Startup · $6.1m raised
Carbon activation technology company that completed a Life Cycle Assessment
Melbourne, VIC
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Bygen raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| University of Adelaide | Unnamed stage | - |
| Startmate | Series A | - |
| Investible | Unnamed stage · Series A | - |
| FMG Circular | Unnamed stage | - |
| Breakthrough Victoria | Unnamed stage · Series A | $1,000,000 |
| Artesian VC | Series A | - |
| Alberts | Unnamed stage · Series A | - |
Companies Bygen acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Bygen. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Breakthrough Victoria highlights portfolio achievements including Amber Electric's forty-five million dollar raise, Bygen and Diag-Nose grants, and Quantum Brilliance series A funding.
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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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Breakthrough Victoria's CEO reviews its 2024/25 year: growing capital base, strong co-investment leverage, portfolio milestones including Amber's $10m raise, first fellows awarded, and projected economic impact ahead.
Partner content profiling Australian cleantech firm Bygen, which is piloting its low-temperature activated carbon technology in Vietnam with support from Austrade, DFAT, Export Finance Australia, Global Victoria and local partner Envitech.
Roundup of two raises: a seed round for a cloud-security startup protecting enterprise infrastructure, and growth money for a cleantech firm converting nut shells into filter material.
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The fund's authors recap two climate-investment events, weighing the massive global capital needs, mixed public-private funding models, and its clean-economy portfolio activity in Victoria.
Breakthrough Victoria showcases nine climate-focused portfolio companies across clean energy and agrifood, describing each technology and its contribution to the energy transition and circular economy.
Breakthrough Victoria highlights recent achievements of portfolio companies including funding, awards, and expansions for firms like Liquid Instruments, Quantum Brilliance, and Samsara Eco.
Breakthrough Victoria's yearly investment review reports sixteen new portfolio companies backed in FY23/24, itemising five with amounts — Xefco, Raygen, Jupiter Ionics, Bygen, Aravax — and cumulative investment beyond $300 million.
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Earth Day roundup of fifteen Australian climate and sustainability startups that have secured funding in 2024, from RayGen's $51 million Series D down to CarbonHQ's $600,000 pre-seed round.
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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.
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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Alberts Impact Ventures introduces its new investment associate in a Q&A covering his prior role at an investment platform, his path into impact investing, and portfolio companies in health and climate.
Federal grants roundup: 21 Cooperative Research Centres Projects awards worth $51 million in Round 15, with EQ Plastics, Optiscan Imaging and NEXSEN BioTech each receiving $3 million for product development.
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