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Oceania sees highest growth in early-stage funding
Australian cities stand-out in new Global Startup Ecosystem, report finds.
Tag: Early Stage Business
Health | Pharmaceuticals
Victorian Angel Group to invest up to $2m in healthtech startups after LaunchVic funding
Australian Medical Angels will launch a dedicated Victorian branch and invest up to $2 million in ten early-stage healthtech startups.
Funding | Investment
Tenacious Ventures closes fund I at $35m to focus on early-stage Agri-FoodTech startups
Venture capital firm Tenacious Ventures, which specialises in the Australian Agri-foodtech segment, has closed its first fund at $35 million. The Tenacious Ventures Fund I will be used to invest in Pre-series A businesses within the Agtech space. The firm expects to invest 80% of the capital raised into Australian-domiciled startups. Matthew Pryor, co-founder of […]
Funding | Investment
Four accelerators granted access to $9m fund to grow Queensland’s start-up ecosystem
The Queensland Government is granting four industry-focussed business accelerators access to a $9 million fund to create jobs and rapidly grow up to 120 early stage businesses and start-ups between them. BlueChilli, Innovation Centre Sunshine Coast, QUT Creative Enterprise Australia (CEA) and Unearthed are the first four accelerators to receive funding from the Advance Queensland […]
Raising capital
Smart capital: the case for seeking start-up funding from investors who lend their smarts
By seeking out ‘smart capital’, as distinct from seed funding, early stage SMEs can enhance their business acumen, avoid unnecessary start-up mistakes and increase their appeal to prospective investors, according to Kylie Hammond, founder and CEO of Director Institute. “Smart capital is money from an individual or group of individuals who can, by sitting on an […]
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