About Madeleine Hunt
Madeleine is co-head of Allens Accelerate, and a Managing Associate in Allens' Technology, Media and Telecommunications team. She advises growth companies, venture capital investors and corporates on complex private capital raisings and technology-sector M&A transactions bringing deep market knowledge, commercial judgement and practical execution experience to her clients. She also works closely with founders, boards and management teams on corporate governance, equity incentive arrangements and commercial matters that support investment readiness, strategic growth and successful exits.
Her experience includes advising:
- Canva on a broad range of strategic corporate transactions and initiatives, including the acquisitions of Simtheory, Ortto, Doohly and Leonardo.ai; and on the Australian aspects of its ~US$1.5 billion secondary share offer process, reported to be one of the largest offers of this type by a technology company globally
- AirTree Ventures on its lead investment in workplace software company SafetyCulture's $165 million funding round (valuing SafetyCulture at $AU2.5 billion); and other investments, including in space technology startup HEO, superannuation startup GROW and virtual event platform Delegate Connect
- Clean Energy Finance Corporation on its investments in innovative hydrogen-related technology startup Hysata, lithium-ion battery recycling technology startup Renewable Metals, microfabrication technology startup MicroTau and solar technology startup SunDrive Solar
- QIC on the joint investment of almost $1 billion by the Australian and Queensland Governments in technology company PsiQuantum, to build the world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer; and on the establishment and deployment of the Queensland Venture Capital Development Fund
- Symphony Infrastructure Partnerson its innovative $488 million debt and equity financing package from Blackstone, to accelerate the growth of its energy transition infrastructure platform
- various high-growth companies on their equity and hybrid private capital-raising transactions involving leading Australian and oversees venture capital firms, including VEME, Relectrify, The Daily Aus, Veyor, HealthMatch, Simple KYC, Zetifi, Servicely and Safewill
- Keysight Technologies on its co-lead investment in the $50 million Series C funding round by Liquid Instruments, a pioneer in software-defined test solutions
- Westpac on its acquisition of personal financial management app MoneyBrilliant; and on its participation in the $28 million Series B round of AI fintech Rich Data Co, and a Series C investment in banking-as-a-service platform provider 10X
- Playground XYZ on its sale to media and technology leader GumGum
- Kilara Capital on its co-lead investment in the Series B funding round of digital energy platform Wattwatchers
- HMC Capital on its investment in gravitational energy storage technology startup Green Gravity, as part of Green Gravity's $9 million funding round
- Rio Tinto on its investment in and commercial partnership with Founders Factory to establish the Rio Tinto & Founders Factory Mining Tech Program
- Quantium on the establishment of its incorporated data analytics and AI services joint venture with Telstra
- Calumo on its sale to US tech company Insightsoftware.