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Alberts announces that former Rest fixed income head Tracey Duff has joined its Investment Committee, with a profile of her 40-year finance career and what drew her to the role.
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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Profile of psychologist Rebecca van Herk, who helps bushfire and flood-hit communities heal through charity KidsXpress's trauma programs, funded by The Tony Foundation, government and philanthropic grants.
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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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Report of an Alberts-hosted panel on impact investing, featuring seaweed-based plastics maker Uluu and food-tech firm Harvest B, covering climate capital, family offices and diversity initiatives.
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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Alberts Impact Ventures profiles Harvest B, tracing how its blended plant-and-meat proteins cut cost, fat and emissions, and recalling its own backing of the food tech company.
Profile of Bygen, a maker of sustainable activated carbon from agricultural waste, covering its recent $2.6 million pre-Series A round led by Breakthrough Victoria with Alberts Impact Ventures and Investible participating.
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A Melbourne startup turning farm waste into activated carbon has drawn backing from Alberts Impact Ventures, Breakthrough Victoria and others in a $2.6m round to scale production.
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Profile of Hatch, a Sydney AI hiring marketplace for Gen Z, which banked a $7m seed round from Rampersand, Alberts Impact Ventures and angel Ahmed Fahour.
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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.
Profile of KidsXpress founder and CEO Margo Ward, whose charity helps children affected by trauma through creative therapies, with long-running support from The Tony Foundation and a federal government contribution.
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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Alberts profile of Brighte founder and CEO Katherine McConnell on her shift from Macquarie Bank to solar payments, the company's expansion and cutbacks, its culture, and her awards.
Job advertisement from Alberts seeking a Sydney-based Investment Associate on an eight-month parental leave contract, with applications due via Be Applied by 13 November.
Profile of Baymatob, whose wearable device Oli predicts postpartum haemorrhage risk during labour; covers its FDA breakthrough designation, hospital pilot studies, and a Series A led by Australian Unity's Future of Healthcare Fund.
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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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Employee benefits platform Circle In has raised $2 million in a round led by publisher Alberts Impact Ventures, to speed global expansion and further develop its caregiving platform.
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Alberts marks International Women's Day by profiling Natassia Nicolao, founder of a waterless beauty label, covering her science background, dissolvable products, retail stockists and women-led team.
An International Women's Day profile of Christina Hobbs, who leads women-focused superannuation fund Verve, covering her United Nations career, the fund's origins and its expansion into an investing app.
Alberts Impact Ventures' portfolio company Conserving Beauty has won Telstra's Victorian Accelerating Women business award and will contest the national title in Melbourne; the waterless beauty brand also sells through retailers in Britain.
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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Alberts congratulates portfolio founder Sarah McDonald of Baymatob on a Fierce Pharma honour, noting the medtech's ANDHealth+ selection and its March Series A raise funding an Australian clinical trial of its postpartum haemorrhage device.
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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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Alberts announces its investment in Pivot Professional Learning, whose survey platform measures student and teacher wellbeing so schools can intervene early on youth mental health.
Alberts announces investment in Baymatob, whose Oli device predicts birth timing and detects hemorrhages, as the first deal in its Equality theme; CEO Tara Croft cites Australian Unity among capital partners in the raise.
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Energy software firm Grid Cognition has banked $2.25 million to support a British market entry, counting Ampol, Origin Energy and Ausnet among its customers, in news shared by its backer Alberts.
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Deals recorded from Alberts Impact Ventures portfolio's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uluu | Grant | 2022 | $100k | |
| KidsXpress | Grant | undated | $1.6m | |
| Circle In | Unnamed stage | Apr 2023 | $2m | |
| GridCognition | Unnamed stage | 3 Feb 2022 | $2.2m | |
| Bygen | Series A | 15 Apr 2024 | $2.6m | |
| Amber Electric | Grant | 2025 | $3.2m | |
| Bygen | Unnamed stage | Jun 2025 | $3.5m | |
