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Flying Fox, Jump Start receive $600,000 in VIC government funding to boost women-led startups

Alice startups join forces to support working parents

Two Alice Anderson Fund portfolio startups have partnered to create educational content helping managers support breast-feeding parents returning to work, with pump cushions available for purchase online.

A new platform & fund for gutsy, innovative female entrepreneurs

Scale Investors co-founder Susan Oliver reflects on backing women founders and details LaunchVic's Alice Anderson Fund, which she chairs, listing six women-led startups it has backed alongside other Victorian capital initiatives.

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Quiet achievers and COVID successes: SmartCompany's 10 startups to watch in 2022

SmartCompany's year-end list profiles ten Australian startups poised for a big 2022, recalling their 2021 raises, crowdfunding campaigns, government grants and accelerator origins, from mtime and Quantum Brilliance to Zoomo and Superhero.

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Meet the first five startups to secure funding from Victoria's women-focused Alice Anderson fund

Victoria's women-focused Alice Anderson Fund has made its first investments, backing five women-led startups including Team Timbuktu, mtime, Steppen, Talkiplay and Milkdrop; individual amounts were not disclosed.

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Victoria’s new Alice Anderson Fund for female entrepreneurs has named the first 5 startups it’s backed

LaunchVic's Alice Anderson Fund reveals its first five women-led startups, with $727,167 invested directly and private co-investors adding over $2.3 million; the three-year, $10 million Victorian sidecar fund plans 40-60 investments.

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Giant Leap’s Small Steps: Meet the microbe converting CO2 into leggings and jet fuel

Giant Leap's impact newsletter rounds up CO2-eating microbes, precision fermentation, booming health tech funding, a women-in-work survey, its open Analyst role, Glow Capital's launch, Snow Entrepreneurs grants and Investible's climate tech fund.

From breast pumps to booze-free beer: Meet the winners of Amazon’s $200,000 Launchpad Innovation prizes

Amazon Australia has awarded its Launchpad Innovation Grants to five local startups, each gaining a prize bundle valued at $200,000. Winner Milkdrop, founded by Alex Sinickas, makes breast pump cushions and previously joined Startmate.

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Here are the 18 startups from Startmate's Summer 2021 program

Startmate's Demo Day unveiled its largest cohort of 18 ANZ startups, and the accelerator also raised a $2 million fund through its mentor network to invest in this intake.

Meet the women-led startups that secured Boosting Female Founders funding, and their share of $12 million

The federal government's Boosting Female Founders Initiative has granted $12 million to 51 women-led startups, with Indigital and Ovira among the larger recipients named.

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