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| Jul 2, 2026 | CoLabs Australia Secures $397,074 to Help DeepTech Founders Build What the Market Actually Wants | Kinesis team, Eldin Rostom, Aayushi Paliwal, Julie Dao, Mariam Succar, Tuan Nguyen, Andrew Gray
New lab-embedded pre-accelerator backed by $397,074 through LaunchVic helps deep tech founders validate product-market fit before building.
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| Jun 27, 2026 | Australia’s medtech Ovum secures $4 M to develop AI infrastructure for women | In just one year after raising $1.7 million in a pre-seed round, Ovum, an Australian women’s health startup started by Ariella Heffernan-Marks, has tripled its valuation by raising $4 million in seed capital to solve the gender health gap.
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| Jul 22, 2024 | Melbourne’s Tech Ecosystem By the Numbers | LaunchVic and Startup Genome have teamed up to spotlight Melbourne’s entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Global Startup Ecosystem Report:
Ranking as the #32 Global Startup Ecosystem, moving up one spot from GSER 2023
#2 ecosystem in the Oceani... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Sydney Leads: Discover Oceania’s Top Startup Ecosystems | The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2024 includes a list of the top ecosys,tems by region. The criteria for inclusion in the list are that the ecosystem either needs to be ranked in the Top 40 Global Leaders or Top 200 Emerging Ecosystems o... |
| Jun 12, 2024 | The Leaf Protein Co.: Pioneering Sustainable Protein Solutions in the Food and Beverage Industry | The Leaf Protein Co., an innovative agritech startup hailing from Australia, has recently secured a substantial investment of $850,000 to propel its mission of unlocking the highly nutritious Rubisco protein for the food and beverage indust... |
| Jun 12, 2024 | The Leaf Protein Co. Secures $850K to Unlock the Highly Nutritious Rubisco Protein for F&B | The Leaf Protein Co., an Australian agritech startup extracting Rubisco proteins from green leaves, has raised $850,000 in a pre-seed round to accelerate its growth and propel the commercialization of its sustainable protein solutions for t... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | LaunchVic launches $300,000 grants for expert angel networks | LaunchVic CEO Kate Cornick. Source: supplied article-article-body
LaunchVic, the Victorian state government’s startup development agency, has unveiled a new grant initiative aimed at fostering specialised angel investment networks into earl... |
| Mar 1, 2024 | After pay gap bombshells, Victorian business leaders consider startup investment bias | (L-R) LaunchVic CEO Kate Cornick speaking with esteemed chair and non-executive director Elana Rubin. Source: Tim Carrafa / LaunchVic. article-article-body
The release of groundbreaking gender pay gap data has shaken the startup world, with... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Victoria’s startup ecosystem crosses $100 billion valuation threshold | Melbourne, Victoria. Source: Adobe/Sean Heatley. article-article-body
Victoria’s startup scene has broken the $100 billion valuation barrier, but more work must be done to ensure early-stage startups have access to the capital they need, ac... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Six Aussie startups that raised $56 million this week | It’s been a huge week for Australian startup raises, with more than $56 million invested into six companies, while Square Peg also banked $860 million for two new funds. Psylo: $5 million
Biotech startup Psylo has raised $5 million in seed ... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | 10 UK tech companies land in Australia for week long immersion | The third cohort of the International Growth Programme spent the week in Australia following four months of online sessions preparing the ten companies for growth into the market.
The visit is the culmination of the programme and allowed t... |
| Aug 11, 2022 | July, Mr Yum, and more inducted into Victorian government scheme to produce 30 billion-dollar companies by 2030 | July co-founders Athan Didaskalou and Richard Li. Source: supplied.
Mr Yum, July, and InternMatch are among nine pioneering Victorian startups selected for an ambitious state government plan to turn fast-growing companies into billion-dolla... |
| Jun 26, 2022 | Focus on Melbourne: Australia’s hotspot for startups | The startup ecosystem in Victoria is growing quickly. It is home to more than 1,900 firms that use technology and innovative business models to scale and address demand in global markets. They contribute significant value to the Australian ... |
| Feb 25, 2022 | Weekly Wrap #83: Scalapay's on a roll, a coal troll & new VCs unfold | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Feb 11, 2022 | Weekly Wrap #81: The 4 P's - People, Politics, Power, Peloton | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Nov 12, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #74: Deals galore & Dead or alive: the IPO rollercoaster | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Oct 27, 2021 | Startup Genome and LaunchVic Release the Global Startup Ecosystem Report: Life Sciences Edition | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — OCTOBER 27, 2021 — The 2021 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER): Life Sciences Edition from Startup Genome and LaunchVic has launched today. The GSER is the world’s most comprehensive and widely-read research on s... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #61: Cloud and Proud; Tech Lobbyists & WCs (women capitalists) | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Jun 4, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #51: M&A like a guru | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| May 21, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #49: Purposeful exits & pesky perils of being public | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Apr 2, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #42: Atlassian fools, Basecamp burns & Clubhouse dies? | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap (semi-lite version this week due to the long weekend, woohoooo!), where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Mar 12, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #39: Yay for Vend, Raising Stereotypes and Cloud doing BVP Proud | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Feb 23, 2021 | Candid Conversations with World-Leading Startup Ecosystem Leaders - Featuring Kate Cornick | Kate Cornick, CEO of LaunchVic was interviewed by JF Gauthier, Founder & CEO of Startup Genome, discussing the $2 billion breakthrough fund launched by the State Government of Victoria.
