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Companies Country Road acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Aleasha McCallion | Assessment Committee Member | @AuManufacturing |
| Dr Carter Ingram | Assessment Panel Member | @AuManufacturing |
| Fabia Pryor | Brand Sustainability Manager | @AuManufacturing |
| Matt Keogh | CEO (former) | SmartCompany (8 Aug 2025), SmartCompany (6 Aug 2025) |
| Yatu Widders Hunt | Assessment Panel Member | @AuManufacturing |
Stories naming Country Road. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Ex-AFL player Ryan Clarke's GymGoer, an app helping travellers book one-off gym sessions, has raised $400,000 at a $4.4 million valuation, with backing including Matt Keogh, after developing through Hyper Startup Studio's accelerator.
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Country Road's Climate Fund has named its second-year grant recipients: RediRobots gets $30,000 for automated textile sorting, Circular Sourcing $139,000 for a surplus-fabric platform, with two biodiversity projects also backed.
Podcast interview with Full Circle Fibres founder Meriel Chamberlin on Australia's textile industry, whose Mud to Marle project recently received a Country Road Climate Fund grant.