Victoria’s Startup Ecosystem gets a boost with LaunchVic Funding Round taking off Announcements Last Updated: 11 Apr 2016 Victoria’s nation leading startup initiative, LaunchVic, today released a public call for proposals as part of its first round of funding. The brand new company, owned by the Victorian Government, has been set up to make Victoria one of the world’s top destinations for entrepreneurs, startups, and scaleups. It has been created to be agile and flexible, embodying as much as possible the characteristics of the startup community so that it can be responsive to it. Board Chair, Ahmed Fahour, and CEO, Pradeep Philip, released the guidelines and called for applications for the program that will build the infrastructure around startups and grow the ecosystem. Download (264.16 Kb pdf)