Listen to the full recording and read the conversa... |
| Nov 27, 2020 | Weekly Wrap #30: Hungry Caterpillars, Psychedelics and Powerful Poo | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Jul 14, 2020 | A state-by-state guide to all the government grants available for your small business | What government grants are currently available to small businesses across Australia?
While there are numerous government grants and programs for all of Australia’s small and medium-sized businesses, each state and territory has its own sele... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Government grants for small businesses in Victoria | Source: Pexels/Ketut Subiyanto
What government grants in Victoria are currently available for small businesses and startups? Here is a list of government grants and loans that are available for small businesses and startups in Victoria:
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| Jun 5, 2020 | Weekly Wrap #5: Hitting Pause | We interrupt this program...
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| Feb 20, 2020 | A six-step guide to becoming an angel investor | Dr Kate Cornick is the chief executive officer at LaunchVic. Source: supplied.
Angels play an important role in the early-stage funding of startups, providing valuable capital to help them achieve their dreams, typically by enabling them to... |
| Oct 13, 2019 | Melbourne, A Melting Pot of Culture and Emerging Talent | Work/Life Balance
During a visit in 1885 English journalist George Augustus Henry Sala coined the phrase "Marvellous Melbourne", which is still used today by Melburnians. From hidden laneway bars, unparalleled sporting events, or ... |
| Oct 3, 2019 | WA now has more than 130 startup hubs | // This post gives an overview of the scale and development of WA’s startup and innovation hubs. It also serves as an introduction to a very useful new tool co-developed by We Are Arising, StartupWA and StartupNews.
Only a handful of startu... |
| Jul 21, 2019 | Life Sciences and Edtech Power Melbourne’s Growing Startup Scene | When it comes to analyzing the Australian startup climate, it’s easy to immediately look to Sydney to see what’s happening. But observers would be foolish to not also look at startup-rich Melbourne just 550 miles (900 kilometers) to the sou... |
| Oct 4, 2018 | LaunchVic allocates $2 million in funding to Medical Device Partnering Program to better support medtech sector | National MDPP director and founder Professor Karen Reynolds.
By Andrew Spence
The Medical Device Partnering Program (MDPP) began at Flinders University in Adelaide a decade ago and has since expanded into the Tonsley Innovation Hub.
Commerc... |
| Sep 17, 2018 | LaunchVic awards $1.37 million in funding to support Indigenous-led ventures | The Victorian Government’s startup body, LaunchVic has announced $1.37 million in funding for four organisations focused on supporting entrepreneurial activity among Indigenous Victorians.
The four organisations receiving funding are Baraya... |
| Aug 8, 2018 | LaunchVic pledges 2.3 million to fund startup investor course | Government startup agency LaunchVic has just announced a $2.35m investment to create the next generation of startup angel and venture capital investors in Victoria.
As part of the new deal, LaunchVic will fund the Wade Institute of Entrepre... |
| Jul 19, 2018 | LaunchVic grants $175,000 in funding to bring new startup conference to Geelong | Runway chief executive Peter Dostis. Source: Supplied
Regional Victorian city Geelong is set to host a new startup conference later this year, thanks to $175,000 in new funding from LaunchVic to encourage entrepreneurism in Geelong.
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| Jul 10, 2018 | LaunchVic announces $13.45 million for 3 accelerators; Startup Onramp to expand across regional Queensland | LaunchVic has announced $13.45 million in funding to establish three new accelerator programs in Victoria.
SBE Australia, an organisation focused on supporting female founders, has received funding to run both a program for up to 20 life sc... |
| Apr 22, 2018 | Keeping up with Cathy from STRIX | Startupbootcamp Energy Australia has 10 disruptive startups who have all been working extremely hard to prepare for Demo Day on April 27th. Have you ever been curious as to what a startup does on a day to day basis? Well, one of our cohort,... |
| Apr 12, 2018 | It’s never the technology, it’s always the people | Startup WA’s inaugural event set out to showcase how the ‘Humans of Startup Land’ are as diverse as they come..
Held at the newly opened Tank Stream Labs co-working space last night, the ‘Humans of Startup Land‘ event formed the launch of t... |
| Mar 22, 2018 | LaunchVic unveils $2.9 million in funding to further educate and upskill Victorian startup founders | Square Peg Capital co-founder and investor Paul Bassat, and LaunchVic chief executive Kate Cornick. Source: Supplied.
The Victorian government’s startup support body LaunchVic has announced a swathe of funding for supporting startup founder... |
| Sep 15, 2017 | Sydney and Melbourne in top 15 fintech capitals … Blackbird invests $6 million in NZ startup … LaunchVic funded La Trobe Accelerator kicks off | Company directors could be personally liable when coronavirus relief measures end.
