General Manager of Strategic Innovation, RAC
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| General Manager of Strategic Innovation | RAC | Startup News (WA) (Thu 8 Sep 2022), Startup News (WA) (Thu 30 Jun 2022), Startup News (WA) (Fri 9 Apr 2021) |
| General Manager Strategic Innovation | BetterLabs Ventures | Australian FinTech, Startup News (WA) (Wed 3 Jul 2024), Startup Daily (Tue 5 Jul 2022), Startup Daily (Tue 28 Jun 2022), Startup News (WA) (Wed 1 Jun 2022), Startup News (WA) (Wed 11 Nov 2020) |
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Roar Global has bought Creator Flow, a marketplace for user-generated content built in BetterLabs' Venture Studio about a year after its May 2023 founding, with no purchase price disclosed.
Spacecubed's Plus Eight Accelerator has named six startups advancing to its final phase, giving them access to a $500,000 seed funding pool and a Demo Night pitch at December's West Tech Fest.
Insurance platform Upcover has secured a $2.7 million seed round plus $2 million in debt from Antler Australia, Betterlabs and insurance executives, to fund product development and customer acquisition for its embedded SMB insurance API.
RAC's Perth-based BetterLabs Venture Fund has deployed more than $2.5 million across eight Australian startups in six months, including seed funding for Snackr, taking its portfolio to 22 investments and over $12 million.
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Ten startups have been chosen for the 2022 Plus Eight Accelerator in Perth, with corporate partners including Capricorn Society, Woodside Energy and RAC BetterLabs supporting the founders as the program begins.
RAC's corporate venture fund BetterLabs has made four recent investments totalling over $2.7 million, backing three WA female-founded startups — The Volte, Digii Social and Hey Lady — plus US insurtech Waffle.
Perth water filtration firm Complete Home Filtration closed a $2.4 million Series A, with BetterLabs Ventures reinvesting and Tasmanian investor Andrew Sypkes joining, to fund expansion and its PFAS-removing Attapure technology.