Founder and CEO, Conserving Beauty
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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.
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.
LaunchVic's sidecar fund for women-led startups has deployed co-investments across eleven companies in year one, with Telecare, Age Up Health and Conserving Beauty named, and targets 60 founders by 2024.
LaunchVic marks one year of its government-backed Alice Anderson Fund for women-led startups, citing its investments and Telecare's seed round led by Australian Medical Angels.