Sydney and Melbourne have seen strong performance in the latest Global Financial Centres Index, which saw Melbourne move eight ranking spots and Sydney named... |
| Aug 30, 2017 | LaunchVic announces fourth round of funding to replace 500 Startups accelerator | LaunchVic chief Kate Cornick. Source: Supplied.
LaunchVic will use its fourth round of funding to attract Australian and international accelerator programs to fill the absence left by the termination of the 500 Startups-run 500 Melbourne ac... |
| Aug 24, 2017 | Majority of Victorian startups were generating revenue within their first 12 months: Report | Georgia Beattie, chief executive at Startup Victoria. Source: Supplied
The majority of Victoria’s high-growth startups began generating revenue within their first year of operation, according to research into the state’s startup ecosystem p... |
| Aug 22, 2017 | LaunchVic awards $1.4 million in funding to startups supporting migrants and refugee entrepreneurs | Ishani Chattopadhyay, enterprise consultant, Free to Feed (left), Loretta Bolotin, co-founder, Free to Feed (right). Source: Supplied
From supporting food-focused entrepreneurs to facilitating hackathons and running workshops for startups h... |
| Aug 10, 2017 | 500 Startups’ Australia accelerator program is axed by its partner before it even launched | 500 Startups continues to feel the impact of a sexual harassment scandal involving its co-founder and former managing partner Dave McClure . Two weeks after the closure of its Canada-based fund, its maiden venture in Australia is getting th... |
| Aug 2, 2017 | Accelerating Australia’s Energy Transformation | Over the past few years, we have seen a major focus in almost every industry to review how they deliver their products and services. Whether it’s driven by changing consumer expectations, change in the global economy or new market entrants,... |
| Jul 28, 2017 | LaunchVic teams up with Startmate to deliver free pitch workshops for startups: “Storytelling is in the top five skills a founder needs” | Startmate's 2016 Sydney cohort. Souce: supplied.
Victorian startup founders looking to perfect their pitch will now have access to a series of free workshops, thanks to a partnership between LaunchVic and Startmate.
Startmate is an Australi... |
| Jul 3, 2017 | Dave McClure resigns from 500 Startups after sexual harassment investigation | Dave McClure, the sandals-and-T-shirt-wearing founder of business mentorship program 500 Startups, resigned on Monday from his firm amid allegations of sexual harassment.
McClure was stripped of his chief executive title earlier this year f... |
| Jul 2, 2017 | 500 Startups admits it kept Australian partner in the dark over investigation into Dave McClure | 500 Startups has apologized to its Australian partner LaunchVic after the U.S. firm admitted that it failed to disclose an internal investigation into sexual harassment claims against co-founding partner Dave McClure.
LaunchVic is a $60 mil... |
| Mar 20, 2017 | 500 Startups secures funding from LaunchVic to set up 500 Melbourne | Former Victorian Minister for innovation Philip Dalidakis.
Melbourne will soon be home to a global startup accelerator and venture capital seed fund with $US200 million ($259.6 million) in assets, with 500 Startups securing grant funding fr... |
| Sep 7, 2016 | State government grants to help your small business: 2016 | Do you run a South Australian business that exports overseas? You could be eligible for a grant of up to $50,000.
Perhaps you are leading a Victorian business that is trialling a new technology project? There’s a grant for that too.
In Augu... |
| Aug 29, 2016 | Regional projects a focus in LaunchVic’s first $6.5 million funding round | LaunchVic, the Victorian Government’s independent startup body, has today announced the first recipients of a funding boost, with 18 companies or projects to share in $6.5 million.
The funding ranges from $30,000 for a ‘small idea’, Fintech... |
| Apr 11, 2016 | Victoria’s $60 million startup fund is now open for business | Victoria’s $60 million startup fund is officially open for business, with the independent body overseeing its allocation calling for applications that will “build the infrastructure and grow the ecosystem”.
Individuals or organisations can ... |
| Nine Aussie startups that raised $107.35 million this week | Image: Associate Professor Fiona Brownfoot from Kali Healthcare.
Things have been heating up in the Aussie funding space this week! Nine startups have received VC funds equating to a collective $107.35 million — more than double what we had... |
| Flying Fox, Jump Start receive $600,000 in VIC government funding to boost women-led startups | Flying Fox Ventures founders Rachael Neumann and Kylie Frazer. Source: supplied.
Two new pre-accelerator programs powered by Flying Fox Ventures and Jump Start Studio were announced over the weekend, both focusing on women-led businesses an... |
| Kali Healthcare closes $1 million for its pregnancy monitoring wearable | Image: Associate Professor Fiona Brownfoot from Kali Healthcare.
Victoria’s Kali Healthcare has secured an additional $500,000 in pre-seed funding for its pregnancy monitoring wearable. This brings the total funding round to $1 million.
Lau... |
| Cult publication Cut Through Venture nukes its monthly startup funding newsletter for a new platform | Source: That Startup Show.
Startup data platform Cut Through Venture has announced an end to its monthly analysis of Australian funding. On Tuesday it released its final newsletter, along with details on what’s next. RIP monthly Cut Through... |
