15 October 2025
GXE, an investment management and administration platform that’s being deployed in firms such as MA Financial, Nash Capital and Westpac-backed Reinventure, has closed its Series A round, bringing in $3.3 million to boost its software capabilities and expand its client base.
15 August 2025
New York online health multinational Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC) has acquired Victorian healthtech startup Telecare, in the first exit for LaunchVic’s Alice Anderson Fund.
The deal closed last Friday, August 8, with the terms undisclosed, but Teladoc Health said it’s expected to be immaterial to its 2025 financial results.
23 January 2025
We sit down with LaunchVic CEO Kate Cornick about the group’s startup plans for 2025, including an uptick in accelerators and tapping into university talent. LaunchVic is doubling down on accelerators and pre-accelerators in 2025, with plans to expand its support for programs that help startups stress-test their ideas and refine their business models. CEO Kate Cornick shared insights…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…