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Victoria is home to more than 3,500 startups – technology-driven companies that use innovative business models and technology to grow quickly and service global markets.
The enterprise value of Victoria’s entire startup ecosystem (including startups, scaleups and unicorns) is now $123 billion.
Melbourne’s early-stage Ecosystem Value has increased to $38.4 billion – up from $23.6 billion in 2022.
A startup ecosystem is a network of resources — people, investors, institutions, and companies — that works together to create an environment for startups to thrive.
The stronger the ecosystem the more likely a startup will be successful.
HealthTech is Victoria’s joint largest sub sector, home to unicorns PolyNovo, Mesoblast, Clinuvel and Telix Pharmaceuticals.
Enterprise software is the other top sector. The technology to automate operations and help companies get the most out of every data point they hold.
Freshly minted unicorns like Zeller and Judo Bank are quickly establishing Victoria as a global FinTech hub.
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While 25% of Victoria’s population resides in the regions, LaunchVic’s 2020 ecosystem mapping showed only 7% were based in regional Victoria.
To help more regional innovators to start up, LaunchVic funds a range of initiatives across Victoria including community meetups, founder education and pre-accelerator programs.
Alongside our flagship programs 30X30 and CivVic Labs, LaunchVic partners with world-class organisations to deliver accelerators, incubators, workshops, events and more to a diverse range of startup founders in Victoria.
Check out our Programs Directory to connect to a wide variety of LaunchVic-funded activity.
