About LaunchVic

Our new strategy is focused on delivering programs, grants and other initiatives that: 

• Drive awareness and advocacy through events and campaigns;   

• Help founders and their teams start, grow and scale global businesses; and  

• Develop the private early-stage investment landscape. 

Yes, through the course of this four-year strategy targeted grant rounds will continue for third-party providers. 

LaunchVic may partner with other departments and agencies to offer direct grants to founders in priority sectors. For current opportunities, visit launchvic.org/grants 

Pre-accelerators, accelerators, investor education programs, angel networks, and early-stage VC funds.  

LaunchVic’s highly successful 30X30 and CivVic Labs are set to continue. 

New initiatives focus on supporting Victorian universities to boost startup creation, along with a new founder program called Basecamp set to launch in February to help seed to Series A founders make their first executive hires.   

LaunchVic will continue to operate and seek further funding for the Alice Anderson Fund (women) and Hugh Victor McKay Fund (agtech). 

LaunchVic will accept submissions of unsolicited proposals, but only where they meet the LaunchVIc’s unsolicited proposal principles set out on our website. In particular, the proposal must not offer a program (such as an accelerator, pre-accelerator, angel network or VC Fund) that could be offered by another party.  

LaunchVic defines a startup as an innovative, technology-based business that can scale rapidly and capture mass markets.

A Scaleup is a hyper-growth startup that has raised at least AUD$5m in a single round and currently has at least 10 employees, no more than 20 years since founding and has a valuation of greater than AUD$30m.