TechnologyStreet TalkPrint articleSarah Thompson,Kanika SoodandEmma RapaportMar 24, 2025 – 3.26pmSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginTen days ago, Sydney-based venture capital firm EVP was praising the product prowess ofpharmacy software player StrongRoom AIafter leading its capital raising. On Monday afternoon, it was ringing investors in its EVP Opportunities Fund to inform them that it had discovered “a potentially serious issue” at the start-up.Strongroom founders (right) Max Mito and Christopher Durre (left) and EVP’s Misha Saul on March 13.Elke MeitzelLoading...Sarah Thompsonhas 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.EmailSarahatsarah.thompson@afr.comKanika Soodis a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.EmailKanikaatkanika.sood@afr.com.auEmma Rapaportis a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.Connect withEmmaonTwitter.EmailEmmaatemma.rapaport@afr.comSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreStreet TalkMergers & acquisitionsVenture capitalSoftwareManaged fundsSee all Street TalkHow a dare set the pace for this CEO’s morning routine of rowingLauren SamsInside the homes of Australia’s most connected art collectors‘If Labor’s campaign is that I’m horrible, they’ll lose in a landslide’By the time he was 37 this exec was running IBM in AustraliaSally Patten and Lap PhanFour women who started businesses after the age of 45What happened when Domain learnt it spent $36m a year on meetingsThere are travel chargers, and then there’s the PlugBug TravelJohn DavidsonThe interior designer creating bourgeois spaces in EuropeIf you only have one day in Bar, Montenegro, do thisProperty billionaire Nick Andrianakos dies in GreeceYolanda RedrupCannon-Brookes describes ‘deep internal conflict’ over his private jetOscar Piastri on the secret of his $41m-a year success