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Alberts announces that former Rest fixed income head Tracey Duff has joined its Investment Committee, with a profile of her 40-year finance career and what drew her to the role.
Alberts' year-in-review post recounts its 140th anniversary, board and staff appointments, follow-on venture investments in three portfolio companies, music education advocacy, a philanthropy strategy review, and reconciliation and gender-lens finance commitments.
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Profile of psychologist Rebecca van Herk, who helps bushfire and flood-hit communities heal through charity KidsXpress's trauma programs, funded by The Tony Foundation, government and philanthropic grants.
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Alberts' annual review records its venture arm closing its portfolio at 22 companies, topping up six holdings, co-launching a gender-equity drive, and navigating board changes after Sam Mostyn became Governor-General.
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Report of an Alberts-hosted panel on impact investing, featuring seaweed-based plastics maker Uluu and food-tech firm Harvest B, covering climate capital, family offices and diversity initiatives.
Profile of Uluu, a Perth climate tech startup turning farmed seaweed into biodegradable PHA to replace plastics, recalling early backing from Alberts Impact Ventures and Main Sequence plus two grants.
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Alberts Impact Ventures profiles Harvest B, tracing how its blended plant-and-meat proteins cut cost, fat and emissions, and recalling its own backing of the food tech company.
Profile of Bygen, a maker of sustainable activated carbon from agricultural waste, covering its recent $2.6 million pre-Series A round led by Breakthrough Victoria with Alberts Impact Ventures and Investible participating.
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A Melbourne startup turning farm waste into activated carbon has drawn backing from Alberts Impact Ventures, Breakthrough Victoria and others in a $2.6m round to scale production.
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Profile of Hatch, a Sydney AI hiring marketplace for Gen Z, which banked a $7m seed round from Rampersand, Alberts Impact Ventures and angel Ahmed Fahour.
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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.
Profile of KidsXpress founder and CEO Margo Ward, whose charity helps children affected by trauma through creative therapies, with long-running support from The Tony Foundation and a federal government contribution.
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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Alberts profile of Brighte founder and CEO Katherine McConnell on her shift from Macquarie Bank to solar payments, the company's expansion and cutbacks, its culture, and her awards.
Job advertisement from Alberts seeking a Sydney-based Investment Associate on an eight-month parental leave contract, with applications due via Be Applied by 13 November.
Profile of Baymatob, whose wearable device Oli predicts postpartum haemorrhage risk during labour; covers its FDA breakthrough designation, hospital pilot studies, and a Series A led by Australian Unity's Future of Healthcare Fund.
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Profile of Mindset Health's founder brothers and their hypnotherapy apps, covering a fresh $18m Series A and earlier backing from Startmate and James Beshara.
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Employee benefits platform Circle In has raised $2 million in a round led by publisher Alberts Impact Ventures, to speed global expansion and further develop its caregiving platform.
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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.
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.
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.
Alberts Impact Ventures recaps 2022: six new portfolio companies, five follow-on investments, a led seed round in Abby Health, plus team events, a trade mission and investor recognition.
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Alberts congratulates portfolio founder Sarah McDonald of Baymatob on a Fierce Pharma honour, noting the medtech's ANDHealth+ selection and its March Series A raise funding an Australian clinical trial of its postpartum haemorrhage device.
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Alberts Impact Ventures announces it is backing Uluu, a maker of seaweed-based plastic alternatives that has raised $8 million, and directs readers to the Australian Financial Review for more on founders Julia Reisser and Michael Kingsbury.
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Alberts announces its investment in Pivot Professional Learning, whose survey platform measures student and teacher wellbeing so schools can intervene early on youth mental health.
Alberts announces investment in Baymatob, whose Oli device predicts birth timing and detects hemorrhages, as the first deal in its Equality theme; CEO Tara Croft cites Australian Unity among capital partners in the raise.
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Energy software firm Grid Cognition has banked $2.25 million to support a British market entry, counting Ampol, Origin Energy and Ausnet among its customers, in news shared by its backer Alberts.
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Impact investor Alberts announces its backing of ULUU, a startup developing a carbon-negative plastic replacement, with quotes from both teams about the new partnership.
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Alberts Impact Ventures announces backing thermal storage startup MGA Thermal's $8 million Series A, led by Main Sequence Ventures with CP Ventures, New Zealand's Climate Venture Capital fund and The Melt participating.
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Family music publisher Alberts has launched a $16 million early-stage impact fund, Alberts Impact Ventures, which has already backed startups including Sendle, Muso and Amber Electric.
