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Acorn-backed financial advice fintech makes data acquisition

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Updated Jul 14, 2025 – 2.38pm, first published at 1.41pm

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Fresh off a $7 million capital raising, financial advice technology and services provider Padua Solutions is flexing its acquisition muscle, inking a deal with adviser, superannuation and SMSF data provider Wealth Data.

Kiama-based Padua provides software to financial advisors.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.

Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.