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Alberts

Sydney, NSW

Coverage

Stories naming Alberts. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

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Meet the 19 ventures sharing $400,000 to connect women, investors and opportunity

NSW Government grants worth $400,000 across 19 recipients include EnergyLab, Barayamal, Go Remote, Western Sydney Women and Scale Investors, funding events and initiatives aimed at closing the gender funding gap.

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Sendle suddenly shutters deliveries amid financial concerns after merger investor freezes funding

Alternative parcel delivery firm Sendle stopped taking bookings five months after merging into US parent Fast Group, whose financial troubles led investor Federation Asset Management to suspend fund withdrawals and inject emergency capital.

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2025 in review: Purpose and partnerships

Alberts' year-in-review post recounts its 140th anniversary, board and staff appointments, follow-on venture investments in three portfolio companies, music education advocacy, a philanthropy strategy review, and reconciliation and gender-lens finance commitments.

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Grant

Equity Clear is building national standard for investment diversity reporting

Equity Clear, an initiative of Scale Investors, Giant Leap and Alberts, wins Investment NSW sponsorship and UNSW academic partnership to build a national investor-diversity reporting standard, led by Noga Edelstein.

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Cheque-in: 19 ANZ startups that raised $69 million this week

Weekly roundup covering 19 Australian and New Zealand raises, headlined by Andromeda Robotics' $23m Series A, plus Freckle, Marloo, X-Hemp, Harvest B, Wable, Starboard and Techstars Sydney's 12-startup cohort.

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Breakthrough Victoria lures Sydney proteins startup Harvest B south in $3.5million pre-Series A

Harvest B, a Sydney-based protein maker, raised a $3.5 million pre-Series A with Mandalay Venture Partners leading and Breakthrough Victoria contributing $2 million, alongside a $2.2 million federal grant and a 2021 seed round.

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19 ANZ startups that raised $66.7 million this week

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2024: A year of change and positive impact

Alberts' annual review records its venture arm closing its portfolio at 22 companies, topping up six holdings, co-launching a gender-equity drive, and navigating board changes after Sam Mostyn became Governor-General.

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Oceans of opportunity for plastic replacement

Profile of Uluu, a Perth climate tech startup turning farmed seaweed into biodegradable PHA to replace plastics, recalling early backing from Alberts Impact Ventures and Main Sequence plus two grants.

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Five ANZ startups that raised $21.2 million this week

Weekly roundup detailing funding rounds by five Australian and New Zealand startups: a diversity analytics platform, a thermal energy storage maker, a carbon accounting service, an activated carbon producer, and legal communications software.

Series A $2.6m

Bygen media release

Breakthrough Victoria announces a $1m investment in Bygen, a Victorian activated carbon producer, as part of Bygen's $2.6m Series A with Alberts Impact Ventures, Investible, Artesian and Startmate.

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Series C $29m

Amber Electric

Breakthrough Victoria reports a $4.5 million investment in Amber Electric's $29 million Series C, led by GenTrack with Rubio Impact Ventures, funding jobs and product expansion.

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Seed $7m

Why We Invested in Hatch

Aura Ventures explains its seed investment in Hatch, an Australian jobs marketplace for young professionals co-founded by Adam Jacobs and Chaz Heitner, alongside Rampersand, Investible, Jelix Ventures and Alberts.

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Early VC #3 - Diraq and Marqo raised Series A. Ansarada acquired for $236.3m. New Bupa's $20m fund.

Australian startups Diraq, Marqo, and Hatch secured funding rounds. Ansarada was acquired by Datasite. Bupa launched a new venture fund, and the Queensland government backed several VCs and accelerators.

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Five Australian startups that raised at least $38.2 million this week

Roundup of five Australian startups that secured new capital this week: Amber Electric's $29m Series C, ProcurePro's $6.15m, Yume's $2m seed, Alt.Leather's $1.1m seed, plus an undisclosed Tenacious Ventures investment in Nbryo.

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Alberts Impact Ventures: 2023 in review

Investor's own year in review: five new portfolio companies, a follow-on into ULUU, the Verve Super exit, the Equity Clear gender-reporting initiative, a first founders' retreat, and a sweep of awards for portfolio companies.

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Women-focused fintech Verve Super joins Simon Sheikh's Future Group

Future Group has acquired Verve Super, a super fund aimed at women, with terms undisclosed; the piece also recalls earlier raises by Verve and by Future Super.

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Eight Aussie startups that secured $30.2 million this week

Weekly roundup of eight Australian startups raising a combined $30.2 million, spanning SME lending, quantum computing grants, proptech, consumer apps and recycling, plus Stylerunner's earlier sale to Accent Group.

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Harnessing the power of your mind

Profile of Mindset Health's founder brothers and their hypnotherapy apps, covering a fresh $18m Series A and earlier backing from Startmate and James Beshara.

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Unnamed stage $2m

Caregiver software start-up Circle In bucks dire investment trend for female-led start-ups, raises $2m in funding

Melbourne family-care benefits platform Circle In has closed a $2m round, adding Alberts Impact Ventures to existing private backers and LaunchVic's Alice Anderson Fund, while research highlights shrinking venture money for women-only founding teams.

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Alberts Impact Ventures year in review

Alberts Impact Ventures recaps 2022: six new portfolio companies, five follow-on investments, a led seed round in Abby Health, plus team events, a trade mission and investor recognition.

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Unnamed stage $8m

ULUU secures $8m in their latest fundraising to replace the world's plastic

Alberts Impact Ventures announces it is backing Uluu, a maker of seaweed-based plastic alternatives that has raised $8 million, and directs readers to the Australian Financial Review for more on founders Julia Reisser and Michael Kingsbury.

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Unnamed stage $8m

Australian thermal storage start-up nears production at Newcastle plant

MGA Thermal has opened the first stage of its Newcastle manufacturing facility, targeting daily production of thermal storage blocks, and the article recalls its $8 million raise backed by Main Sequence and other investors.

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