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ASXBevan Slattery’s $2 million bet on Rent.com.au has turned into $11 million in just 7 days
Simon Thomsen - February 10, 2021 < 1 MIN READ
When tech billionaire Bevan Slattery emerged with a $2 million stake in ASX-listed Rent.com.au last Tuesday, having bought a 10% of the proptech startup at 5 cents a share, the company’s share price surged more than 200% on the day.
The Megaport and NextDC founder bought in through Capital Trust, his family’s early stage investment vehicle. And his involvement has turned Rent.com.au (ASX:RNT) into gold, with investors piling in and the company’s share prize skyrocketing from 4.3 cents ahead of its $2.75 million capital raise to as high as 35 cents on Monday.
With the shares closing at $0.285 cents on Tuesday, Slattery’s stake is now worth $11.4 million.
The company, worth $20 million just a week ago, now has a market capitalisation of $113 million.
The climb in Rent’s share price in recent days
Morningstar Quantitative rates the company as fairly valued at that price, having previously rated it as undervalued.
The company is currently launching RentPay, which aims to give renters more control and flexibility over their payments and managing their housing expenses.
It’s not the first time Slattery has brought a Midas touch to small cap tech stocks. In July last year, Slattery took a $2.5 million stake in cloud-based 3D geospatial image venture Pointerra and its share price doubled in response.
When Slattery revealed his latest investment, he said he was “excited to be backing another innovative Australian technology platform”.
“I love disruptive platforms that have the ability to scale and Rent.com.au has great potential to achieve that goal,” he said.
Simon Thomsen
Simon is editor of Startup Daily.
He was previously Associate Editor of Business Insider Australia and before that a full-time restaurant critic, editor of The Good Food Guide, and a newspaper proprietor, having spent more than 25 years in journalism and publishing.
He chaired industry lobby group Australian Business Ltd's (now the NSW Business Chamber) environment committee during the Kyoto agreement era.
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