VentureCrowd Holdings Pty Ltd has been in liquidation since 24 July, with receivers and managers appointed. On 28 August, ASIC published four winding-up applications in which the liquidated parent is not the respondent.

It is the applicant.

All four were filed on 25 August in the Supreme Court of Queensland, all four notices carry the same action number, BS3845/2026, and all four are listed for the same hearing: 9:00am, 31 August 2026. The first respondent is VentureCrowd Nominees Pty Ltd, ACN 166 599 140.

Four companies. Four notices. One applicant. One action number.

VentureCrowd's own material gave it a specific investor-facing role.

Its December 2020 group-structure material described VentureCrowd Nominees Pty Ltd as the trustee for all VentureCrowd wholesale managed investment schemes.

ASIC identified the same company independently. In September 2022, in the attachment to its managed-fund marketing surveillance, ASIC listed VentureCrowd Nominees Pty Ltd, ACN 166 599 140, as trustee of The Venture Crowd Trust No. 0481 (Albany Creek) and Venture Crowd Trust No. 0505, recording the trustee's undertaking to display target returns clearly and enhance risk warnings.

That is the company the liquidated parent is now applying to wind up.

Two boundaries matter here, and both favour precision over alarm. A winding-up application asks the court for an order. The published notices do not state the asserted debt, amount or other basis on which winding up is sought. And an application against a corporate trustee is not a winding-up of the trusts themselves. That does not make a trustee's insolvency irrelevant to trust assets: a corporate trustee may hold rights of indemnity or exoneration against trust assets for liabilities properly incurred as trustee. What happens to those rights is a question for the proceeding, not for this article.

Moggill Ferry Road Pty Ltd appears in VentureCrowd's own recent marketing. In the months before the filing, VentureCrowd was promoting the MFR Social Infrastructure Preference Equity Fund, describing preference equity into Moggill Ferry Road Pty Ltd as the option holder of a development-approved 240-unit social-infrastructure site at Riverview.

Vest also appears in VentureCrowd's earlier platform strategy. In October 2022, VentureCrowd announced that it was working with MakerX to build Vest, a wealth-technology platform through which investment communities could view deal flow and invest, and described Vest as jointly owned by VentureCrowd and venture studio Josephmark. Josephmark's own history says the Vest digital crowdfunding platform was later sold to VentureCrowd. Vest Platform Pty Ltd, ACN 636 778 473, existed at the time and later appeared as an authorised representative, but the public material reviewed here does not itself establish that this company was the corporate vehicle referred to in those announcements.

Wynnum Road Morningside Pty Ltd appears in Brisbane City Council's records as the applicant on an approved development application at 495A Wynnum Road, Morningside. An earlier application over the same site names Venture Crowd Pty Ltd as applicant. Separately, VentureCrowd was recently marketing a secured-credit fund over a Morningside co-living site. The public marketing reviewed here does not identify that site by street address, so this article does not assume it is the same development.

The applications themselves state the applicant, respondents, court, action number and hearing. They state nothing about what any respondent owes, holds or did, and nothing reviewed here establishes the current ownership of the respondents.

The register has carried the VentureCrowd situation since April.

9 April: VentureCrowd Holdings entered voluntary administration.

16 July: the Federal Court refused an urgent application in the administration for leave to dispose of secured property, holding the evidence did not establish adequate protection of the secured party's interests.

24 July: the administration became a liquidation.

18 August: VentureCrowd Services Australia Pty Ltd, a different subsidiary, was wound up by the Supreme Court of Queensland on an application filed in July. That reconstruction, and the two investor products tied to the company, are here.

25 August: the liquidated parent filed the four applications above.

28 August: ASIC published them.

One more observation carries a date. Checked on 30 August, VentureCrowd's main website returned a hosting provider's suspension page, and the subdomain that served its investment platform did not resolve. What a company publishes about itself can disappear. The register record does not.

The question the filings pose is why a company in liquidation is applying to wind up these four companies, including its documented trustee and a recently marketed project vehicle. The published record does not answer it, and this article will not guess. One more entry belongs beside the applications: the court's published law list for the morning of 31 August also carries a matter styled Maarbani & others v VentureCrowd Holdings Pty Ltd (In Liquidation) & others at 9:00am. Whether that is the same proceeding as BS3845/2026 is not established by the public list, and this article does not assume it.

The published notices establish that winding-up relief has been sought. They do not state the debts, amounts or basis on which the orders are sought, who authorised the proceedings, or how the matter styled Maarbani & others relates to them. They do not establish the current ownership of any respondent, what VentureCrowd Nominees now acts as trustee of, which trusts hold what, or what any wholesale investor will recover. The trustee descriptions above are drawn from VentureCrowd's own 2020 material and ASIC's 2022 attachment; neither states the current position.

No hearing outcome appears in the register as of publication.

Sources. Four ASIC published notices dated 28 August 2026, carrying the applicant, respondents, court, action number and hearing. The Moggill Ferry Road connection is from VentureCrowd's published offer marketing. The Vest history is from VentureCrowd's October 2022 announcement published by MakerX, Josephmark's company history and the authorised-representative record for Vest Platform Pty Ltd. The Wynnum Road Morningside connection is from Brisbane City Council's development-application records and VentureCrowd's published offer marketing. The 31 August listing is from the court's published law list. Registration dates are from the ASIC company register. The trustee identifications are from VentureCrowd's December 2020 group-structure material and the attachment to ASIC media release 22-249MR. Prior VentureCrowd events are from ASIC published notices captured on 10 April, 27 July and 19 August. Website status was checked on 30 August 2026.

ASIC published 121 notices covering 172 entities:

A winding-up application asks a court for an order; it does not mean the company has been wound up. A members' voluntary liquidation is ordinarily a solvent process.

See the full 28 August register, free with a subscription.

Six companies entered creditors' voluntary liquidation on 26 August, all named on one notice, all with Rajiv Goyal appointed. Their current names share nothing: Med AI, Sunbeam Technologies, Sunrise 2050 Developments, Dynamic Interactive, Morwell 2.0 and Cleantech Energy Australia.

The register's former names carry the history. Cleantech Energy Australia, ACN 158 713 163, was Coal Energy Australia Limited from 2012 to 2019, the company selected under Victoria's Advanced Lignite Demonstration Program for a proposed $30 million government commitment within a $143 million brown-coal project. Under its current name it is listed by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency as an industry partner on a UNSW low-carbon ironmaking project alongside Rio Tinto and BlueScope. One of the other five carries a former name of its own: Dynamic Interactive was Clean Energy Generation Pty Ltd until March 2024.

The notice places the six companies together. Nothing reviewed here establishes the ownership or control relationship between them.

The 44 companies in the Edge Early Learning administration reappear on one first-meeting notice, now as procedural filings. The next step in the same appointments, not a second failure.

58 companies carry a newly published distress entry. Those whose legal name does not identify the business come first.

53 further companies are in the full register, each with its ACN and process.

These are applications, not findings of insolvency. Hearing details are from the notices and may change.

Beyond VentureCrowd's four, one other applicant filed in bulk: Viva Energy Australia brought three applications against transport companies, all in the Supreme Court of Victoria, all listed for 9 September.

14 further applications are in the full register, each with its applicant, court and hearing date.

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