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Bevan Slattery

September 2024

Megaport’s billionaire founder Bevan Slattery.

Bevan Slattery times the herd beautifully

The serial entrepreneur dumped 1.1 million Megaport shares in May. The company’s stock has since halved.

Robin Khuda arrived in Australia as an 18-year-old from Bangladesh, and is now at the centre of the year’s biggest deal.

Robin Khuda is the ringleader of this year’s biggest M&A deal

The founder of AirTrunk has cashed in on the inexorable rise in demand for processing power and built a vast fortune on the rise of cloud computing.

May 2024

Bevan Slattery, phone in hand, at the Australian Open men’s final in January.

Bevan Slattery doesn’t wait to sell

Bevan Slattery is sentimental about his branded socks and hoodies. He isn’t about his equity.

Bevan Slattery

Rich Lister entrepreneur’s final start-up will build underwater robots

Bevan Slattery is arguably Australia’s most successful tech entrepreneurs of the last 20 years. He thinks he has one more start-up in him, and has big plans for reviving coral reefs.

February 2024

Megaport’s billionaire founder Bevan Slattery.

Megaport on M&A watchlists as Slattery heads for exit

Nothing lights up Street Talk’s radar like a company getting its defence strategy in order. 

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October 2023

AirTrunk boss Robin Khuda.

Goldman, Macquarie mandated for AirTrunk $10b-plus IPO

Goldman’s international reach and track record in offshore data centre deals helped it get the gig, sources say.

September 2023

Serial founder Bevan Slattery has cash to spend.

Bevan Slattery dumps more shares

Megaport’s founder has extinguished part of a loan by selling the stock it was secured against.

August 2023

Bevan Slattery is the founder of Megaport, Superloop and other technology infrastructure companies.

Slattery green lights Sydney to Perth undersea cable construction

The HyperOne project is being developed by SUBCO, which in October switched on a 9800 kilometre high-speed telecommunications cable between Perth and Oman.

Megaport’s newly appointed CEO, Michael Reid.

Megaport jumps 16pc after losses narrow, cost cuts

Cloud connectivity provider Megaport has reined in spending over the past year, narrowing its losses.

July 2023

Megaport chairman Bevan Slattery.

Bevan Slattery, Megaport saviour

Slattery has returned to his LinkedIn pulpit in another delusional fever.

June 2023

WiseTech chief executive Richard White is optimistic about the future of the ASX.

Better to list in Australia rather than on the Nasdaq: WiseTech boss

Richard White told The Australian Financial Review Entrepreneur Summit that a shrinking sharemarket was a global phenomenon.

Megaport will go from a $10 million loss in the 2022 financial year to a $17 million profit this year.

Network-as-a-service firms enjoy fresh gold fever

Megaport will achieve a $27 million turnaround this financial year, going from a $10 million loss in the 2022 financial year to a $17 million profit.

Bevan Slattery: “I doubt I would ever list again”.

‘I doubt I would list again’: Tech founder slams ASX red tape

Serial tech founder Bevan Slattery says that after listing five companies since 2005, he doubts he would list on the ASX again, blaming the saturation of red tape.

May 2023

Craig Scroggie, CEO of NextDC, says AI will be a game changer for technology.

The ASX stocks that could ride the AI boom like Nvidia

AI has lit a fire underneath tech stocks, but investors are split over whether the innovation will transform business models or end up a fad like blockchain or 3D printing.

Rob Bromage had a successful outcome for his stint building IntelliHR.

How a frenzied bidding war started for a broke HR software firm

On January 30, IntelliHR was a struggling microcap software firm burning through cash, but it suddenly found itself the subject of an international takeover battle.

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February 2023

Bevan Slattery is the founder and major shareholder of Megaport.

Why the market is mega-divided about Megaport

It’s the third most shorted stock on the ASX – but its backers say that some investors are just too impatient.

November 2022

Technology sector entrepreneur Bevan Slattery.

Superloop founder Bevan Slattery clears out via Morgans

Bevan Slattery’s gone from Superloop’s share register for the first time in its history. 

October 2022

Networks business Superloop has a 10 per cent on-market buyback that’s been active in recent days.

Superloop seller drops 4pc stake via UBS

UBS’s equities desk picked up one of the more interesting trades on Monday, in an otherwise pretty quiet day in the Australian equity market. 

April 2022

Australian technology entrepreneur Bevan Slattery.

Bevan Slattery chaired FiberSense reboots $40m raise

Bevan Slattery backed fibre optics play FiberSense is fronting investors for a $30 million to $40 million Series B raise, after halting plans in the lead up to Christmas last year.

Bevan Slattery: lucky timing.

Bevan Slattery saved $13.2 million selling Megaport last month

The Bevdawg did very well selling to institutional investors via UBS’ equities desk when he did at $13.05 a pop.

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