| Tixel | Series B | Dec 2024 | $4.5m | |
| Baymatob | Series A | 23 Mar 2022 | $4.6m | |
| Mindset Health | Seed | 2021 | $6.7m | |
| Hatch | Seed | 19 Feb 2024 | $7m | |
| Uluu | Seed | 28 Nov 2022 | $8m | |
| Amber | Series B | 24 Oct 2022 | $13.4m | |
| Mindset Health | Series A | 24 Mar 2023 | $18m | |
| Amber Electric | Series C | 12 Feb 2024 | $29m | |
| Baymatob | Accelerator | undated | - |
Companies named in Alberts Impact Ventures portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
| Company | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Baymatob | Developing an AI-powered maternal and foetal health platform ('Oli') that provides early … | 6 |
| Uluu | Deep tech startup making biodegradable plastic alternatives from seaweed-derived PHA | 6 |
| The Tony Foundation | 5 | |
| Bygen | Carbon activation technology company that completed a Life Cycle Assessment | 4 |
| Conserving Beauty | Skincare for sensitive and acne-prone skin | 4 |
| Equity Clear | Data transparency initiative created by Scale Investors, Giant Leap and Alberts | 4 |
| Harvest B | Developing plant-based meat ingredient systems for food manufacturers | 4 |
| Tixel | Secondary ticket marketplace leader | 4 |
| Amber | 3 | |
| Mindset Health | 3 | |
| RapidAIM | 3 | |
| Samphire Neuroscience | 3 | |
| Scale Investors | 3 | |
| Amber Electric | Energy retailer offering flexible, market-driven household energy plans | 2 |
| Brighte | 2 | |
| Circle In | Platform for creating safe, inclusive and caring workplaces | 2 |
| Climate Salad | 2 | |
| Cult Beauty | 2 | |
| KidsXpress | 2 | |
| MECCA | 2 | |
| MGA Thermal | Developer of Miscibility Gaps Alloy blocks for industrial thermal energy storage | 2 |
| Nanosonics | 2 | |
| Regen Studios | 2 | |
| Space NK | 2 | |
| Telstra | Telecommunications company | 2 |
| ThroughLine | 2 | |
| University of Adelaide | University leading the Current and Emergent Quantum Technology training centre | 2 |
| US Food and Drug Administration | 2 | |
| Verve Super | Women-focused fintech | 2 |
| 2X Global | 1 | |
| Abby Health | 1 | |
| ACT Government | 1 | |
| AFL | 1 | |
| AirTree Ventures | 1 | |
| Ampol Australia | 1 | |
| ANDHealth | Accelerates commercialisation of evidence-based digital and connected health technologies… | 1 |
| ANZ | 1 | |
| AusNet Services | 1 | |
| Australia Post | Postal service provider | 1 |
| B&T | 1 | |
| Bayer | maker of Roundup weedkiller | 1 |
| Baylor University | 1 | |
| Built | Construction contractor | 1 |
| Business Hunter | 1 | |
| Calm | 1 | |
| Cicada Innovations | Deeptech incubator supporting investment-readiness for startups | 1 |
| Climate Active | 1 | |
| CommandPost | 1 | |
| Compass Group | 1 | |
| Covet | 1 | |
| CSIRO | Australia's national science research agency, from which Terria spun out | 1 |
| Deakin University | 1 | |
| Department of Finance | 1 | |
| Domain | 1 | |
| Equitise | rival platform | 1 |
| FDA | US Food and Drug Administration | 1 |
| Finder | Comparison website that named Energy Locals green energy retailer of the year | 1 |
| Future Group | 1 | |
| GridCognition | 1 | |
| Hatch | AI-powered employment marketplace connecting young professionals with employers | 1 |
| Headspace | 1 | |
| Hello Fresh | 1 | |
| L'Oreal | 1 | |
| La Trobe University | University from which AlleSense was spun out. | 1 |
| Like Family | NDIS and aged care support matching people with local carers | 1 |
| 1 | ||
| Macquarie Bank | Bank providing specialised and asset finance | 1 |
| Macquarie University | 1 | |
| Monash University | University partnered on Remagine Labs spin-out | 1 |
| Music Education: Right from the Start | 1 | |
| Muso | 1 | |
| News Corp | 1 | |
| Nine | Australian media company that acquired Pedestrian TV | 1 |
| NSW Department of Education | 1 | |
| NSW Government | 1 | |
| Origin Energy | 1 | |
| Pivot | 1 | |
| PwC | Professional services and accounting firm | 1 |
| Qantas | 1 | |
| Quicksilver | 1 | |
| ResMed | 1 | |
| Rest | 1 | |
| Royal Hospital for Women | Hospital running clinical trials with Ovum. | 1 |
| Royal Prince Alfred Hospital | 1 | |
| Scale | 1 | |
| SEEK | Online employment marketplace co-founded in 1997 | 1 |
| Supreme Court of Victoria | 1 | |
| Swisse | 1 | |
| Sydney uni | 1 | |
| Tasmanian Government | 1 | |
| Tattarang | 1 | |
| TDM Growth Partners | 1 | |
| The Iconic | Australian online fashion and lifestyle retailer | 1 |
| Treasury | 1 | |
| United Nations | 1 | |
| University of Sydney | 1 | |
| University of Western Australia | University analyzing recovered experimental panels | 1 |
| Verve | 1 | |
| Verve Money | 1 | |
| Vow | Cultivated meat company | 1 |
| WAM Global | 1 | |
| WelleCo | 1 | |
| Western Sydney University | 1 | |
| Woolworths | Australian grocery retailer using electric truck delivery fleets | 1 |
| WORK180 | 1 | |
| Zip Co | 1 |
Investors named in Alberts Impact Ventures portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Alberts | 25 | |
| Giant Leap | 4 | |
| Startmate | Early-stage investment and mentorship for founders | 3 |
| Australian Unity's Future of Healthcare Fund | 2 | |
| Breakthrough Victoria | 2 | |
| Investible | 2 | |
| Main Sequence Ventures | 2 | |
| the federal government | 2 | |
| Artesian VC | Alternative asset management for debt and venture capital | 1 |
| Australian Unity | 1 | |
| Global Bio Fund | 1 | |
| King River Capital | 1 | |
| KPMG | Professional services firm | 1 |
| Perennial Partners | 1 | |
| Rampersand | 1 | |
| Tame Impala | 1 | |
| Tenmile | 1 | |
| West Australian government | 1 |