
Deal focus: KKR agrees first Australia growth tech deal

KKR has led a USD 68m Series B round for Australia’s Advanced Navigation, an autonomous systems developer for robots and vehicles used everywhere from the freeway to orbit
Australian vehicular artificial intelligence (AI) developer Advanced Navigation was founded in 2012 and didn’t raise its Series A round until late 2019, when Brick & Mortar Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Main...
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