Venture capital fund · 32 deals
Sydney, NSW
Every published round Alberts took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies Alberts has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amber Electric | 24 Oct 2022, Series B | 3 | 1 | |
| Tixel | 16 Jun 2021 | 3 | 2 | |
| Baymatob | 23 Mar 2022, Series A | 2 | 1 | |
| Bygen | 15 Apr 2024, Series A | 2 | 1 | |
| GridCognition | 17 Dec 2020, Pre-seed | 2 | 0 | |
| Like Family | NDIS and aged care support matching people with local carers | 28 Nov 2020, Seed | 2 | 0 |
| Muso | 29 Oct 2019, Seed | 2 | 1 | |
| Uluu | 27 Sep 2021, Accelerator | 2 | 0 | |
| Abby Health | 16 Dec 2022, Seed | 1 | 1 | |
| AirRobe | 15 Oct 2020, Seed | 1 | 0 | |
| Circle In | Apr 2023 | 1 | 1 | |
| CommandPost | 2024 | 1 | 0 | |
| Harvest B | 12 Sep 2025, Seed | 1 | 0 | |
| Hatch | 19 Feb 2024, Seed | 1 | 0 | |
| MGA Thermal | 2 Aug 2021, Series A | 1 | 0 | |
| Mindset Health | 24 Mar 2023, Series A | 1 | 0 | |
| Pivot | 1 Apr 2022 | 1 | 0 | |
| Samphire Neuroscience | 2024 | 1 | 0 | |
| Sendle | 26 Aug 2020 | 1 | 0 | |
| ThroughLine | 2024 | 1 | 0 | |
| Verve | 20 Jul 2023, Seed | 1 | 1 | |
| Verve Super | Jul 2023, Seed | 1 | 0 |
Companies Alberts's own portfolio page lists that no published round yet places it in. The page is the source; the round is being looked for.
| Company | Site |
|---|---|
| Certified B Corporation | bcorporation.com.au ↗ |
| Climate Active Carbon Neutral Organisation | climateactive.org.au ↗ |
| Conserving Beauty | - |
| Gridcog | - |
| Powered by GDPR Cookie Compliance | wordpress.org ↗ |
| RapidAIM | - |
| Surreal | - |
| WORK180 Endorsed Employer 2025 | work180.com ↗ |
Fund closes reported for Alberts, as distinct from the investments it has made.
| Fund | Announced | Committed | Target | Close | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alberts Impact Ventures | 8 Jul 2021 | $16m | - | - | Alberts Impact Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany, Startup Daily |
Companies Alberts has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Alberts did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sendle | FAST Group | Merger | 8 Aug 2025 | - |
| Verve Super | Future Super | Acquisition | 29 Nov 2023 | - |
| Verve Super | Future Group | Acquisition | 2023 | - |
Stories naming Alberts. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
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.
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.
Federation says ACI Logistix hid its finances before merging with Sendle and FirstMile into Fast Group, now winding down, killing the courier; the article also recalls past Sendle and Strongroom raises.
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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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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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.
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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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.
Breakthrough Victoria is putting $2 million into protein technology company Harvest B, joining a $5.6 million pre-Series A round with Mandalay VC leading and several other backers.
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.
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.
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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Jelix Ventures explains why it joined Hatch's December 2023 funding round, citing the founders' track record, an AI job-matching product, strong customer feedback and a large addressable market.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Verve, a superannuation fintech for women, has banked a $3 million pre-Series A led by Alberts and is rolling out an investing app, adding to a 2021 raise that drew prominent female backers.
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Verve, an Australian women-focused financial services company, announced an oversubscribed $3 million pre-Series A round led by family office Alberts, funding its newly launched ethical investing app Verve Money and its superannuation product.
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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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 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 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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Energy software firm Gridcognition closed a $2.25 million seed round; CEFC committed $625,000 through its innovation fund alongside Alberts Impact Ventures, Afterwork Ventures and angel investors, taking total funding near $4 million.
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