Dec 2021: Venture capitalist Mark Carnegie has moved to Singapore, where he is launching a listed Asia-based digital asset platform, shunning Australia for what he says is a “pro-crypto” regulated market.

Wong Fong Fui – the billionaire known as F.F. Wong who is chairman and CEO of the Singapore-listed Boustead conglomerate – will invest $S10 million ($10.23 million) via a notes deal into the new crypto company, which will use the fresh funds to support its proprietary trading initiatives.

Nov 2021: Silicon Valley pacemaker startup EBR Systems expects Australia’s strong research focus on heart disease will be a fertile environment to develop the products it hopes will solve one of the world’s biggest health problems.

EBR, which is working on a new kind of “leadless” pacemaker system called WISE, listed on the ASX on Wednesday morning with backing from high-profile local investors including Mark Carnegie’s M.H. Carnegie and Co., Brandon Capital and super funds such as HostPlus and TelstraSuper.

22 Nov: nvestor Mark Carnegie believes cardiovascular medical device company EBR Systems, which hits the big board on Wednesday, will be the next Cochlear and change lives around the world.

Silicon Valley-based EBR was founded in 2003 and developed the WiSE Cardiac resynchronisation therapy system, which uses proprietary wireless technology to deliver pacing stimulation directly to the inside of the left ventricle of the heart.

Nov 2021: Venture capitalist Mark Carnegie was born into a wealthy and successful family and is attune to his exceptional privilege. Here he shares with Elizabeth McArthur his investing philosophy, philanthropic work and why he thinks the smart money is in cryptocurrency.

Apr 2021: Venture capitalist, Mark Carnegie has put a stake in the ground with respect to cryptocurrency.

Carnegie has announced that his firm, MH Carnegie and Co have launched a cryptocurrency fund in partnership with blockchain expert, Sergei Sergienko in what is being described as a bid to offer Australian investors greater access to opportunities in the global digital asset space.

Mar 2021: It took too long, but I now believe that crypto is here to stay.

Who would have thought that when the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and every central bank and government in the world were adopting a “spend spend spend” policy to fight COVID-19, they were also creating the certainty of a new digital currency world?

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA), the leader in spine technology innovation, focused on transforming spine surgery with minimally disruptive, procedurally integrated solutions, today announced that it has acquired Simplify Medical, a privately held company and developer of the Simplify® Cervical Artificial Disc (Simplify Disc) for cervical total disc replacement (cTDR).

The acquisition of Simplify Medical adds the most clinically effective cTDR technology and further distinguishes NuVasive's cervical portfolio in the market. The cervical segment of the global spine market represents a $2.6 billion opportunity, and the Company is well-positioned to expand its reach with the addition of the Simplify Disc to its C360™ portfolio. NuVasive is now able to address all key segments of the cervical spine by offering comprehensive, procedurally integrated solutions across anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), posterior cervical fusion (PCF), and cTDR procedures.

Sep 2020: KIRKLAND, WA – September 2, 2020 — Cardiac Dimensions®, a leader in the development of innovative, minimally invasive treatments for functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) in patients with heart failure, today announced the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved its Carillon Mitral Contour System®. The Carillon System is a right heart transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) device designed to treat the primary cause of FMR in patients with mitral regurgitation grades 2+, 3+ and 4+.

Apr 2020: Superannuation early withdrawal risks collapsing retirement system.

"It was completely reasonable at the time, but it's caused a series of second-order consequences we need to think through,” says CEO and Founder Mark Carnegie.

Apr 2020: When you spend a significant part of your life in private equity, as I have, you tend to learn a lot about what makes the industry tick. Half of that time I’ve spent working alongside the Australian superannuation industry and it has let me see with crystal clarity just how vital the long term decisions the super industry can take is to our nation.

It is also important to know that if it gets stopped from making those long-term decisions because of government policy then the just developed venture capital industry, our world-leading infrastructure finance sector and even people like me will go back to working for foreigners at a great cost to Australia.

Mar 2020: The government is working on a second stimulus package which will dwarf the first, and it needs to if we are to come out of this crisis with a viable, competitive small- and medium-sized business community.

The size of the shock to the economy is unprecedented and a group of industries: tourism, hospitality and education, along with artistic, sporting and industry-based event organisers, are all being stopped dead.

Mar 2020: Former National Australia Bank boss Andrew Thorburn has re-emerged, joining a new originator and investor in deals to manage human services. The new group, For Purpose Investment Partners, will seek to bring superannuation funding and corporate management skills into the aged care, mental health, disability, social housing and education sectors.

Feb 2020: KIRKLAND, Wash., Feb. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardiac Dimensions, a leader in the development of innovative, minimally invasive treatments for functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) in patients with heart failure (HF), today announced the findings of a post hoc analysis of pooled prospectively collected data from three studies of the Carillon Mitral Contour System® with a focus on 5-year survival rate and the determinants of long-term survival. The data was presented in a late-breaking trials session at the Cardiovascular Research Technologies meeting (CRT 2020) in National Harbor, MD.

Feb 2020: In a world of rising fear and uncertainty one thing is crystal clear: for the Australian economy to live the Morrison government's surplus hopes must die.

Our economy is sick and needs help, and it needs it now. Money needs to be spent to fix it fast. For the next three years the deficit doesn’t matter - saving the economy does.

Dec 2019: Why is it that women struggle to get more than 5 per cent of chairman positions at major Australian companies, but are asked to consume a much higher proportion of the s--- sandwiches handed out for corporate governance missteps?

I pondered that during the two hours I spent at Ernst & Young on Tuesday representing my firm on a committee asking what we could do to improve female participation in my industry. I concluded that all the worthy committees in the world wouldn't solve the problem if some men didn't step up and call time on the witch-hunt against women in corporate Australia.

Dec 2019: Fresh off a sell-out Sydney pop-up of his three-hatted Adelaide-based Restaurant Orana, Jock Zonfrillo will open a food laboratory investigating ways to commercialise indigenous foods to meet a growing demand  - in part fuelled by Zonfrillo’s passion and expertise.

The Indigenous Flavour Lab will open next year, funded by venture capitalist and philanthropist Mark Carnegie.

Nov 2019: Flamboyant businessman John Singleton and former Qantas boss Geoff Dixon have finally offloaded Balmain’s popular The Unity Hall Hotel for $20m, more than double its $10m 2011 acquisition price.

The Unity Hall Hotel in Balmain is one of the last assets in the pub vulture fund set up by Mr Singleton, Mr Dixon and financier Mark Carnegie.

Oct 2019: Children living with a disability on the African continent have a very challenging life, and there is limited support, if any. So when my good friend Thierry Dalais of Time + Tide Africa put together a foundation focusing on improving the lives of children where its lodges are situated (in Zambia and Madagascar), I was very keen to contribute.

May 2019: Sydney property tycoon Sam Arnaout's Iris Capital has bought Manly's Hotel Steyne for about $65 million making it his fifth pub acquisition in the space of nine months.

In a veritable changing of the pub ownership guard, 43-year-old Mr Arnaout acquired the historic waterfront pub from industry veterans John Singleton, Arthur Laundy, Robert Whyte and investment banker Mark Carnegie.