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VC-backed video start-up 90 Seconds fields interest, hires advisers

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Nov 17, 2024 – 7.27pm

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A video creation platform backed by a host of venture capital funds and pre-IPO investors is headed for the auction block.

The New Zealand start-up 90 Seconds is in discussions with several potential acquirers including a Nasdaq-listed company. There’s no certainty that the transaction will close, but expectations are it could be finalised in the first quarter of next year.

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.