Startup · $6.1m raised
Melbourne, VIC
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Bygen raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough Victoria | Unnamed stage · Series A | $1,000,000 |
| Alberts | Unnamed stage · Series A | - |
| FMG Circular | Unnamed stage | - |
| Investible | Unnamed stage · Series A | - |
| University of Adelaide | Unnamed stage · Accelerator | - |
| Artesian VC | Series A | - |
| Startmate | Series A · Accelerator | - |
| Innovyz | Accelerator | - |
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.
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.
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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.
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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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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Blackbird's year-end review covers its fourth fund announcement, investments in companies including See-Mode, Morse Micro and SafetyCulture, Startmate's climate cohort intakes, Mike Cannon-Brookes joining its board, and numerous team hires.
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Interview with activated-carbon startup Bygen, which converts farm waste and plastics into carbon products, covering its completed seed round, ongoing second raise and accelerator history.
Adelaide startup ByGen, which turns farm waste into activated carbon, plans a $1.5m raise for a commercial plant; the piece recalls its 2018 founding funding, a state grant, and incubator participation.