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8 people (LtR: Petra Andren, Louise Schaper, Grace Mathew, Amandeep Hansra, Bi Mian, Kim Drever, Annie Chapman, Richard Macliver) posing for a photo at the Victorian Startup Gala

Boosting Crucial Capital For Victorian Startups

The Hon Jacinta Allan MP
Premier of Victoria

9 August 2024

The Allan Labor Government is backing Victorian startups – with support for new investment funds to inject more resources into good startups. Minister for Economic Growth Tim Pallas last night attended the Victorian Startup Gala and announced a $2.4 million investment into eight new Venture Capital (VC)…

LaunchVic awards pre-accelerator grant to Medical Angels

LaunchVic grants get pre-accelerators off the ground

Joseph Brookes
Innovation Aus

11 July 2024

The Victorian government’s startup agency is backing seven pre-accelerator programs to be delivered by other organisations, with focus areas across AI, MedTech, First Nations founders and circular economy. LaunchVic on Thursday announced…

How startup accelerator Health 10X is transforming the landscape for women’s healthcare

How startup accelerator Health 10X is transforming the landscape for women’s healthcare

P Glass, C Greenaway, E Cluzel, J Po
Smart Company

20 March 2024

Women’s health is underinvestigated, underinvested, and undervalued in Australia and beyond. Conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, osteoarthritis, cancers, strokes and autoimmune diseases can often present differently in women…

LaunchVic's Alice Anderson Fund backed 11 female-led startups in its first year

Simon Thomsen
Startup Daily

3 August 2022

LaunchVic’s Alice Anderson Fund is now a quarter of the way through its ambitious plan to back 60 female-led startups by 2024, just one year after it launched. Since launching in July 2021, the sidecar fund’s co-investments of between $50,000 and $300,000, for a…

Doctors the medicine for healthtech success

Doctors the medicine for healthtech success

Holly Clark
LaunchVic

11 July 2022

Invest in what you know … and nothing more — the investment thesis of one of the world’s most successful investors, Warren Buffet, and one being readily embraced by Australian Medical Angels (AMA), a national syndicate helping more than 500 doctors and health…

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Genetics start-up Eugene lands $3.2m for expansion

David Swan
The Australian

8 December 2021

Australian genetics start-up Eugene is looking to double its headcount in the next year and expand internationally, with a fresh $3.2m oversubscribed capital injection from the Australian Medical Angels and California-based venture capital investors ALIAVIA Ventures…