Staff spotlight: Q&A with Ben Weinberger
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.
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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round RapidAIM raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Tenacious Ventures | Unnamed stage | - |
| Main Sequence Ventures | Unnamed stage | - |
Investors whose own portfolio pages list RapidAIM, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.
| Investor | Listed on |
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| Alberts | its portfolio page ↗ |
Companies RapidAIM acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming RapidAIM. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
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.
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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Tenacious Ventures podcast episode in which the chief executives of Enko Chem and RapidAIM discuss turning published scientific research into commercially viable agricultural technology companies.
Agrifoodtech venture firm Tenacious Ventures has completed the final close of its debut fund at A$35 million, with CEFC and Grok Ventures as cornerstone backers, and has so far backed six startups including Goterra, Nori and Vow.
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Cut Through Venture's debut quarterly newsletter rounds up Q1 2021 raises across Australian and New Zealand startups, highlighting crowdfunding, fintech dominance, active investors, and two newly launched startups currently seeking backers.
Tenacious Ventures announces its fifth investment, backing RapidAIM, a Brisbane pest-analytics company spun out of CSIRO, alongside prior backer Main Sequence Ventures. The post profiles the startup's sensor platform, market, and founding team.
Profile of agtech RapidAIM, which recalls a $1.25 million raise from Main Sequence Ventures, its national rollout, and a CSIRO ON award, while discussing sustainable insecticide use.
An opinion piece arguing scientists' evidence-driven mindset makes them strong founders, citing RapidAIM's Nancy Schellhorn, who raised from Main Sequence Ventures after completing the ON program for researchers.