Susan Oliver
Chair, Alice Anderson Fund
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The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem - Part 3About Alice Anderson Fund
The Alice Anderson Fund is a $10 million sidecar fund run by LaunchVic, Victoria's startup agency, that co-invests in women-led startups based in Victoria. It puts in $50,000 to $300,000 alongside private investors at a ratio of one dollar to every three, taking 85 per cent as equity and giving the rest as a non-dilutive grant. Investors, not founders, apply. It opened in July 2021 and is named after Alice Anderson, who founded Australia's first all-woman motor garage in the 1920s.
- Sector
- Venture capital sidecar fund for women-led startups
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- Victoria, Australia (managed by LaunchVic)
- Markets
- Victoria, Australia
Sources: launchvic.org, premier.vic.gov.au
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“The Alice Anderson Fund kind of approaches things like a typical VC would, looks at, you know, I guess, are they, are they, um, you know, performing right?”
“you've got the, the Launchfic, um, Alice Anderson Fund, who co-invest, um, at a bit of a discount, um, on equity for female-founded businesses.”
“They've got a fund called the Alice Anderson Fund to support women-led businesses.”
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