based Oracle specialist PrimeQ for $31 million, creating a regional Oracle Cloud powerhouse, with staff, offices and customers being integrated over coming months.
A podcast interview with WORK180's cofounder covering its women-focused jobs board, screening of employers, big-name clients, and two million-dollar raises in 2018 funding expansion into the UK and US.
Also SmartCompany