CEO · Founder, Verve Super
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| CEO (former) · Founder | Verve | SmartCompany (Fri 21 Jul 2023), Women's Agenda, Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Thu 20 Jul 2023), Alberts Impact Ventures |
| CEO · Founder | Verve Super | Alberts Impact Ventures, SmartCompany (Fri 1 Dec 2023), Startup Daily, Women's Agenda (Wed 29 Nov 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 21 Jul 2023), SmartCompany (Wed 15 Sep 2021), Women's Agenda (Thu 29 Oct 2020) |
| Humanitarian Financial Inclusion Expert (former) | United Nations | Alberts Impact Ventures |
Stories naming Christina Hobbs. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
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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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.
Future Super is buying Verve Super, a women-led super fund whose co-founders stay in charge as it joins the Future Group; the piece also recalls the startup's oversubscribed $3 million mid-year raise.
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.
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.
Women-focused superannuation fund Verve Super raised $2.6 million from first-time female and impact investors including Carol Schwartz, after failing to win over mission-blind venture capitalists.
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Commentary on women backing women: Adore Beauty's record ASX float, Kate Morris and George McEncroe investing in Whole Kids' crowdfunding raise, Pronto's campaign launch, and other recent female-led listings.