Company
Auckland
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Vend raised.
Investors whose own portfolio pages list Vend, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.
| Investor | Listed on |
|---|---|
| Folklore Ventures | its portfolio page ↗ |
| Square Peg Capital | its portfolio page ↗ |
The transaction that ended Vend's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.
| Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightspeed | Acquisition | 23 Dec 2021 | US$350m ($482m) | Square Peg Capital, SmartCompany (Thu 10 Jun 2021), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Thu 25 Mar 2021), Square Peg Capital portfolio |
| Lightspeed POS Inc | Acquisition | 12 Mar 2021 | $350m | Square Peg Capital portfolio, Startup Daily |
Companies Vend acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Vend. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Square Peg profiles its Global Tech Fund, a listed-markets strategy applying its venture investing approach to early-stage public tech companies, and outlines its team, edge, and focus on fintech, software and AI.
Blackbird announces its NZ Fund has backed Carepatron's pre-seed round, profiling founders Jamie Frew and David Pene and their all-in-one practice management software for small healthcare providers.
Icehouse Ventures has made a first NZ$5 million close toward a $20 million second ArcAngels fund for women-led startups, with Gattung, Rowsell and K1W1 among backers; its predecessor fund backed 31 ventures.
Square Peg Capital's year-in-review recaps its 2021 portfolio: raises it led or joined, SPAC listing decisions, Vend's acquisition, new investment-team hires, and its newsletter and podcast output.
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Square Peg's podcast special explores how founders build talent engines, featuring interviews with leaders from Deputy, Vend, Aconex, Fiverr, Zeller and others, published alongside the firm's search for a new Head of Talent.
Swedish communications firm Sinch is buying Melbourne-based MessageMedia for US$1.3 billion, in an article rounding up a surge of Australian tech acquisitions including A Cloud Guru, Big Ant, Neto and Vend.
Square Peg's podcast interviews Vend founder Vaughan Fergusson and new CEO Ana Wight, covering the retail software company's culture, leadership, its almost US$60 million raised, and its US$350 million sale to Lightspeed POS in March 2021.
Also Startup Daily
A weekly technology roundup reporting a New Zealand booking software firm's sale, an Australian beauty retailer's acquisition, several venture raises, executive share sales at an e-commerce firm, and a new government fund committee.
A roundup of recent Australian tech acquisitions: Vend, Neto, Powered Local, Insync and Earnd have been bought, while Xero is purchasing Planday and plans to acquire Tickstar.
Weekly roundup by Ignition Lane covering Vend's sale to Lightspeed, Roblox's listing, raises at Pipe, DataGrail, Mastt, Sonnant and Corvus, LaunchVic's new fund for women founders, and Scale Investors' new co-CEOs.
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Square Peg reflects on eight years backing Vend as Lightspeed agrees to acquire the Auckland retail-software company, with the deal expected to complete in roughly six weeks.
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Square Peg Capital recaps 2020: eight new investments including Zeller and HealthMatch, a US$450 million fourth fund close, follow-ons, new hires across Sydney, Singapore and Israel, and portfolio updates.
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Weekly roundup reporting Salesforce's Slack acquisition, several ASX listings, multiple Australian startup raises, OneVentures' fund tranche close, and international deals including Facebook buying Kustomer.
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Blackbird, the Australian venture firm, says it will expand to New Zealand with a new early-stage fund, an Auckland office, and its Sunrise conference, while recalling its early backing of companies including Canva.