Australian venture capital firm Square Peg has announced the closing of its fifth fund of US$550 million, with investors including Australian pension funds Hostplus and AustralianSuper, as well as family offices, institutions and endowments. Square Peg partner Tushar Roy said the new foundation has a close eye on companies in software-as-a-service, consumer internet, fintech, edtech, healthtech and future of work technologies in Australia, Israel and Southeast Asia. Foresight News previously reported that Square Peg, together with Beenext and Hashed, led the US$12 million Series A round of funding for Lysto, a blockchain game infrastructure startup, in August this year.