Alberts unveils its first impact-focused venture fund for early-stage businesses, sized at $16 million, and introduces the team behind its new impact investing arm.
Parcel delivery company Sendle has closed a $19 million round to support growth during the pandemic-driven e-commerce delivery surge, with Alberts Impact Ventures, Rampersand and King River Capital named among its backers.
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Commonwealth Bank has invested $20 million in energy startup Amber, taking a 25% stake and planning to offer its product to home loan customers; Alberts Impact Ventures, an earlier backer, notes the deal.
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Alberts Impact Ventures has led a 1.5 million dollar investment in Australian ticket resale platform Tixel, with David Albert joining the company's board of directors.
Energy software startup Gridcognition has closed a pre-seed round of $675,000 backed by Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Alberts and Startmate, announced on the investor's own site.
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The publisher announces it has invested in Like Family's two million dollar seed round. The startup, founded in 2016, connects people with social carers to reduce loneliness and isolation.
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Alberts Impact Ventures announces its participation in AirRobe's seed round, describing the circular-fashion startup's re-selling, recycling and rental platform and pointing to press coverage of its founder.
Alberts Impact Ventures has invested in Sendle, an Australian carbon-neutral delivery service for small businesses that has recently expanded into the US market.
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The publisher's impact investing arm has taken its maiden stake, backing a Melbourne live-music venture that connects artists with more chances to perform.
Deals recorded from Alberts Impact Ventures portfolio's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muso | Seed | 29 Oct 2019 | $1.5m | |
| Sendle | Unnamed stage | 26 Aug 2020 | $19m | |
| AirRobe | Seed | 15 Oct 2020 | - | |
| Like Family | Seed | 28 Nov 2020 | $2m | |
| GridCognition | Pre-seed | 17 Dec 2020 | $675k | |
| Tixel | Unnamed stage | 16 Jun 2021 | $1.5m | |
| Mindset Health | Seed | 5 Jul 2021 | $6.7m | |
| MGA Thermal | Series A | 2 Aug 2021 | $8m | |
| Uluu | Accelerator | 27 Sep 2021 | $1.8m | |
| Uluu | Grant | 2022 | $100k | |
| GridCognition | Unnamed stage | 3 Feb 2022 | $2.2m | |
| Baymatob | Series A | 23 Mar 2022 | $4.6m | |
| Pivot | Unnamed stage | 1 Apr 2022 | - | |
| Amber Electric | Series B | 24 Oct 2022 | $13.4m | |
| Uluu | Seed | 28 Nov 2022 | $8m | |
| Like Family | Unnamed stage | 16 Dec 2022 | - | |
| Abby Health | Seed | 16 Dec 2022 | - | |
| Mindset Health | Series A | 24 Mar 2023 | $17.8m | |
| Circle In | Unnamed stage | Apr 2023 | $2m | |
| Samphire Neuroscience | Unnamed stage | 2024 | - | |
| ThroughLine | Unnamed stage | 2024 | - | |
| Baymatob | Unnamed stage | 2024 | - | |
| CommandPost | Unnamed stage | 2024 | - | |
| Amber Electric | Series C | 31 Jan 2024 | $29m | |
| Hatch | Seed | 19 Feb 2024 | $7m | |
| Bygen | Series A | 15 Apr 2024 | $2.6m | |
| Amber Electric | Grant | 19 Jun 2024 | $3.2m | |
| Tixel | Series B | Dec 2024 | $4.5m | |
| Bygen | Unnamed stage | Jun 2025 | $3.5m | |
| Baymatob | Accelerator | undated | - | |
| KidsXpress | Grant | undated | $1.6m |
Companies named in Alberts Impact Ventures portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
Investors named in Alberts Impact Ventures portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Alberts | 37 | |
| Giant Leap | 4 | |
| Startmate | Early-stage investment and mentorship for founders | 4 |
| Main Sequence Ventures | 3 | |
| Australian Unity's Future of Healthcare Fund | 2 | |
| Breakthrough Victoria | 2 | |
| Investible | 2 | |
| King River Capital | 2 | |
| Rampersand | 2 | |
| the federal government | 2 | |
| Artesian VC | Alternative asset management for debt and venture capital | 1 |
| Australian Unity | 1 | |
| CBA | 1 | |
| Clean Energy Finance Corporation | 1 | |
| Climate Venture Capital Fund | 1 | |
| CP Ventures | Venture capital across the life of a private company | 1 |
| Global Bio Fund | 1 | |
| KPMG | 1 | |
| Melt Ventures | 1 | |
| Perennial Partners | 1 | |
| Tame Impala | 1 | |
| Tenmile | 1 |